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Word cardinal-flower has
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- cordillera
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noun,
a chain of mountains, usually the principal mountain system or mountain axis of a large landmass.
- Africander
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noun,
Afrikander.
- cordwainer
-
noun,
a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
- Willendorf
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noun,
a village in NE Austria, near Krems: site of an Aurignacian settlement where a 4½ inches (11 cm) limestone statuette (Venus of Willendorf) was found.
- Orwellian
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adjective,
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- farandole
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noun,
a lively dance, of Provençal origin, in which all the dancers join hands and execute various figures.
- cornfield
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noun,
a field in which corn is grown.
- fine-draw
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verb (used with object),
Sewing. to sew together so finely that the joining is not noticeable.
- coriander
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noun,
Also called cilantro, Chinese parsley. an herb, Coriandrum sativum, of the parsley family, native to Europe, having strong-scented leaves used in cooking and aromatic seeds used as a seasoning and in medicine.
- all-fired
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adverb,
Also, all-firedly [awl-fahyuh rd-lee, -fahy-rid-] /ˈɔlˌfaɪərd li, -ˌfaɪ rɪd-/ (Show IPA). extremely; excessively:
- coralline
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adjective,
composed of coral or having the structure of coral:
- conferral
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noun,
the act of conferring or bestowing; conferment:
- collinear
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adjective,
lying in the same straight line.
- Caledonia
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noun,
Chiefly Literary. Scotland.
- Lowlander
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noun,
a native of the Lowlands.
- Laodicean
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noun,
a person who is lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion.
- allowance
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noun,
the act of allowing.
- leaf-lard
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noun,
lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- androecia
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noun,
the stamens of a flower collectively.
- dalliance
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noun,
a trifling away of time; dawdling.
- air-lance
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noun,
a lance using an air blast.
- Lawndale
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- diaconal
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adjective,
pertaining to a deacon.
- Adlerian
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adjective,
of or relating to Alfred Adler or his doctrines, especially in respect to the belief that behavior is determined by compensation for feelings of inferiority.
- Conelrad
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noun,
a system formerly used by the U.S. civil defense system to prevent enemy planes or missiles from homing on radio and television frequencies.
- rocaille
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noun,
Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- carillon
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noun,
a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.
- railroad
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noun,
a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- rainfall
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noun,
a fall or shower of rain.
- colinear
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adjective,
collinear.
- rainwear
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noun,
waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- colander
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noun,
a metal or plastic container with a perforated bottom, for draining and straining foods.
- florican
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noun,
any of various smaller species of bustards.
- infrared
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noun,
the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- Nocardia
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noun,
any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- frailero
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noun,
an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- ironclad
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noun,
a wooden warship of the middle or late 19th century having iron or steel armor plating.
- Clorinda
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noun,
a female given name.
- Lorraine
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noun,
Also, Lorrain. Claude (Claude Gelée) 1600–82, French painter.
- Crawford
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noun,
Cheryl, 1902–86, U.S. stage director and producer.
- ironware
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noun,
articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- lie-down
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noun,
a nap.
- Candolle
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noun,
Augustin Pyrame de [oh-gys-tan pee-ram duh] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ piˈram də/ (Show IPA), 1778–1841, Swiss botanist.
- lowrider
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noun,
an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- firewall
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noun,
a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.
- Clarinda
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noun,
a female given name, form of Clara.
- Carniola
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noun,
a former duchy and crown land of Austria: now part of Slovenia.
- forewarn
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verb (used with object),
to warn in advance.
- Landrace
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noun,
one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- calendar
-
noun,
a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year:
- canaller
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noun,
a freight boat built for use on canals.
- Laodicea
-
noun,
ancient name of Latakia.
- Foreland
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noun,
a cape, headland, or promontory.
- in-crowd
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noun,
in-group (def 1).
- Caroline
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noun,
a female given name.
- fecaloid
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adjective,
like or resembling feces.
- Canfield
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noun,
a game of solitaire often adapted to gambling purposes.
- radiance
-
noun,
radiant brightness or light:
- carriole
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noun,
cariole.
- aardwolf
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noun,
a striped, hyenalike mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, that feeds chiefly on insects.
- careworn
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adjective,
showing signs of care or worry; fatigued by trouble or anxiety; haggard:
- Cranford
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noun,
a township in NE New Jersey.
- air-core
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adjective,
having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils:
- Crandall
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noun,
a tool for dressing stone, having adjustable, pointed, steel rods held in a slot at the end of the handle.
- dollface
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noun,
a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- old-line
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adjective,
following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- fricando
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noun,
fricandeau.
- Carolina
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noun,
a former English colony on the Atlantic coast of North America: officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.
- Cardinal
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noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a high ecclesiastic appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals and ranking above every other ecclesiastic but the pope.
- Cornwall
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noun,
a county in SW England. 1369 sq. mi. (3545 sq. km).
- corn-law
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noun,
any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- windfall
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noun,
an unexpected gain, piece of good fortune, or the like.
- Cornelia
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noun,
flourished 2nd century b.c, Roman matron: mother of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus.
- Fredonia
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noun,
a town in W New York.
- Alcandre
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noun,
the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- Carolean
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adjective,
characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England:
- downfall
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noun,
descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- Falconer
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noun,
a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- Cordelia
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noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the youngest of Lear's three daughters and the only one who remains loyal to her father.
Compare Goneril, Regan.
- Alliance
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noun,
the act of allying or state of being allied.
- Falderal
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noun,
mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.
- acrolein
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noun,
a yellow, flammable liquid, C 3 H 4 O, having a stifling odor, usually obtained by the decomposition of glycerol: used chiefly in the synthesis of commercial and pharmaceutical products.
- canaille
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noun,
riffraff; rabble.
- warfarin
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noun,
a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble anticoagulant, C 19 H 16 O 4 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
- cordwain
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noun,
cordovan leather.
- Warfield
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noun,
David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- fairlead
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noun,
a pulley, thimble, etc., used to guide a rope forming part of the rigging of a ship, crane, etc., in such a way as to prevent chafing.
- facedown
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noun,
Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- candela
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noun,
a basic unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined as the luminous intensity of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 10 12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity of 1/683 watt/steradian: adopted in 1979 as the international standard of luminous intensity. Abbreviation: Cd.
- canella
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noun,
the cinnamonlike bark of a West Indian tree, Canella winterana, used as a condiment and in medicine.
- cardio-
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- candier
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- Deloria
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noun,
Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- Loraine
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noun,
a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- Nordica
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noun,
Lillian (Lillian Norton) 1859–1914, U.S. soprano.
- Calorie
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noun,
Thermodynamics.
Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal.
(usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- Ariadne
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread by which he escaped from the labyrinth: deserted by Theseus on Naxos, she became the bride of Dionysus.
- falcial
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adjective,
of or relating to a falx.
- aneroid
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noun,
aneroid barometer.
- ordinal
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noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- araneid
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noun,
a member of the order Araneae (Araneida), comprising the spiders.
- fancied
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noun,
imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fancier
-
noun,
a person having a liking for or interest in something; enthusiast:
- Arcella
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noun,
a genus of freshwater, ameboid protozoa that secrete a hard, umbrellalike shell having a single opening through which the pseudopodia extend.
- oldwife
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noun,
any of various fishes, as the alewife, the menhaden, or a West Indian fish of the family Balistidae.
- Ardella
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noun,
a female given name.
- Dionaea
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noun,
the Venus's-flytrap.
- faradic
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adjective,
of or relating to a discontinuous, asymmetric, alternating current from the secondary winding of an induction coil.
- Farrell
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noun,
Eileen, 1920–2002, U.S. soprano.
- Lowland
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noun,
land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- ocellar
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adjective,
pertaining to an ocellus.
- Oceanid
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noun,
any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
- Oceania
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noun,
the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).
- ocarina
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noun,
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
- nodical
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adjective,
of or relating to a node or the nodes.
- Nicolle
-
noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, French physician: Nobel prize 1928.
- dewfall
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noun,
formation of dew.
- Caelian
-
noun,
the southeastern hill of the seven hills of ancient Rome.
- lowlife
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noun,
a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
- calando
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adverb,
in a slower, softer manner.
- Caldera
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noun,
a large, basinlike depression resulting from the explosion or collapse of the center of a volcano.
- carfare
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noun,
the amount charged for a ride on a subway, streetcar, bus, etc.
- cofinal
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adjective,
of or relating to a subset of a set with a partial order relation, as “greater than” or “equal to,” in which corresponding to each element in the set is an element in the subset that is in relation to the given element.
- cariole
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noun,
a small, open, two-wheeled vehicle.
- folacin
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noun,
folic acid.
- Collier
-
noun,
a ship for carrying coal.
- confide
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verb (used with object),
to tell in assurance of secrecy:
- conifer
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noun,
any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds.
- Conrail
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noun,
a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- Florida
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noun,
a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee.
Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
- cordial
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noun,
a strong, sweetened, aromatic alcoholic liquor; liqueur.
- Corelli
-
noun,
Arcangelo [ahr-kahn-je-law] /ɑrˈkɑn dʒɛˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1653–1713, Italian violinist and composer.
- Cornell
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noun,
Ezra, 1809–74, U.S. capitalist and philanthropist.
- cornfed
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adjective,
fed on corn:
- corrade
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verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- correl.
-
- corrida
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noun,
a bullfight.
- Iceland
-
noun,
a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icefall
-
noun,
a jumbled mass of ice in a glacier.
- collard
-
noun,
a variety of kale, Brassica oleracea acephala, grown in the southern U.S., having a rosette of green leaves.
- Danelaw
-
noun,
the body of laws in force in the northeast of England where the Danes settled in the 9th century a.d.
- froward
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- cranial
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adjective,
of or relating to the cranium or skull.
- cranio-
-
- craniol
-
- crawler
-
noun,
a person or thing that crawls.
- criolla
-
noun,
a woman or girl born in Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- Fredric
-
noun,
a male given name.
- crowned
-
noun,
any of various types of headgear worn by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty, often made of precious metal and ornamented with valuable gems.
- crowner
-
noun,
a person or thing that crowns.
- Franco-
-
- Francie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Frances.
- francia
-
noun,
José Gaspar Rodríguez de [haw-se gahs-pahr raw-th ree-ges th e] /hɔˈsɛ gɑsˈpɑr rɔˈðri gɛs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), ("El Supremo") 1766–1840, Paraguayan political leader: dictator 1814–40.
- Forward
-
noun,
Sports.
a player stationed in advance of others on a team.
Football. a lineman.
Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- collide
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to collide:
- dariole
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noun,
a small round mold.
- Carline
-
noun,
an old woman.
- Leclair
-
noun,
Jean Marie [zhahn ma-ree] /ʒɑ̃ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1697–1764, French violinist and composer.
- carload
-
noun,
the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- carrion
-
noun,
dead and putrefying flesh.
- Carroll
-
noun,
Charles, 1737–1832, American patriot and legislator.
- decrial
-
noun,
the act of decrying; noisy censure.
- lioncel
-
noun,
a lion: so called when three or more are displayed on an escutcheon.
- cedilla
-
noun,
a mark (¸) placed under a consonant letter, as under c in French, in Portuguese, and formerly in Spanish, to indicate that it is pronounced (s), under c and s in Turkish to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, (ch) and (sh), or under t and s in Romanian to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, (ts) and (sh).
- Linacre
-
noun,
Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- Celadon
-
noun,
any of several Chinese porcelains having a translucent, pale green glaze.
- decanol
-
noun,
a colorless liquid, C 10 H 22 O, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol: used as a plasticizer, detergent, and in perfumes and flavorings.
- decanal
-
adjective,
of or relating to a dean or deanery:
- Decalin
-
- Leonard
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noun,
Sugar Ray (Ray Charles Leonard) born 1956, U.S. boxer.
- Leofric
-
noun,
died 1057, earl of Mercia c1030–57 (husband of Lady Godiva).
- lead-in
-
noun,
something that leads in or introduces; introduction; opening.
- indwell
-
verb (used with object),
to inhabit.
- Lardner
-
noun,
Ring(gold Wilmer) [ring-gohld wil-mer] /ˈrɪŋˌgoʊld ˈwɪl mər/ (Show IPA), 1885–1933, U.S. short-story writer and journalist.
- Laodice
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a daughter of Priam and Hecuba who chose to be swallowed up by the earth rather than live as a Greek concubine.
- laniard
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noun,
lanyard.
- landler
-
noun,
an Austrian and southern German folk dance in moderately slow triple meter, antecedent to the waltz.
- clarain
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noun,
the coal forming the bright layers in banded bituminous coal.
- clarino
-
noun,
a valveless trumpet used in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing rapid passages in the high register.
- Clarion
-
noun,
an ancient trumpet with a curved shape.
- flinder
-
noun,
Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- ladrone
-
noun,
a thief.
- Floreal
-
noun,
(in the French Revolutionary calendar) the eighth month of the year, extending from April 20 to May 19.
- Laconia
-
noun,
an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- clowder
-
noun,
a group or cluster of cats.
- Ireland
-
noun,
John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- codline
-
noun,
an untarred cord of hemp or cotton, used for fishing and for various purposes aboard a ship.
- Andorra
-
noun,
a republic in the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel. 191 sq. mi. (495 sq. km).
- caldron
-
noun,
cauldron.
- acaroid
-
adjective,
resembling a mite or tick.
- Winfred
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “peaceful friend.”.
- warfare
-
noun,
the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
- Aloidae
-
plural noun,
Aloadae.
- radicel
-
noun,
a minute root; a rootlet.
- allowed
-
Idioms,
allow for, to make concession or provision for:
- radicle
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noun,
Botany.
the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root.
a rudimentary root; radicel or rootlet.
- allodia
-
noun,
land owned absolutely; land owned and not subject to any rent, service, or other tenurial right of an overlord.
- AFL-CIO
-
- worried
-
noun,
a worried condition or feeling; uneasiness or anxiety.
- Alarcon
-
noun,
Pedro Antonio [pe-th raw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pedro Antonio Alarcón y Ariza) 1833–91, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat.
- Wallace
-
noun,
Alfred Russel [ruhs-uh l] /ˈrʌs əl/ (Show IPA), 1823–1913, English naturalist, explorer, and author.
- Aleardi
-
noun,
Count Aleardo [ah-le-ahr-daw] /ˌɑ lɛˈɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1812–78, Italian poet and patriot.
- alcaide
-
noun,
a commander of a fortress.
- Aaronic
-
adjective,
of or relating to Aaron.
- Acrilan
-
- Alcalde
-
noun,
a mayor having judicial powers.
- alienor
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- Willard
-
noun,
Emma (Hart) 1787–1870, U.S. educator and poet.
- fade-in
-
noun,
Movies, Television. a gradual increase in the visibility of a scene.
- adrenal
-
noun,
adrenal gland.
- Rolland
-
noun,
Romain [raw-man] /rɔˈmɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, French novelist, music critic, and dramatist: Nobel prize 1915.
- Alcoran
-
noun,
Alkoran.
- ralline
-
adjective,
belonging or pertaining to the family Rallidae, comprising the rails and allied species.
- re-coil
-
verb (used with or without object),
to coil again.
- Aeolian
-
noun,
a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Dorian1 (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- Wilfred
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “will” and “peace.”.
- Ercilla
-
noun,
Alonso de [ah-lawn-saw th e] /ɑˈlɔn sɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1533–94, Spanish epic poet; soldier in the conquest of Chile.
- alerion
-
noun,
an eagle displayed, usually represented without a beak or legs.
- radical
-
noun,
a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles; extremist.
- Randall
-
noun,
a male given name.
- warlord
-
noun,
a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- refrain
-
noun,
a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
- Ricardo
-
noun,
David, 1772–1823, English economist.
- ancilla
-
noun,
an accessory; auxiliary or adjunct.
- acarine
-
noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Acarina, comprising the mites and ticks.
- aircrew
-
noun,
U.S. Air Force. the crew of an aircraft.
- airfare
-
noun,
the price charged for transportation by airplane.
- Wieland
-
noun,
Wayland.
- airflow
-
noun,
the air flowing past or through a moving body, as an airplane or automobile.
- re-laid
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of re-lay.
- African
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Africa.
- acerola
-
noun,
the cherrylike fruit of a small tree, Malpighia glabra, of the West Indies and adjacent areas, having a high concentration of vitamin C.
- elfland
-
noun,
the realm or world of elves; fairyland.
- aileron
-
noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- end-all
-
noun,
the ultimate purpose, object, or conclusion:
- rewind
-
noun,
an act or instance of rewinding.
- rondel
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- aerial
-
noun,
a radio or television antenna.
- clino-
-
- Lander
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- flori-
-
- Aeolia
-
noun,
Aeolis.
- reword
-
verb (used with object),
to put into other words:
- lancer
-
noun,
a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- eclair
-
noun,
a finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, custard, or pastry cream, often coated with icing.
- roller
-
noun,
a person or thing that rolls.
- Laelia
-
noun,
any of several epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Laelia, having fleshy leaves and showy flowers.
- Ladino
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- Ronald
-
noun,
a male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.
- errand
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- Floral
-
noun,
something, as a fabric, garment, wallpaper, or household item, having a floral pattern:
- folder
-
noun,
a person or thing that folds.
- Claire
-
noun,
Ina, 1892–1985, U.S. actress.
- clawed
-
noun,
a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
- cleoid
-
noun,
a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- Aeolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- Ellora
-
noun,
a village in S central India: important Hindu archaeological site.
- Deacon
-
noun,
(in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- aeron.
-
- Landor
-
noun,
Walter Savage, 1775–1864, English poet and prose writer.
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- facade
-
noun,
Architecture.
the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one.
any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.
- Friend
-
noun,
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- foliar
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or having the nature of a leaf or leaves.
- flacon
-
noun,
a small bottle or flask with a stopper, especially one used for perfume.
- Lenard
-
noun,
Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- Leonid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- Leland
-
noun,
a male given name.
- afocal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having no finite focal point, as a telescope.
- Lerida
-
noun,
a city in NE Spain.
- afraid
-
adjective,
feeling fear; filled with apprehension:
- Orwell
-
noun,
George (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.
- flawed
-
noun,
a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
- Africa
-
noun,
a continent S of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. About 11,700,000 sq. mi. (30,303,000 sq. km).
- cellar
-
noun,
a room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
- clado-
-
- afield
-
adverb,
abroad; away from home.
- Laredo
-
noun,
a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- lardon
-
noun,
a strip of fat used in larding, especially as drawn through the substance of meat, chicken, etc., with a kind of needle or pin.
- afeard
-
adjective,
afraid.
- larder
-
noun,
a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
- cinder
-
noun,
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- frolic
-
noun,
merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- Roland
-
noun,
Italian Orlando. the greatest of the paladins in the Charlemagne cycle of the chansons de geste, renowned for his prowess and the manner of his death in the battle of Roncesvalles (a.d. 778), also for his five days' combat with Oliver in which neither was the victor.
- willed
-
noun,
the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions:
- Lanier
-
noun,
Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- cirro-
-
- decani
-
adjective,
of or relating to the epistle or liturgical south side of a church (opposed to cantoris).
- Frieda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- dancer
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- Larine
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- Darren
-
noun,
a male given name.
- irreal
-
adjective,
unreal.
- Waller
-
noun,
Edmund, 1607–87, English poet.
- Flower
-
noun,
the blossom of a plant.
- Warner
-
noun,
Charles Dudley [duhd-lee] /ˈdʌd li/ (Show IPA), 1829–1900, U.S. editor and essayist.
- Ilford
-
noun,
a former borough in SE England, now part of Redbridge, Greater London.
- Warder
-
noun,
a person who guards something, as a doorkeeper or caretaker.
- Warden
-
noun,
a person charged with the care or custody of persons, animals, or things; keeper.
- Florin
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin of Great Britain, formerly equal to two shillings or the tenth part of a pound and retained in circulation equal to 10 new pence after decimalization in 1971: first issued in 1849 as a silver coin.
- wander
-
noun,
Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.
- incorr
-
- foiled
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- adeno-
-
- Conrad
-
noun,
Charles, Jr ("Pete") 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.
- walled
-
noun,
any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- downer
-
noun,
Informal.
a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate.
a depressing experience, person, or situation.
- confer
-
verb (used with object),
to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc.:
- Confed
-
- cradle
-
noun,
a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- Warren
-
noun,
a place where rabbits breed or abound.
- indecl
-
- Idaean
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, associated with, or inhabiting Mount Ida in Asia Minor or Crete.
- Cowell
-
noun,
Henry (Dixon) 1897–1965, U.S. composer.
- Coward
-
noun,
a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.
- Corwin
-
noun,
Norman (Lewis) 1910–2011, U.S. radio and stage dramatist and novelist.
- Corrie
-
noun,
a circular hollow in the side of a hill or mountain.
- drawer
-
noun,
a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- corral
-
noun,
an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- acedia
-
noun,
sloth (def 1).
Compare deadly sins.
- cowled
-
noun,
a hooded garment worn by monks.
- Daniel
-
noun,
Bible.
a prophet living in Babylon during the Captivity.
the book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Dan.
- weirdo
-
noun,
an odd, eccentric, or unconventional person.
- cowrie
-
noun,
the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.
- Corner
-
noun,
the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- enfold
-
verb (used with object),
to wrap up; envelop:
- acarid
-
noun,
an acarine, especially a mite of the family Acaridae.
- Cornel
-
noun,
any tree or shrub of the genus Cornus; dogwood.
- corned
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- indef.
-
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- coaler
-
noun,
a railroad, ship, etc., used mainly to haul or supply coal.
- darnel
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- in-law
-
noun,
a relative by marriage.
- Adrian
-
noun,
Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- inwale
-
noun,
(in an open boat) a horizontal timber binding together the frames along the top strake.
- inwall
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose with a wall.
- Coanda
-
noun,
Henri Marie [ahn-ree ma-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1972, French engineer and inventor.
- inward
-
noun,
the inward or internal part; the inside.
- inlace
-
verb (used with object),
enlace.
- darner
-
noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- lineal
-
adjective,
being in the direct line, as a descendant or ancestor, or in a direct line, as descent or succession.
- Darrow
-
noun,
Clarence (Seward) 1857–1938, U.S. lawyer, lecturer, and author.
- Rwanda
-
noun,
a republic in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly comprising the N part of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; became independent 1962. 10,169 sq. mi. (26,338 sq. km). Capital: Kigali.
- Rowena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Wilder
-
noun,
Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- Darwin
-
noun,
Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- ferro-
-
- adreno
-
- florid
-
adjective,
reddish; ruddy; rosy:
- enroll
-
verb (used with object),
to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register:
- indole
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- Walden
-
noun,
a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- Adonai
-
noun,
Hebrew. a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
- Collie
-
noun,
one of a breed of dogs having a usually long, black, tan, and white or sable and white coat, raised originally in Scotland for herding sheep.
- Adonic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Adonic verse or line.
- Collar
-
noun,
the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- infra-
-
- Darlan
-
noun,
Jean Louis Xavier François [zhahn lwee gza-vyey frahn-swa] /ʒɑ̃ lwi gzaˈvyeɪ frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1881–1942, French naval officer and politician.
- Crania
-
noun,
the skull of a vertebrate.
- Colden
-
noun,
Cadwallader, 1688–1776, Scottish physician, botanist, and public official in America, born in Ireland.
- infare
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- adren-
-
- Colada
-
noun,
piña colada.
- inflow
-
noun,
something that flows in; influx.
- infold
-
verb (used with object),
enfold.
- reward
-
noun,
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- forcer
-
noun,
a person or thing that forces.
- cedarn
-
adjective,
resembling or made of cedar.
- Dillon
-
noun,
C(larence) Douglas, 1909–1979, U.S. lawyer and government official, born in Switzerland: Secretary of the Treasury 1961–65.
- forrel
-
noun,
forel.
- raider
-
noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- Arnold
-
noun,
Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
- Dallan
-
noun,
dalan.
- arnica
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Arnica, having opposite leaves and yellow flower heads.
- Farrow
-
noun,
a litter of pigs.
- faille
-
noun,
a soft, transversely ribbed fabric of silk, rayon, or lightweight taffeta.
- Radnor
-
noun,
a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- Nordic
-
noun,
a member of the Nordic people, especially a Scandinavian.
- Allied
-
noun,
a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose:
- Allier
-
noun,
a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- all-in
-
adjective,
Wrestling. without restrictions; with virtually every type of hold permitted.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- farina
-
noun,
flour or meal made from cereal grains and cooked as cereal, used in puddings, soups, etc.
- radio-
-
- fardel
-
noun,
a bundle; burden.
- A-line
-
noun,
(especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- arride
-
verb (used with object),
to be agreeable or pleasing to.
- areola
-
noun,
a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- Newari
-
noun,
a Sino-Tibetan language, the language of the Newar.
- narco-
-
- rancid
-
adjective,
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
- narial
-
adjective,
of or relating to the nares or nostrils.
- narrow
-
noun,
a narrow part, place, or thing.
- necro-
-
- Fenrir
-
noun,
a wolflike monster, a son of Loki and Angerboda, chained by Gleipnir but destined to be released at Ragnarok to eat Odin and to be killed by Vidar.
- Fellow
-
noun,
a man or boy:
- Fowler
-
noun,
a hunter of birds.
- Fedora
-
noun,
a soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise.
- Nicaea
-
noun,
an ancient city in NW Asia Minor: Nicene Creed formulated here a.d.
- Nicole
-
noun,
a female given name: from Greek words meaning “victory” and “people.”.
- Alfred
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Old English words meaning “elf” and “counsel.”.
- niello
-
noun,
a black metallic substance, consisting of silver, copper, lead, and sulfur, with which an incised design or ground is filled to produce an ornamental effect on metal.
- failed
-
noun,
Slang.
an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance:
the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way:
a person who fails in this way.
- dialer
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- Wonder
-
noun,
something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration:
- oilcan
-
noun,
a can having a long spout through which oil is poured or squirted to lubricate machinery or the like.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- ferri-
-
- Falcon
-
noun,
any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- anlace
-
noun,
anelace.
- Docile
-
adjective,
easily managed or handled; tractable:
- Racine
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1639–99, French dramatist.
- fondle
-
verb (used with object),
to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress:
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- ancile
-
noun,
a shield given by Mars to Numa Pompilius as the palladium of Rome.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- racial
-
adjective,
of or relating to the social construct of race:
- andro-
-
- Andric
-
noun,
Ivo [ee-vaw] /ˈi vɔ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1975, Yugoslavian poet, novelist, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1961.
- Andria
-
noun,
a city in Apulia, S Italy.
- Andrew
-
noun,
one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. Mark 3:18; John 1:40–42.
- Andrea
-
noun,
a male or female given name, Latinized form of Andrew.
- do-all
-
noun,
a person employed as a factotum, as the manager of all the affairs of an individual or a business.
- ordeal
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- anodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- Dacron
-
- radian
-
noun,
the measure of a central angle subtending an arc equal in length to the radius: equal to 57.2958°. Abbreviation: rad.
- Alnico
-
noun,
a permanent-magnet alloy having aluminum, nickel, and cobalt as its principal ingredients.
- alodia
-
noun,
allodium.
- Dalila
-
noun,
Delilah (def 1).
- olefin
-
noun,
any member of the alkene series.
- Arcaro
-
noun,
Edward ("Eddie") 1916–97, U.S. jockey.
- arcane
-
adjective,
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric:
- arcade
-
noun,
Architecture.
a series of arches supported on piers or columns.
an arched, roofed-in gallery. Compare colonnade.
- fallow
-
noun,
land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- radial
-
noun,
a radial section or construction.
- faller
-
noun,
a person or thing that falls.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- onward
-
adverb,
toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- oracle
-
noun,
(especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- Oradea
-
noun,
a city in NW Romania.
- fallen
-
noun,
an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
- linear
-
adjective,
of, consisting of, or using lines:
- L-line
-
noun,
one of a series of lines (L-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (L-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the L-shell.
- nailer
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- redial
-
noun,
automatic redial.
- facial
-
noun,
a treatment to beautify the face.
- windle
-
noun,
a measure of corn, wheat, or other commodities equal to approximately three bushels, but varying in different regions.
- Carian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Caria.
- Filler
-
noun,
a person or thing that fills:
- Alaric
-
noun,
a.d. c370–410, king of the Visigoths: captured Rome 410.
- Delano
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- alcaid
-
plural noun,
the descendants of Alcaeus.
- Carina
-
noun,
Zoology. a keellike part or ridge, especially a ridge of bone on the ventral side of the sternum of birds.
- Cardin
-
noun,
Pierre, born 1922, French fashion designer.
- cardia
-
noun,
an opening that connects the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach.
- cardi-
-
- Dallin
-
noun,
Cyrus Earle, 1861–1944, U.S. sculptor.
- carafe
-
noun,
a wide-mouthed glass or metal bottle with a lip or spout, for holding and serving beverages.
- Delian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Delos.
- rancor
-
noun,
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- finale
-
noun,
the last piece, division, or movement of a concert, opera, or composition.
- redowa
-
noun,
a Bohemian dance in two forms, one resembling the waltz or the mazurka, the other resembling the polka.
- facile
-
adjective,
moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality:
- Carole
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Renoir
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- Lionel
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leon.
- finder
-
noun,
a person or thing that finds.
- Renard
-
noun,
Reynard.
- Dollar
-
noun,
a paper money, silver or cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $.
- Carrie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Carrel
-
noun,
Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
- Carola
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Carol.
- locale
-
noun,
a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it:
- loader
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- loafer
-
noun,
a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
- carnal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual:
- loaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- Carlow
-
noun,
a county in Leinster, in the SE Republic of Ireland. 346 sq. mi. (896 sq. km). County seat: Carlow.
- refill
-
noun,
a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up:
- Winder
-
noun,
a person or thing that winds.
- lorica
-
noun,
Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- Lorena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- redfin
-
noun,
any of various small freshwater minnows with red fins, especially a shiner, Notropis umbratilis, of streams in central North America.
- France
-
noun,
Anatole [a-na-tawl] /a naˈtɔl/ (Show IPA), (Jacques Anatole Thibault) 1844–1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel Prize 1921.
- denial
-
noun,
an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false:
- Calif.
-
- Aldine
-
noun,
an Aldine or other early edition.
- realia
-
plural noun,
Education. objects, as coins, tools, etc., used by a teacher to illustrate everyday living.
- Aldrin
-
noun,
a brown, water-insoluble, toxic solid consisting of more than 95 percent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon C 12 H 8 Cl 6 : used as an insecticide.
- Edwina
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Edwin.
- forced
-
noun,
physical power or strength possessed by a living being:
- Calder
-
noun,
Alexander, 1898–1976, U.S. sculptor; originator of mobiles.
- calli-
-
- Ferrol
-
noun,
El Ferrol.
- derail
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- nacred
-
adjective,
lined with or resembling nacre.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- franca
-
noun,
a city in Sao Paulo state, SE Brazil.
- ferric
-
adjective,
of or containing iron, especially in the trivalent state.
- Dewali
-
noun,
Diwali.
- caller
-
noun,
a person or thing that calls.
- Callao
-
noun,
a seaport in W Peru, near Lima.
- canard
-
noun,
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- record
-
noun,
an act of recording.
- callow
-
noun,
a recently hatched worker ant.
- recall
-
noun,
an act of recalling.
- fiacre
-
noun,
a small horse-drawn carriage.
- Lorrie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Laura.
- Canad.
-
- recoil
-
noun,
an act of recoiling.
- fiance
-
noun,
a man engaged to be married. Synonyms: future groom, future husband, future spouse, betrothed.
- Candor
-
noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- candle
-
noun,
a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- Candia
-
noun,
former name of Iráklion.
- Elara
-
noun,
Astronomy. a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- elfin
-
noun,
an elf.
- folie
-
noun,
madness; insanity.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- encl.
-
- Fonda
-
noun,
an inn or restaurant.
- econ.
-
- folia
-
noun,
plural of folium.
- folic
-
adjective,
of or derived from folic acid.
- Eland
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- foll.
-
- Elwin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Edwin
-
noun,
Also, Eadwine. a.d. 585?–633, king of Northumbria 617–633.
- fa-la
-
noun,
a text or refrain in old songs.
- endo-
-
- feral
-
adjective,
existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
- filar
-
adjective,
of or relating to a thread or threads.
- Fiend
-
noun,
Satan; the devil.
- Field
-
noun,
an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- Fidel
-
noun,
a male given name.
- fader
-
noun,
a person or thing that fades.
- faena
-
noun,
the final third of a bullfight in which the matador uses a muleta and the sword in making the final series of passes preparatory to the kill.
- Faial
-
noun,
an island in the Azores, in the N Atlantic. 66 sq. mi. (171 sq. km).
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- feria
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- felon
-
noun,
Law. a person who has committed a felony.
- finca
-
noun,
a ranch or large farm in a Spanish-speaking country, especially a plantation in tropical Spanish America.
- fella
-
noun,
fellow.
- felid
-
noun,
any animal of the family Felidae, comprising the cats.
- Fedin
-
noun,
Konstantin Aleksandrovich [kuh n-stuhn-tyeen uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /kən stʌnˈtyin ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1977, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- fecal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or being feces.
- Farro
-
noun,
emmer.
- farci
-
adjective,
filled with with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter; stuffed.
- farce
-
noun,
a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
- farad
-
noun,
the standard unit of capacitance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which there appears a potential difference of one volt when it is charged by a quantity of electricity equal to one coulomb. Symbol: F.
- Falla
-
noun,
Manuel de [mah-nwel de] /mɑˈnwɛl dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1946, Spanish composer.
- Falda
-
noun,
a white silk vestment extending from the waist to the ground, worn over the cassock by the pope on solemn occasions.
- final
-
noun,
that which is last; that which forms an end or termination.
- facia
-
noun,
dashboard (def 1).
- endow
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:
- flier
-
noun,
something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- Enlil
-
noun,
the king of the Sumerian gods and the god of the air.
- focal
-
adjective,
of or relating to a focus.
- flown
-
noun,
a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- Eolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- Flora
-
noun,
the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- flor.
-
- flied
-
noun,
a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
- facer
-
noun,
a person or thing that faces.
- Errol
-
noun,
a male given name.
- erron
-
- Erwin
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “boar” and “friend.”.
- flare
-
noun,
a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.
- flair
-
noun,
a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack:
- Ewald
-
noun,
a male given name.
- flail
-
noun,
an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
- faced
-
noun,
the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- Fiona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Finer
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- fiord
-
noun,
fjord.
- linac
-
noun,
linear accelerator.
- force
-
noun,
physical power or strength possessed by a living being:
- owner
-
noun,
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ordn.
-
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- orial
-
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- racer
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- Ollie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Oliver.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- RADAR
-
noun,
Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- rall.
-
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- rawin
-
noun,
a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Olwen
-
noun,
a princess, the daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief-giant.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- Nolde
-
noun,
Emil (Emil Hansen) 1867–1956, German painter.
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Norw.
-
- Nowel
-
noun,
Noel (def 2).
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Ocala
-
noun,
a city in central Florida.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- OIcel
-
- oleic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- oidea
-
- oiled
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Oland
-
noun,
an island in SE Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound. 26,750; 519 sq. mi. (1345 sq. km).
- olden
-
adjective,
of or relating to the distant past or bygone times; ancient.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- refl.
-
- nicad
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- Willa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.
- Weill
-
noun,
Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1900–50, German composer, in the U.S. after 1935.
- weird
-
noun,
fate; destiny.
- Werra
-
noun,
a river in central Germany, flowing N from the Thuringian Forest and joining the Fulda River to form the Weser River. 181 miles (291 km) long.
- widen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become wide or wider; broaden; expand.
- wield
-
verb (used with object),
to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
- wilco
-
interjection,
(especially in radio transmission) an indication that the message just received will be complied with.
- Wilde
-
noun,
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) [fing-guh l oh-fla-her-tee wilz,, oh-flair-tee] /ˈfɪŋ gəl oʊˈflæ hər ti ˈwɪlz,, oʊˈflɛər ti/ (Show IPA), ("Sebastian Melmoth") 1854–1900, Irish poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist, and critic.
- Wilno
-
noun,
Polish name of Vilnius.
- Wanda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- wince
-
noun,
a wincing or shrinking movement; a slight start.
- wired
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wirer
-
noun,
a person who wires.
- wirra
-
interjection,
an exclamation of sorrow or lament.
- woald
-
noun,
weld2 .
- Woden
-
noun,
the chief god of the pagan Anglo-Saxons, identified with the Scandinavian Odin.
- Wolfe
-
noun,
Charles, 1791–1823, Irish poet.
- world
-
noun,
the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- Weald
-
noun,
wooded or uncultivated country.
- walla
-
noun,
wallah.
- relic
-
noun,
a surviving memorial of something past.
- Rolla
-
noun,
a city in S central Missouri.
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- reni-
-
- rewin
-
verb (used with object),
to win back or again.
- ricer
-
noun,
an implement for ricing potatoes, squash, etc., by pressing them through small holes.
- Rider
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- rifle
-
noun,
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- Rolfe
-
noun,
John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- Waler
-
noun,
a horse bred in New South Wales, Australia, as a military saddle horse and exported in numbers during the 19th century to British India.
- Rowan
-
noun,
the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- rowel
-
noun,
a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- Rowen
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- Wadai
-
noun,
a former independent sultanate of the Sudan, in N central Africa: now part of the Republic of Chad.
- wader
-
noun,
a person or thing that wades.
- wadna
-
- wafer
-
noun,
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
- Waldo
-
noun,
Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.
- nodal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- Newar
-
noun,
a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- fore-
-
- Iran.
-
- Indo-
-
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- infer
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- inlaw
-
noun,
a relative by marriage.
- Iowan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Iowa.
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- 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.
- incor
-
- Laden
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- Ladin
-
noun,
a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.
- ladle
-
noun,
a long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.
- Ladon
-
noun,
a dragon having 100 heads and guarding the garden of the Hesperides: killed by Hercules.
- Laird
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- lalia
-
- Lanai
-
noun,
a veranda, especially a fully furnished one used as a living room.
- LANCE
-
noun,
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- incr.
-
- incl.
-
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- frier
-
noun,
fryer.
- forel
-
noun,
a slipcase for a book.
- Forli
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, SE of Bologna.
- frail
-
noun,
Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used to refer to a girl or woman.
- franc
-
noun,
an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- Freda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Freon
-
- friar
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- Fried
-
noun,
Alfred Hermann [al-frid hur-muh n;; German ahl-freyt her-mahn] /ˈæl frɪd ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈɑl freɪt ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1921, Austrian writer and journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- frill
-
noun,
a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- ileo-
-
- frond
-
noun,
an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- frore
-
adjective,
frozen; frosty.
- frown
-
noun,
a frowning look; scowl.
- Icel.
-
- ideal
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- ideo-
-
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- ileac
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ileum.
- Lando
-
noun,
died a.d. 914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 913–914.
- Leila
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- lowan
-
noun,
mallee fowl.
- Lower
-
noun,
a denture for the lower jaw.
- NAAFI
-
noun,
Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes: an organization that provides social facilities, stores, etc., to British military personnel.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- wrier
-
adjective,
comparative of wry.
- Lorca
-
noun,
García Lorca.
- naiad
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
- Naida
-
noun,
a female given name.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- naled
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- Narew
-
noun,
a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- Ndola
-
noun,
a city in N Zambia.
- Nelda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- LORAN
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- Lenca
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- Lilac
-
noun,
any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Syringa, of the olive family, as S. vulgaris, having large clusters of fragrant purple or white flowers: the state flower of New Hampshire.
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- Liana
-
noun,
any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- Liard
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- LIDAR
-
noun,
a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- Lifar
-
noun,
Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- lifer
-
noun,
a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- Linda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “pretty.”.
- Loral
-
adjective,
of or relating to lore, knowledge, learning, etc.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- liwan
-
noun,
iwan.
- Llano
-
noun,
an extensive grassy plain with few trees.
- local
-
noun,
a local train, bus, etc.
- loden
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- Loewi
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- ecol.
-
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- canid
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- Cower
-
verb (used without object),
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- Dewar
-
noun,
Sir James, 1842–1923, Scottish chemist and physicist.
- dewan
-
noun,
(in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- corr.
-
- acrid
-
adjective,
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
- acro-
-
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- caine
-
noun,
(Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.
- Caird
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- cairn
-
noun,
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- Della
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Delia.
- Delia
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cordelia.
- Cerro
-
noun,
a hill or peak.
- cero-
-
- aldol
-
noun,
Also called acetaldol. a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble liquid, C 4 H 8 O 2 , formed by the condensation of acetaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of rubber vulcanizers and accelerators, and in perfumery.
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- calef
-
- aecia
-
noun,
the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- decl.
-
- Alden
-
noun,
John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- dial.
-
- decan
-
noun,
any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- Afro-
-
- Afric
-
adjective,
African.
- Allen
-
noun,
(Charles) Grant (Blairfindie) [blair-fin-dee] /blɛərˈfɪn di/ (Show IPA), ("Cecil Power"; "J. Arbuthnot Wilson") 1848–99, British philosophical writer and novelist.
- Allan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Conde
-
noun,
Louis II de Bourbon [lwee,, duh boor-bawn] /lwi,, də burˈbɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Prince de (Duc d'Enghien"the Great Condé") 1621–86, French general.
- awner
-
noun,
a machine for cutting the awns from grain.
- cidal
-
- acold
-
adjective,
being cold or chilled.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- conf.
-
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Coral
-
noun,
the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
- Diana
-
noun,
(Princess of Wales; Lady Diana Spencer) 1961–97, former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- alien
-
noun,
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).
See also resident alien, illegal alien.
- Celia
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cecilia.
- Alice
-
noun,
a city in S Texas.
- Alfie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alfred.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- corer
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- Ciano
-
noun,
Count Galeazzo [gah-le-aht-tsaw] /ˌgɑ lɛˈɑt tsɔ/ (Show IPA), (Ciano di Cortellazzo) 1903–44, Italian Fascist statesman: minister of foreign affairs 1936–43.
- aero-
-
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- aeri-
-
- deci-
-
- canal
-
noun,
an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- crore
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- Crile
-
noun,
George Washington, 1864–1943, U.S. surgeon.
- Dania
-
noun,
a town in S Florida.
- Carol
-
noun,
a song, especially of joy.
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- dance
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- Danai
-
plural noun,
the Argives.
- Danae
-
noun,
a daughter of the king of Argos and mother, by Zeus disguised as a shower of gold, of Perseus.
- Alcon
-
noun,
a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- alcid
-
noun,
a bird of the family Alcidae.
- dalle
-
noun,
The, a city in N Oregon.
- cella
-
noun,
the principal enclosed chamber of a classical temple.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Dalen
-
noun,
Gustaf [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, Swedish inventor: Nobel Prize in Physics 1912.
- crowd
-
noun,
a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng:
- dalan
-
noun,
(in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- Ceara
-
noun,
Fortaleza.
- Crown
-
noun,
any of various types of headgear worn by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty, often made of precious metal and ornamented with valuable gems.
- Adolf
-
noun,
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “noble” and “wolf.”.
- Dacia
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom and later a Roman province in S Europe between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube, corresponding generally to modern Romania and adjacent regions.
- alani
-
plural noun,
a nomadic Iranian people who flourished in the 2nd–4th centuries a.d. and are ancestors of the present-day Ossets.
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- adown
-
adverb, preposition,
down1 .
- Adowa
-
noun,
Aduwa.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- crier
-
noun,
a person who cries.
- decal
-
noun,
a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- aden-
-
- Canea
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Crete, on the W part.
- decaf
-
noun,
decaffeinated coffee or tea.
- deca-
-
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- ceorl
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- Aldan
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from the Yabloni Mountains to the Lena. about 1500 miles (2415 km) long.
- Card.
-
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Carew
-
noun,
Thomas, 1598?–1639? English poet.
- craal
-
noun,
kraal.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- Caria
-
noun,
an ancient district in SW Asia Minor.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- crawl
-
noun,
act of crawling; a slow, crawling motion.
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- daric
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- Carin
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Cello
-
noun,
the second largest member of the violin family, rested vertically on the floor between the performer's knees when being played.
- Adlai
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- Carla
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Alcor
-
- Adler
-
noun,
Alfred, 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.
- Dirac
-
noun,
Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- acari
-
noun,
plural of acarus.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- donec
-
conjunction,
(in prescriptions) until.
- clade
-
noun,
a taxonomic group of organisms classified together on the basis of homologous features traced to a common ancestor.
- clone
-
noun,
Biology.
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- Aaron
-
noun,
the older brother of Moses, usually regarded as the first high priest of the Hebrews. Ex. 28; 40:13–16.
- ardor
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- cnida
-
noun,
a nematocyst.
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- droll
-
noun,
a droll person; jester; wag.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Arran
-
noun,
an island in SW Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde. 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km).
- drown
-
Verb phrases,
drown in,
to be overwhelmed by:
to be covered with or enveloped in:
- coala
-
noun,
koala.
- Clair
-
noun,
René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1981, French motion-picture director and writer.
- claro
-
noun,
such a cigar.
- andr-
-
- Ariel
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- areo-
-
- dower
-
noun,
Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- Clare
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- drier
-
noun,
a person or thing that dries.
- drill
-
noun,
Machinery, Building Trades.
a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation.
a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- dowel
-
noun,
Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- clown
-
noun,
a comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outlandish costume and makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in exaggerated or ridiculous fashion, by juggling or tumbling, etc.
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- Arica
-
noun,
a seaport in N Chile.
- Arnel
-
- Doric
-
noun,
a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
- Clara
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “clear, bright.”.
- Areca
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- clear
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- dowie
-
adjective,
dull; melancholy; dismal.
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- anoia
-
noun,
extreme mental deficiency.
- award
-
noun,
something awarded, as a payment or medal.
- drear
-
adjective,
dreary.
- drawl
-
noun,
an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- aware
-
adjective,
having knowledge; conscious; cognizant:
- Alwin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- anole
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- coel-
-
- Cilla
-
noun,
a sister of Priam who, with her infant son, was slain by Priam because it had been prophesied that a mother and child of the royal house would cause the destruction of Troy.
- 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.
- allow
-
Idioms,
allow for, to make concession or provision for:
- drawn
-
noun,
an act of drawing.
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- Colin
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- allo-
-
- coll.
-
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- anal.
-
- 30-30
-
- dolce
-
noun,
an instruction to the performer that the music is to be executed softly and sweetly.
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- arrow
-
noun,
a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- dwarf
-
noun,
a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- dwell
-
noun,
Machinery.
a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle.
a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- drail
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- Cleon
-
noun,
died 422 b.c, Athenian general and political opponent of Pericles.
- Arawn
-
noun,
the lord of Annwfn.
- Dolin
-
noun,
Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- dolia
-
noun,
a large earthenware jar used by the ancient Romans.
- afire
-
adjective,
on fire:
- afore
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
before.
- cine-
-
- cline
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- Clea
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- alae
-
noun,
plural of ala.
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- cide
-
- Lief
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- clew
-
noun,
clue (def 1).
- Lila
-
noun,
creation, seen as the playful activity of a god.
- LIFO
-
noun,
last-in, first-out (def 1).
- cell
-
noun,
a small room, as in a convent or prison.
- LACW
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Life
-
noun,
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- lade
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- Alai
-
noun,
a mountain range in SW Kyrgyzstan, part of the Tien Shan. To 19,280 feet (5880 meters).
- laid
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- CLEF
-
noun,
a symbol placed upon a staff to indicate the name and pitch of the notes corresponding to its lines and spaces.
- rife
-
adjective,
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use:
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- laic
-
noun,
one of the laity.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- afr-
-
- Ala.
-
- cen.
-
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- Lela
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- Leif
-
noun,
a male given name.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Leda
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the mother, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra and, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Pollux and Helen.
- Aida
-
noun,
(italics) an opera (1871) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- cir.
-
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- Leal
-
adjective,
loyal; true.
- Leaf
-
noun,
one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- Lead
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- lea.
-
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- Rida
-
- LARC
-
noun,
long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception):
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- lard
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- lawn
-
noun,
a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed, as near a house, on an estate, or in a park.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- clad
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
- Lalo
-
noun,
(Victor Antoine) Edouard [veek-tawr ahn-twan ey-dwar] /vikˈtɔr ɑ̃ˈtwan eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–92, French composer.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- reif
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- Lana
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- claw
-
noun,
a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
- 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.
- rel.
-
- lewd
-
adjective,
inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- Cerf
-
noun,
Bennett (Alfred) 1898–1971, U.S. book publisher, editor, and writer.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- Aire
-
- Land
-
noun,
any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
- CERN
-
- clar
-
- clan
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- AInd
-
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Lani
-
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- lin.
-
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- nill
-
verb (used with object),
to refuse or reject.
- NIRA
-
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- NOAA
-
- alow
-
adverb,
below decks.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- rad.
-
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- arr.
-
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- awed
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- alif
-
noun,
the first letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- Nell
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- neo-
-
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- 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.
- 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).
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- all-
-
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- ALFA
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter A.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- ole-
-
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- arca
-
noun,
a chest for valuables, used in medieval Spain and Italy.
- ano-
-
- OLLA
-
noun,
a pot, especially an earthen pot for holding water, cooking, etc.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Arad
-
noun,
a city in W Romania, on the Mures River.
- anoa
-
noun,
a small forest buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) depressicornis, of the island of Celebes, having a brown coat and straight, sharp-tipped horns: an endangered species.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- ord.
-
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- anew
-
adverb,
over again; again; once more:
- ance
-
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- RCAF
-
- RAAF
-
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- Owen
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- OECD
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Carl
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- Ald.
-
- Lofn
-
noun,
a goddess who aids those having trouble winning the affections of their beloveds.
- Lola
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Charlotte or Dolores.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- Alda
-
noun,
Frances, 1885–1952, U.S. operatic singer.
- lond
-
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Cara
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- loca
-
noun,
a plural of locus.
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- lace
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Cela
-
noun,
Camilo José [kah-mee-law haw-se] /kɑˈmi lɔ hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2001, Spanish writer.
- Alan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Celtic word meaning “harmony.”.
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- ref.
-
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- loaf
-
noun,
a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
- Alar
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having wings; alary.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- Cdr.
-
- Alco
-
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- load
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- CanF
-
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- naif
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- cadi
-
noun,
qadi.
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Nafl
-
noun,
a prayer, charitable act, etc., that goes beyond the requirements of one's religion.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- Alea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. an epithet of Athena referring to a sanctuary built in her honor by Aleus.
- NCAA
-
- NDAC
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Alec
-
noun,
a herring.
- CAFE
-
noun,
a restaurant, often with an enclosed or outdoor section extending onto the sidewalk.
- rcd.
-
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Cal.
-
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Cana
-
noun,
an ancient town in N Israel, in Galilee: scene of Jesus' first miracle. John 2:1, 11.
- Can.
-
- Lowe
-
verb (used without object),
low3 .
- Call
-
noun,
a cry or shout.
- calf
-
noun,
the young of the domestic cow or other bovine animal.
- lown
-
noun,
loon2 .
- caid
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- lwei
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Angola, the 100th part of a kwanza.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- RdAc
-
- NACA
-
- Nada
-
noun,
nothing; zero; none:
- Cain
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- iod-
-
- rill
-
noun,
a small rivulet or brook.
- fend
-
verb (used with object),
to ward off (often followed by off):
- weal
-
noun,
well-being, prosperity, or happiness:
- fedn
-
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- fell
-
noun,
Lumbering. the amount of timber cut down in one season.
- dia-
-
- acr-
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- warn
-
verb (used with object),
to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable:
- FERA
-
- Dewi
-
noun,
Saint, David, Saint.
- Fern
-
noun,
any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- der.
-
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- Fed.
-
- dif-
-
- fico
-
noun,
fig1 (def 4).
- Din.
-
- dioc
-
- Dino
-
- fard
-
noun,
facial cosmetics.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- fare
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- Farl
-
noun,
a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- Faro
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- Dill
-
noun,
a plant, Anethum graveolens, of the parsley family, having aromatic seeds and finely divided leaves, both of which are used for flavoring food.
- fec.
-
- Weil
-
noun,
André, 1906–98, U.S. mathematician, born in France: brother of Simone Weil.
- Fawn
-
noun,
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- Wear
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- FDIC
-
- wean
-
Verb phrases,
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
- feal
-
adjective,
Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- Fear
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- FICA
-
- Ware
-
noun,
Usually, wares.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:
- Weir
-
noun,
a small dam in a river or stream.
- deal
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- fld.
-
- flea
-
noun,
any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- fled
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of flee.
- flew
-
noun,
flue3 .
- flic
-
noun,
a police officer; cop.
- deaf
-
noun,
deaf persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- wand
-
noun,
a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- floc
-
noun,
Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- floe
-
noun,
Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- DCNL
-
- Dawn
-
noun,
the first appearance of daylight in the morning:
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- flaw
-
noun,
a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
- Flan
-
noun,
Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
- Den.
-
- ward
-
noun,
a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- FIDO
-
noun,
a system for evaporating the fog above airfield runways by the heat from burners.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- file
-
noun,
a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
- fill
-
noun,
a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire:
- Del.
-
- Fin.
-
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- def.
-
- Dec.
-
- find
-
noun,
an act of finding or discovering.
- FINE
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- Fino
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- firn
-
noun,
névé.
- Adar
-
noun,
the sixth month of the Jewish calendar.
- Fla.
-
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- Fano
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- flow
-
noun,
an act of flowing.
- enl.
-
- Ella
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “all.”.
- Elli
-
noun,
an old woman, a personification of old age, who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
- Wind
-
noun,
air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface:
- enc.
-
- end-
-
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- Down
-
noun,
a downward movement; descent.
- enow
-
adjective, adverb,
enough.
- dowf
-
adjective,
dull; stupid.
- AWOL
-
noun,
a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Drew
-
noun,
Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- wine
-
noun,
the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- Will
-
noun,
the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions:
- Word
-
noun,
a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- Wren
-
noun,
any of numerous small, active songbirds of the family Troglodytidae, especially Troglodytes troglodytes, of the Northern Hemisphere, having dark-brown plumage barred with black and a short, upright tail.
Compare house wren, marsh wren, rock wren, winter wren.
- WRAF
-
- WRAC
-
- worn
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- wore
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- Earl
-
noun,
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Wolf
-
noun,
any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- wold
-
noun,
an elevated tract of open country.
- eco-
-
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- woad
-
noun,
a European plant, Isatis tinctoria, of the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves.
- wire
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wino
-
noun,
a person who is addicted to wine, especially a derelict.
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- fane
-
noun,
a temple.
- Weld
-
noun,
a welded junction or joint.
- fain
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- Fair
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- acid
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- Wend
-
noun,
a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
- dlr.
-
- acle
-
noun,
the hard, durable wood of a Philippine leguminous tree, Albizzia acle, used for making fine furniture.
- fail
-
noun,
Slang.
an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance:
the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way:
a person who fails in this way.
- Fall
-
noun,
an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- fana
-
noun,
the ecstatic union of the Sufi with the Divine.
- dir.
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- wide
-
noun,
Cricket. a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- fac.
-
- wile
-
noun,
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- Ewan
-
noun,
a male given name, Welsh form of John.
- acad
-
- wild
-
noun,
Often, wilds. an uncultivated, uninhabited, or desolate region or tract; waste; wilderness; desert:
- wife
-
noun,
a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
- Wien
-
noun,
Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel prize 1911.
- ACDA
-
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dol.
-
- face
-
noun,
the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- Doll
-
noun,
a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.
- acea
-
- fade
-
noun,
an act or instance of fading.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- fado
-
noun,
a Portuguese folk song typically of doleful or fatalistic character and usually accompanied on the guitar.
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- Wane
-
noun,
a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- FLRA
-
- Cond
-
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- IndE
-
- Cor.
-
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- Inca
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- Inc.
-
- inae
-
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- Rolf
-
noun,
Also called Rolf the Ganger [gang-er] /ˈgæŋ ər/ (Show IPA). Rollo (def 1).
- Ill.
-
- corf
-
noun,
Mining.
a small wagon for carrying coal, ore, etc.
a wicker basket formerly used for this purpose.
- ile-
-
- RONA
-
- Coln
-
noun,
former German name of Cologne.
- Cowl
-
noun,
a hooded garment worn by monks.
- iana
-
- Rowe
-
noun,
Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- ical
-
- ICAO
-
- Ice.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- idae
-
- aer-
-
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- 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.
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- Con.
-
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Ind.
-
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- coal
-
noun,
a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.
Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Ire.
-
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- 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.
- clod
-
noun,
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Iowa
-
noun,
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines.
Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Afar
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic Muslim people living in Eritrea, Djibouti, and northern Ethiopia.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Inf.
-
- Cold
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- COLA
-
noun,
a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- infl
-
- Col.
-
- info
-
noun,
information.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- coif
-
noun,
a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- IAEA
-
- roll
-
noun,
a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- WAAC
-
noun,
U.S. Military.
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: founded during World War II.
a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Compare Wac.
- for.
-
- wadi
-
noun,
the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall.
- Fran
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- Wafd
-
noun,
a nationalist party in Egypt.
- frae
-
preposition, adverb,
from.
- waif
-
noun,
a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- wail
-
noun,
the act of wailing.
- 1080
-
- fowl
-
noun,
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken.
Compare domestic fowl.
- Wain
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- Wal.
-
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- FORD
-
noun,
a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- Dale
-
noun,
a valley, especially a broad valley.
- fora
-
noun,
a plural of forum.
- Dali
-
noun,
Salvador [sal-vuh-dawr;; Spanish sahl-vah-th awr] /ˈsæl vəˌdɔr;; Spanish ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, Spanish painter and illustrator.
- FRED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Frederick.
- fond
-
noun,
a background or groundwork, especially of lace.
- wale
-
noun,
a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Dana
-
noun,
Danu.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- fold
-
noun,
a part that is folded; pleat; layer:
- fol.
-
- foin
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- foil
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- FOIA
-
- foci
-
noun,
a plural of focus.
- Danl
-
- foal
-
noun,
a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- Wall
-
noun,
any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- Wade
-
noun,
an act or instance of wading:
- Wald
-
noun,
George, 1906–97, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1967.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- frow
-
noun,
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- Wace
-
noun,
Robert [rob-ert;; French raw-ber] /ˈrɒb ərt;; French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), ("Wace of Jersey") c1100–c1180, Anglo-Norman poet born on the Channel Island of Jersey.
- WAAF
-
noun,
Women's Auxiliary Air Force: formed during World War II as an auxiliary of the Royal Air Force.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- crew
-
noun,
a group of persons involved in a particular kind of work or working together:
- Waal
-
noun,
a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River: the center branch of the lower Rhine. 52 miles (84 km) long.
- fwd.
-
- Craw
-
noun,
the crop of a bird or insect.
- Waco
-
noun,
a city in central Texas, on the Brazos River.
- Crow
-
noun,
any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- Frei
-
noun,
Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- Fri.
-
- WDC
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- AIA
-
- ANF
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- Ar.
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Wei
-
noun,
any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, especially one ruling a.d. 220–265 and one ruling a.d. 386–534.
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- al.
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- WAC
-
noun,
a member of the Women's Army Corps, formerly an auxiliary of the U.S. Army.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- an.
-
- AFC
-
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Won
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of North and South Korea, equal to 100 chon.
- ae.
-
- AEA
-
- RLD
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- WRA
-
- RNA
-
- rnd
-
- RNR
-
- ROA
-
- raw
-
noun,
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- AFL
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ADF
-
- AEC
-
- woe
-
noun,
grievous distress, affliction, or trouble:
- ac-
-
- ad-
-
- Alf
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alfred.
- RIF
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- ADC
-
- Af.
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- ROI
-
- RCN
-
- ALC
-
- RFE
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- WAF
-
noun,
a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- ADA
-
noun,
a programming language particularly suited to real-time applications: developed for use by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- REA
-
- RDF
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- RFI
-
- RFD
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- wid
-
- RFC
-
- RDC
-
- ACW
-
- RFA
-
- RDA
-
- wen
-
noun,
Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, especially on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
- wae
-
noun,
woe.
- AFA
-
- RAF
-
- wad
-
noun,
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
- ROW
-
noun,
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- Win
-
noun,
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- AIC
-
- AAE
-
- AAF
-
- owe
-
verb (used with object),
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
- AEF
-
- OWI
-
- owl
-
noun,
any of numerous, chiefly nocturnal birds of prey, of the order Strigiformes, having a broad head with large, forward-directed eyes that are usually surrounded by disks of modified feathers: many populations are diminishing owing to loss of habitat.
- own
-
Idioms,
come into one's own,
to take possession of that which is due or owed one.
to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit:
- Rd.
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- War
-
noun,
a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- Re.
-
- Aar
-
- wd.
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ANC
-
- RCA
-
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- do.
-
- AOA
-
- id.
-
- Ife
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- IFC
-
- ier
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ide
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- cow
-
noun,
the mature female of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos.
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ial
-
- Ia.
-
- io-
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- FWA
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- Frl
-
- FRC
-
- CWA
-
- DCL
-
- DFC
-
- Fra
-
noun,
a title of address for a friar or brother.
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- DOA
-
- DAE
-
- Dal
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- DAR
-
- il-
-
- ILO
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- LCA
-
- Law
-
noun,
the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- CIE
-
- CIF
-
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- cle
-
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- LaF
-
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- CLI
-
- Lad
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- LAC
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- LCL
-
- Iwo
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- in.
-
- IWC
-
- Clo
-
- IRO
-
- IRL
-
- CLR
-
- IRC
-
- CNO
-
- Ir.
-
- ior
-
- 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 = .
- IOF
-
- IOC
-
- ine
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- daw
-
noun,
jackdaw.
- de-
-
- LCF
-
- efl
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- DOW
-
noun,
dhow.
- EOF
-
- Dr.
-
- en-
-
- DRE
-
- Ell
-
noun,
an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ELF
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, especially from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- eir
-
- ef-
-
- FAA
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EDC
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ed.
-
- DWI
-
- ECF
-
- ECA
-
- ec-
-
- 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.
- ean
-
- ead
-
- EAA
-
- ea.
-
- eo-
-
- fo.
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- Flo
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Florence.
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- DEA
-
- Fl.
-
- FIR
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- FIO
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- fil
-
noun,
fils.
- fie
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.)
- fid
-
noun,
a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
- fic
-
- Fia
-
- few
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) a small number or amount:
- DEW
-
noun,
moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- DFA
-
- di.
-
- FAD
-
noun,
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- FDR
-
noun,
(Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- FDA
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- FCA
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- DIL
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- FAR
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Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- FAO
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- Fan
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noun,
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- DLC
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- DLO
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- DNA
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- DNR
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- DOE
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noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- Doi
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- LCD
-
- La.
-
- LCI
-
- New
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noun,
something that is new; a new object, quality, condition, etc.:
- Nod
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noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- awe
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noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- NOC
-
- NLF
-
- Nil
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noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- AWL
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noun,
a pointed instrument for piercing small holes in leather, wood, etc.
- awn
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noun,
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
- ca.
-
- NIC
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noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- NIA
-
- NFL
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- NFD
-
- NFC
-
- CAF
-
- cf.
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- awa
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adverb,
away.
- CIO
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noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Co.
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- nef
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noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- Ld.
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- COD
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noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- NEC
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- NEA
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- ne-
-
- cr.
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- NDE
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- CWO
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- cl.
-
- CAA
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- CAD
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noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Noe
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noun,
Noah (def 1).
- now
-
noun,
the present time or moment:
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- oil
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noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- aor
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- ONR
-
- ONI
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- ONF
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- ARA
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noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- one
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noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONA
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noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- ard
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- 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.
- Old
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noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Ola
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- OIr
-
- ARF
-
interjection,
(used to imitate the bark of a dog).
- oid
-
- nr.
-
- oar
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noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- NRA
-
- NRC
-
- NWC
-
- Oc.
-
- OED
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- oaf
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noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- oic
-
- OCD
-
- OCR
-
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- ode
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noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- of-
-
- OFr
-
- CAI
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- CEA
-
- LOE
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noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- lid
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noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- CFD
-
- Low
-
noun,
something that is low, as ground or prices:
- CAR
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noun,
an automobile.
- LON
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- Lif
-
- LOC
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- caw
-
noun,
the harsh, grating cry of the crow, raven, etc.
- CEF
-
- LLD
-
- CFA
-
- ll.
-
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- CED
-
- NCO
-
- NAD
-
- Lew
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lewis, Llewellyn, or Louis.
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- LDC
-
- LDL
-
- NAA
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- CIA
-
- CFI
-
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- CFR
-
- CFO
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- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- CFL
-
- CEO
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- OA
-
- LF
-
- AO
-
- EW
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, or the like):
- f.
-
noun,
(Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- AA
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- IW
-
- FC
-
- FW
-
- LC
-
- OW
-
interjection,
(used especially as an expression of intense or sudden pain.)
- ol
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- le
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- RF
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- 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.
- L2
-
- L.
-
- L1
-
- 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.
- LW
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- FI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
- RO
-
- FD
-
- RI
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- WI
-
- RW
-
- NF
-
- w/
-
- WC
-
- DW
-
- dl
-
- NI
-
- WF
-
- WL
-
- ND
-
- DF
-
- WO
-
noun,
woe.
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- D.
-
- CW
-
- ic
-
- i.
-
- fn
-
- NC
-
- FA
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- EI
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- R.
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- RC
-
- O.
-
- DN
-
- RN
-
- NW
-
- FE
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- we
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- NL
-
- ln
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- IF
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- LR
-
- CE
-
- N.
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.