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- prestation
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noun,
a payment in money or in services.
- Thesprotia
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noun,
an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- triptanes
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noun,
a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- anorthite
-
noun,
a white or gray feldspar mineral, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , calcic plagioclase.
- patentors
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noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- Patterson
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noun,
Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- pantihose
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noun,
pantyhose.
- phonetist
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noun,
a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- stationer
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noun,
a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- atrophies
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noun,
Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- perianths
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noun,
the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- no-hitter
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noun,
a no-hit game.
- senhorita
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noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- point-set
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adjective,
(of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- therapist
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noun,
a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- Thesproti
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plural noun,
the first inhabitants of ancient Epirus.
- Peronista
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noun,
Peronist.
- Parthenos
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noun,
an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- Northeast
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noun,
a point on the compass midway between north and east. Abbreviation: NE.
- atropines
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- ten-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- aphorist
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noun,
a person who makes or uses aphorisms.
- operants
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- tentoria
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noun,
Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- tenorist
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noun,
a person who sings tenor.
- open-air
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noun,
the outdoors.
- perianth
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noun,
the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- hapteron
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noun,
a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- intreats
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verb (used with or without object),
entreat.
- antihero
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noun,
a protagonist who lacks the attributes that make a heroic figure, as nobility of mind and spirit, a life or attitude marked by action or purpose, and the like.
- patterns
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noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- triptane
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noun,
a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- atropine
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- Paterson
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noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- Pointers
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- prostate
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noun,
prostate gland.
- tranship
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verb (used with or without object),
transship.
- pronates
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- hesitant
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adjective,
hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- Stanhope
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noun,
a light, open, one-seated, horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels.
- sphaero-
-
- heparins
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noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- Thespian
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a tragedian; an actor or actress.
- hispano-
-
- rheostat
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noun,
an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- pantries
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noun,
a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
- tertians
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noun,
Pathology. a tertian fever.
- theorist
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noun,
a person who theorizes.
- thorites
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noun,
a rare mineral, thorium silicate, ThSiO 4 , occurring in the form of yellow or black crystals.
- senorita
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- Protista
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noun,
a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- Atherton
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noun,
Gertrude (Franklin) (Gertrude Franklin Horn) 1857–1948, U.S. novelist.
- postheat
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verb (used with object),
to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- athonite
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adjective,
of or relating to Mount Athos.
- Peronist
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noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- portents
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- anthrop.
-
- pinaster
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noun,
a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- Sheraton
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noun,
Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- saponite
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noun,
a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- phorates
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noun,
a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 17 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- tao-tieh
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noun,
the face of a mythical animal with a gaping mouth appearing as a motif in ancient Chinese art.
- phonates
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verb (used with or without object),
Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.
- patients
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noun,
a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- nitrates
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noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- Peshitta
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noun,
the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- patentor
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noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- trophies
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noun,
anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- repaints
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noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- strontia
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noun,
Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- phaetons
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noun,
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- painters
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noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- tropines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- strepto-
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- notaries
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noun,
notary public.
- straiten
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verb (used with object),
to put into difficulties, especially financial ones:
- pertains
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verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- transept
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noun,
any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- tritones
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- 11-point
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- Esthonia
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noun,
Estonia.
- tin-pot
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adjective,
inferior; paltry; shoddy.
- thorite
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noun,
a rare mineral, thorium silicate, ThSiO 4 , occurring in the form of yellow or black crystals.
- protean
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adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- tipster
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noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- sharpie
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noun,
sharper.
- thorias
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noun,
a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- toaster
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noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- prostie
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noun,
a prostitute.
- hernias
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noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- tinters
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- heparin
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noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- ratines
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noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- shatter
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noun,
Usually, shatters. fragments made by shattering.
- sharpen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become sharp or sharper.
- sphero-
-
- epinaos
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noun,
a rear vestibule, as of a classical temple.
- haptens
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noun,
a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- hepato-
-
- rations
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noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ratites
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noun,
a bird having a ratite breastbone.
- heriots
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noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- rattish
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adjective,
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling a rat.
- pattern
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noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- protein
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protest
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noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- rapines
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noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- Estonia
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noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- throats
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noun,
the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
- Harnett
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noun,
William Michael, 1848–92, U.S. painter.
- Harpies
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- harpist
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noun,
a person who plays the harp, especially professionally.
- Esparto
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noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- pterion
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noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- Shapiro
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noun,
Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- threats
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noun,
a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace:
- threaps
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noun,
an argument; quarrel.
- patters
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noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- spheno-
-
- pattens
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noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- hatpins
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noun,
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- tithers
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noun,
a person who gives or pays tithes, as to a church.
- Sheitan
-
noun,
Ash-Shaytān.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- hatters
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noun,
a maker or seller of hats.
- spitter
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noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- patties
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noun,
any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked:
- ethions
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noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- ethiops
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adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- protist
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noun,
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- patriot
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noun,
a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
- potties
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noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- hernio-
-
- Persian
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noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- sthenia
-
noun,
strength; excessive vital force.
- stetho-
-
- piaster
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noun,
a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- natters
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noun,
a conversation; chat.
- tarnish
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noun,
a tarnished coating.
- sterno-
-
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- phreno-
-
- Onitsha
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noun,
a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- tarpons
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noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- tartine
-
noun,
a fancy French open-faced sandwich topped with spreadable ingredients.
- Stentor
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- iterant
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adjective,
characterized by repetition; repeating.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- phrenia
-
- isoneph
-
noun,
a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- strati-
-
- strato-
-
- notates
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- striate
-
adjective,
striated.
- pettish
-
adjective,
petulantly peevish:
- phaeton
-
noun,
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- strophe
-
noun,
the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- tapster
-
noun,
a bartender.
- nitrate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- Phineas
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phonate
-
verb (used with or without object),
Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.
- phonies
-
noun,
something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- phorate
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noun,
a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 17 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- pertain
-
verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- nephro-
-
- teapots
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noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- steato-
-
- heroins
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noun,
a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C 21 H 23 NO 5 , derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.
- hoarsen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become hoarse.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- shortie
-
noun,
a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- thenars
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noun,
the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
- spatter
-
noun,
the act or the sound of spattering:
- ornith-
-
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- orphans
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- pothers
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- shorten
-
verb (used with object),
to make short or shorter.
- therian
-
noun,
a therian animal.
- histone
-
noun,
any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- hipster
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noun,
a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
- orpines
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- Pearson
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noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- pronate
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- entraps
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- shotten
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adjective,
(of fish, especially herring) having recently ejected the spawn.
- stearo-
-
- pointer
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- operant
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- tephras
-
noun,
clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- intreat
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verb (used with or without object),
entreat.
- ophites
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- instate
-
verb (used with object),
to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- inshore
-
adverb,
toward the shore:
- hot-air
-
noun,
empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing:
- pointes
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- inphase
-
adjective,
having the same phase.
- tertian
-
noun,
Pathology. a tertian fever.
- opiates
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- portent
-
noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- station
-
noun,
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- postern
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- rattons
-
noun,
a rat.
- petitor
-
noun,
a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- anthers
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
- artiste
-
noun,
an artist, especially an actor, singer, dancer, or other public performer.
- Tristan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Tristram.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- patents
-
noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- arseno-
-
- earshot
-
noun,
the range or distance within which a sound, voice, etc., can be heard.
- riposte
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- senhora
-
noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Another
-
pronoun,
one more; an additional one:
- Sephora
-
noun,
Zipporah.
- Transit
-
noun,
the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- reposit
-
verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- transp.
-
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- parison
-
noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- paniers
-
noun,
pannier.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- partons
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- patient
-
noun,
a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- seaport
-
noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- atopies
-
noun,
an allergy, involving an inherited immunoglobulin of the IgE type, that predisposes a person to certain allergic responses, as atopic dermatitis.
- reptant
-
adjective,
repent2 .
- panties
-
noun,
underpants or undershorts for women and children.
- tritone
-
noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- attorns
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- tritons
-
noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- rotates
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- Panther
-
noun,
the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- satinet
-
noun,
a satin-weave fabric made with cotton warp and wool filling, fulled and finished to resemble wool.
- repaint
-
noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- Rhetian
-
noun,
Raetic.
- sapient
-
adjective,
having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- Rosetta
-
noun,
a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- aristo-
-
- arpents
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- atiptoe
-
adverb, adjective,
standing or walking on tiptoe (usually used predicatively).
- T-shirt
-
noun,
a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
- top-hat
-
noun,
a tall, cylindrical hat with a stiff brim usually slightly curved on the sides, worn by men especially on formal occasions.
Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, silk hat.
- spirant
-
noun,
fricative (def 2).
- Painter
-
noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- trepans
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- pastern
-
noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- patines
-
noun,
patina.
- traipse
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- atheist
-
noun,
a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
- partite
-
noun,
an instrumental suite common chiefly in the 18th century.
- parties
-
noun,
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
- antero-
-
- tropine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- athirst
-
adjective,
having a keen desire; eager (often followed by for):
- attires
-
noun,
clothes or apparel, especially rich or splendid garments.
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- steno-
-
- pithos
-
noun,
a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- perish
-
Idioms,
perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.
- teapot
-
noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- Ishtar
-
noun,
the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- pirate
-
noun,
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- tenths
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- Thorpe
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jim") 1888–1953, U.S. track-and-field athlete and football and baseball player.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- Parish
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- opiate
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- stator
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- iatro-
-
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- tetra-
-
- tetras
-
noun,
any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums.
- Portia
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- paries
-
noun,
Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- Shrine
-
noun,
a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
- stater
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- thanes
-
noun,
Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.
- Thanet
-
noun,
Octave [ok-tiv,, -teyv] /ˈɒk tɪv,, -teɪv/ (Show IPA) pen name of Alice French.
- penta-
-
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- tephra
-
noun,
clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- taters
-
noun,
potato.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- siphon
-
noun,
a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- Ophite
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- terat-
-
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- intra-
-
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- inter.
-
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- instr.
-
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- senhor
-
noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- intro.
-
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- antho-
-
- pheno-
-
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- patent
-
noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- phanos
-
noun,
fanon.
- aeron.
-
- no-hit
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team:
- Sophie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Pharos
-
noun,
a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor
-
noun,
a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- nitro-
-
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- trophi
-
plural noun,
the mouthparts of an insect, including the labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx.
- aethon
-
noun,
triethyl orthoformate.
- troph-
-
- Sopher
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Sophar
-
noun,
Zophar.
- stript
-
noun,
a striptease.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- Strait
-
noun,
Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- strath
-
noun,
a wide valley.
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- nother
-
adjective,
Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.
- Petain
-
noun,
Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- petro-
-
- notate
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- saithe
-
noun,
pollock.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- nosher
-
noun,
Informal. a person who snacks, especially one who does so often or continuously.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- norths
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, lying in the plane of the meridian and to the left of a person facing the rising sun. Abbreviation: N.
- troths
-
noun,
faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty:
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Pashto
-
noun,
an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- taints
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- natter
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- Pietas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman personification of familial affection, patriotism, and piety.
- Persia
-
noun,
Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- tarots
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- hotter
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- pineta
-
noun,
an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- tarso-
-
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- partis
-
noun,
the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.
- taster
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- anther
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
- pintas
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- aniso-
-
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- Taisho
-
noun,
the designation of the period of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, 1912–26.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- ahorse
-
adjective, adverb,
on horseback:
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- phones
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- phonet
-
- tanist
-
noun,
the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- rotten
-
adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- Triton
-
noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- sapro-
-
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Sarthe
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2411 sq. mi. (6245 sq. km). Capital: Le Mans.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- nephr-
-
- phrase
-
noun,
Grammar.
a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence.
(in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- tapirs
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- phren.
-
- rotate
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- hottie
-
noun,
a sexually attractive person.
- hosier
-
noun,
a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- ottars
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- attire
-
noun,
clothes or apparel, especially rich or splendid garments.
- hapten
-
noun,
a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- ptisan
-
noun,
a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- throne
-
noun,
the chair or seat occupied by a sovereign, bishop, or other exalted personage on ceremonial occasions, usually raised on a dais and covered with a canopy.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- haoris
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- Shinto
-
noun,
Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- Shiner
-
noun,
a person or thing that shines.
- Shinar
-
noun,
a land mentioned in the Bible, often identified with Sumer.
- Sherpa
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- panto-
-
- reship
-
verb (used with object),
to ship again.
- attorn
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- patter
-
noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- tinter
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- seraph
-
noun,
one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- tiptoe
-
noun,
the tip or end of a toe.
- pantie
-
noun,
panties.
- throat
-
noun,
the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
- Sharpe
-
noun,
William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- others
-
noun,
the other one:
- Athens
-
noun,
Greek Athenai. a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part.
- shoran
-
noun,
a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- Hotien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- thorps
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- hatter
-
noun,
a maker or seller of hats.
- hatpin
-
noun,
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- haters
-
noun,
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination):
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- threap
-
noun,
an argument; quarrel.
- Hastie
-
noun,
William Henry, 1904–76, U.S. jurist: first black judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- hasten
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to hasten; accelerate:
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- septi-
-
- threat
-
noun,
a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace:
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- ptero-
-
- thrips
-
noun,
any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- shanti
-
noun,
peace.
- torahs
-
noun,
the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
Compare Tanach.
- patine
-
noun,
patina.
- paints
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- patois
-
noun,
a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- Tophet
-
noun,
a place in the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where, contrary to the law, children were offered as sacrifices, especially to Moloch. It was later used as a dumping ground for refuse.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ephors
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- ratite
-
noun,
a bird having a ratite breastbone.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- patios
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- ratton
-
noun,
a rat.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- patri-
-
- shapen
-
adjective,
having a designated shape (usually used in combination):
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- ethnos
-
noun,
an ethnic group.
- ethno-
-
- Ethiop
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- ethion
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- Sharon
-
noun,
Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- Patten
-
noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- spirea
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- Shaper
-
noun,
a person or thing that shapes.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- titans
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of the sons of Uranus and Gaea, including Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus.
Also, Titaness. any of the sisters of these, including Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Themis, and Thia.
any of the offspring of the children of Uranus and Gaea.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- earths
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- tither
-
noun,
a person who gives or pays tithes, as to a church.
- spiro-
-
- tithes
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- Hearst
-
noun,
William Randolph, 1863–1951, U.S. editor and publisher.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- hearts
-
noun,
Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hoarse
-
adjective,
having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky:
- thenar
-
noun,
the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
- arsen-
-
- arshin
-
noun,
a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- honest
-
adjective,
honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair:
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Hoenir
-
noun,
a god, one of the Aesir, companion of Odin and Loki, hostage to the Vanir.
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- orphan
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- artist
-
noun,
a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- rhinos
-
noun,
a rhinoceros.
- rhino-
-
- spathe
-
noun,
a bract or pair of bracts, often large and colored, subtending or enclosing a spadix or flower cluster.
- theirs
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- ashpit
-
noun,
a receptacle in the bottom of a fireplace, under a barbecue, or the like, for the accumulation of ashes.
- Potter
-
noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Trento
-
noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- Potash
-
noun,
potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potent
-
noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- Hosein
-
noun,
Hussein (def 1).
- pother
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- Sparti
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- theirn
-
pronoun,
theirs.
- praise
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Hornie
-
noun,
Satan.
- hornet
-
noun,
any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- treats
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- Horite
-
noun,
an ancient people of Edom living in the region of the Dead Sea, possibly identical with the Hurrians.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- ashore
-
adverb,
to the shore; onto the shore:
- histo-
-
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- Heroin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C 21 H 23 NO 5 , derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- pathos
-
noun,
the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- Rheita
-
noun,
a crater in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 42 miles (68 km) in diameter.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- patho-
-
- hepat-
-
- thetas
-
noun,
the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (Θ, θ).
- thoria
-
noun,
a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- aspire
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- hernia
-
noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- heriot
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- hepta-
-
- trans.
-
- thirst
-
noun,
a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
- Patton
-
noun,
Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- hiero-
-
- Hestia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the hearth.
- Rhines
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- Ashton
-
noun,
Sir Frederick (William) 1906–1988, English dancer and choreographer, born in Ecuador.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- Thiers
-
noun,
Louis Adolphe [lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.
- Thetis
-
noun,
a Nereid, the wife of Peleus and the mother of Achilles.
- hieron
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a temple or a sacred place.
- astron
-
- astro-
-
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Patti
-
noun,
Adelina [ah-de-lee-nah] /ˌɑ dɛˈli nɑ/ (Show IPA), (Adela Juana Maria Patti) 1843–1919, Italian operatic soprano, born in Spain.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- paths
-
noun,
a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- patr-
-
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- spahi
-
noun,
one of a body of native Algerian cavalry in the French service.
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- Perth
-
noun,
Also called Perthshire. a historic county in central Scotland.
- path-
-
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- pert.
-
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- span-
-
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- peri-
-
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- peta-
-
- patio
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- SHAPE
-
noun,
the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- Shane
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rathe
-
adjective,
Archaic. growing, blooming, or ripening early in the year or season.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Rasht
-
noun,
a city in NW Iran, about 10 miles (16 km) S of the Caspian Sea.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- seti-
-
- reni-
-
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- sero-
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- Rashi
-
noun,
(Solomon ben Isaac) 1040–1105, French Hebrew scholar.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- shier
-
noun,
a horse having a tendency to shy.
- Shona
-
noun,
Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- shoer
-
noun,
a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- shoat
-
noun,
Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- shirt
-
noun,
a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- Shire
-
noun,
one of the counties of Great Britain.
- shine
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- Shear
-
noun,
Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb)
scissors of large size (usually used with pair of).
any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- share
-
noun,
the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Sharp
-
noun,
something sharp.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Shari
-
noun,
Also, Chari. a river in N central Africa, flowing NW from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1400 miles (2254 km) long.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- raphe
-
noun,
Anatomy. a seamlike union between two parts or halves of an organ or the like.
- rept.
-
- Resht
-
noun,
Rasht.
- Prot.
-
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- roshi
-
noun,
the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- sanit
-
- saith
-
verb,
third person singular present of say1 .
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- rhin-
-
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- resp.
-
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- Sept.
-
- rheas
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- Rhein
-
noun,
the Rhine.
- rhet.
-
- rhine
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- sepia
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- rhoea
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- shone
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- petr-
-
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Thorp
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- Pinta
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- snath
-
noun,
the shaft or handle of a scythe.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- sito-
-
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- pitas
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- Pieta
-
noun,
a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- piths
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- pheon
-
noun,
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petri
-
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- phane
-
- phano
-
noun,
fanon.
- phase
-
noun,
any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- Sophi
-
noun,
Sophy.
- phon.
-
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- phone
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- phons
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the apparent loudness of a sound, equal in number for a given sound to the intensity in decibels of a sound having a frequency of 1000 cycles per second when, in the judgment of a group of listeners, the two sounds are of equal loudness.
- phore
-
- phot.
-
- phots
-
noun,
a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- Short
-
noun,
something that is short.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- Pratt
-
noun,
Edwin John, 1883–1964, Canadian poet.
- Pres.
-
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- pret.
-
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- shorn
-
noun,
Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb)
scissors of large size (usually used with pair of).
any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- Shore
-
noun,
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- pron.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- pros.
-
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- Pitta
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- poet.
-
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Sino-
-
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Port.
-
- shote
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- shpt.
-
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- post-
-
- shott
-
noun,
chott.
- prae-
-
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- hents
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- Heaps
-
noun,
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
- Thorn
-
noun,
a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
- Hearn
-
noun,
Lafcadio [laf-kad-ee-oh] /læfˈkæd iˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Koizumi Yakumo") 1850–1904, U.S. journalist, novelist, and essayist, born in Greece; Japanese citizen after 1894.
- hears
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the ear:
- heart
-
noun,
Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heats
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- Heian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- heist
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- Henri
-
noun,
Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- Herat
-
noun,
a city in NW Afghanistan.
- hates
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- herns
-
- Thira
-
noun,
Thera.
- Heron
-
noun,
any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.
- Heros
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- herp.
-
- thio-
-
- thins
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- thine
-
pronoun,
the possessive case of thou1. used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
- hier-
-
- Hatti
-
noun,
an ancient people who lived in central Anatolia before its conquest by the Hittites.
- hater
-
noun,
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination):
- Theta
-
noun,
the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (Θ, θ).
- haets
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- Ethan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “strength.”.
- ethos
-
noun,
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period:
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- those
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- Hanoi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
- Hanse
-
noun,
Hansa.
- Hants
-
noun,
Hampshire (def 1).
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- haori
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- throe
-
noun,
a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- harps
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- Harte
-
noun,
(Francis) Bret [bret] /brɛt/ (Show IPA), 1839–1902, U.S. author, especially of short stories.
- Harts
-
noun,
a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- haste
-
noun,
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity:
- Hines
-
noun,
Earl ("Fatha") 1905–83, U.S. jazz pianist.
- hints
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- teths
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Hosta
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- Tharp
-
noun,
Twyla [twahy-luh] /ˈtwaɪ lə/ (Show IPA), born 1941, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- Thare
-
noun,
Terah.
- Thant
-
noun,
U, U Thant.
- hsien
-
noun,
(in popular Chinese religion) one of a group of benevolent spirits promoting good in the world.
- Thane
-
noun,
Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.
- Thais
-
noun,
flourished late 4th century b.c, Athenian courtesan: mistress of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I.
- IATSE
-
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- Hosea
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- inapt
-
adjective,
not apt or fitting.
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- insep
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insp.
-
- inst.
-
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- hosp.
-
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- HIRES
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- thens
-
noun,
that time:
- hist.
-
- Thera
-
noun,
a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- Hoare
-
noun,
Sir Samuel John Gurney [gur-nee] /ˈgɜr ni/ (Show IPA), 1st Viscount Templewood [tem-puh l-woo d] /ˈtɛm pəlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1959, British statesman.
- hoars
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- Theos
-
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- theor
-
- hones
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- theo-
-
- hopes
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Horta
-
noun,
Baron Victor, 1861?–1947, Belgian architect.
- Hopis
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- Horae
-
plural noun,
goddesses of the seasons, of cyclical death and rebirth, and sometimes of social order, usually given as three in number, with the names Dike (Justice), Eunomia (Order), and Irene (Peace).
- horas
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- their
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- Horne
-
noun,
Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horns
-
noun,
one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- Horsa
-
noun,
died a.d. 455, Jutish chief (brother of Hengist).
- horse
-
noun,
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- Horst
-
noun,
a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has risen in relation to adjacent portions.
- hort.
-
- Esth.
-
- tithe
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- Aphis
-
noun,
an aphid, especially of the genus Aphis.
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- apish
-
adjective,
having the qualities, appearance, or ways of an ape.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- areo-
-
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- arith
-
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- anti-
-
- trash
-
noun,
anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trop-
-
- 30-30
-
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Troth
-
noun,
faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty:
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- aeri-
-
- aero-
-
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- anth-
-
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- anis-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- treas
-
- ashen
-
adjective,
ash-colored; gray.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- Torah
-
noun,
the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
Compare Tanach.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- ento-
-
- tonia
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Earth
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- ephor
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Epis.
-
- Epist
-
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Asher
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Zilpah. Gen. 30:12–13.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- trait
-
noun,
a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature:
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- astr.
-
- Athos
-
noun,
Mount, the easternmost of three prongs of the peninsula of Chalcidice, in NE Greece: site of an autonomous theocracy constituted of 20 monasteries. 131 sq. mi. (340 sq. km); about 35 miles (56 km) long.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- ation
-
- toti-
-
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- atrip
-
adjective,
aweigh.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- atto-
-
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- intr.
-
- theat
-
- ster.
-
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- tahrs
-
noun,
any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- staph
-
noun,
staphylococcus.
- Orth.
-
- Tahoe
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: resort. About 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km); 6225 feet (1897 meters) above sea level.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- oste-
-
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- tapis
-
noun,
Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- tapir
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Neth.
-
- Othin
-
noun,
Odin.
- taint
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- Other
-
noun,
the other one:
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- Srta.
-
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- oaths
-
noun,
a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.:
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- opahs
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- OPers
-
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- step-
-
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- Ophir
-
noun,
a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon. I Kings 10:11.
- start
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- North
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, lying in the plane of the meridian and to the left of a person facing the rising sun. Abbreviation: N.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- stat.
-
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- neath
-
preposition,
beneath.
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- ither
-
adjective, pronoun, adverb,
other.
- pahos
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- Isth.
-
- tears
-
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- paint
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- pant-
-
- Iran.
-
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- part.
-
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- pari-
-
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- teno-
-
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- spor-
-
- nears
-
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Terah
-
noun,
the father of Abraham. Gen. 11:25–32.
- tera-
-
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- tarts
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tenth
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- Spohr
-
noun,
Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), or Louis [loo-ee] /ˈlu i/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, German violinist and composer.
- naso-
-
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- tosh
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Tshi
-
noun,
Twi.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- Ste.
-
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Sra.
-
- tri-
-
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- trit
-
- Sat.
-
- tRNA
-
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- tron
-
- sepn
-
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- str.
-
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- shot
-
noun,
a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- then
-
noun,
that time:
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Thin
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- thir
-
pronoun,
these.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- this
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- Thea
-
noun,
a female given name.
- the-
-
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- ter.
-
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- sinh
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- teth
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- ten.
-
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- thae
-
pronoun, adjective,
those.
- Thai
-
noun,
Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- shr.
-
- than
-
conjunction,
(used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison):
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- sith
-
adverb, conjunction, preposition,
since.
- Thar
-
noun,
tahr.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- that
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- THOR
-
noun,
Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- top-
-
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Shan
-
noun,
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- Seth
-
noun,
the third son of Adam. Gen. 4:25.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- shop
-
noun,
a retail store, especially a small one.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tanh
-
- shoe
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Shoa
-
noun,
the Holocaust.
- shit
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- Soph
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- ship
-
noun,
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- Shin
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Tit.
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tahr
-
noun,
any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- Shea
-
noun,
shea tree.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- thi-
-
- tion
-
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- pash
-
noun,
an infatuation for another person; crush.
- Pan.
-
- eath
-
adjective, adverb,
easy.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- HETP
-
noun,
a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- ears
-
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.
- paho
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- par.
-
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- hets
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- Nah.
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- OSHA
-
noun,
the division of the Department of Labor that sets and enforces occupational health and safety rules.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- epit
-
- epi-
-
- Eph.
-
- hers
-
noun,
Slang. a female:
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Nash
-
noun,
John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- Ens.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- hest
-
noun,
behest.
- pat.
-
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- phr.
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- attn
-
- Phar
-
- phat
-
noun,
Typesetting. fat (def 23).
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- phis
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- ator
-
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ates
-
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- pehs
-
noun,
pe.
- Pen.
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- hint
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- per.
-
- perh
-
- Pers
-
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- hins
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pet.
-
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- nos-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nosh
-
noun,
a snack.
- not-
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Hans
-
noun,
a male given name, Germanic form of John.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- hair
-
noun,
any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- haet
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- haes
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- NTIA
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- heat
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- hent
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- Harp
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- HASP
-
noun,
a clasp for a door, lid, etc., especially one passing over a staple and fastened by a pin or a padlock.
- hate
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NIRA
-
- Hart
-
noun,
a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Noah
-
noun,
the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Hare
-
noun,
any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- haps
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Hapi
-
noun,
Apis.
- HEAO
-
- HEAP
-
noun,
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
- hear
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the ear:
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- opia
-
- Ont.
-
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- opah
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- her.
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- HERA
-
noun,
the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Neh.
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- oath
-
noun,
a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.:
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- eths
-
noun,
a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
- Eth.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- est.
-
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Neph
-
- esp.
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- eso-
-
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- neo-
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- ant.
-
- resh
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- ANSI
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- ano-
-
- Rhea
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- hots
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- rhos
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rash
-
noun,
an eruption or efflorescence on the skin.
- aph-
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- Host
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- apo-
-
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Hsia
-
noun,
a legendary dynasty in China, the traditional dates of which are 2205–1766 b.c.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Roth
-
noun,
Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- aet.
-
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- int.
-
- rpt.
-
- aer-
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- inae
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- RNAS
-
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- HRIP
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Ahir
-
noun,
a member of the caste of cowherds and milkmen in India.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Aire
-
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- 1080
-
- RONA
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- posh
-
adjective,
sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
- hops
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- pot.
-
- Hons
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- hoar
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- pnea
-
- Pish
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- iso-
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- pita
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- pith
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- att.
-
- Ashe
-
noun,
Arthur (Robert, Jr) 1943–93, U.S. tennis player.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- ARIS
-
- Ptah
-
noun,
an ancient Egyptian deity, believed to be a universal creator and sometimes identified with other gods: worshiped especially at Memphis when it was the royal residence.
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- pre-
-
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- hora
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Horn
-
noun,
one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- Hos.
-
- Apr.
-
- Ire.
-
- pts.
-
- art.
-
- PSAT
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prin
-
- pro-
-
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- prs.
-
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- hast
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- psia
-
- hor.
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- HRE
-
- hit
-
noun,
an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
- th-
-
- tha
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- io-
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- Hts
-
- ht.
-
- HST
-
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- Hoe
-
noun,
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- HIS
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- hip
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- hrs
-
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- SAE
-
- HAT
-
noun,
a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- Ash
-
noun,
the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning.
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- APS
-
- 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.
- TRH
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- ase
-
- ASI
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- at.
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- aor
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- TPN
-
- Ar.
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- TSP
-
- TSI
-
- ap-
-
- TSH
-
- TSE
-
- trp
-
- an.
-
- ae.
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- AHE
-
- ahi
-
noun,
yellowfin tuna, widely used in sashimi.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- AIS
-
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.
- Tro
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Tpr
-
- TPI
-
- has
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- ETO
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- TNT
-
- ERP
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- ESR
-
- ETR
-
- EPS
-
- ETS
-
- hr.
-
- hae
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- Han
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion.
Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- HAO
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the tenth part of a dong.
- HAP
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- TIA
-
- EPT
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- tph
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ATP
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- eo-
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
-
- ean
-
- 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.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- EPA
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Ehr
-
- eir
-
- EIS
-
- en-
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Ep.
-
- Ia.
-
- NIA
-
- IAS
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- PHA
-
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- PHS
-
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- PIO
-
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- POA
-
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- POR
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- sht
-
- ote
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ose
-
- OSP
-
- ot-
-
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- OTA
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- ier
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- spt
-
- OTS
-
- Pa.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- SPR
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- pah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of disgust or disbelief.)
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- shp
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- RNA
-
- ROA
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROI
-
- ROP
-
- SAR
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- RPO
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- PRA
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- PSA
-
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- sho
-
- PTT
-
- Re.
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RPS
-
- rah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of encouragement to a player or team.)
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- SHA
-
- REA
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Sr.
-
- TTS
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- ITA
-
- ite
-
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- ISR
-
- NES
-
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- NHA
-
- NHI
-
- NHS
-
- SRO
-
- NIH
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- ist
-
- ish
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- IHP
-
- IHS
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- in.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ine
-
- INH
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- ior
-
- IOT
-
- ise
-
- IPA
-
- iph
-
- IPO
-
- ipr
-
- IPS
-
- Ir.
-
- IRO
-
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ISA
-
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- OSA
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- op.
-
- OAP
-
- STP
-
- 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.
- OAS
-
- Nth
-
Idioms,
the nth degree / power,
a high degree or power.
the utmost degree or extent:
- NSA
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OIr
-
- NRA
-
- STI
-
- OIt
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- nr.
-
- ONI
-
- ONR
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- OPA
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ons
-
- NOP
-
- Npt
-
- NPR
-
- S.
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- i.
-
- RO
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- TT
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- 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.
- AH
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- IP
-
- AO
-
- OA
-
- 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.
- SA
-
- RP
-
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- RH
-
- TP
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- T1
-
- NH
-
- t.
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- EI
-
- PH
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- R.
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RI
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- RN
-
- NP
-
- NI
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- HP
-
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- h.
-
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- SN
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- TN
-