Anagrams of Abercrombie
Word Abercrombie has
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- embraceor
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noun,
a person guilty of embracery.
- air-core
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adjective,
having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils:
- microbar
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noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- Recamier
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noun,
a backless day bed of the Directoire and Empire periods, having raised ends of equal height.
- cerebro-
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- coremia
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noun,
the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- crabber
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noun,
a person who catches crabs.
- amoebic
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adjective,
amebic.
- aerobic
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adjective,
(of an organism or tissue) requiring the presence of air or free oxygen for life.
- Arecibo
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noun,
a seaport in N Puerto Rico.
- Mercier
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noun,
Désiré Joseph [dey-zee-rey zhaw-zef] /deɪ ziˈreɪ ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1851–1926, Belgian cardinal and patriot.
- Maribor
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noun,
a city in N Slovenia, on the Drava River.
- Coimbra
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noun,
a city in central Portugal: noted university founded at Lisbon 1290, transferred here 1537.
- armoire
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noun,
a large wardrobe or movable cupboard, with doors and shelves.
- cerebr-
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- embrace
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noun,
an act or instance of embracing.
- Berbera
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noun,
a seaport in Somalia, on the Gulf of Aden: former capital of British Somaliland.
- cribber
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noun,
a person who cribs.
- microbe
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noun,
a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- bracero
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noun,
a Mexican laborer admitted legally into the U.S. for a short period to perform seasonal, usually agricultural, labor.
- Creamer
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noun,
a person or thing that creams.
- career
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noun,
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
- macro-
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- amerce
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verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- Carrie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Mercer
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noun,
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
- barrio
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noun,
(in Spain and countries colonized by Spain) one of the divisions into which a town or city, together with the contiguous rural territory, is divided.
- Barrie
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noun,
Sir James M(atthew) 1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- carrom
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noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- caribe
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noun,
piranha.
- Bomarc
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noun,
a winged, surface-to-air interceptor missile.
- Crimea
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noun,
the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- Barbie
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noun,
Also called Barbie doll. a person, especially a young woman, perceived as blandly attractive and vacuous.
- bracer
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noun,
a person or thing that braces, binds, or makes firm.
- I-beam
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noun,
a rolled or extruded metal beam having a cross section resembling an I.
Compare H-beam.
- Moerae
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plural noun,
the Fates.
- bromic
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adjective,
containing pentavalent bromine.
- bomber
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noun,
Military. an airplane equipped to carry and drop bombs.
- Barber
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noun,
a person whose occupation it is to cut and dress the hair of customers, especially men, and to shave or trim the beard.
- camber
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noun,
a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- carbo-
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- cambio
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noun,
a currency exchange.
- earbob
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noun,
an earring or eardrop.
- MAeroE
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- Mercia
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noun,
an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- Cromer
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noun,
1st Earl of, Evelyn Baring.
- Maceio
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noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Alagoas, in E Brazil.
- amebic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling an ameba.
- micro-
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- raceme
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noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- comber
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noun,
a person or thing that combs.
- remora
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noun,
any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.
- A-bomb
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noun,
atomic bomb.
- Ribera
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noun,
José de [hoh-zey duh;; Spanish haw-se th e] /hoʊˈzeɪ də;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), (Jusepe de Ribera"Lo Spagnoletto") 1588–1652, Spanish printmaker and painter active in Naples.
- Corrie
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noun,
a circular hollow in the side of a hill or mountain.
- bemire
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verb (used with object),
to soil with mire; dirty or muddy:
- Berber
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noun,
a member of a group of North African tribes living in Barbary and the Sahara.
- robber
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noun,
a person who robs.
- Crabbe
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noun,
George, 1754–1832, English poet.
- Robbia
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noun,
Andrea della [ahn-dre-ah del-lah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1435–1525, and his uncle, Luca della [loo-kah del-lah] /ˈlu kɑ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA) c1400–82, Italian sculptors.
- bicarb
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noun,
Informal. sodium bicarbonate.
- roemer
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noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- berime
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verb (used with object),
berhyme.
- Corbie
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noun,
a raven or crow.
- Romaic
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noun,
demotic (def 5).
- cobber
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noun,
a close fellow male friend; chum; pal.
- Bierce
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noun,
Ambrose (Gwinnett) [gwi-net] /gwɪˈnɛt/ (Show IPA), 1842–1914? U.S. journalist and short-story writer.
- cirro-
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- Marcie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Marcia.
- crambo
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noun,
a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.
- reamer
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noun,
any of various rotary tools, with helical or straight flutes, for finishing or enlarging holes drilled in metal.
- ambeer
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noun,
tobacco juice.
- Cibber
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noun,
Colley [kol-ee] /ˈkɒl i/ (Show IPA), 1671–1757, English actor and dramatist: poet laureate 1730–57.
- bearer
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noun,
a person or thing that carries, upholds, or brings:
- Cremer
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noun,
Sir William Randal, 1838–1908, English union organizer: Nobel Peace Prize 1903.
- bireme
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noun,
a galley having two banks or tiers of oars.
- aerobe
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noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- become
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Idioms,
become of, to happen to; be the fate of:
- became
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verb,
simple past tense of become.
- Bream
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noun,
any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
- Mario
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noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- Brace
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noun,
something that holds parts together or in place, as a clasp or clamp.
- boric
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adjective,
of or containing boron; boracic.
- Boece
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noun,
Boethius.
- Borer
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noun,
a person or thing that bores or pierces.
- bimbo
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noun,
a foolish, stupid, or inept person.
- Marie
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noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- bombe
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noun,
a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.
- macer
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noun,
macebearer.
- biome
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noun,
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
- Maori
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noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- BMarE
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- corr.
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- briar
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noun,
brier1 .
- Crabb
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noun,
George, 1778–1851, English author and philologist.
- Ceiba
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noun,
the silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra.
- Ceram
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noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- ceria
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noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- cero-
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- Cerro
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noun,
a hill or peak.
- creme
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noun,
cream.
- cream
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noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- cobia
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noun,
a large, fusiform fish, Rachycentron canadum, found off the eastern coast of temperate and tropical America, in the East Indies, and in Japan.
- crim.
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- Cobra
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noun,
any of several highly venomous, Old World elapid snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus, characterized by the ability to flatten the neck into a hoodlike form when disturbed.
- 30-30
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- comb.
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- Combe
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noun,
a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
- coria
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noun,
plural of corium.
- Comer
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noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- Comr.
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- corer
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noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- crier
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noun,
a person who cries.
- crime
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noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- bribe
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noun,
money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.:
- caber
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noun,
a pole or beam, especially one thrown as a trial of strength.
- Brice
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noun,
Fanny (Fannie Borach) 1891–1951, U.S. singer and comedian.
- Brier
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noun,
a prickly plant or shrub, especially the sweetbrier or a greenbrier.
- ERICA
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noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- Broca
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noun,
Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist.
- brom-
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- ember
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noun,
a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
- embar
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verb (used with object),
to stop or hinder, as by a bar.
- Cairo
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- carom
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noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Camb.
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- Cameo
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noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Maroc
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noun,
French name of Morocco.
- carb-
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- Carib
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noun,
a member of a group of Indian peoples formerly dominant through the Lesser Antilles, now found in small numbers in a few areas of the West Indies and in parts of Central America and northeastern South America.
- Carie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Carme
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noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- carob
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noun,
a Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua, of the legume family, bearing long, leathery pods containing hard seeds and sweet, edible pulp.
- crore
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noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- mbira
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noun,
a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- maror
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noun,
a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
- arbor
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noun,
a leafy, shady recess formed by tree branches, shrubs, etc.
- Amer.
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- Rabbi
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noun,
the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish community.
Compare cantor (def 2).
- AMICE
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noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- ormer
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noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- AMORC
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- Arber
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noun,
Werner, born 1929, Swiss microbiologist: shared Nobel Prize 1978.
- omber
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noun,
a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
- racer
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noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- areo-
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- ocrea
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noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- armor
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noun,
any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- Berra
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noun,
Lawrence Peter ("Yogi") born 1925, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- Morea
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noun,
Peloponnesus.
- moire
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noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Moira
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noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- ameer
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noun,
emir.
- ambi-
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- micra
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noun,
a plural of micron.
- acro-
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- Abbie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Abigail.
- ricer
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noun,
an implement for ricing potatoes, squash, etc., by pressing them through small holes.
- rebec
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noun,
a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
- acerb
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adjective,
acerbic.
- rebbe
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noun,
a teacher in a Jewish school.
- rebar
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noun,
a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
- rebab
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noun,
a Near Eastern fiddle having one to three strings and played with a bow.
- rearm
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verb (used with object),
to arm again.
- Amber
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noun,
a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator: used for making jewelry and other ornamental articles.
- aeri-
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- aerie
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noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- aero-
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- ramie
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noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- Aimee
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noun,
a female given name.
- Ramee
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noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- Rambo
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noun,
a fanatically militant or violently aggressive person.
- Baber
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noun,
(Zahir ed-Din Mohammed) 1483–1530, founder of the Mogul Empire.
- Corea
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noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- baro-
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- Barbe
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noun,
a band or small scarf of lace, worn around the head or neck by women.
- mero-
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- Merci
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interjection,
thank you.
- Beira
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noun,
a seaport in central Mozambique.
- McRae
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noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- Bemba
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noun,
a member of a numerous agricultural people of Zambia.
- Bambi
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noun,
a familiar name for a baby deer.
- Berar
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noun,
a former division of the Central Provinces and Berar, in central India: now part of Maharashtra state.
- Meier
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noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- Berea
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noun,
a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- Meroe
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noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- baric
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adjective,
of or containing barium.
- Barre
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noun,
a handrail placed at hip height, used by a dancer to maintain balance during practice.
- Beria
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noun,
Lavrenti Pavlovich [luh v-ren-tee pav-loh-vich;; Russian luh-vryen-tyee puh-vlaw-vyich] /ləvˈrɛn ti pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian lʌˈvryɛn tyi pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1953, Soviet secret-police chief: executed for treason.
- Merca
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noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- BCerE
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- RACE
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noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Meir
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noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- RARE
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adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- Mair
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adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- maco
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noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- raob
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noun,
Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- Merc
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noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Mar.
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- crib
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noun,
a child's bed with enclosed sides.
- rami
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noun,
plural of ramus.
- MARC
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noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- IRBM
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- Cree
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noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- rime
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noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Roma
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noun,
Rome.
- Rom.
-
- Cori
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noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- Roca
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noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- robe
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noun,
a long, loose or flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office.
- roar
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noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- roam
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noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- corm
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noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- Rice
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noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Crab
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noun,
any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the abdomen being small and folded under the thorax.
- Mari
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noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Mare
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noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- ream
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noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- CRAM
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noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- RIBA
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- Rabi
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noun,
Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1944.
- iamb
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noun,
a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
- emic
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adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- emir
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noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- Eric
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noun,
Eric the Red.
- Mic.
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- Moab
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- Erie
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noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Erma
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noun,
a female given name.
- mire
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noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Mora
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noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Mira
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noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- ICAO
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- Irma
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noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Ire.
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- MICE
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noun,
plural of mouse.
- ICBM
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- mica
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noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- Ice.
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- emia
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- more
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noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- IMCO
-
- M-16
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noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- Mace
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noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Orem
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noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orca
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noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Omri
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noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- Mac-
-
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- OEEC
-
- M-14
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noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- Ebro
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.
- eco-
-
- Obie
-
noun,
one of a group of awards given annually, beginning in 1956, by New York City's The Village Voice newspaper for achievement in the off-Broadway theater.
- Irra
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noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- obb.
-
- EEOC
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- 1080
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- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Boar
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- Barr
-
- beam
-
noun,
any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- Bear
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- Beer
-
noun,
an alcoholic beverage made by brewing and fermentation from cereals, usually malted barley, and flavored with hops and the like for a slightly bitter taste.
- BEMA
-
noun,
Eastern Church. the enclosed space surrounding the altar; the sanctuary or chancel.
- berm
-
noun,
Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- Bib.
-
- Bice
-
noun,
either of two colors, bice blue or bice green.
- bier
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- bio-
-
- birr
-
noun,
force; energy; vigor.
- BMOC
-
- Boer
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- Cor.
-
- Boma
-
noun,
a city in the W Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Zaire (Congo) River.
- bomb
-
noun,
Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- bor.
-
- Bora
-
noun,
(on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.
- Bore
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- brae
-
noun,
a slope; declivity; hillside.
- Bram
-
noun,
a male given name.
- BRCA
-
noun,
either of two genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2) that, if inherited in a mutated form, may predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
- Brea
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- brei
-
noun,
a suspension of finely divided tissue in an isotonic medium, used chiefly as a culture for certain viruses.
- Brie
-
noun,
a region in NE France, between the Seine and the Marne.
- brim
-
noun,
the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink:
- barm
-
noun,
yeast formed on malt liquors while fermenting.
- Bare
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- brob
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another.
- ambo
-
noun,
(in an early Christian church) a raised desk, or either of two such desks, from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted.
- Abbe
-
noun,
a member of the secular clergy.
- ABBR
-
- Abib
-
noun,
Aviv.
- Abie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- abr.
-
- abri
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- acr-
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- aer-
-
- AIME
-
- Aire
-
- amic
-
adjective,
of or relating to an amide or amine.
- Barb
-
noun,
a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Arm.
-
- arr.
-
- Babe
-
noun,
a baby or child.
- Babi
-
noun,
Also called Babism. a Persian religion, originating in the 19th century, now supplanted by Bahaʾi.
- Baer
-
noun,
Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- bar.
-
- brio
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- Bari
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Com.
-
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- cir.
-
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Cobb
-
noun,
Howell [hou-uh l] /ˈhaʊ əl/ (Show IPA), 1815–68, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1849–51.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Cami
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- aor
-
- CEA
-
- BCE
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arb
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ORB
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Bro
-
noun,
a brother.
- CEO
-
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- be-
-
- MOI
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Re.
-
- OMB
-
- BBC
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- ob.
-
- Oc.
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Oba
-
noun,
a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- OBE
-
- obi
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- OCR
-
- MRI
-
- MRE
-
- MRA
-
- RMA
-
- OEM
-
- oic
-
- OIr
-
- Om.
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- AMC
-
- Rab
-
noun,
a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- RMC
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rib
-
noun,
one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- Abo
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- ABM
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- Abe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- ABC
-
noun,
ABC's (defs 1, 3).
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- ROA
-
- COB
-
noun,
a corncob.
- ROB
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- abb
-
noun,
low-grade wool from the breech or outer edges of a fleece.
- Ar.
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ac-
-
- ROI
-
- ab-
-
- Am.
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- CIA
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- AME
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- Amb
-
- CIB
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- CIE
-
- AIC
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- RBC
-
- RBI
-
- RCA
-
- REA
-
- CIM
-
- AEC
-
- ae.
-
- Reb
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- CMA
-
- BEM
-
- brr
-
interjection,
(used to express sensations of cold).
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- CAB
-
noun,
a taxicab.
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mo.
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Mab
-
noun,
Queen Mab.
- Co.
-
- cr.
-
- eir
-
- Bob
-
noun,
a short, jerky motion:
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Mc-
-
- boa
-
noun,
any of several nonvenomous, chiefly tropical constrictors of the family Boidae, having vestigial hind limbs at the base of the tail.
- BMR
-
- Mao
-
- EEO
-
- BMI
-
- BME
-
- mob
-
noun,
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
- CAI
-
- ECM
-
- BIE
-
- Me.
-
- MBE
-
- ec-
-
- EOE
-
- BRM
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ib.
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- Ibo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- EMR
-
- Bra
-
noun,
brassiere.
- ca.
-
- ier
-
- BRE
-
- IOC
-
- ior
-
- Ir.
-
- IRC
-
- CBE
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- IRO
-
- ECA
-
- EEC
-
- MOR
-
- BAO
-
noun,
an African board game usually played by moving pebbles along two rows of holes.
- ea.
-
- EOM
-
- eo-
-
- mi.
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MIB
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- BBA
-
- Br.
-
- BAM
-
noun,
a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
- Bai
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIE
-
- Bab
-
noun,
abbreviated form of Bab ed-Din.
- EAM
-
- Bac
-
- BEA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- MBO
-
- MCR
-
- ebb
-
noun,
the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- bi-
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- MCI
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- BEE
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- bec
-
- Bia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of force: daughter of Pallas and Styx and sister of Cratus, Nike, and Zelos.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- BA
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- BM
-
- AO
-
- i.
-
- BC
-
- BB
-
noun,
a size of shot, 0.18 inches (0.46 cm) in diameter, fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- BO
-
- RO
-
- ic
-
- RC
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- EI
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- Eb
-
- CM
-
- CE
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- MB
-
- O.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- RI
-
- B-
-
- CB
-
- OA
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- ee
-
- M.
-