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Word clitoridectomies has
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- colectomies
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noun,
the removal of all or part of the colon or large intestine.
- isoelectric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or having the same electric potential.
- roscoelite
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noun,
a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
- iridectome
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noun,
a slender cutting instrument used in performing an iridectomy.
- delimiters
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noun,
a blank space, comma, or other character or symbol that indicates the beginning or end of a character string, word, or data item.
- cloistered
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noun,
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- toiletries
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noun,
any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- dime-store
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noun,
five-and-ten (def 1).
- cold-store
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noun,
a refrigerated compartment or building for keeping foods, furs, etc., in cold storage.
- crocodiles
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noun,
any of several crocodilians of the genus Crocodylus, found in sluggish waters and swamps of the tropics.
- siderolite
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noun,
stony-iron meteorite.
- melitriose
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noun,
raffinose.
- seriocomic
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adjective,
partly serious and partly comic:
- meteoroids
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noun,
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
- deciliters
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noun,
a unit of capacity equal to 1/10 (0.1) liter (about 3.38 U.S. fluid ounces). Abbreviation: dl.
- sclerotome
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noun,
Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
- microlitic
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adjective,
of or relating to the texture of a porphyry whose groundmass consists of microlites in a glassy matrix.
- dielectric
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noun,
a nonconducting substance; insulator.
- microcodes
-
noun,
one or more microinstructions.
- coeditors
-
noun,
a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- delimiter
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noun,
a blank space, comma, or other character or symbol that indicates the beginning or end of a character string, word, or data item.
- electrics
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noun,
Railroads.
an electric locomotive.
Informal. a railroad operated by electricity.
- octometer
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noun,
octameter.
- solicitor
-
noun,
a person who solicits.
- mediocris
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adjective,
(of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- roomettes
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noun,
a small private compartment in the sleeping car of a train, usually for one person, containing its own washroom facilities and a bed that folds against the wall when not in use.
- lotteries
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noun,
a gambling game or method of raising money, as for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes.
- miticides
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noun,
a substance or preparation for killing mites.
- criticism
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noun,
the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
- Celticist
-
noun,
an expert in Celtic languages or culture.
- eroticism
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noun,
the sexual or erotic quality or character of something.
- crocodile
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noun,
any of several crocodilians of the genus Crocodylus, found in sluggish waters and swamps of the tropics.
- codirects
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verb (used with object),
to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- semeiotic
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adjective,
semiotic.
- crocoites
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noun,
a yellow, orange, or red mineral, lead chromate, PbCrO 4 , formed by replacement.
- deciliter
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noun,
a unit of capacity equal to 1/10 (0.1) liter (about 3.38 U.S. fluid ounces). Abbreviation: dl.
- mistletoe
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noun,
a European plant, Viscum album, having yellowish flowers and white berries, growing parasitically on various trees, used in Christmas decorations.
- sclerotic
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adjective,
Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- derelicts
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noun,
a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
- microcode
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noun,
one or more microinstructions.
- odometers
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noun,
an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- Celticism
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noun,
a Celtic custom or usage.
- domiciles
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noun,
a place of residence; abode; house or home.
- telemotor
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noun,
a mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system by which power is applied at or controlled from a distant point, especially such a system actuating a ship's rudder.
- dotterels
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noun,
any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- dosimeter
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noun,
a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- troilites
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noun,
a mineral, iron sulfide, FeS, occurring in meteorites.
- meteoroid
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noun,
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
- licorices
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noun,
a Eurasian plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, of the legume family.
- meteorol.
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- ectoderms
-
noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- decretist
-
noun,
a student in the faculty of law.
- scolecite
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noun,
a monoclinic white zeolite mineral, a hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 3 O 10⋅, 3H 2 O, occurring in masses and in needle-shaped crystals.
- tocometer
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noun,
tokodynamometer.
- dietetics
-
noun,
dietetics, (used with a singular verb) the science concerned with the nutritional planning and preparation of foods.
- old-timer
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noun,
a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
- croisette
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noun,
crossette.
- Dolomites
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noun,
a mountain range in N Italy: a part of the Alps. Highest peak, Marmolada, 10,965 feet (3340 meters).
- tremolite
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noun,
a white or grayish variety of amphibole, Ca 2 Mg 5 Si 8 O 22 (OH) 2 , usually occurring in bladed crystals.
- dolerites
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noun,
a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- cricetids
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noun,
any of a diverse group of scampering, digging, or jumping rodents of the family Cricetidae, including the gerbils, hamsters, field mice, deer mice, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and several wood and field rats.
- isometric
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noun,
isometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
- idiolects
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noun,
a person's individual speech pattern.
Compare dialect (def 1).
- miscolor
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verb (used with object),
to give a wrong color to.
- detector
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noun,
a person or thing that detects.
- idiotism
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noun,
idiotic conduct or action.
- licorice
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noun,
a Eurasian plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, of the legume family.
- melitose
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noun,
raffinose.
- smectite
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noun,
montmorillonite.
- melodist
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noun,
a composer or a singer of melodies.
- idiolect
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noun,
a person's individual speech pattern.
Compare dialect (def 1).
- melodics
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noun,
the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- cloister
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noun,
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- moieties
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noun,
a half.
- closeted
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noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- clitoris
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noun,
the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- modelist
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noun,
a person who makes models, as of airplanes.
- idiocies
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noun,
utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.:
- moidores
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noun,
a former gold coin of Portugal and Brazil.
- miticide
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noun,
a substance or preparation for killing mites.
- toilsome
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adjective,
characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- derelict
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noun,
a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
- isodomic
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adjective,
(of ashlar) composed of stones of uniform size.
- comedist
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noun,
a writer of comedies.
- meteoric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- siderite
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noun,
Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.
- colorist
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noun,
a person who uses color skillfully.
- coloreds
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noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- mesolite
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noun,
a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- decresc.
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- sericite
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noun,
a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- silicide
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noun,
a compound of two elements, one of which is silicon.
- isotimic
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adjective,
(of a line or surface in space) having an equal value of some quantity at a given time.
- metritis
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noun,
inflammation of the uterus.
- isomeric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- isolette
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- decolors
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verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- cocottes
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noun,
prostitute.
- coistrel
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noun,
a scoundrel; knave.
- microdot
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noun,
a photograph reduced to the size of a printed period, used especially to transmit messages, photographs, drawings, etc.
- comities
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noun,
mutual courtesy; civility.
- delimits
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verb (used with object),
to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate:
- meristic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- tortoise
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noun,
a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
- demerits
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noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- semiotic
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noun,
semiotics.
- demi-sec
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adjective,
(of wines) semidry; sweeter than sec but drier than doux.
- codirect
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verb (used with object),
to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- codicils
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noun,
a supplement to a will, containing an addition, explanation, modification, etc., of something in the will.
- ridottos
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noun,
a public ball or dance with music and often in masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
- demotics
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noun,
demotic script.
- coeditor
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noun,
a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- cleidoic
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adjective,
isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
- mediocre
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adjective,
of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate:
Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill.
Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- electros
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noun,
electrotype.
- dolerite
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noun,
a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- odometer
-
noun,
an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- electric
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noun,
Railroads.
an electric locomotive.
Informal. a railroad operated by electricity.
- termites
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- termitic
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adjective,
of, pertaining to, produced by, or infested with termites.
- scilicet
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adverb,
to wit; namely.
- electro-
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- cricoids
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noun,
the cricoid cartilage.
- dolomite
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noun,
a very common mineral, calcium magnesium carbonate, CaMg(CO 3) 2 , occurring in crystals and in masses.
- testicle
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noun,
testis.
- Docetism
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noun,
an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- cosmetic
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noun,
a powder, lotion, lipstick, rouge, or other preparation for beautifying the face, skin, hair, nails, etc.
- dicrotic
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adjective,
having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- cortisol
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noun,
Biochemistry. one of several steroid hormones produced by the adrenal cortex and resembling cortisone in its action.
- cortico-
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- rootlets
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noun,
a little root.
- dolesome
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adjective,
doleful.
- cricetid
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noun,
any of a diverse group of scampering, digging, or jumping rodents of the family Cricetidae, including the gerbils, hamsters, field mice, deer mice, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and several wood and field rats.
- crocoite
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noun,
a yellow, orange, or red mineral, lead chromate, PbCrO 4 , formed by replacement.
- do-re-mi
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noun,
money.
- dotterel
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noun,
any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- Dorticos
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noun,
Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- troilite
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noun,
a mineral, iron sulfide, FeS, occurring in meteorites.
- scleroid
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adjective,
hard or indurated.
- ecocides
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noun,
the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- ectoderm
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- trisomic
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adjective,
having one chromosome in addition to the usual diploid number.
- doomster
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noun,
a doomsayer.
- sclereid
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noun,
a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- triolets
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noun,
a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth.
- old-time
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adjective,
belonging to or characteristic of old or former times, methods, ideas, etc.:
- domicile
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noun,
a place of residence; abode; house or home.
- old-rose
-
noun,
rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
- domestic
-
noun,
a hired household servant.
- sclerite
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noun,
any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- creosote
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- cicelies
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noun,
a plant, Myrrhis odorata, of the parsley family, having a fragrant aroma and sometimes used as a potherb.
- tetrodes
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noun,
a vacuum tube containing four electrodes, usually a plate, two grids, and a cathode.
- district
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noun,
a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- dimeters
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noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- mortices
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- diorites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- motorist
-
noun,
a person who drives or travels in a privately owned automobile.
- esoteric
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adjective,
understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
- limiteds
-
noun,
a limited train, bus, etc.
- dimities
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noun,
a thin cotton fabric, white, dyed, or printed, woven with a stripe or check of heavier yarn.
- remodels
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verb (used with object),
to model again.
- circlets
-
noun,
a small circle.
- cordites
-
noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- comedies
-
noun,
a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- tileries
-
noun,
a factory or kiln for making tiles.
- Sodomite
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Sodom.
- dietetic
-
noun,
dietetics, (used with a singular verb) the science concerned with the nutritional planning and preparation of foods.
- ice-cold
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adjective,
cold as ice:
- limiters
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noun,
a person or thing that limits.
- roomette
-
noun,
a small private compartment in the sleeping car of a train, usually for one person, containing its own washroom facilities and a bed that folds against the wall when not in use.
- Tirolese
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adjective, noun,
Tyrolese.
- tremolos
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noun,
a tremulous or vibrating effect produced on certain instruments and in the human voice, as to express emotion.
- discolor
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verb (used with object),
to change or spoil the color of; fade or stain.
- discreet
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adjective,
judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrete
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adjective,
apart or detached from others; separate; distinct:
- tiercels
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noun,
tercel.
- crosette
-
noun,
crossette.
- corodies
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noun,
a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, especially the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house.
- corselet
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noun,
Also, corselette. a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.
- emitters
-
noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- lictors
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- limited
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noun,
a limited train, bus, etc.
- locoism
-
noun,
a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.
- decries
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verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- Titoism
-
noun,
a form of communism associated with Tito, characterized by the assertion by a satellite state of its national interests in opposition to Soviet rule.
- sectile
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adjective,
capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- scooter
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- Scottie
-
noun,
Scottish terrier.
- limites
-
noun,
plural of limes.
- teleost
-
noun,
Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.
- creosol
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noun,
a colorless oily liquid, C 8 H 10 O 2 , having an agreeable odor and a burning taste, obtained from wood tar and guaiacum resin: used as a disinfectant, in the manufacture of resins, and in ore flotation.
- deciles
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noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- Semitic
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noun,
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- leister
-
noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- decocts
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verb (used with object),
to extract the flavor or essence of by boiling.
- lectors
-
noun,
a lecturer in a college or university.
- litotes
-
noun,
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
- litters
-
noun,
objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- letters
-
noun,
a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- decolor
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- limiter
-
noun,
a person or thing that limits.
- cricoid
-
noun,
the cricoid cartilage.
- deceits
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- titmice
-
noun,
any of numerous, widely distributed, small songbirds of the family Paridae, especially of the genus Parus, having soft, thick plumage and a short, stout, conical bill.
- orectic
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adjective,
of or relating to desire; appetitive.
- settler
-
noun,
a person or thing that settles.
- emetics
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- tictocs
-
noun,
an alternating ticking sound, as that made by a clock.
- steroid
-
noun,
any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- sterlet
-
noun,
a small sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus, of the Black and Caspian seas, valued as a source of caviar.
- sterile
-
adjective,
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic:
- stereo-
-
- ditties
-
noun,
a poem intended to be sung.
- emitter
-
noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- elitism
-
noun,
practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
- tierced
-
adjective,
(of an escutcheon) divided vertically or horizontally into three equal parts.
- distort
-
verb (used with object),
to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed:
- disroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot; dislodge.
- tiercel
-
noun,
tercel.
- eristic
-
noun,
a person who engages in disputation; controversialist.
- dirties
-
Idioms,
do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
- tierces
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- elitist
-
noun,
a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society:
- tetrode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing four electrodes, usually a plate, two grids, and a cathode.
- erotics
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- eidetic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail.
- ecdemic
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a disease that is observed far from the area in which it originates.
- ecocide
-
noun,
the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- dormice
-
noun,
any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- tercels
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- storied
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- Edomite
-
noun,
a descendant of Esau or Edom. Num. 20:14–21.
- tercets
-
noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- stilted
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- doctors
-
noun,
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- teredos
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- Dolores
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”.
- elector
-
noun,
a person who elects or may elect, especially a qualified voter.
- electr-
-
- termite
-
noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- doilies
-
noun,
any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
- elicits
-
verb (used with object),
to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
- directs
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- diorite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- settlor
-
noun,
a person who makes a settlement of property.
- Delores
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Demotic
-
noun,
demotic script.
- demotes
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- Iricism
-
noun,
Irishism.
- Demerol
-
- demerit
-
noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- sirocco
-
noun,
a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
- Delorme
-
noun,
Philibert [fee-lee-ber] /fi liˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1515?–70, French architect.
- delimit
-
verb (used with object),
to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate:
- dereism
-
noun,
autism.
- delicts
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- deities
-
noun,
a god or goddess.
- deictic
-
noun,
Grammar. a deictic element.
- silicic
-
adjective,
containing silicon.
- deicers
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- silici-
-
- sidero-
-
- iolites
-
noun,
cordierite.
- slotter
-
noun,
a person or thing that slots.
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- icicles
-
noun,
a pendent, tapering mass of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
- solicit
-
verb (used with object),
to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.:
- dimeter
-
noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- estriol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- soldier
-
noun,
a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- etoiles
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- diester
-
noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- sociol.
-
- icteric
-
adjective,
pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
- smectic
-
adjective,
noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes.
- smolder
-
noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- Detroit
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- idiotic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of an idiot.
- detects
-
verb (used with object),
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act:
- destool
-
verb (used with object),
to remove (a West African ruler) from office.
- smelter
-
noun,
a person or thing that smelts.
- idolism
-
noun,
idolatry.
- Ileitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the ileum.
- creoles
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- dottles
-
noun,
the plug of half-smoked tobacco in the bottom of a pipe after smoking.
- modiste
-
noun,
Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- miscite
-
verb (used with or without object),
to misquote.
- miscode
-
verb (used with object),
to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- ridotto
-
noun,
a public ball or dance with music and often in masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
- mitered
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- retools
-
verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- reticle
-
noun,
a network of fine lines, wires, or the like placed in the focus of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.
- Modesto
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- moidore
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Portugal and Brazil.
- toroids
-
noun,
a surface generated by the revolution of any closed plane curve or contour about an axis lying in its plane.
- tortile
-
adjective,
twisted; coiled.
- molders
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- clerics
-
noun,
a member of the clergy.
- Moliere
-
noun,
(Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622–73, French actor and playwright.
- cleomes
-
noun,
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- citoles
-
noun,
cittern.
- cocotte
-
noun,
prostitute.
- miotics
-
noun,
a miotic drug.
- Morelos
-
noun,
a state in S central Mexico. 1916 sq. mi. (4960 sq. km). Capital: Cuernavaca.
- risotto
-
noun,
a dish of rice cooked with broth and flavored with grated cheese and other ingredients.
- colters
-
noun,
a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- colored
-
noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- colitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the colon.
- metrist
-
noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- Colette
-
noun,
(Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette) 1873–1954, French author.
- mettles
-
noun,
courage and fortitude:
- coesite
-
noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- codices
-
noun,
plural of codex.
- coerces
-
verb (used with object),
to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition:
- coeloms
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- coedits
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- milords
-
noun,
an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
- milreis
-
noun,
a silver coin and former monetary unit of Brazil, equal to 1000 reis, discontinued in 1942.
- milters
-
noun,
a male fish in breeding time.
- codicil
-
noun,
a supplement to a will, containing an addition, explanation, modification, etc., of something in the will.
- remodel
-
verb (used with object),
to model again.
- Morisco
-
noun,
a Moor, especially one of the Moors of Spain.
- tootles
-
noun,
the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.
- triodes
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- ostiole
-
noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- osteoid
-
adjective,
resembling bone; bonelike.
- Trieste
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- oersted
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- oilseed
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- oroides
-
noun,
an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- oldster
-
noun,
an old or elderly person.
- triolet
-
noun,
a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth.
- tricots
-
noun,
a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- Olmsted
-
noun,
Frederick Law, 1822–1903, U.S. landscape architect.
- trisect
-
verb (used with object),
to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- trisome
-
noun,
a trisomic individual.
- omelets
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- orioles
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- oolites
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- ocelots
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- recites
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- mortice
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- motored
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- mortise
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- circlet
-
noun,
a small circle.
- circles
-
noun,
a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- relicts
-
noun,
Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- tremolo
-
noun,
a tremulous or vibrating effect produced on certain instruments and in the human voice, as to express emotion.
- cilices
-
noun,
a garment of haircloth formerly worn by monks; a hair shirt.
- trestle
-
noun,
a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
- motoric
-
adjective,
motor (def 11).
- cermets
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- ciceros
-
noun,
a Continental unit of measurement for type, equal to 12 Didot points, or 0.178 inches (4.5 mm), roughly comparable to a pica.
- mottled
-
noun,
a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
- mottles
-
noun,
a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
- mottoes
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- cestoid
-
noun,
cestode.
- cestode
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- cerotic
-
adjective,
of or derived from cerotic acid.
- re-coil
-
verb (used with or without object),
to coil again.
- Tootsie
-
noun,
a sweetheart; darling.
- clootie
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) cloot (def 2).
- comedic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- melders
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- sclero-
-
- coterie
-
noun,
a group of people who associate closely.
- melters
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- Melrose
-
noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- meloids
-
noun,
a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.
- costrel
-
noun,
a flask made of leather, earthenware, or wood, usually with an ear or ears by which to suspend it, as from the waist.
- Melodie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Toltecs
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people living in central Mexico before the advent of the Aztecs and traditionally credited with laying the foundation of Aztec culture.
- melodic
-
adjective,
melodious.
- tomcods
-
noun,
either of two small cods, Microgadus tomcod, of the Atlantic Ocean, or M. proximus, of the Pacific Ocean.
- cotters
-
noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- Rosette
-
noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- toledos
-
noun,
Francisco de [frahn-sees-kaw th e] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1515–84? Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.
- rootlet
-
noun,
a little root.
- Cordele
-
noun,
a city in SW Georgia.
- medicos
-
noun,
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
- corslet
-
noun,
corselet (def 2).
- cordite
-
noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- medico-
-
- mercies
-
noun,
compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
- cormels
-
noun,
a small new corm that is vegetatively propagated by a fully mature corm.
- loiters
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- comedos
-
noun,
a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- comices
-
- credits
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- merlots
-
noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- dromos
-
noun,
Archaeology. a passageway into an ancient subterranean tomb.
- drools
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- mottos
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- rectos
-
- listed
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- recti-
-
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- Lottie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- recoil
-
noun,
an act of recoiling.
- Scotti
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, Italian baritone.
- elicit
-
verb (used with object),
to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- relict
-
noun,
Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- roomie
-
noun,
roommate.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- teleo-
-
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- motets
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- McLeod
-
- motile
-
adjective,
Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously:
- emetic
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- sotted
-
adjective,
drunken; besotted.
- ootids
-
noun,
the cell that results from the meiotic divisions of an oocyte and matures into an ovum.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- limits
-
noun,
the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.:
- rooted
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- mottes
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- elemis
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- mottle
-
noun,
a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
- elects
-
noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- ecoles
-
noun,
school1 .
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Oriole
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- oldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- scoto-
-
- litter
-
noun,
objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- looies
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- stolid
-
adjective,
not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- Littre
-
noun,
Maximilien Paul Émile [mak-see-mee-lyan pawl ey-meel] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ pɔl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1801–88, French lexicographer and philosopher.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- oroide
-
noun,
an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- editor
-
noun,
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:
- omelet
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- Street
-
noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- strict
-
adjective,
characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles:
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Olcott
-
noun,
Chauncey (Chancellor John Olcott) 1860–1932, U.S. tenor, actor, and songwriter.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- ocelot
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- teiids
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- octets
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- octroi
-
noun,
(formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- Odette
-
noun,
a female given name.
- otitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the ear.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- oodles
-
noun,
a large quantity:
- Eccles
-
noun,
Sir John Carew [kuh-roo] /kəˈru/ (Show IPA), 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- osteo-
-
- Scioto
-
noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- scler-
-
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- elect.
-
- oolite
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- eldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- milter
-
noun,
a male fish in breeding time.
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- milord
-
noun,
an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- Merced
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- iritis
-
noun,
inflammation of the iris of the eye.
- irido-
-
- iridic
-
adjective,
of or containing iridium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- irides
-
noun,
a plural of iris.
- melter
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- milers
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- slicer
-
noun,
a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food:
- slider
-
noun,
a person or thing that slides.
- miotic
-
noun,
a miotic drug.
- meloid
-
noun,
a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.
- select
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- iolite
-
noun,
cordierite.
- seldom
-
adverb,
on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often:
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- iodism
-
noun,
poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds.
- milit.
-
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- lector
-
noun,
a lecturer in a college or university.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- rodeos
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- metric
-
noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- merlot
-
noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- metro-
-
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- Isidor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- Mettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- mettle
-
noun,
courage and fortitude:
- Isolde
-
noun,
German name of Iseult.
- merles
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- micro-
-
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- micros
-
noun,
anything extremely small in scope or capability.
- simile
-
noun,
a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”.
Compare metaphor.
- imides
-
noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- letted
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Medici
-
noun,
Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- solder
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- moodle
-
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- Lidice
-
noun,
a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- lictor
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- morels
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- morsel
-
noun,
a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- Settle
-
noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- eroto-
-
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- erotic
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- molies
-
noun,
an herb given to Odysseus by Hermes to counteract the spells of Circe.
- sodio-
-
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Lettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Laetitia.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Riccio
-
noun,
David [Italian dah-veed] /Italian ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), Rizzio.
- letter
-
noun,
a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- retool
-
verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- idlers
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- Lettic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- Locris
-
noun,
either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- idioms
-
noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Melder
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- molest
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- molder
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- icicle
-
noun,
a pendent, tapering mass of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- soccer
-
noun,
a form of football played between two teams of 11 players, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the arms and hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who may use their hands to catch, carry, throw, or stop the ball.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- socio-
-
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- Medit.
-
- dottle
-
noun,
the plug of half-smoked tobacco in the bottom of a pipe after smoking.
- coelom
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- Toltec
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people living in central Mexico before the advent of the Aztecs and traditionally credited with laying the foundation of Aztec culture.
- coedit
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- direct
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- tiered
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- diotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or affecting both ears; binaural.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- toroid
-
noun,
a surface generated by the revolution of any closed plane curve or contour about an axis lying in its plane.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- tildes
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- cormel
-
noun,
a small new corm that is vegetatively propagated by a fully mature corm.
- tricot
-
noun,
a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- coerce
-
verb (used with object),
to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition:
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- tomcod
-
noun,
either of two small cods, Microgadus tomcod, of the Atlantic Ocean, or M. proximus, of the Pacific Ocean.
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- disco-
-
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- Cosimo
-
noun,
Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
- Cercis
-
noun,
any shrub or small tree of the genus Cercis, as the redbud or Judas tree.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- tictoc
-
noun,
an alternating ticking sound, as that made by a clock.
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- decile
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- tidies
-
noun,
any of various articles for keeping things tidy, as a box having small drawers and compartments.
- dittos
-
noun,
the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do.
Compare ditto mark.
- Cicero
-
noun,
a Continental unit of measurement for type, equal to 12 Didot points, or 0.178 inches (4.5 mm), roughly comparable to a pica.
- decime
-
noun,
a former copper or bronze coin of France issued from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, the 10th part of a franc, equal in value to 10 centimes.
- distil
-
verb (used with or without object),
distill.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- decoct
-
verb (used with object),
to extract the flavor or essence of by boiling.
- celoms
-
noun,
coelom.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- distr.
-
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- Cecile
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cecilia.
- Docile
-
adjective,
easily managed or handled; tractable:
- coolie
-
noun,
an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
- delist
-
verb (used with object),
to delete from a list, as one that indicates acceptability, legitimacy, or the like.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- dermo-
-
- Cedric
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- Tooele
-
noun,
a town in NW Utah.
- cooler
-
noun,
a container or apparatus, as an insulated chest, in which something may be cooled or kept cool.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- dermic
-
adjective,
dermal.
- tootle
-
noun,
the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- demits
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- demote
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- comedo
-
noun,
a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- colies
-
noun,
any of several slender, fruit-eating, African birds constituting the family Coliidae, having grayish-brown plumage and a long, pointed tail.
- cecils
-
noun,
(Edgar Algernon) Robert (1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood) 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1937.
- cordis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the heart.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- Tilsit
-
noun,
former name of Sovetsk.
- colics
-
noun,
paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- dicots
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- detect
-
verb (used with object),
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act:
- cresol
-
noun,
any of three isomeric compounds having the formula C 7 H 8 O, usually derived from coal tar and wood tar, and used chiefly as a disinfectant.
- colors
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- delict
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- colter
-
noun,
a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.
- detest
-
verb (used with object),
to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- cootie
-
noun,
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- Comdr.
-
- Comdt.
-
- deceit
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- to-dos
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- cleoid
-
noun,
a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- Cleome
-
noun,
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
- tercel
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- cleric
-
noun,
a member of the clergy.
- Doctor
-
noun,
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- circle
-
noun,
a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- costo-
-
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- tercet
-
noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- cilice
-
noun,
a garment of haircloth formerly worn by monks; a hair shirt.
- doolie
-
noun,
a first-year cadet in the U.S. Air Force Academy.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- clites
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- Domett
-
noun,
Alfred, 1811–87, British government official and poet: prime minister of New Zealand 1862.
- Cotter
-
noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- credit
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- clitic
-
noun,
a clitic word; enclitic or proclitic.
- cities
-
noun,
a large or important town.
- Creole
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- cisele
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- critic
-
noun,
a person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes:
- ceorls
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- creels
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- citied
-
adjective,
occupied by a city or cities.
- citole
-
noun,
cittern.
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- toilet
-
noun,
a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- citric
-
adjective,
of or derived from citric acid.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- dorso-
-
- dorsi-
-
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- Toledo
-
noun,
Francisco de [frahn-sees-kaw th e] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1515–84? Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- closet
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- cosmo-
-
- Cloete
-
noun,
Stuart, 1897–1976, South African novelist, born in France.
- titles
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ciders
-
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.
- dolors
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- Celtic
-
noun,
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, which survive now in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, and Brittany.
- Cloots
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (Show IPA), Baron de ("Anacharsis Clootz") 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.
- Cloris
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- celto-
-
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- closed
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- COSMIC
-
adjective,
of or relating to the cosmos:
- titled
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- closer
-
noun,
a person or thing that closes.
- Dottie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
- cert.
-
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- Lotte
-
noun,
angler (def 3).
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- scold
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- Scot.
-
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- melds
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- lotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in flowing water.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- cools
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- locos
-
noun,
locoweed.
- melic
-
adjective,
intended to be sung.
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- rect.
-
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- cosec
-
noun,
cosecant.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- recce
-
noun,
(especially in British military use) reconnaissance:
- Recit
-
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Medic
-
noun,
a member of a military medical corps; corpsman.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- ceric
-
adjective,
containing cerium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- looms
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- lotto
-
noun,
a game of chance in which a leader draws numbered disks at random from a stock and the players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards, the winner being the first to cover a complete row.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- Lords
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- roods
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- Medoc
-
noun,
a wine-growing region in Gironde, in SW France.
- cores
-
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- cero-
-
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- looie
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- ottos
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- octet
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- Otomi
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of south-central Mexico.
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Metol
-
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- 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.
- Clite
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- moils
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- retd.
-
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Modoc
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people belonging to the Lutuamian group and ranging from southern Oregon to northern California.
- cloot
-
noun,
a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- model
-
noun,
a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- Close
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- Ricci
-
noun,
Sebastiano [se-bahs-tyah-naw] /ˌsɛ bɑsˈtyɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1660?–1734, Italian painter.
- clime
-
noun,
climate.
- mitts
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- clots
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Cmdr.
-
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- MOTOS
-
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- circs
-
noun,
circular (def 9).
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- treed
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- Circe
-
noun,
Also, Kirke. Also called Aeaea. Classical Mythology. the enchantress represented by Homer as turning the companions of Odysseus into swine by means of a magic drink.
- Cisco
-
noun,
any of several whitefishes of the genus Coregonus, of the Great Lakes and smaller lakes of eastern North America.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- relic
-
noun,
a surviving memorial of something past.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- toti-
-
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Morel
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- molds
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- mools
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- motel
-
noun,
a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- molts
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- molto
-
adverb,
very:
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Clerc
-
noun,
Laurent [loh-rahn] /loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1785–1869, French educator of the deaf, in the U.S. after 1816.
- molet
-
noun,
mullet2 .
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- miso-
-
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- melts
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- Colet
-
noun,
John, 1467?–1519, English educator and clergyman.
- colic
-
noun,
paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- Colo.
-
- metr-
-
- color
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- toots
-
noun,
an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
- rodeo
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- meso-
-
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- mero-
-
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- comic
-
noun,
a comedian.
- Merle
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- Comr.
-
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Coles
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- colds
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- COCOM
-
noun,
a nontreaty organization of the NATO nations except Iceland, and with the addition of Japan, that sets rules on exports of strategic goods to Communist countries: formed in 1949.
- Cocos
-
noun,
coconut palm.
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- misc.
-
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- codes
-
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:
- milts
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- Milos
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- coel-
-
- coele
-
- miler
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Midis
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- motto
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- coils
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- LittM
-
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- dirls
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- disc.
-
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Eolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- dist.
-
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- ster.
-
- orles
-
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:
- Elmer
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”.
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- ordos
-
noun,
a desert plateau in the S Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in N China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Ditto
-
noun,
the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do.
Compare ditto mark.
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Emile
-
noun,
a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- dict.
-
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- socle
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- Icel.
-
- tilts
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- dicot
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- ideo-
-
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- idio-
-
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Sodom
-
noun,
an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- oleo-
-
- tiled
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tilde
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- oleic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- diols
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- solid
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- dilis
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- Cecil
-
noun,
(Edgar Algernon) Robert (1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood) 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1937.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- soldo
-
noun,
a former copper coin of Italy, the twentieth part of a lira, equal to five centesimi.
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- idiom
-
noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- ootid
-
noun,
the cell that results from the meiotic divisions of an oocyte and matures into an ovum.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- 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.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- ecto-
-
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- Ecole
-
noun,
school1 .
- ecol.
-
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- eccl.
-
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- 30-30
-
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- telic
-
adjective,
Grammar. expressing end or purpose:
- teiid
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- drool
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- telo-
-
- tele-
-
- 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.
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- edict
-
noun,
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- term.
-
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- dolor
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- dolce
-
noun,
an instruction to the performer that the music is to be executed softly and sweetly.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- elem.
-
- elemi
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- dolts
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- stilt
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- edit.
-
- stood
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- dooms
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- stome
-
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- smolt
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- idiot
-
noun,
Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
- Seric
-
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- deci-
-
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- semi-
-
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- decl.
-
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- lect.
-
- Lecce
-
noun,
a city in SE Italy: ancient Greek and Roman city; noted for its baroque architecture.
- celom
-
noun,
coelom.
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- titis
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- oste-
-
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- ceils
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- seti-
-
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- sero-
-
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- title
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- osmo-
-
- crim.
-
- limos
-
noun,
a limousine.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- Croce
-
noun,
Benedetto [be-ne-det-taw] /ˌbɛ nɛˈdɛt tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1952, Italian statesman, philosopher, and historian.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- crit.
-
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- Scott
-
noun,
Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- crocs
-
noun,
crocodile.
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- Crile
-
noun,
George Washington, 1864–1943, U.S. surgeon.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- Letts
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- licet
-
- licit
-
adjective,
legal; lawful; legitimate; permissible.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- to-do
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- octo-
-
- lidos
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- sect.
-
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- secco
-
noun,
fresco secco.
- limit
-
noun,
the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.:
- ceorl
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- OIcel
-
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- imido
-
adjective,
containing the imido group.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- irids
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- demi-
-
- sloid
-
noun,
sloyd.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- demit
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- irid-
-
- demo-
-
- slime
-
noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- imide
-
noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- slice
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- timid
-
adjective,
lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- iodo-
-
- derm-
-
- iodic
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the pentavalent state.
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- imit.
-
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- sito-
-
- ilio-
-
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- istic
-
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- 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.
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- smile
-
noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- desc.
-
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- ileo-
-
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- trid
-
- Otto
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- OSRD
-
- 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:
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- trit
-
- rel.
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- rcd.
-
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- tri-
-
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- oro-
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- reds
-
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.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- oto-
-
- scil
-
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- tilt
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- SLIM
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- SLIC
-
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- sld.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- Sol.
-
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tit.
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Sem.
-
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- tel-
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- ter.
-
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- TDRS
-
- str.
-
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Ste.
-
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rit.
-
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- toot
-
noun,
an act or sound of tooting.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- TODS
-
- Todt
-
noun,
Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1891–1942, German military engineer.
- sec.
-
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- scr.
-
- told
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- sci.
-
- std.
-
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- 1080
-
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- rood
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Rom.
-
- titi
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- mdse
-
- ordo
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- 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:
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- lime
-
noun,
Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- Del.
-
- limo
-
noun,
a limousine.
- Dem.
-
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- lit.
-
- LitD
-
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- dim.
-
- Dili
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- 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.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Lett
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- der.
-
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- med.
-
- Cres
-
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- MDES
-
- Ltd.
-
- Cort
-
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- MELD
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- croc
-
noun,
crocodile.
- ctr.
-
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- LOOM
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- Loco
-
noun,
locoweed.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- Dec.
-
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- Dom.
-
- cts.
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- dioc
-
- melt
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- ette
-
- eco-
-
- Esd.
-
- eso-
-
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- etc.
-
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Ice.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- ect-
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- EEOC
-
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- Emil
-
noun,
a male given name: from Latin Aemilius, a family name.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- itol
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- iso-
-
- DMSO
-
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- itis
-
- dlr.
-
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- dis-
-
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dir.
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- IMCO
-
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- ord.
-
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- ile-
-
- door
-
noun,
a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- doom
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- iod-
-
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- dolt
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- dol.
-
- Ire.
-
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- msec
-
- cml.
-
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Coco
-
noun,
coconut palm.
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MScD
-
- MSCE
-
- 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:
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- mold
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- moil
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- mol.
-
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- mood
-
noun,
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:
- codo
-
noun,
a city in NE Brazil.
- mool
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- clot
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- OCDM
-
- cide
-
- OECD
-
- Ceto
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- cet-
-
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- Cels
-
- cir.
-
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- Oct.
-
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- 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.
- OEEC
-
- circ
-
noun,
circular (def 9).
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- MSEE
-
- clod
-
noun,
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- MSIE
-
- clit
-
noun,
clitoris.
- oils
-
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.
- CCls
-
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Clem
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clement.
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- cit.
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- Cdr.
-
- CISC
-
noun,
complex instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively large number of instructions.
- cis-
-
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- molt
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- mod.
-
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- mil.
-
- coml
-
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- MIDI
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- Col.
-
- Mid.
-
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- Mic.
-
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- cool
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- Cor.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- met.
-
- mes-
-
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- 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.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- mild
-
noun,
British. beer that has a blander taste than bitter.
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- odor
-
noun,
the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell:
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Milt
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- Mile
-
noun,
Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- comd
-
- ole-
-
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mils
-
noun,
a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- MILR
-
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- Milo
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- Com.
-
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- Cold
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- COLT
-
noun,
a young male animal of the horse family.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- ed.
-
- DRE
-
- Dr.
-
- TSI
-
- CDT
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- CED
-
- CEC
-
- eir
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- TSE
-
- STM
-
- DSR
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- EEO
-
- cs.
-
- Tro
-
- EDC
-
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- cl.
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- TCS
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- EDT
-
- EEC
-
- ct.
-
- cr.
-
- DST
-
- CCD
-
verb (used with object),
to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to:
- ECM
-
- Co.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- cc.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- CCR
-
- CCS
-
verb (used with object),
to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to:
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- ec-
-
- ETD
-
- EOM
-
- CDC
-
- eo-
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- TMO
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- de-
-
- DCS
-
- 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.
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- DSC
-
- do.
-
- DCM
-
- DCL
-
- TLC
-
- tlo
-
- tlr
-
- cte
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- CTC
-
- CST
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- CSR
-
- CSO
-
- CSC
-
- CRT
-
- CRS
-
- CRC
-
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- DET
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- CEO
-
- CIC
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- CIE
-
- CIM
-
- Doi
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- tr.
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- DMT
-
- cle
-
- DMS
-
- DML
-
- di.
-
- DLS
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- TID
-
- CLI
-
- DLO
-
- DLC
-
- Clo
-
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- CLR
-
- CMC
-
- DIL
-
- CMD
-
- 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.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- STL
-
- SMD
-
- EIS
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- mi.
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- RMC
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RLD
-
- MIE
-
- MDT
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIT
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- ml.
-
- MLD
-
- MLR
-
- MLS
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOI
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- MCR
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- LSC
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- ScD
-
- sc.
-
- SRO
-
- So.
-
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- LSI
-
- MCI
-
- LSM
-
- LST
-
- ltr
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Mc-
-
- Md.
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSL
-
- MSC
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MOR
-
- LOC
-
- oid
-
- OCS
-
- OTS
-
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ODT
-
- ote
-
- ot-
-
- OEM
-
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- oic
-
- OSO
-
- oil
-
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.
- Rd.
-
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- ose
-
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Om.
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- OOT
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- OCR
-
- RCS
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- 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.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- MSD
-
- MSE
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- MSI
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- MTI
-
- MTO
-
- Re.
-
- MTS
-
- Oc.
-
- OED
-
- OSD
-
- OTC
-
- OCC
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- RDS
-
- RDC
-
- RCT
-
- OCD
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- SCM
-
- sd.
-
- TTS
-
- ior
-
- ICC
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- ide
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- ier
-
- SLR
-
- il-
-
- ILO
-
- ILS
-
- IOC
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- IOT
-
- Ir.
-
- LMT
-
- SLE
-
- IRL
-
- IRO
-
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- ise
-
- Isl
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- io-
-
- id.
-
- ISR
-
- EOE
-
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- STI
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EMR
-
- St.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ics
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- ERT
-
- Esc
-
- ese
-
- ESL
-
- ESR
-
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- ETS
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- IRC
-
- ist
-
- LIM
-
- Ld.
-
- LDC
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- se-
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- LCM
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SED
-
- Les
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- LCT
-
- 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.
- LCI
-
- ite
-
- SDR
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Lt.
-
- LSD
-
- SDI
-
- LCD
-
- LDS
-
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- ITC
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- t.
-
- LM
-
- TD
-
- TT
-
- T1
-
- TL
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- 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.
- S.
-
- ol
-
- SL
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- SM
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- dl
-
- CM
-
- CE
-
- TC
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- TM
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- DM
-
- RO
-
- L.
-
- LC
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- L1
-
- L2
-
- le
-
- M.
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ic
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- EI
-
- i.
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- RI
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- RC
-
- R.
-
- LR
-
- D.
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: