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- adrenergic
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noun,
a drug or other agent having an epinephrinelike effect.
- corianders
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noun,
Also called cilantro, Chinese parsley. an herb, Coriandrum sativum, of the parsley family, native to Europe, having strong-scented leaves used in cooking and aromatic seeds used as a seasoning and in medicine.
- disarrange
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verb (used with object),
to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- grenadiers
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noun,
(in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- arrogances
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noun,
offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
- decreasing
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noun,
the act or process of decreasing; condition of being decreased; gradual reduction:
- recordings
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noun,
the act or practice of a person or thing that records.
- deaconries
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noun,
the office of a deacon.
- reconsider
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verb (used with object),
to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action:
- orangeries
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noun,
a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- orangeades
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noun,
a beverage consisting of orange juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- orangeade
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noun,
a beverage consisting of orange juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- renegados
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noun,
a renegade.
- radiances
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noun,
radiant brightness or light:
- Carneades
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noun,
214?–129? b.c, Greek philosopher.
- organdies
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noun,
a fine, thin cotton fabric usually having a durable crisp finish, white, dyed, or printed: used for blouses, dresses, curtains, trimmings, etc.
- groceries
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noun,
Also called grocery store. a grocer's store.
- carrageen
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noun,
Irish moss.
- deringers
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noun,
derringer.
- aerogenic
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adjective,
producing gas, as certain bacteria.
- cardigans
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noun,
a usually collarless knitted sweater or jacket that opens down the front.
- increaser
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noun,
a person or thing that increases.
- carangoid
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noun,
a carangoid fish.
- serranoid
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noun,
a serranoid fish.
- recording
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noun,
the act or practice of a person or thing that records.
- arrogance
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noun,
offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
- coriander
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noun,
Also called cilantro, Chinese parsley. an herb, Coriandrum sativum, of the parsley family, native to Europe, having strong-scented leaves used in cooking and aromatic seeds used as a seasoning and in medicine.
- Oceanside
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noun,
a city in SW California.
- carangids
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noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Carangidae, comprising the jacks, scads, pompanos, and cavallas.
- grenadier
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noun,
(in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- congeries
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noun,
a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation; heap:
- drainages
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noun,
the act or process of draining.
- endoergic
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adjective,
endothermic (opposed to exoergic).
- genocides
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noun,
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- Aragonese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Aragon.
- Androsace
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noun,
any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- errancies
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noun,
the state or an instance of erring.
- Gasconade
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noun,
extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- erigerons
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noun,
any composite plant of the genus Erigeron, having flower heads resembling those of the asters but with narrower and usually more numerous white or purple rays.
- gardeners
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noun,
a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- seed-corn
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noun,
ears or kernels of corn set apart as seed.
- granaries
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noun,
a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
- gardenias
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noun,
any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- grandiose
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adjective,
affectedly grand or important; pompous:
- androecia
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noun,
the stamens of a flower collectively.
- grandsire
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noun,
a grandfather.
- anergies
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noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- aneroids
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noun,
aneroid barometer.
- carangid
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noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Carangidae, comprising the jacks, scads, pompanos, and cavallas.
- Cardenas
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noun,
Lázaro [lah-sah-raw] /ˈlɑ sɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Mexican general and political reformer: president 1934–40.
- arranges
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verb (used with object),
to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly:
- Cardigan
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noun,
a usually collarless knitted sweater or jacket that opens down the front.
- cardings
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noun,
the process in which fibers, as cotton, worsted, or wool, are manipulated into sliver form prior to spinning.
- carnages
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noun,
the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
- sardonic
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adjective,
characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering:
- Carnegie
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noun,
Andrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
- angaries
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noun,
the right of a belligerent state to seize and use the property of neutrals for purposes of warfare, subject to payment of full compensation.
- Canarese
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noun,
one of a Dravidian people living mainly in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India.
- sangaree
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noun,
sangría.
- reedings
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noun,
a set of moldings, as on a column, resembling small convex fluting.
- resigned
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adjective,
submissive or acquiescent.
- arginase
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noun,
a liver enzyme that converts arginine to urea.
- arsenide
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noun,
a compound containing two elements of which arsenic is the negative one, as silver arsenide, Ag 3 As.
- roarings
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noun,
the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
- rosarian
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noun,
a person who is fond of, develops, or cultivates roses.
- araneose
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adjective,
arachnoid, especially as a plant.
- renegado
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noun,
a renegade.
- araneids
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noun,
a member of the order Araneae (Araneida), comprising the spiders.
- readings
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noun,
the action or practice of a person who reads.
- red-rose
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noun,
the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- Sancerre
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noun,
a dry white wine from the Loire valley region of France.
- reasoned
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noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- rear-end
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noun,
the hindmost part of something.
- canaigre
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noun,
a plant, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the buckwheat family, found from Oklahoma to California, having clustered, tuberous roots that yield tannin.
- arraigns
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verb (used with object),
to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
- Canaries
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noun,
any of several Old World finches of the genus Serinus, especially S. canaria (common canary) native to the Canary Islands and often kept as a pet, in the wild being greenish with brown streaks above and yellow below and in domesticated varieties usually bright yellow or pale yellow.
- ascender
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noun,
a person or thing that ascends or causes ascension.
- Srinagar
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noun,
a city in and the summer capital of Kashmir, on the Jhelum River.
- carriage
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noun,
a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
- geodesic
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noun,
geodesic line.
- grinders
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noun,
a person or thing that grinds.
- diocesan
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noun,
one of the clergy or people of a diocese.
- Diogenes
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noun,
412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
- grecians
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noun,
a Greek.
- disagree
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verb (used without object),
to fail to agree; differ:
- disgrace
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noun,
the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame:
- grandees
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noun,
a man of high social position or eminence, especially a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman.
- Granados
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noun,
Enrique [en-ree-ke] /ɛnˈri kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1916, Spanish pianist and composer.
- drainage
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noun,
the act or process of draining.
- Genseric
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noun,
a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- designer
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noun,
a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.
- genocide
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noun,
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- generics
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noun,
a generic term.
- Garrison
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noun,
a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
- Gardners
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noun,
Erle Stanley [url] /ɜrl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1970, U.S. writer of detective stories.
- Gardiner
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noun,
Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- Gardenia
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noun,
any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- Gardener
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noun,
a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- endosarc
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noun,
the endoplasm of a protozoan (opposed to ectosarc).
- Erigeron
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noun,
any composite plant of the genus Erigeron, having flower heads resembling those of the asters but with narrower and usually more numerous white or purple rays.
- diagnose
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verb (used with object),
to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination:
- deringer
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noun,
derringer.
- carrions
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noun,
dead and putrefying flesh.
- cornered
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noun,
the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- radiance
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noun,
radiant brightness or light:
- racinage
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noun,
decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- Cesarean
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noun,
Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- codeines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- coinages
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noun,
the act, process, or right of making coins.
- scenario
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noun,
an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- consider
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verb (used with object),
to think carefully about, especially in order to make a decision; contemplate; reflect on:
- cordages
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noun,
fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
- cordings
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noun,
cord covered with yarns or fabric, used decoratively.
- corrades
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verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- idocrase
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noun,
vesuvianite.
- corridas
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noun,
a bullfight.
- Corrigan
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noun,
Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- ocarinas
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noun,
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
- cosigner
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noun,
a cosignatory.
- Nocardia
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noun,
any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- negroids
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noun,
Older Use: Usually Offensive. a member of such peoples.
- decagons
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noun,
a polygon having ten angles and ten sides.
- deciares
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noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- Increase
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noun,
growth or augmentation in numbers, size, strength, quality, etc.:
- deranges
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verb (used with object),
to throw into disorder; disarrange.
- air-core
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adjective,
having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils:
- organics
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noun,
a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.
- serranid
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noun,
any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- acrogens
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noun,
a flowerless plant growing and producing its reproductive structures at the apex only, as ferns and mosses.
- acarines
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noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Acarina, comprising the mites and ticks.
- Aeacides
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noun,
a patronymic for any of the descendants of Aeacus, as Achilles, Peleus, and Telamon.
- agencies
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noun,
an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another:
- Sogdiana
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noun,
a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- acreages
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noun,
extent or area in acres; acres collectively.
- serried
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adjective,
pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows:
- radians
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noun,
the measure of a central angle subtending an arc equal in length to the radius: equal to 57.2958°. Abbreviation: rad.
- origans
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noun,
an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- cienaga
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noun,
a swamp or marsh, especially one formed and fed by springs.
- side-on
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adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- Drosera
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noun,
any of several insectivorous plants of the genus Drosera, having leaves covered with sticky hairs, comprising the sundews.
- genoise
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noun,
a light yellow cake made with eggs and butter and typically layered, filled, and frosted or made into petits fours for serving.
- Congers
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noun,
a large marine eel, Conger conger, sometimes reaching a length of 10 feet (3 meters), used for food.
- radices
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noun,
a plural of radix.
- organic
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noun,
a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.
- genesic
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adjective,
pertaining to genesis or reproduction; genetic.
- raiders
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noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- soaring
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noun,
the sport of flying a sailplane.
- generic
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noun,
a generic term.
- carrion
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noun,
dead and putrefying flesh.
- rancors
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noun,
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- congees
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noun,
congé.
- Adonais
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noun,
Hebrew. a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
- Serrano
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noun,
a small, green or reddish, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.
- ordains
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verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- coinage
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noun,
the act, process, or right of making coins.
- sidecar
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noun,
a small car attached on one side to a motorcycle and supported on the other side by a wheel of its own, used for a passenger, parcels, etc.
- coignes
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noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- oneidas
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noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- Dreiser
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noun,
Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.
- orceins
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noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- codings
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noun,
the transforming of a variate into a more convenient variate.
- cirrose
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adjective,
having a cirrus or cirri.
- codgers
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noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- codeine
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noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- Geordie
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noun,
a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- coarser
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adjective,
of or relating to a topology on a topological space whose open sets are included among the open sets of a second specified topology on the space.
- Randers
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noun,
a seaport in E Jutland, in Denmark.
- oreides
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noun,
oroide.
- coarsen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become coarse.
- carnies
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noun,
a person employed by a carnival.
- carnose
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adjective,
of or relating to flesh; fleshy.
- Gardena
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- reagins
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noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- Cairene
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noun,
a native or resident of Cairo, Egypt.
- Gardner
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noun,
Erle Stanley [url] /ɜrl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1970, U.S. writer of detective stories.
- Sogdian
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Sogdiana.
- Records
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noun,
an act of recording.
- gardens
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noun,
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- reeding
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noun,
a set of moldings, as on a column, resembling small convex fluting.
- regains
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noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- candier
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- regards
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noun,
reference; relation:
- reginas
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noun,
queen.
- garcons
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noun,
(usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
- renders
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noun,
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
- ascarid
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noun,
any nematode of the family Ascaridae; roundworm.
- ascared
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adjective,
afraid; scared.
- rereads
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noun,
the act of reading something again.
- canards
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noun,
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- candies
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noun,
any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- onagers
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noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- careens
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noun,
a careening.
- randies
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noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- seringa
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noun,
any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- carnage
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noun,
the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
- carinas
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noun,
Zoology. a keellike part or ridge, especially a ridge of bone on the ventral side of the sternum of birds.
- earings
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noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- cargoes
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noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- rangers
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noun,
forest ranger.
- cardio-
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- candors
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noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- carding
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noun,
the process in which fibers, as cotton, worsted, or wool, are manipulated into sliver form prior to spinning.
- earring
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noun,
an ornament worn on or hanging from the lobe of the ear.
- cardias
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noun,
an opening that connects the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach.
- socager
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noun,
a tenant holding land by socage; sokeman.
- garners
-
noun,
a granary or grain bin.
- readers
-
noun,
a person who reads.
- readies
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- Reading
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noun,
the action or practice of a person who reads.
- sidero-
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- cording
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noun,
cord covered with yarns or fabric, used decoratively.
- cordage
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noun,
fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
- Signora
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noun,
a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a married woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- signore
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noun,
a conventional Italian title of respect for a man, usually used separately; signor.
- derange
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verb (used with object),
to throw into disorder; disarrange.
- ignores
-
verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- deniers
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noun,
a person who denies.
- incages
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verb (used with object),
encage.
- grained
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noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- deicers
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noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- indorse
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verb (used with object),
endorse.
- sincere
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adjective,
free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
- Graeco-
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- decries
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verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- acrasin
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noun,
a chemotactic substance, identical with cAMP, secreted by myxamebas of cellular slime molds and attracting other myxamebas to aggregate and form a pseudoplasmodium.
- deciare
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noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- decerns
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verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- decares
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- decanes
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noun,
a hydrocarbon, C 10 H 22 , of the methane series, occurring in several isomeric forms.
- dog-ear
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noun,
(in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- Aaronic
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adjective,
of or relating to Aaron.
- acreage
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noun,
extent or area in acres; acres collectively.
- acarids
-
noun,
an acarine, especially a mite of the family Acaridae.
- greaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that greases.
- Grecian
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noun,
a Greek.
- acaroid
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adjective,
resembling a mite or tick.
- Dionaea
-
noun,
the Venus's-flytrap.
- discern
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verb (used with object),
to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend:
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- disegno
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noun,
drawing or design: a term used during the 16th and 17th centuries to designate the formal discipline required for the representation of the ideal form of an object in the visual arts, especially as expressed in the linear structure of a work of art.
- dingoes
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noun,
a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
- derries
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noun,
a meaningless refrain or chorus in old songs.
- greisen
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noun,
a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- Grenada
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noun,
one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grenade
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noun,
a small shell containing an explosive and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or launching device.
- dineros
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- grinder
-
noun,
a person or thing that grinds.
- grandee
-
noun,
a man of high social position or eminence, especially a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman.
- acedias
-
noun,
sloth (def 1).
Compare deadly sins.
- acerose
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adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- inroads
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- decagon
-
noun,
a polygon having ten angles and ten sides.
- sea-dog
-
noun,
a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
- corrida
-
noun,
a bullfight.
- Nordica
-
noun,
Lillian (Lillian Norton) 1859–1914, U.S. soprano.
- cranio-
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- dragees
-
noun,
a sugarcoated nut or candy.
- ocarina
-
noun,
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
- acrogen
-
noun,
a flowerless plant growing and producing its reproductive structures at the apex only, as ferns and mosses.
- corsair
-
noun,
a fast ship used for piracy.
- corsage
-
noun,
a small bouquet worn at the waist, on the shoulder, on the wrist, etc., by a woman.
- corrade
-
verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- crinose
-
adjective,
hairy.
- Oceania
-
noun,
the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).
- corners
-
noun,
the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- corneas
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- Oceanid
-
noun,
any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
- Gironde
-
noun,
an estuary in SW France, formed by the junction of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- adagios
-
noun,
Music. an adagio movement or piece.
- reredos
-
noun,
a screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church.
- cringes
-
noun,
servile or fawning deference.
- cronies
-
noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- gradins
-
noun,
one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
- gracias
-
interjection,
thank you.
- dearies
-
noun,
darling.
- ironers
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- graders
-
noun,
a person or thing that grades.
- darners
-
noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- Isadora
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Isidor.
- Isadore
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- darings
-
noun,
adventurous courage; boldness.
- dancers
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- crosier
-
noun,
a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook.
- narcose
-
adjective,
characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- Gordian
-
Idioms,
cut the Gordian knot, to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation; solve a problem boldly.
- necrose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- Negroes
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Negroid
-
noun,
Older Use: Usually Offensive. a member of such peoples.
- Neogaea
-
noun,
a biogeographical division comprising the Neotropical region.
- Nereids
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- Nidaros
-
noun,
former name of Trondheim.
- arseno-
-
- acarine
-
noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Acarina, comprising the mites and ticks.
- rescind
-
verb (used with object),
to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- agarics
-
noun,
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
- ergodic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the condition that, in an interval of sufficient duration, a system will return to states that are closely similar to previous ones: the assumption of such a condition underlies statistical methods used in modern dynamics and atomic theory.
- sarcoid
-
noun,
a growth resembling a sarcoma.
- sarcode
-
noun,
protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- rosaria
-
noun,
a rose garden.
- Ricardo
-
noun,
David, 1772–1823, English economist.
- ganoids
-
noun,
a ganoid fish.
- errands
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- engirds
-
verb (used with object),
to encircle; encompass:
- agarose
-
noun,
a substance obtained from agar and used for chromatographic separations.
- ringers
-
noun,
a person or thing that encircles, rings, etc.
- endears
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- angoras
-
noun,
Angora cat.
- araneid
-
noun,
a member of the order Araneae (Araneida), comprising the spiders.
- re-sign
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sign again.
- encores
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- arnicas
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Arnica, having opposite leaves and yellow flower heads.
- arraign
-
verb (used with object),
to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
- Erigone
-
noun,
a daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus who hanged herself when Orestes was acquitted of the murder of her parents.
- sangria
-
noun,
an iced drink, typically made with red wine, sugar, fruit juice, soda water, and spices, and containing fruit slices.
- soredia
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- ganders
-
noun,
the male of the goose.
Compare goose (def 2).
- Agenais
-
noun,
an ancient region of SW France.
- Scandia
-
noun,
scandium oxide.
- Ronsard
-
noun,
Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1524–85, French poet.
- Ariadne
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread by which he escaped from the labyrinth: deserted by Theseus on Naxos, she became the bride of Dionysus.
- Ericson
-
noun,
Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- endorse
-
noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- Scarron
-
noun,
Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1610–60, French novelist, dramatist, and poet.
- Saracen
-
noun,
History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- seconde
-
noun,
the second of the eight defensive positions.
- sardine
-
noun,
the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- gainers
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- Sarcina
-
noun,
any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- Andorra
-
noun,
a republic in the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel. 191 sq. mi. (495 sq. km).
- Andreas
-
noun,
a male or female given name, Latinized form of Andrew.
- sadiron
-
noun,
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Older Use. a flatiron that is pointed at both ends and has a detachable handle.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- agnosia
-
noun,
partial or total inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.
- screeno
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- Andrias
-
noun,
a city in Apulia, S Italy.
- roaring
-
noun,
the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
- encodes
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- agonies
-
noun,
extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- Rodgers
-
noun,
James Charles ("Jimmie") 1897–1933, U.S. country-and-western singer, guitarist, and composer.
- aniseed
-
noun,
the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- enrages
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- Erigena
-
noun,
Johannes Scotus [joh-han-eez skoh-tuh s,, -han-is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz ˈskoʊ təs,, -ˈhæn ɪs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c810–c877, Irish philosopher and theologian.
- encages
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as in a cage; coop up.
- Aorangi
-
noun,
Cook, Mount.
- sarangi
-
noun,
(in India) a violinlike instrument used to accompany classical dancing.
- argasid
-
noun,
any of the numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, comprising the soft ticks.
- Roscian
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving acting.
- arrange
-
verb (used with object),
to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly:
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- andro-
-
- Gondar
-
noun,
a city in NW Ethiopia, N of Lake Tana: a former capital.
- Andric
-
noun,
Ivo [ee-vaw] /ˈi vɔ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1975, Yugoslavian poet, novelist, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1961.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- dancer
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- Andria
-
noun,
a city in Apulia, S Italy.
- narco-
-
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- Nicaea
-
noun,
an ancient city in NW Asia Minor: Nicene Creed formulated here a.d.
- necro-
-
- crores
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- nicads
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- signee
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- Dorcas
-
noun,
a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for the poor. Acts 9:36–41.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- goners
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- Dacron
-
- Negros
-
noun,
an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- agenda
-
noun,
a list, plan, outline, or the like, of things to be done, matters to be acted or voted upon, etc.:
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- NASCAR
-
noun,
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
- dagoes
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- dorser
-
noun,
dosser1 .
- seeing
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- encore
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- coring
-
noun,
the act of removing a core or of cutting from a central part.
- adages
-
noun,
a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- adagio
-
noun,
Music. an adagio movement or piece.
- drains
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- corgis
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- Ogaden
-
noun,
an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- corers
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- cordis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the heart.
- Corner
-
noun,
the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- aniso-
-
- Saigon
-
noun,
former name of Ho Chi Minh City: capital of former South Vietnam 1954–76.
- girder
-
noun,
a large beam, as of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber, for supporting masonry, joists, purlins, etc.
- onager
-
noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- encode
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- Girard
-
noun,
Stephen, 1750–1831, U.S. merchant, banker, and philanthropist, born in France.
- Conrad
-
noun,
Charles, Jr ("Pete") 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- conges
-
noun,
leave-taking; farewell.
- anodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- encase
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- corned
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Angora
-
noun,
Angora cat.
- cringe
-
noun,
servile or fawning deference.
- Crania
-
noun,
the skull of a vertebrate.
- dorsi-
-
- dosage
-
noun,
the administration of medicine in doses.
- criers
-
noun,
a person who cries.
- Signac
-
noun,
Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1863–1935, French painter.
- gonads
-
noun,
a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- Nordic
-
noun,
a member of the Nordic people, especially a Scandinavian.
- endear
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- naiads
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
- dragee
-
noun,
a sugarcoated nut or candy.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Sandie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Sandro.
- Norris
-
noun,
Charles Gilman, 1881–1945, U.S. novelist and editor.
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- cosign
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sign as a cosigner.
- Dragon
-
noun,
a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- Sandra
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alexandra.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Corrie
-
noun,
a circular hollow in the side of a hill or mountain.
- Sierra
-
noun,
a chain of hills or mountains, the peaks of which suggest the teeth of a saw.
- angio-
-
- dances
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- Andrea
-
noun,
a male or female given name, Latinized form of Andrew.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- groins
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- grinds
-
noun,
the act of grinding.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Grison
-
noun,
a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.
- agreed
-
adjective,
arranged or set by common consent:
- groans
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- grocer
-
noun,
the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- agric.
-
- Grande
-
noun,
Rio. Rio Grande.
- grand-
-
- scoria
-
noun,
Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- sirree
-
noun,
(used as an intensive with no or yes):
- design
-
noun,
an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed.
- Idaean
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, associated with, or inhabiting Mount Ida in Asia Minor or Crete.
- Derris
-
noun,
any East Indian plant belonging to the genus Derris, of the legume family, especially D. elliptica, the roots of which contain rotenone and are used as an insecticide.
- agron.
-
- ericas
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- ignore
-
verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- acedia
-
noun,
sloth (def 1).
Compare deadly sins.
- grides
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- grease
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- seadog
-
noun,
fogbow.
- eraser
-
noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- Greco-
-
- grano-
-
- greeds
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- sirdar
-
noun,
(in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan) a military chief or leader.
- disco-
-
- greens
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- agonic
-
adjective,
not forming an angle.
- grands
-
noun,
grand piano.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- dinges
-
noun,
the condition of being dingy.
- dinger
-
noun,
humdinger.
- agoras
-
noun,
a popular political assembly.
- grani-
-
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- enrage
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- Singer
-
noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- acarid
-
noun,
an acarine, especially a mite of the family Acaridae.
- dinars
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- incage
-
verb (used with object),
encage.
- engird
-
verb (used with object),
to encircle; encompass:
- danger
-
noun,
liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
- darner
-
noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- gradin
-
noun,
one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
- grades
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- sarco-
-
- Deacon
-
noun,
(in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- irreg.
-
- Darren
-
noun,
a male given name.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- daring
-
noun,
adventurous courage; boldness.
- sardar
-
noun,
sirdar.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- darics
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- grader
-
noun,
a person or thing that grades.
- dongas
-
noun,
(in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- nacred
-
adjective,
lined with or resembling nacre.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Andres
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- danios
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Graces
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- nadirs
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Nagari
-
noun,
a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- decane
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon, C 10 H 22 , of the methane series, occurring in several isomeric forms.
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- doings
-
noun,
action; performance; execution:
- grains
-
noun,
an iron instrument with barbed prongs, for spearing or harpooning fish.
- incase
-
verb (used with object),
encase.
- incogs
-
adjective, adverb, noun,
incognita or incognito.
- deigns
-
verb (used with object),
to condescend to give or grant:
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- incorr
-
- Graiae
-
plural noun,
Graeae.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- Signor
-
noun,
a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- decani
-
adjective,
of or relating to the epistle or liturgical south side of a church (opposed to cantoris).
- sarong
-
noun,
a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- second
-
noun,
a second part.
- Graeae
-
plural noun,
three old sea goddesses who had but one eye and one tooth among them and were the protectors of their sisters the Gorgons.
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- INGRES
-
noun,
Jean Auguste Dominique [zhahn oh-gyst daw-mee-neek] /ʒɑ̃ oʊˈgüst dɔ miˈnik/ (Show IPA), 1780–1867, French painter.
- inorg.
-
- signer
-
noun,
a person who signs.
- Sarnia
-
noun,
a port in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the S shore of Lake Huron, on the St. Clair River, across from Port Huron, Michigan.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- decern
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- decare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- Sendai
-
noun,
a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- Conger
-
noun,
a large marine eel, Conger conger, sometimes reaching a length of 10 feet (3 meters), used for food.
- congee
-
noun,
congé.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- cardi-
-
- socage
-
noun,
a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.
- ranids
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- Gascon
-
noun,
a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
- Gaines
-
noun,
Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- raring
-
adjective,
very eager or anxious; enthusiastic:
- canids
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- Reader
-
noun,
a person who reads.
- Ariege
-
noun,
a department in S France. 1893 sq. mi. (4905 sq. km). Capital: Foix.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- riders
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- Aegean
-
noun,
the. Aegean Sea.
- Gander
-
noun,
the male of the goose.
Compare goose (def 2).
- Candor
-
noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- Candia
-
noun,
former name of Iráklion.
- Aegina
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Asopus and Metope who was abducted by Zeus and bore him a son, Aeacus.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- ricers
-
noun,
an implement for ricing potatoes, squash, etc., by pressing them through small holes.
- canard
-
noun,
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- Garner
-
noun,
a granary or grain bin.
- Canad.
-
- cardia
-
noun,
an opening that connects the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach.
- rigors
-
noun,
strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- reagin
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- caries
-
noun,
decay, as of bone or of plant tissue.
- agaric
-
noun,
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
- Carrie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- adren-
-
- arecas
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- Gideon
-
noun,
Also called Jerubbaal. a judge of Israel and conqueror of the Midianites. Judges 6–8.
- Adrian
-
noun,
Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- earing
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- Carina
-
noun,
Zoology. a keellike part or ridge, especially a ridge of bone on the ventral side of the sternum of birds.
- Gainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Cardin
-
noun,
Pierre, born 1922, French fashion designer.
- Carian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Caria.
- gender
-
noun,
either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior:
Compare sex (def 1).
- cargos
-
noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- ranged
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- Ranger
-
noun,
forest ranger.
- career
-
noun,
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
- argons
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- ringer
-
noun,
a person or thing that encircles, rings, etc.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- ringed
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- Reagan
-
noun,
Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- Cairns
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Australia.
- rancor
-
noun,
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- region
-
noun,
an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
- reigns
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- Reiner
-
noun,
Fritz, 1888–1963, Hungarian conductor in the U.S.
- Garcon
-
noun,
(usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
- Asgard
-
noun,
the home of the Aesir and location of Valhalla and the palaces of the individual gods: connected with the earth by the rainbow bridge, Bifrost.
- Renard
-
noun,
Reynard.
- render
-
noun,
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
- Garand
-
noun,
John C(antius) [French kahn-tsyys] /French ˈkɑ̃ tsyüs/ (Show IPA), 1888–1974, U.S. inventor of M-1 semiautomatic rifle, born in Canada.
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- senega
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- Seneca
-
noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- Garcia
-
noun,
Jerome John ("Jerry") 1942–95, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
- Regina
-
noun,
queen.
- aeron.
-
- ascend
-
verb (used with object),
to go or move upward upon or along; climb; mount:
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- arride
-
verb (used with object),
to be agreeable or pleasing to.
- Renoir
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- reread
-
noun,
the act of reading something again.
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- arsen-
-
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- edgers
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- ganoid
-
noun,
a ganoid fish.
- cadres
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- arnica
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Arnica, having opposite leaves and yellow flower heads.
- cairds
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- Aeneas
-
noun,
a Trojan hero, the reputed ancestor of the Romans: protagonist of the Aeneid.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Aeneid
-
noun,
a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- record
-
noun,
an act of recording.
- cagers
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Caesar
-
noun,
Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (or Caius) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Julius, c100–44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- asonia
-
noun,
tone deafness.
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Agadir
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Morocco: destroyed by earthquake in 1960; new town rebuilt S of original site.
- cadges
-
noun,
a frame on which hawks are carried to the field.
- soigne
-
adjective,
carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- resign
-
verb (used with object),
to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
- Regain
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- Garden
-
noun,
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- regard
-
noun,
reference; relation:
- Gardas
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in Italy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 143 sq. mi. (370 sq. km).
- genera
-
noun,
a plural of genus.
- adreno
-
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- orgies
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- Coanda
-
noun,
Henri Marie [ahn-ree ma-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1972, French engineer and inventor.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- cirro-
-
- organa
-
noun,
a plural of organon.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- arcade
-
noun,
Architecture.
a series of arches supported on piers or columns.
an arched, roofed-in gallery. Compare colonnade.
- origan
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- cinder
-
noun,
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- arcane
-
adjective,
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric:
- Origen
-
noun,
(Origenes Admantius) a.d. 185?–254? Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- Arcaro
-
noun,
Edward ("Eddie") 1916–97, U.S. jockey.
- rancid
-
adjective,
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
- geodes
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- errand
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- geoids
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- Adonai
-
noun,
Hebrew. a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
- racers
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- orangs
-
noun,
orangutan.
- congas
-
noun,
a Cuban ballroom dance that consists of three steps forward followed by a kick, characteristically performed by a group following a leader in a single line.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- Oradea
-
noun,
a city in NW Romania.
- Gesner
-
noun,
Konrad von [kon-rad von;; German kawn-raht fuh n] /ˈkɒn ræd vɒn;; German ˈkɔn rɑt fən/ (Show IPA), 1516–65, Swiss naturalist.
- Orange
-
noun,
a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- adeno-
-
- encage
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as in a cage; coop up.
- sacro-
-
- sacred
-
adjective,
devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- coigns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- orders
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- coigne
-
noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- Gerard
-
noun,
Also, Gé·rard·. a male given name, form of Gerald.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- coding
-
noun,
the transforming of a variate into a more convenient variate.
- Aragon
-
noun,
Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1897–1982, French novelist, poet, and journalist.
- codger
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- Adonic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Adonic verse or line.
- 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.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- radio-
-
- Cedars
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- radian
-
noun,
the measure of a central angle subtending an arc equal in length to the radius: equal to 57.2958°. Abbreviation: rad.
- radons
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- Rodger
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Roger.
- raider
-
noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- Rogers
-
noun,
Bernard, 1893–1968, U.S. composer.
- cedarn
-
adjective,
resembling or made of cedar.
- ardors
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- genoas
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- Racine
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1639–99, French dramatist.
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- erring
-
adjective,
going astray; in error; wrong.
- Adonis
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- cerias
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- casein
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a protein precipitated from milk, as by rennet, and forming the basis of cheese and certain plastics.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- genies
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- Radnor
-
noun,
a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- casing
-
noun,
a case or covering; housing.
- casino
-
noun,
a building or large room used for meetings, entertainment, dancing, etc., especially such a place equipped with gambling devices, gambling tables, etc.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- genic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, resembling, or arising from a gene or genes.
- Genie
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- Gerar
-
noun,
an ancient city in Palestine, near the Mediterranean: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- girns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- Garda
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in Italy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 143 sq. mi. (370 sq. km).
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- girds
-
noun,
a gibe.
- 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.
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- grade
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- erron
-
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- Grace
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- Gaons
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Gondi
-
noun,
a Dravidian language, the language of the Gonds.
- Ganda
-
noun,
Luganda.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- garni
-
adjective,
garnished.
- genre
-
noun,
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like:
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- geod.
-
- geode
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- grain
-
noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- gonad
-
noun,
a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- Goias
-
noun,
a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- Genoa
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- ergo-
-
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- giros
-
noun,
autogiro.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- gains
-
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- grads
-
noun,
a graduate.
- Grana
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- geoid
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- goads
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- Reger
-
noun,
Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1873–1916, German composer and pianist.
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- reni-
-
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- ricer
-
noun,
an implement for ricing potatoes, squash, etc., by pressing them through small holes.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Rider
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- rigor
-
noun,
strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- Seric
-
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- sero-
-
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- rares
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- rears
-
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- ridge
-
noun,
a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- rings
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- Saran
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- sarc-
-
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- sargo
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- Sarre
-
noun,
French name of Saar.
- Scand
-
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- scend
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- scrag
-
noun,
a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- scrog
-
noun,
any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Sango
-
noun,
a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- riser
-
noun,
a person who rises, especially from bed:
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roars
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- Roger
-
noun,
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- 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.
- Saadi
-
noun,
(Muslih ud-Din) 1184?–1291? Persian poet.
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- Sadoc
-
noun,
Zadok.
- sagan
-
noun,
Carl (Edward) 1934–96, U.S. astronomer and writer.
- saice
-
noun,
syce.
- Saida
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Lebanon: the site of ancient Sidon.
- saiga
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- sedge
-
noun,
any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places.
Compare sedge family.
- raias
-
noun,
rayah.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- greed
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- Iran.
-
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- Isaac
-
noun,
a son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob. Gen. 21:1–4.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- isnad
-
noun,
the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- naiad
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
- Naida
-
noun,
a female given name.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- Nasca
-
adjective,
Nazca.
- naso-
-
- nears
-
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- groan
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Green
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- Greer
-
noun,
Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Sino-
-
- grice
-
noun,
a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
- gride
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- grind
-
noun,
the act of grinding.
- grins
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- groin
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- Indo-
-
- icons
-
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- ideo-
-
- sing.
-
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- incas
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- incog
-
adjective, adverb, noun,
incognita or incognito.
- incor
-
- incr.
-
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- ragas
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ordn.
-
- Oreg.
-
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- orig.
-
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- orris
-
noun,
an iris, Iris germanica florentina, having a fragrant rootstock.
- Onega
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- racer
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- RADAR
-
noun,
Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- Orang
-
noun,
orangutan.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- nicad
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- nidge
-
verb (used with object),
to dress (a stone) with a pick or kevel.
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- Nogai
-
noun,
a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- signa
-
verb,
(used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- oidea
-
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- siege
-
noun,
the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- Ogden
-
noun,
Charles Kay, 1889–1957, British psychologist and linguist, inventor of Basic English.
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- disc.
-
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- dagos
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- Dagon
-
noun,
a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.
- Arcas
-
noun,
a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- doges
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dogie
-
noun,
a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- doing
-
noun,
action; performance; execution:
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- ardor
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- dirge
-
noun,
a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- donec
-
conjunction,
(in prescriptions) until.
- dingo
-
noun,
a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
- Danas
-
noun,
Danu.
- Ceara
-
noun,
Fortaleza.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- dinge
-
noun,
the condition of being dingy.
- dings
-
noun,
a ringing sound.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- Danai
-
plural noun,
the Argives.
- areo-
-
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- Danae
-
noun,
a daughter of the king of Argos and mother, by Zeus disguised as a shower of gold, of Perseus.
- Areca
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- Dirac
-
noun,
Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- dance
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- drags
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- anis-
-
- Caird
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- Drago
-
noun,
Luis María [loo-is muh-ree-uh;; Spanish loo-ees mah-ree-ah] /ˈlu ɪs məˈri ə;; Spanish luˈis mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1921, Argentine jurist and statesman.
- angi-
-
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- cero-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- angas
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- drang
-
noun,
a narrow lane or alleyway.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- Cerro
-
noun,
a hill or peak.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- drear
-
adjective,
dreary.
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- daces
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- donga
-
noun,
(in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- 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.
- dongs
-
noun,
a deep sound like that of a large bell.
- Dagan
-
noun,
the Mesopotamian god of agriculture and the earth: a counterpart of the Phoenician and Philistine Dagon.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- Ansar
-
noun,
the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- anoia
-
noun,
extreme mental deficiency.
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- dorrs
-
noun,
dor1 .
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- anoas
-
noun,
a small forest buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) depressicornis, of the island of Celebes, having a brown coat and straight, sharp-tipped horns: an endangered species.
- Dacia
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom and later a Roman province in S Europe between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube, corresponding generally to modern Romania and adjacent regions.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- argon
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- Degas
-
noun,
Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deign
-
verb (used with object),
to condescend to give or grant:
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- darns
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- Cades
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- Asian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- canid
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- Caras
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- cager
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- caine
-
noun,
(Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.
- deca-
-
- cairn
-
noun,
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- caids
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- cages
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- decan
-
noun,
any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- deci-
-
- cadis
-
noun,
qadi.
- Canea
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Crete, on the W part.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- cadge
-
noun,
a frame on which hawks are carried to the field.
- daric
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- Card.
-
- Argos
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis: a powerful rival of Sparta, Athens, and Corinth.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Dania
-
noun,
a town in S Florida.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Arica
-
noun,
a seaport in N Chile.
- diag.
-
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- Diana
-
noun,
(Princess of Wales; Lady Diana Spencer) 1961–97, former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
- arias
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- corgi
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- dangs
-
verb (used with object), adjective, noun,
damn (used euphemistically).
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- cards
-
noun,
a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder:
- cargo
-
noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- ASEAN
-
- ASDIC
-
noun,
sonar.
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- asco-
-
- desc.
-
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- Carin
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Caria
-
noun,
an ancient district in SW Asia Minor.
- arris
-
noun,
a sharp ridge, as between adjoining channels of a Doric column.
- Arras
-
noun,
a rich tapestry.
- Arran
-
noun,
an island in SW Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde. 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km).
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- angor
-
noun,
extreme distress or mental anguish, usually of physical origin.
- andr-
-
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- egads
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- Egadi
-
noun,
a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Adige
-
noun,
a river in N Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic Sea. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- aecia
-
noun,
the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- coign
-
noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- Craig
-
noun,
Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- Agade
-
noun,
Akkad (def 2).
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- econ.
-
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- aero-
-
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- aeri-
-
- EDGAR
-
noun,
an award given annually in various categories of mystery writing.
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- edger
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- edges
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- engr.
-
- Aaron
-
noun,
the older brother of Moses, usually regarded as the first high priest of the Hebrews. Ex. 28; 40:13–16.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- endo-
-
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- corer
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- aceae
-
- corr.
-
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- cores
-
- 30-30
-
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- acari
-
noun,
plural of acarus.
- Cons.
-
- aden-
-
- Conde
-
noun,
Louis II de Bourbon [lwee,, duh boor-bawn] /lwi,, də burˈbɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Prince de (Duc d'Enghien"the Great Condé") 1621–86, French general.
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- adage
-
noun,
a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- acro-
-
- acrid
-
adjective,
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- acids
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- acnes
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- Cong.
-
- conga
-
noun,
a Cuban ballroom dance that consists of three steps forward followed by a kick, characteristically performed by a group following a leader in a single line.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- conge
-
noun,
leave-taking; farewell.
- agars
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- cains
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- agone
-
adverb, adjective,
ago.
- agora
-
noun,
a popular political assembly.
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- crore
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- Eagan
-
noun,
a town in SE Minnesota.
- agro-
-
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- cine-
-
- cigar
-
noun,
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- 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.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- drier
-
noun,
a person or thing that dries.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- dregs
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- Ciano
-
noun,
Count Galeazzo [gah-le-aht-tsaw] /ˌgɑ lɛˈɑt tsɔ/ (Show IPA), (Ciano di Cortellazzo) 1903–44, Italian Fascist statesman: minister of foreign affairs 1936–43.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- Andes
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- cnida
-
noun,
a nematocyst.
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- agios
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- crier
-
noun,
a person who cries.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- codas
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- 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:
- Agena
-
noun,
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- 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.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- RdAc
-
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- Cor.
-
- rcd.
-
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- cog.
-
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- cide
-
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Can.
-
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- OECD
-
- OSRD
-
- OEEC
-
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Cana
-
noun,
an ancient town in N Israel, in Galilee: scene of Jesus' first miracle. John 2:1, 11.
- CERN
-
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- ord.
-
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- cogs
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Cara
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- Cdr.
-
- cene
-
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- cen.
-
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Casa
-
noun,
a house.
- cis-
-
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- org.
-
- CIGS
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- 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.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- cir.
-
- 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:
- Cond
-
- Con.
-
- rad.
-
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- 1080
-
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Cain
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- agio
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- sec.
-
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- agr.
-
- aged
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- agas
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Agon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- scr.
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- SCAD
-
noun,
any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- ance
-
- Anas
-
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Aire
-
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- scag
-
noun,
heroin.
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- AInd
-
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- AIDS
-
noun,
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- Aida
-
noun,
(italics) an opera (1871) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- sci.
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- aer-
-
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- ACDA
-
- acad
-
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- AAEE
-
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- Soni
-
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- Sra.
-
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- acea
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Adar
-
noun,
the sixth month of the Jewish calendar.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sgd.
-
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sig.
-
- acid
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- acr-
-
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- Acis
-
noun,
the lover of Galatea, killed by Polyphemus out of jealousy.
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- ands
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- caid
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- asci
-
noun,
plural of ascus.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- asc-
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- arr.
-
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- ARIS
-
- 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.
- Rida
-
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- Cage
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- cads
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- cadi
-
noun,
qadi.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- 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.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- asgd
-
- Reg.
-
- regd
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- regr
-
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Asia
-
noun,
a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. About 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- anga
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- SAGA
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- ANSI
-
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- ansa
-
noun,
Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- anoa
-
noun,
a small forest buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) depressicornis, of the island of Celebes, having a brown coat and straight, sharp-tipped horns: an endangered species.
- ano-
-
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- Arad
-
noun,
a city in W Romania, on the Mures River.
- arca
-
noun,
a chest for valuables, used in medieval Spain and Italy.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- Arg.
-
- 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.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- RNAS
-
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- RONA
-
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- 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.
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- digs
-
noun,
thrust; poke:
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Gen.
-
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- IndE
-
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- deg.
-
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- Den.
-
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- geds
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- Inca
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- Inc.
-
- inae
-
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- der.
-
- ign.
-
- geo-
-
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- Idas
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- idae
-
- ins.
-
- iod-
-
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Dang
-
verb (used with object), adjective, noun,
damn (used euphemistically).
- Naga
-
noun,
a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Burma.
- Edge
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- Nada
-
noun,
nothing; zero; none:
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- darg
-
noun,
Scot. and North England. a day's work.
- NACA
-
- eco-
-
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- iso-
-
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- gds.
-
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Ire.
-
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Dec.
-
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- Ger.
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- Dino
-
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- dioc
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- dir.
-
- drag
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- gras
-
- dis-
-
- gon-
-
- Gond
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal people of Dravidian stock, in central India and the Deccan.
- ding
-
noun,
a ringing sound.
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Doge
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- grad
-
noun,
a graduate.
- Dong
-
noun,
a deep sound like that of a large bell.
- goad
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- gres
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- gird
-
noun,
a gibe.
- Gerd
-
noun,
the daughter of a giant and the consort of Frey, who wooed her through his servant Skirnir.
- Ice.
-
- ICAO
-
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- iana
-
- Iago
-
noun,
the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- Gide
-
noun,
André (Paul Guillaume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pɔl giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.
- dreg
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- IAEA
-
- gids
-
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Ind.
-
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Gino
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- dia-
-
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- 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.
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- gro.
-
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- dig.
-
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- Din.
-
- grid
-
noun,
a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Crag
-
noun,
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.
- nos-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- DEng
-
- end-
-
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- gads
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- egad
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- neo-
-
- 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).
- Gand
-
noun,
French name of Ghent.
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Nor.
-
- Cres
-
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- NOAA
-
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- enc.
-
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- ence
-
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- eso-
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Esd.
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- EEOC
-
- Eng.
-
- NIRA
-
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- ergs
-
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- NASA
-
noun,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- NASD
-
- Ens.
-
- Gaon
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- dags
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- 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.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- NDAC
-
- NCAA
-
- Dago
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Dana
-
noun,
Danu.
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- Gard
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- Sr.
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Gr.
-
- SAR
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- AOA
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- DRE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- AIA
-
- ANG
-
- ac-
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- an.
-
- ADC
-
- Ar.
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- en-
-
- ad-
-
- Dr.
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- SAE
-
- God
-
noun,
the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- ene
-
- AAE
-
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- Aar
-
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EOE
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- ag-
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- ESA
-
- Ges
-
- AEC
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- GCI
-
- GCR
-
- Gde
-
- GDR
-
- EEC
-
- EEG
-
- AEA
-
- GCE
-
- ae.
-
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- EEO
-
- Ged
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- SDR
-
- SED
-
- GCD
-
- SDI
-
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- EDC
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ed.
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- ECG
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- GCA
-
- ECA
-
- ec-
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- AGC
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- SDA
-
- EIS
-
- DSA
-
- ese
-
- Eg.
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Esc
-
- DSR
-
- sc.
-
- 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).
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- ScD
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- eir
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- DRG
-
- ANC
-
- ESR
-
- eo-
-
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- 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).
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- Gad
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- gi.
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- Ga.
-
- ea.
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ean
-
- ADA
-
noun,
a programming language particularly suited to real-time applications: developed for use by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- AIC
-
- ead
-
- EAA
-
- ACS
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- SAA
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- NDE
-
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- NEC
-
- Dag
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- CEO
-
- DAE
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- DSO
-
- DSC
-
- DOA
-
- do.
-
- Re.
-
- RCS
-
- Rd.
-
- CGI
-
- ose
-
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- CED
-
- CIA
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- REA
-
- RDS
-
- RDC
-
- IRS
-
- RDA
-
- RCN
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- RCA
-
- ISA
-
- SRO
-
- CEA
-
- ise
-
- ISR
-
- NCO
-
- NAA
-
- NAD
-
- DAR
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- CGS
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- DCS
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- ons
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ONI
-
- Oc.
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- OED
-
- OSA
-
- OSD
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- OIr
-
- NSC
-
- oid
-
- oic
-
- OAS
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- OCD
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OCR
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OCS
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- NSA
-
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- CRS
-
- NES
-
- CIE
-
- NGC
-
- cig
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- NIA
-
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- CSR
-
- CSO
-
- CSA
-
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- NRC
-
- CNO
-
- CNS
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- NOC
-
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- 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.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- ONR
-
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- DNR
-
- de-
-
- ROI
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- ARS
-
- ics
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- dog
-
noun,
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- Doi
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- ase
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- id.
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- RID
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noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- IDS
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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.
- ODA
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noun,
a room within a harem.
- gre
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- ROC
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noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ARE
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noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- IRA
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noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ROA
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- RNR
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- rnd
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- RNA
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- DNA
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- ROG
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- ard
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- Die
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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.
- rin
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noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rig
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noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- di.
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- GSA
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- GSC
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- GSR
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- ROE
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noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Ido
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noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ide
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- ier
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- IOC
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- ARA
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noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- RSE
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- CAA
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- sd.
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- CAD
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noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Dee
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noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- ine
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- ing
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- red
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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.
- ion
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noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- cr.
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- CAI
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- ior
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- So.
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- Ios
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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.
- REC
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noun,
recreation.
- Ir.
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- IRC
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- IRO
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- DEA
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- cs.
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- Ree
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noun,
reeve3 .
- Rod
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noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- ca.
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- aor
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- Don
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noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- ASI
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- in.
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- ina
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noun,
a female given name.
- ASN
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- Aso
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noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASR
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- Rs.
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- DEI
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adverb,
by the grace of God.
- COD
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noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- Co.
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- CIO
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noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- RSA
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- SG
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- AO
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- O.
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- AA
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noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- A.
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noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- 2D
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noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- S.
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- OA
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- 3D
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noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- SA
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- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- AI
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noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- OG
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- OD
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noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- GD
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- DN
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- GC
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- N.
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- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
- NC
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- ND
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- NG
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- NI
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- CE
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- EI
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- ee
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- IG
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- DG
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- RN
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- SN
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- RI
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- RC
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- GO
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noun,
the act of going:
- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
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- G.
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- DC
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noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DA
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noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- D.
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- ic
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- i.
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- GN
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- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- RO
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- rg
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