Anagrams of contemporaneous
Word contemporaneous has
3293 anagrams
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- counterpanes
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noun,
a quilt or coverlet for a bed; bedspread.
- monocarpous
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adjective,
having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- counterpane
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noun,
a quilt or coverlet for a bed; bedspread.
- counterpose
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verb (used with object),
to offer or place in opposition, response, or contrast.
- pentamerous
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adjective,
consisting of or divided into five parts.
- mecopterous
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adjective,
belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- nectareous
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adjective,
nectarous.
- pennaceous
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adjective,
having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- escarpment
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noun,
Geology. a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust.
Compare scarp (def 1).
- treponemas
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noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- permanents
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noun,
Also called permanent wave. a wave or curl that is set into the hair by the application of a special chemical preparation and that remains for a number of months.
- anemoscope
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noun,
any instrument showing the existence and direction of the wind.
- can-opener
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noun,
a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- mecopteran
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noun,
Also, mecopteron [mi-kop-tuh-ron] /mɪˈkɒp təˌrɒn/ (Show IPA). a mecopterous insect.
- counterman
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noun,
a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- rune-stone
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noun,
a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- praenomens
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noun,
the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- motoneuron
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noun,
motor neuron.
- pronounces
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verb (used with object),
to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- monstrance
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noun,
a receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.
- purtenance
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noun,
the liver, heart, and lungs of an animal.
- metroscope
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noun,
an instrument for examining the cavity of the uterus.
- monopteros
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noun,
monopteron.
- encounters
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noun,
a meeting with a person or thing, especially a casual, unexpected, or brief meeting:
- monopteron
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noun,
a classical building having a single outer colonnade surrounding a central structure or a courtyard.
- countermen
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noun,
a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- caen-stone
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noun,
a cream-colored limestone quarried near Caen, France, for use in building.
- carpostome
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noun,
the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- compensate
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verb (used with object),
to recompense for something:
- octomerous
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adjective,
octamerous.
- contrapose
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verb (used with object),
to place in contraposition.
- centrosome
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noun,
a small region near the nucleus in the cell cytoplasm, containing the centrioles.
- octamerous
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adjective,
consisting of or divided into eight parts.
- cooperates
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verb (used without object),
to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coetaneous
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adjective,
of the same age or duration.
- one-to-one
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adjective,
Also, one-one. (of the relationship between two or more groups of things) corresponding element by element.
- come-outer
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noun,
an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- companeros
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noun,
(in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- praenomen
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noun,
the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- ornaments
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noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- moutonnee
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adjective,
noting or pertaining to a rock formation having a rounded outline like the back of a sheep, resulting from glacial action.
Compare roche moutonnée.
- mousetrap
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noun,
a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- mouse-ear
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noun,
any of various plants having small, hairy leaves, as the hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella, or the forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris.
- prenomens
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noun,
praenomen.
- on-stream
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adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- monocarps
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noun,
a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- moraceous
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adjective,
belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- moonstone
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noun,
Also called precious moonstone. a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
- moonscape
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noun,
the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- stonecrop
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noun,
any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- pronounce
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verb (used with object),
to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- monocrats
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noun,
a person favoring monocracy.
- Monoceros
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noun,
the Unicorn, a constellation south of Gemini and east of Orion.
- composure
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noun,
serene, self-controlled state of mind; calmness; tranquillity:
- monoester
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noun,
a single esterified polybasic acid.
- prosecute
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verb (used with object),
Law.
to institute legal proceedings against (a person).
to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process.
to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- mucronate
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adjective,
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- protonema
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noun,
a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- component
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noun,
a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- anterooms
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noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- apocenter
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noun,
the point in the orbit of a heavenly body farthest from a primary other than the earth or the sun.
- rotenones
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noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous heterocyclic compound, C 23 H 22 O 6 , obtained from derris root: used chiefly as the active ingredient of certain insecticides and in medicine in the treatment of chiggers and scabies.
- unrespect
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- monotones
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noun,
a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
- coatrooms
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noun,
cloakroom (def 1).
- monoscope
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noun,
a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
- Montespan
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noun,
Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- nanometer
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noun,
one billionth of a meter. Abbreviation: nm.
- spermato-
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- neuromast
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noun,
a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- Cosmotron
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noun,
a proton accelerator.
- nocturnes
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noun,
a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- carotenes
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- coumarone
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noun,
a colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O 7 , derived from a naphtha distilled from coal tar: used chiefly in the synthesis of coumarone resins.
- nonparous
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adjective,
having borne no children.
- sonometer
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noun,
audiometer.
- castoreum
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noun,
castor1 (def 1).
- corantoes
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noun,
courante.
- copestone
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noun,
the top stone of a building or other structure.
- copemates
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noun,
an antagonist; opponent.
- capsomere
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noun,
any of the protein subunits of a capsid.
- penstemon
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noun,
any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- courantes
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noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- numerates
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- Treponema
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noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- portances
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noun,
bearing; behavior.
- pneumato-
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- cosmonaut
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noun,
a Russian or Soviet astronaut.
- austemper
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verb (used with object),
to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- pomaceous
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adjective,
of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- cretonnes
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noun,
a heavy cotton material in colorfully printed designs, used especially for drapery and slipcovers.
- pneumono-
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- one-acter
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noun,
a short play consisting of one act.
- Cameroons
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noun,
German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- courtesan
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noun,
a prostitute or paramour, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.
- outrances
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noun,
the utmost extremity.
- nectarous
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adjective,
of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- camporees
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noun,
a small camp gathering of boy scouts or girl scouts, usually from a region or district (distinguished from jamboree).
- Cantonese
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noun,
a Chinese language spoken in Canton, the surrounding area of southern China, and Hong Kong.
- permanent
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noun,
Also called permanent wave. a wave or curl that is set into the hair by the application of a special chemical preparation and that remains for a number of months.
- cooperate
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verb (used without object),
to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- personate
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adjective,
Botany.
(of a bilabiate corolla) masklike.
having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the gap between the lips, as in the snapdragon.
- companero
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noun,
(in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- encounter
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noun,
a meeting with a person or thing, especially a casual, unexpected, or brief meeting:
- resonance
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noun,
the state or quality of being resonant.
- europeans
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Europe.
- mesorecta
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noun,
the mesentery of the rectum.
- menopause
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noun,
the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- recompose
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verb (used with object),
to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- renascent
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adjective,
being reborn; springing again into being or vigor:
- Esperanto
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noun,
an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish physician and philologist, and intended for international use. It is based on word roots common to the major European languages.
- renounces
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noun,
Cards. an act or instance of renouncing.
- entrances
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noun,
an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.
- metascope
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noun,
a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- renounce
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noun,
Cards. an act or instance of renouncing.
- penances
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noun,
a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
- anemones
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having petallike sepals and including several wild species with white flowers as well as others cultivated for their showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- Superman
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noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- counters
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noun,
a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
- courante
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noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- capstone
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noun,
a finishing stone of a structure.
- taprooms
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noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- captures
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noun,
the act of capturing.
- neutrons
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noun,
an elementary particle having no charge, mass slightly greater than that of a proton, and spin of ½: a constituent of the nuclei of all atoms except those of hydrogen. Symbol: n.
- acrosome
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noun,
an organelle covering the head of animal sperm and containing enzymes that digest the egg cell coating, thus permitting the sperm to enter the egg.
- counter-
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- pentanes
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noun,
a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- carneous
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adjective,
fleshlike; flesh-colored.
- soupmeat
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noun,
beef used for making soup stock.
- costumer
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- saucepot
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noun,
a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- no-count
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adjective, noun,
no-account.
- carotene
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- nocturne
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noun,
a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- supermen
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noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- nocturns
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noun,
the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
- sauterne
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noun,
a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- courants
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noun,
courante.
- percents
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- pentosan
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noun,
any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- neonates
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noun,
a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- autosome
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noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- Crompton
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noun,
Samuel, 1753–1827, English inventor of the spinning mule.
- cretonne
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noun,
a heavy cotton material in colorfully printed designs, used especially for drapery and slipcovers.
- poaceous
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adjective,
belonging to the Poaceae, an alternate name for the plant family Gramineae.
- spearmen
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noun,
a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- re-count
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noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- Cameroon
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noun,
Also, Cameroun. Official name United Republic of Cameroon. an independent republic in W Africa: formed 1960 by the French trusteeship of Cameroun; Southern Cameroons incorporated as a self-governing province 1961. 183,350 sq. mi. (474,877 sq. km). Capital: Yaoundé.
- Cameroun
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noun,
Cameroon (def 1).
- creosote
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- camporee
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noun,
a small camp gathering of boy scouts or girl scouts, usually from a region or district (distinguished from jamboree).
- cremates
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- Peterson
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noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- Peterman
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noun,
a safecracker.
- spacemen
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noun,
an astronaut.
- neuromas
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noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- Cranston
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noun,
a city in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- crampons
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noun,
a spiked iron plate worn on boots or shoes for aid in climbing or to prevent slipping on ice, snow, etc.
- canorous
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adjective,
melodious; musical.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- recusant
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noun,
a person who is recusant.
- Personae
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noun,
a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- canteens
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noun,
a small container used especially by soldiers and hikers for carrying water or other liquids.
- tonneaus
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noun,
a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- peroneus
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noun,
any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- permutes
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verb (used with object),
to alter; change.
- permeant
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adjective,
permeating; pervading.
- erumpent
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adjective,
bursting forth.
- non-pros
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verb (used with object),
to adjudge (a plaintiff) in default.
- Masorete
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noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- patroons
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noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- Paterson
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noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- corpsmen
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noun,
U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- compotes
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noun,
fruit stewed or cooked in a syrup, usually served as a dessert.
- connotes
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verb (used with object),
to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
- cerumens
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noun,
earwax.
- Conneaut
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noun,
a city in NE Ohio.
- ostracon
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noun,
(in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- conenose
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noun,
any of several bloodsucking assassin bugs of the genus Triatoma, some of which inflict a painful bite and serve as vectors of Chagas' disease.
- European
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Europe.
- touracos
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noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- one-spot
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noun,
the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- computes
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noun,
computation:
- computer
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noun,
a programmable electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Mainframes, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of computers.
Compare analog computer, digital computer.
- ornament
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noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- seamount
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noun,
a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- sea-room
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noun,
unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- Scranton
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noun,
William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- composer
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noun,
a person or thing that composes.
- comports
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noun,
Obsolete. comportment.
- competes
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verb (used without object),
to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie:
- coatroom
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noun,
cloakroom (def 1).
- resonant
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noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- comperes
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noun,
a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- resonate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- operates
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verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- operants
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- comatose
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adjective,
affected with or characterized by coma.
- comparts
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verb (used with object),
to separate or mark out in parts; subdivide.
- compares
-
noun,
comparison:
- Comnenus
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noun,
a dynasty of Byzantine emperors that ruled at Constantinople, 1057?–1185, and at Trebizond in Asia Minor, 1204–1461?.
- otoscope
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noun,
an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
- Serapeum
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noun,
a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- corpsman
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noun,
U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- no-trump
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noun,
the declaration to play a no-trump contract.
- pontoons
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noun,
Military. a boat or some other floating structure used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river.
- sonorant
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noun,
a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- Casement
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noun,
a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- coronate
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adjective,
having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- cornutos
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noun,
a cuckold.
- corneous
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adjective,
consisting of a horny substance; horny.
- sonarmen
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noun,
a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- Norseman
-
noun,
Northman.
- norsemen
-
noun,
Northman.
- corantos
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noun,
courante.
- manropes
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noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- pantoums
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noun,
a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- notecase
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noun,
billfold.
- copemate
-
noun,
an antagonist; opponent.
- construe
-
noun,
the act of construing.
- numerate
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- acetones
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- centaurs
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- Etruscan
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noun,
an inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
- centners
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noun,
(in several European countries) a unit of weight of 50 kilograms, equivalent to 110.2 pounds avoirdupois.
- centrums
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noun,
a center.
- outrance
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noun,
the utmost extremity.
- outraces
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verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- outpaces
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass or exceed, as in speed, development, or performance:
- contemp.
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- contemns
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verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- outcrops
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noun,
Geology.
a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth.
the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- consumer
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noun,
a person or thing that consumes.
- spectro-
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- remanent
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adjective,
remaining; left behind.
- compeers
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noun,
an equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
- entrance
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noun,
an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.
- tempuras
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noun,
seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- proteose
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noun,
any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- protease
-
noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- monteros
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- prostoon
-
noun,
(in classical architecture) a portico.
- Montrose
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noun,
James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- mesotron
-
noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- spectrum
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noun,
Physics.
an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass: often the band of colors produced when sunlight is passed through a prism, comprising red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
this band or series of colors together with extensions at the ends that are not visible to the eye, but that can be studied by means of photography, heat effects, etc., and that are produced by the dispersion of radiant energy other than ordinary light rays. Compare band spectrum, electromagnetic spectrum, mass spectrum.
- pronotum
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noun,
the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- pronates
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- promotes
-
verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- routeman
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- montanes
-
noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- Turcoman
-
noun,
Turkoman.
- customer
-
noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- mesocarp
-
noun,
the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- romances
-
noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- prenomen
-
noun,
praenomen.
- prenames
-
noun,
given name.
- routemen
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- mounters
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- precents
-
verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- tea-rose
-
noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- upstream
-
adverb,
toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- apterous
-
adjective,
Zoology. wingless, as some insects.
- Monstera
-
noun,
any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- spumante
-
noun,
Italian. any sparkling wine.
- anteroom
-
noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- racemous
-
adjective,
racemose.
- racemose
-
adjective,
Botany.
having the form of a raceme.
arranged in racemes.
- monocarp
-
noun,
a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- stonemen
-
noun,
a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- encarpus
-
noun,
an ornament having draperies, weapons, etc., arranged in the manner of a festoon.
- anoscope
-
noun,
proctoscope.
- monocots
-
noun,
a monocotyledon.
- Ansermet
-
noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- monocrat
-
noun,
a person favoring monocracy.
- teaspoon
-
noun,
a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- ancestor
-
noun,
a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor.
- enormous
-
adjective,
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense:
- romaunts
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- monotone
-
noun,
a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
- Rosemont
-
noun,
a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- temperas
-
noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- enounces
-
verb (used with object),
to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.
- amputees
-
noun,
a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc., by amputation.
- Stoneman
-
noun,
a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- unreason
-
noun,
inability or unwillingness to think or act rationally, reasonably, or sensibly; irrationality.
- unperson
-
noun,
a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political or ideological reasons, is not recognized or mentioned in government publications or records or in the news media.
- temporo-
-
- rotenone
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous heterocyclic compound, C 23 H 22 O 6 , obtained from derris root: used chiefly as the active ingredient of certain insecticides and in medicine in the treatment of chiggers and scabies.
- ecotones
-
noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- tearooms
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- monurons
-
noun,
a white crystalline solid, C 9 H 11 ClN 2 O, used as a herbicide, especially for broad-leaved plants.
- cumarone
-
noun,
coumarone.
- nacreous
-
adjective,
of or relating to nacre.
- potences
-
noun,
potency.
- spontoon
-
noun,
a shafted weapon having a pointed blade with crossbar at its base, used by infantry officers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- portance
-
noun,
bearing; behavior.
- Muenster
-
noun,
a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- trounces
-
verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- croutons
-
noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- crumpets
-
noun,
a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
- Spruance
-
noun,
Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- contemn
-
verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- ecotone
-
noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- surcoat
-
noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- octopus
-
noun,
any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- necrose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- metopes
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- stumper
-
noun,
a person or thing that stumps.
- consume
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- measure
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- contour
-
noun,
the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- monsoon
-
noun,
the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
- constr.
-
- conster
-
verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- consort
-
noun,
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- consent
-
noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- crepons
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- neatens
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- connote
-
verb (used with object),
to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
- monster
-
noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- octanes
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- to-name
-
noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- crenate
-
adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- Sno-Cat
-
- snap-on
-
adjective,
attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion:
- ensnare
-
verb (used with object),
to capture in, or involve as in, a snare:
- Smeaton
-
noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- coopers
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- Sumpter
-
noun,
a packhorse or mule.
- manroot
-
noun,
man-of-the-earth.
- ecartes
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- montane
-
noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- Oceanus
-
noun,
a Titan who was the son of Uranus and Gaea, the consort of Tethys, and the father of the river gods and Oceanids.
- Serpent
-
noun,
a snake.
- ocreate
-
adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- mannose
-
noun,
a hexose, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained from the hydrolysis of the ivory nut and yielding mannitol upon reduction.
- contuse
-
verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- Manners
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- contras
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- enroots
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- Euratom
-
noun,
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
- contra-
-
- tempers
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- Connors
-
noun,
James Scott (Jimmy) born 1952, U.S. tennis player.
- oospore
-
noun,
a fertilized egg within an oogonium.
- teacups
-
noun,
a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
- Crotone
-
noun,
a city in S Italy; ancient Greek colony.
- comport
-
noun,
Obsolete. comportment.
- spectra
-
noun,
a plural of spectrum.
- crouton
-
noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- spectre
-
noun,
specter.
- monocot
-
noun,
a monocotyledon.
- compete
-
verb (used without object),
to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie:
- nascent
-
adjective,
beginning to exist or develop:
- encamps
-
verb (used with object),
to make into a camp.
- narcose
-
adjective,
characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- compere
-
noun,
a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- macrons
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- Temenus
-
noun,
a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- compeer
-
noun,
an equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
- crotons
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- stunner
-
noun,
a person or thing that stuns.
- compart
-
verb (used with object),
to separate or mark out in parts; subdivide.
- tampers
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- moneran
-
noun,
any organism of the kingdom Monera.
- compare
-
noun,
comparison:
- compar.
-
- Tampere
-
noun,
a city in SW Finland.
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- compose
-
verb (used with object),
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements:
- compost
-
noun,
a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for fertilizing soil.
- connate
-
adjective,
existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn:
- Spencer
-
noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- menaces
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- nuances
-
noun,
a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
- conatus
-
noun,
an effort or striving.
- tempera
-
noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- one-man
-
adjective,
of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person:
- one-one
-
adjective,
one-to-one (def 1).
- Oneonta
-
noun,
a city in E central New York.
- onerous
-
adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- enounce
-
verb (used with object),
to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.
- crumpet
-
noun,
a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- specter
-
noun,
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- encrust
-
verb (used with or without object),
incrust.
- compute
-
noun,
computation:
- Compton
-
noun,
Arthur Holly [hol-ee] /ˈhɒl i/ (Show IPA), 1892–1962, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1927.
- surname
-
noun,
the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- 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.
- Eustace
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “steadfast.”.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- natrons
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- compote
-
noun,
fruit stewed or cooked in a syrup, usually served as a dessert.
- tampons
-
noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- tempura
-
noun,
seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- Socotra
-
noun,
an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- Cremona
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- toecaps
-
noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- courant
-
noun,
courante.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- neuston
-
noun,
the aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that float or swim in the surface film of a body of water.
- neuters
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- neutro-
-
- neutron
-
noun,
an elementary particle having no charge, mass slightly greater than that of a proton, and spin of ½: a constituent of the nuclei of all atoms except those of hydrogen. Symbol: n.
- Neptune
-
noun,
any whelk of the genus Neptunea, especially N. decemcostata, common along the eastern coast of North America and having a shell with seven to ten raised reddish-brown spiral ridges on a pale beige or yellow background.
- cratons
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- muscone
-
noun,
an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 16 H 30 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- stearo-
-
- neonate
-
noun,
a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- mounter
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- tenures
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- step-on
-
adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- moreens
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- sporont
-
noun,
(in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- maroons
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- Nemunas
-
noun,
Lithuanian name of Neman.
- Cotonou
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Benin.
- soupcon
-
noun,
a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- tenrecs
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- morceau
-
noun,
piece; morsel.
- Esparto
-
noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- soutane
-
noun,
a cassock.
- stereo-
-
- cunners
-
noun,
a small wrasse, Tautogolabrus adspersus, common in North Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
- tonneau
-
noun,
a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- spumone
-
noun,
an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- tonners
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- Neupest
-
noun,
German name of Ujpest.
- matrons
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- cuneate
-
adjective,
having or being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- tearoom
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- tonsure
-
noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- Meropes
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- Moncton
-
noun,
a city in SE New Brunswick, in E Canada.
- sunroom
-
noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- Munster
-
noun,
muenster.
- couters
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- stamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- neuroma
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- Maspero
-
noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- stannum
-
noun,
tin.
- moutons
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- curates
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- matures
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- entraps
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- costume
-
noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- sterno-
-
- manrope
-
noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- Mercast
-
noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- supremo
-
noun,
the person in charge; chief.
- manures
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- cornets
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- corneas
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- normans
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- monuron
-
noun,
a white crystalline solid, C 9 H 11 ClN 2 O, used as a herbicide, especially for broad-leaved plants.
- spermo-
-
- entero-
-
- tarpons
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- coranto
-
noun,
courante.
- cornuto
-
noun,
a cuckold.
- copters
-
noun,
helicopter.
- nostrum
-
noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- sonance
-
noun,
the condition or quality of being sonant.
- nectars
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- someone
-
pronoun,
some person; somebody.
- Maureen
-
noun,
a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- montero
-
noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- somato-
-
- cop-out
-
noun,
an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion:
- tanrecs
-
noun,
tenrec.
- crampon
-
noun,
a spiked iron plate worn on boots or shoes for aid in climbing or to prevent slipping on ice, snow, etc.
- cornute
-
adjective,
cornuted.
- enteron
-
noun,
the alimentary canal; the digestive tract.
- taproom
-
noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- supreme
-
noun,
suprême (def 3).
- nocturn
-
noun,
the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
- tenners
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- sternum
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- Marcuse
-
noun,
Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- estrone
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- tapemen
-
noun,
a person who holds and positions a tape in taking measurements.
- soprano
-
noun,
the uppermost part or voice.
- Cortona
-
noun,
Pietro da [pye-traw dah] /ˈpyɛ trɔ dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Pietro Berrettini) 1596–1669, Italian painter and architect.
- noncoms
-
noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- creates
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- coronas
-
noun,
a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon.
- nonpros
-
- moonset
-
noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- tenaces
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- entomo-
-
- nonstop
-
noun,
a long-distance airline flight that makes no stops between the starting point and the destination.
- tone-up
-
noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- nonuser
-
noun,
a person who does not use or partake of something, as drugs or alcoholic beverages.
- spanner
-
noun,
a person or thing that spans.
- coronet
-
noun,
a small crown.
- nemato-
-
- cremate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- Menorca
-
noun,
Minorca.
- tonemes
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Preston
-
noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- pontoon
-
noun,
Military. a boat or some other floating structure used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river.
- recepts
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- trounce
-
verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- tropous
-
- Patmore
-
noun,
Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- cartoon
-
noun,
a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- patroon
-
noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- scanner
-
noun,
a person or thing that scans.
- putamen
-
noun,
Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
- scamper
-
noun,
a scampering; a quick run.
- austere
-
adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- Pasture
-
noun,
Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- recants
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- Anterus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 235–236.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- carpous
-
- amerces
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- saunter
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- carpets
-
noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- Pearson
-
noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- antero-
-
- carouse
-
noun,
carousal.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- uptears
-
verb (used with object),
to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- Austro-
-
- catouse
-
noun,
New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- posture
-
noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- cements
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- aeneous
-
adjective,
bronze-colored:
- pantoum
-
noun,
a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- postmen
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- campout
-
noun,
a camping out of a group.
- pteroma
-
noun,
pteron.
- Postman
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- postern
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- pterous
-
- transp.
-
- punster
-
noun,
a person who makes puns frequently.
- unmoors
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- recoups
-
noun,
an act of recouping.
- Atropos
-
noun,
the Fate who cuts the thread of life.
- troupes
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- punners
-
noun,
a person who puns; punster.
- recount
-
noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- partons
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- punnets
-
noun,
a small container or basket for strawberries or other fruit.
- pastern
-
noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- Pasteur
-
noun,
Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- Romance
-
noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- carnous
-
adjective,
carnose.
- pannose
-
adjective,
having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.
- pneumas
-
noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- romaunt
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- rootcap
-
noun,
the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- amperes
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- canters
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- canteen
-
noun,
a small container used especially by soldiers and hikers for carrying water or other liquids.
- Canopus
-
noun,
Astronomy. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Carina: the second brightest star in the heavens.
- amputee
-
noun,
a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc., by amputation.
- racemes
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- pneumo-
-
- Cameron
-
noun,
Julia Margaret, 1815–79, English photographer, born in India.
- Rosanne
-
noun,
a female given name.
- unstrap
-
verb (used with object),
to take off or slacken the strap of.
- Camoens
-
noun,
Luis Vaz de [loo-eesh vahzh duh] /luˈiʃ vɑʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.
- sanctum
-
noun,
a sacred or holy place.
- Petsamo
-
noun,
Finnish name of Pechenga.
- peteman
-
noun,
peterman.
- anemone
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having petallike sepals and including several wild species with white flowers as well as others cultivated for their showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- campers
-
noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- trompes
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- petrous
-
adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- unspent
-
adjective,
not spent or used, as money.
- permute
-
verb (used with object),
to alter; change.
- pomaces
-
noun,
the pulpy residue from apples or similar fruit after crushing and pressing, as in cider making.
- ponceau
-
noun,
a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
- Penates
-
plural noun,
gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.
- pectase
-
noun,
an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- carnose
-
adjective,
of or relating to flesh; fleshy.
- carnets
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- unroots
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- pectens
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- pectose
-
noun,
protopectin.
- pectous
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- amoroso
-
noun,
a medium dry sherry of Spain.
- amorous
-
adjective,
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love:
- penance
-
noun,
a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
- careens
-
noun,
a careening.
- percent
-
noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- romanos
-
- uproots
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- trepans
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- amounts
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- capture
-
noun,
the act of capturing.
- pennate
-
adjective,
winged; feathered.
- capotes
-
noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- ratoons
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- pentane
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- pentose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- Cenaeum
-
noun,
(in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- racoons
-
noun,
raccoon.
- osteoma
-
noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- precent
-
verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- scunner
-
noun,
an irrational dislike; loathing:
- scrotum
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- precast
-
adjective,
(of a building or section) cast before being transported to the site of installation:
- touraco
-
noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- acetone
-
noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- cetanes
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- acetous
-
adjective,
containing or producing acetic acid.
- Tourane
-
noun,
former name of Danang.
- re-pose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- Turenne
-
noun,
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne de [ahn-ree duh la toor doh-vern-yuh duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də la ˈtur doʊˈvɛrn yə də/ (Show IPA), 1611–75, French general and marshal.
- toupees
-
noun,
a man's wig.
- screeno
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- repents
-
adjective,
creeping.
- cerumen
-
noun,
earwax.
- repeats
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- promote
-
verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- pronaos
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- pronate
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- umpteen
-
adjective,
innumerable; many.
- Ouranos
-
noun,
Uranus (def 2).
- cermets
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- pouters
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- Orontes
-
noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- arpents
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- reopens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- operose
-
adjective,
industrious, as a person.
- turacos
-
noun,
touraco.
- presume
-
verb (used with object),
to take for granted, assume, or suppose:
- openers
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- come-on
-
noun,
inducement; lure.
- comates
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- respect
-
noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- operant
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- operate
-
verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- arseno-
-
- operons
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- present
-
noun,
the present time.
- acerous
-
adjective,
acerose1 .
- coatees
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- prename
-
noun,
given name.
- precuts
-
adjective,
cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used:
- coaster
-
noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- procto-
-
- coarsen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become coarse.
- seaport
-
noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- tureens
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- reputes
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- acerose
-
adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- toucans
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- scouter
-
noun,
a person who scouts.
- prances
-
noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- outcome
-
noun,
a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
- cereous
-
adjective,
waxlike.
- Paestum
-
noun,
an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
- outspan
-
noun,
the act or a place of outspanning.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- prosoma
-
noun,
an anterior body region, especially the arthropod cephalothorax.
- acumens
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- Potomac
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- potence
-
noun,
potency.
- scauper
-
noun,
a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- rennets
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- scooter
-
noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- sceptre
-
noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- Proteus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- centner
-
noun,
(in several European countries) a unit of weight of 50 kilograms, equivalent to 110.2 pounds avoirdupois.
- remount
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- centaur
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- scepter
-
noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- centare
-
noun,
centiare.
- protean
-
adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- centres
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- prosect
-
verb (used with object),
to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- centro-
-
- pronoun
-
noun,
any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- outcrop
-
noun,
Geology.
a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth.
the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- cerato-
-
- pronota
-
noun,
the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- cerates
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- pounces
-
noun,
the claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- outmans
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- outpace
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass or exceed, as in speed, development, or performance:
- centrum
-
noun,
a center.
- outrace
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- censure
-
noun,
strong or vehement expression of disapproval:
- remnant
-
noun,
a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- poteens
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- outsoar
-
verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- scotoma
-
noun,
loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- centums
-
noun,
one hundred.
- cenotes
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- prunes
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- proto-
-
- racoon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- ptero-
-
- Moneta
-
noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- punner
-
noun,
a person who puns; punster.
- Monnet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- Putnam
-
noun,
Herbert, 1861–1955, U.S. librarian: headed Library of Congress 1899–1939.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- promos
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- pronto
-
adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- purees
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- punnet
-
noun,
a small container or basket for strawberries or other fruit.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- Monroe
-
noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Punans
-
noun,
a member of a food-gathering people living in the forests of interior Borneo.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- raceme
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- Proton
-
noun,
a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- secure
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- Monaco
-
noun,
a principality on the Mediterranean coast, bordering SE France. ½ sq. mi. (1.3 sq. km).
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- maroon
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rennet
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- Rennes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ille-et-Vilaine, in NW France: former capital of Brittany; scene of trial of Alfred Dreyfus, 1899.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- super-
-
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- mascon
-
noun,
a massive concentration of high-density material beneath the surface of the moon.
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- Marcus
-
noun,
Saint. Also, Mark. died a.d. 336, pope 336.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- masto-
-
- suntan
-
noun,
a browning or a brown color of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or a sunlamp; tan.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- recuse
-
verb (used with object),
to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- rectum
-
noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- MAeroE
-
- macro-
-
- macron
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- reseau
-
noun,
a network.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- rescue
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- manner
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- Mannes
-
noun,
Leopold Damrosch, 1899–1964, U.S. composer and chemist.
- repute
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- Maputo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Mozambique, on Delagoa Bay.
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- supra-
-
- rectus
-
noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- rectos
-
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- metro-
-
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- ratoon
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- Metope
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- raptus
-
noun,
a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- roncos
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- menace
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- meacon
-
verb (used with object),
to give false signals to (electronic navigational equipment), as by means of a radio transmitter.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- recoup
-
noun,
an act of recouping.
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- recept
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- Menton
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- recaps
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- Merope
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- morons
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Nantes
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- sonant
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- Parsee
-
noun,
an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- Noreen
-
noun,
a female given name, Irish diminutive of Nora.
- Norman
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- parsec
-
noun,
a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parous
-
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- Norton
-
noun,
Charles Eliot, 1827–1908, U.S. scholar.
- scato-
-
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- pantun
-
noun,
pantoum.
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- panto-
-
- pannus
-
noun,
Pathology.
an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea.
an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- somat-
-
- socmen
-
noun,
sokeman.
- socman
-
noun,
sokeman.
- pannes
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- nuance
-
noun,
a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
- noncom
-
noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- soucar
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- nocent
-
adjective,
harmful; injurious.
- pecans
-
noun,
a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- saucer
-
noun,
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- peasen
-
noun,
a plural of pease.
- peanut
-
noun,
the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- nonces
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- peaces
-
noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- Sonoma
-
noun,
a town in W California: center of wine-producing region.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- Patmos
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- no-one
-
pronoun,
no person; not anyone; nobody:
- Sonora
-
noun,
a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- Nueces
-
noun,
a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
- Saturn
-
noun,
an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- scroop
-
noun,
a scrooping sound.
- Osorno
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- one-up
-
adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- 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.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- Sennar
-
noun,
a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- Oporto
-
noun,
a port in NW Portugal, near the mouth of the Douro River.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- operon
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- osteo-
-
- sennet
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Octans
-
noun,
the Octant, a southern constellation that contains the south celestial pole.
- pacers
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- set-up
-
noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- scoto-
-
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- octane
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- outman
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- Oenone
-
noun,
a nymph of Mount Ida who was the wife of Paris, but was deserted by him for Helen.
- ounces
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- septum
-
noun,
a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- scrape
-
noun,
an act or instance of scraping.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- 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.
- pecten
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- run-on
-
noun,
run-on matter.
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- Muscat
-
noun,
a variety of grape having a pronounced sweet aroma and flavor, used for making wine and raisins.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- sporo-
-
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- sperm-
-
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- nances
-
noun,
Offensive. an effeminate male.
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- Spence
-
noun,
a pantry.
- rupees
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- opacus
-
adjective,
(of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- Pontus
-
noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- ponces
-
noun,
a pimp.
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- sprout
-
noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- Mouton
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- steno-
-
- Morton
-
noun,
Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Morton) 1885–1941, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- precut
-
adjective,
cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used:
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- mucosa
-
noun,
mucous membrane.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- stance
-
noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- prance
-
noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- spruce
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
- pounce
-
noun,
the claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- potoos
-
noun,
any of several nocturnal birds of the family Nyctibiidae, of Mexico and Central and South America, related to the goatsuckers.
- mucors
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- narco-
-
- Poncas
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- Peneus
-
noun,
ancient name of Salambria.
- netmen
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- peseta
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peruse
-
verb (used with object),
to read through with thoroughness or care:
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- netman
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- nepman
-
noun,
(in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- sarco-
-
- Sarnen
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Obwalden, in central Switzerland, E of Bern.
- neuro-
-
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- penta-
-
- neuron
-
noun,
Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- penmen
-
noun,
a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- Penman
-
noun,
a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- nepmen
-
noun,
(in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- Nepean
-
noun,
a former city in SE Ontario, Canada, now part of Ottawa.
- nasute
-
noun,
a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- necro-
-
- Pomona
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of the fruit of trees.
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- natron
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- pomace
-
noun,
the pulpy residue from apples or similar fruit after crushing and pressing, as in cider making.
- sacro-
-
- sacrum
-
noun,
a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- Nautes
-
noun,
(in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- neaten
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- pneuma
-
noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- sapro-
-
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- sannup
-
noun,
a married American Indian man, especially a younger one; husband.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- nemat-
-
- petro-
-
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- macons
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- Croton
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- Creusa
-
noun,
the bride to be of Jason, slain by Medea.
- Creuse
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2165 sq. mi. (5605 sq. km). Capital: Guéret.
- camper
-
noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- tromps
-
verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- croons
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- campus
-
noun,
the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- croups
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- crumps
-
noun,
a crunching sound.
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Campos
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro.
- Cretan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- craton
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- capers
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- Canute
-
noun,
a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- cantus
-
noun,
cantus firmus.
- crapes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Cantos
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- Cantor
-
noun,
the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
- Canton
-
noun,
a small territorial district, especially one of the states of the Swiss confederation.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- trompe
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- creeps
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
- cannot
-
verb,
a form of ·can not.
- Cannes
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean Sea: resort; annual film festival.
- canner
-
noun,
a person who cans meat, fruit, etc., for preservation.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- crepes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- crepon
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- austr-
-
- Austen
-
noun,
Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- turaco
-
noun,
touraco.
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- turco-
-
- arsen-
-
- Custer
-
noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- curets
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- Tuscan
-
noun,
the standard literary form of the Italian language.
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- Tenner
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- tenace
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- uncaps
-
verb (used with object),
to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- aspect
-
noun,
appearance to the eye or mind; look:
- tropo-
-
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- toucan
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- toecap
-
noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- Truman
-
noun,
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- cteno-
-
- trumps
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- cuesta
-
noun,
a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Tumaco
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Colombia.
- cumene
-
noun,
a colorless and toxic liquid, C 9 H 12 , soluble in alcohol: used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and acetone.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- astron
-
- astro-
-
- cunner
-
noun,
a small wrasse, Tautogolabrus adspersus, common in North Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- cupro-
-
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- curate
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- Conant
-
noun,
James Bryant, 1893–1978, U.S. chemist and educator: president of Harvard University 1933–53.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- centr-
-
- Connor
-
noun,
Ralph (Charles William Gordon) 1860–1937, Canadian novelist and clergyman.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- Conroe
-
noun,
a town in E Texas.
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- 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.
- contos
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- tramps
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- contr.
-
- conure
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed New World parrots, especially of the genus Aratinga, certain species of which are kept as pets.
- merous
-
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- cement
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- trans.
-
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- cooner
-
noun,
coon dog.
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- Cooper
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- ceruse
-
noun,
a pigment composed of white lead.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- coapts
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- Cetura
-
noun,
Keturah.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- cesura
-
noun,
caesura.
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- coeno-
-
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- Cereus
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Cereus, of the cactus family, having large, usually white, funnel-shaped flowers.
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- compos
-
noun,
composition material.
- cerat-
-
- compts
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- catsup
-
noun,
ketchup.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- coupon
-
noun,
a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- corpus
-
noun,
a large or complete collection of writings:
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Carnot
-
noun,
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite [la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- Coruna
-
noun,
La Coruña.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Carmen
-
noun,
Ciudad del Carmen.
- cosmo-
-
- Carpet
-
noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- costo-
-
- captor
-
noun,
a person who has captured a person or thing.
- Capote
-
noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- capons
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- Capone
-
noun,
Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- coupes
-
noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- corona
-
noun,
a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon.
- coopts
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- carton
-
noun,
a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- Casper
-
noun,
a city in central Wyoming.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- copens
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- Caruso
-
noun,
Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1921, Italian operatic tenor.
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- cartop
-
adjective,
of a size and shape suitable for carrying on the top of an automobile.
- copras
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- carpo-
-
- copro-
-
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- topmen
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- copter
-
noun,
helicopter.
- topman
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- carpus
-
noun,
the part of the upper extremity between the hand and the forearm; wrist.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- carpos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek goddess of summer fruit, considered by Athenians as one of the Horae.
- uncase
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a case; remove the case from.
- toupee
-
noun,
a man's wig.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- enter-
-
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Antons
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- acutes
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- unseat
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- aeron.
-
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- antrum
-
noun,
a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- usance
-
noun,
Commerce. a length of time, exclusive of days of grace and varying in different places, allowed by custom or usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.
- encamp
-
verb (used with object),
to make into a camp.
- Tanner
-
noun,
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- encase
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- 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.
- apercu
-
noun,
a hasty glance; a glimpse.
- acumen
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- unpens
-
verb (used with object),
to release from confinement.
- unrent
-
adjective,
not rent; not torn, disturbed, pained, or the like:
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- etapes
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- unseen
-
adjective,
not seen; unperceived; unobserved; invisible.
- unsnap
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by or as if by opening snap fasteners:
- tampur
-
noun,
tambura.
- Ampere
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- upcast
-
noun,
an act of casting upward.
- upmost
-
adjective,
uppermost.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- taupes
-
noun,
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- AmerSp
-
- uproot
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- eroto-
-
- amount
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- tarso-
-
- eructs
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- erupts
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- urano-
-
- Escaut
-
noun,
French name of Scheldt.
- anenst
-
preposition,
anent (def 2).
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- anemo-
-
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- escent
-
- epacts
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- escarp
-
noun,
Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
- unstop
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- escape
-
noun,
an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
- teacup
-
noun,
a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- tauro-
-
- uptear
-
verb (used with object),
to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- unstep
-
verb (used with object),
to lift from its step, as a mast.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- unmans
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of:
- usenet
-
noun,
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
- Europe
-
noun,
a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and Caspian seas on the SE. In British usage, Europe sometimes contrasts with England. About 4,017,000 sq. mi. (10,404,000 sq. km).
- temper
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- unmoor
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- aceous
-
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- acetum
-
noun,
a preparation having vinegar or dilute acetic acid as the solvent.
- utero-
-
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- unmeet
-
adjective,
not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- emptor
-
noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- Europa
-
noun,
Also, Europe. Classical Mythology. a sister of Cadmus who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to Crete, where she bore him Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Sarpedon.
- enacts
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- aceto-
-
- UNESCO
-
noun,
an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- tamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- tampon
-
noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- resp.
-
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- osmo-
-
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- patr-
-
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- oste-
-
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- rept.
-
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- uran-
-
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- scape
-
noun,
Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- Patmo
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- acet-
-
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- treas
-
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- pecan
-
noun,
a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- Orono
-
noun,
a town in S Maine.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Oromo
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic, pastoral people of Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- carp-
-
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- scuta
-
noun,
plural of scutum.
- upset
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- 30-30
-
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- AMORC
-
- sauce
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- carps
-
noun,
a peevish complaint.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- recpt
-
- pause
-
noun,
a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action:
- SCAMP
-
noun,
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- Peace
-
noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- scrum
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- recap
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- Amer.
-
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- Ceuta
-
noun,
a seaport and enclave of Spain in N Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
- Reaum
-
- scarp
-
noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- rect.
-
- Pasco
-
noun,
a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- Renan
-
noun,
Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- scoop
-
noun,
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- pacer
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- actos
-
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- paces
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Acton
-
noun,
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- cent.
-
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- scopa
-
noun,
pollen brush.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- acpt.
-
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- tramp
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- acro-
-
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- Scot.
-
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- 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.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- 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.
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- pareu
-
noun,
lavalava.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- aero-
-
- scat-
-
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- cert.
-
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- part.
-
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- caus.
-
- cause
-
noun,
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- cero-
-
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- acute
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- panne
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- scaup
-
noun,
any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- pant-
-
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- scrap
-
noun,
a small piece or portion; fragment:
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- rumps
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- prae-
-
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- puces
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- Apoc.
-
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Tunas
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- tumps
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- potoo
-
noun,
any of several nocturnal birds of the family Nyctibiidae, of Mexico and Central and South America, related to the goatsuckers.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- punts
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- Port.
-
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- 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.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- unpen
-
verb (used with object),
to release from confinement.
- trump
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- post-
-
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- punas
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- atmo-
-
- Punan
-
noun,
a member of a food-gathering people living in the forests of interior Borneo.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- pumas
-
noun,
cougar.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- pron.
-
- Prus.
-
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Armen
-
- unapt
-
adjective,
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable:
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- promo
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- pros.
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- areo-
-
- arcus
-
noun,
a dense, horizontal, roll-shaped cloud sometimes occurring at the lower front portion of a cumulonimbus.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- uncap
-
verb (used with object),
to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- Prot.
-
- 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.
- unman
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of:
- pruta
-
noun,
prutah.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prem.
-
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- Pres.
-
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- asco-
-
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- pret.
-
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- 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.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- proc.
-
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- prom.
-
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- Aust.
-
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Ronan
-
noun,
a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- caper
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Ronco
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- capes
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- Ancon
-
noun,
the elbow.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- canto
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- Cant.
-
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- pert.
-
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- sarc-
-
- Penn.
-
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- rcpt.
-
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Pence
-
noun,
a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination):
- pene-
-
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- caput
-
noun,
any head or headlike expansion on a structure, as on a bone.
- Penna
-
noun,
a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Capt.
-
- caps.
-
- capot
-
noun,
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
- capos
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- Capon
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- Apure
-
noun,
a river flowing E from W Venezuela to the Orinoco. about 500 miles (805 km) long.
- Capet
-
noun,
Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- Canon
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- anon.
-
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- Anson
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ante-
-
- poet.
-
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- Anton
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- annot
-
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- trop-
-
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Pusan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- Pomos
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- Ponca
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- auto.
-
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- 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.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- peta-
-
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- anent
-
preposition,
in regard to; about; concerning.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Camus
-
noun,
Albert [al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- petr-
-
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- camps
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- Campo
-
noun,
(in South America) an extensive, nearly level grassland plain.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- step-
-
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- MOTOS
-
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- tera-
-
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- MPers
-
- Tenn.
-
- Tempe
-
noun,
Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- Ecua.
-
- ecto-
-
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- econ.
-
- Mont.
-
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- ster.
-
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- stome
-
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- teno-
-
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- temp.
-
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- spor-
-
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- spoom
-
noun,
a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- crump
-
noun,
a crunching sound.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- Nance
-
noun,
Offensive. an effeminate male.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- nano-
-
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- croup
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- croon
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- naso-
-
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- term.
-
- stamp
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- Srta.
-
- sputa
-
noun,
matter, as saliva mixed with mucus or pus, expectorated from the lungs and respiratory passages.
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- MSEnt
-
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- Cunas
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- spume
-
noun,
foam, froth, or scum.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- Cumae
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.
- muco-
-
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- Musca
-
noun,
the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- masc.
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- mast-
-
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matr-
-
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- Sunna
-
noun,
the traditional portion of Muslim law, based on the words and acts of Muhammad, and preserved in the traditional literature.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- Sumac
-
noun,
any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- ESPEC
-
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Macon
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Euro-
-
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- tamps
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- Manon
-
noun,
an opera (1884) by Jules Massenet.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Supt.
-
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- taupe
-
noun,
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- metr-
-
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- MNurs
-
- meta-
-
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- mono-
-
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- ento-
-
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- stump
-
noun,
the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stupe
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- Taupo
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- meno-
-
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- stupa
-
noun,
a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- epact
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- mero-
-
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- tears
-
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- meso-
-
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- naut.
-
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- Copan
-
noun,
Santa Rosa de Copán.
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- numen
-
noun,
divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- spec.
-
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- topo-
-
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- coopt
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- co-op
-
noun,
a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
- coop.
-
- setup
-
noun,
organization; arrangement.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- corpn
-
- corp.
-
- noons
-
noun,
midday.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- 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.
- Norco
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- cores
-
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- noso-
-
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- noto-
-
- copra
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- copr-
-
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- compo
-
noun,
composition material.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- comp.
-
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- sect.
-
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- OPers
-
- comps
-
noun,
a compositor.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- opto-
-
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- coapt
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Coamo
-
noun,
a city in S central Puerto Rico.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- onto-
-
- compt
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- sero-
-
- octa-
-
- octan
-
noun,
an octan fever.
- octo-
-
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- cont.
-
- Const
-
- Cons.
-
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- Conon
-
noun,
died a.d. 687, pope 686–687.
- Sept.
-
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- conns
-
noun,
responsibility for the steering of a ship.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- 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.
- Conn.
-
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- onco-
-
- Senna
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- Conan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- Comr.
-
- non-U
-
adjective,
not characteristic of or appropriate to the upper class, especially of Great Britain:
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- no-no
-
noun,
anything that is forbidden or not advisable, as because of being improper or unsafe:
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- neut.
-
- Neman
-
noun,
a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- coupe
-
noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- noct-
-
- coups
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- craps
-
noun,
a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- space
-
noun,
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- crape
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- span-
-
- neur-
-
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- cramp
-
noun,
Often, cramps.
a sudden, involuntary, spasmodic contraction of a muscle or group of muscles, especially of the extremities, sometimes with severe pain.
a piercing pain in the abdomen.
an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruation or of labor.
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- tono-
-
- nears
-
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- nona-
-
- nomo-
-
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- nonce
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- nonas
-
noun,
sleeping sickness (def 2).
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- nomen
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- USPO
-
- USMC
-
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- USNA
-
- USRC
-
- USMA
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- Sem.
-
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- Tasm
-
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Rus.
-
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- USTC
-
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- sump
-
noun,
a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- sunn
-
noun,
a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- RNAS
-
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tron
-
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- uret
-
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- USCA
-
- SPCA
-
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- uro-
-
- sur-
-
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- supr
-
- USAR
-
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Rom.
-
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- sec.
-
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- tamp
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- scup
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Sam.
-
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- scr.
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- top-
-
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- ten.
-
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- SRAM
-
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- rump
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- Sra.
-
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- ter.
-
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- 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.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- saur
-
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- umps
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Ste.
-
- rpt.
-
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- tRNA
-
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- taur
-
- tonn
-
- sepn
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- upas
-
noun,
the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison.
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- RONA
-
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- SMTP
-
- str.
-
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Sat.
-
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- tump
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Tues
-
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- 1080
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- NCTE
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- cet-
-
- nane
-
pronoun, adverb, adjective,
none1 .
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- CERN
-
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- 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.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Cmon
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- neem
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- neo-
-
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- 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.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- cene
-
- Ceto
-
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MSAE
-
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- MSCE
-
- MSCP
-
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- msec
-
- MSEE
-
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- MSPE
-
- 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.
- Con.
-
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- Com.
-
- muc-
-
- mun.
-
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- mus.
-
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- cen.
-
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- mRNA
-
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- nunc
-
adverb,
now.
- Emp.
-
- aut-
-
- Aus.
-
- aur-
-
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- OAPC
-
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ator
-
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- Oct.
-
- OEEC
-
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omoo
-
noun,
a novel (1847) by Herman Melville.
- ates
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- CAMP
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- Can.
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- cat.
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nom.
-
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- non-
-
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- noon
-
noun,
midday.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- 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.
- not-
-
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- noun
-
noun,
any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group.
See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase.
Synonyms: substantive, name.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- capo
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- Cape
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- cap.
-
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- atm.
-
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- etc.
-
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- cur.
-
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- Eur.
-
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Cuna
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- cts.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- ctr.
-
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- Mac-
-
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Man.
-
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- Mar.
-
- Cusp
-
noun,
a point or pointed end.
- est.
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- enc.
-
- EEOC
-
- ence
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- ect-
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- eous
-
- eco-
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- 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.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Cor.
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- Mon.
-
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOpt
-
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Cort
-
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- mout
-
- 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.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- crat
-
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- MCPO
-
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- meas
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- Cres
-
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- coup
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- men-
-
- ment
-
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- MEPA
-
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mes-
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- MNAS
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- EMet
-
- Ont.
-
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- ant.
-
- ano-
-
- Anne
-
noun,
1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).
- ann.
-
- Pomo
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pot.
-
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- ance
-
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- prau
-
noun,
proa.
- amus
-
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- poco
-
adverb,
somewhat; rather:
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Pen.
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- per.
-
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- Pers
-
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- Apr.
-
- apo-
-
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pet.
-
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- pnea
-
- amt.
-
- amp.
-
- Apsu
-
noun,
an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- 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-
-
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- 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.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- RCMP
-
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Acus
-
noun,
Surgery. a needle, especially one used in a surgical operation.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- psec
-
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- pre-
-
- prec
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pro-
-
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- prs.
-
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- PSAT
-
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pts.
-
- aet.
-
- puca
-
noun,
(in folklore) an Irish spirit, mischievous but not malevolent, corresponding to the English Puck.
- puce
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- puma
-
noun,
cougar.
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- puna
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- purs
-
- aer-
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- ANTU
-
- pct.
-
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- oto-
-
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- out-
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- OPer
-
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- ASTM
-
- Arm.
-
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Oona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ASME
-
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- asc-
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- oro-
-
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- art.
-
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- PACT
-
noun,
an agreement, covenant, or compact:
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- pat.
-
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- par.
-
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- Pan.
-
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- pam.
-
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- PACE
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- pacs
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- Apus
-
noun,
the Bird of Paradise, a southern constellation between Octans and Triangulum Australe.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Paur
-
noun,
Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- 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.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- CST
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- trp
-
- ure
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- AEC
-
- EEC
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- cup
-
noun,
a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- UTC
-
- CTA
-
- EEO
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- at.
-
- ae.
-
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- ACS
-
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ACP
-
- ASN
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- TMO
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- cte
-
- Am.
-
- tue
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- 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.
- ea.
-
- ac-
-
- EAM
-
- ASU
-
- Tu.
-
- ean
-
- ECM
-
- USO
-
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- USP
-
- Ar.
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- USR
-
- ECA
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- an.
-
- ec-
-
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- USN
-
- USC
-
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- ATP
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- ap-
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- TSE
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- TSP
-
- eo-
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- USM
-
- AUC
-
- EOM
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- AME
-
- CSR
-
- uns
-
- AOU
-
- aor
-
- CEO
-
- unc
-
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- ATC
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CEA
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- UMT
-
- ump
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- APC
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- TPM
-
- Une
-
- CMA
-
- CNM
-
- CNN
-
- APS
-
- CNO
-
- CNS
-
- TPN
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- Tpr
-
- tr.
-
- UNO
-
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- tra
-
- unp
-
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- UCR
-
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- ur-
-
- AMC
-
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- CRP
-
- CRS
-
- CRT
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- ct.
-
- cs.
-
- Tro
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- cr.
-
- Co.
-
- ca.
-
- ASM
-
- CSA
-
- CSO
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ase
-
- ARU
-
- UAM
-
- CPO
-
- UAE
-
- USA
-
- ANC
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- UAR
-
- up-
-
- CPA
-
- CPM
-
- AMU
-
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- CPR
-
- CPS
-
- UPC
-
- AMS
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- CPU
-
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- cp.
-
- MNS
-
- EMR
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- OPM
-
- ose
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPA
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- OOT
-
- oon
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- OSO
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- pm.
-
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- PTO
-
- pt.
-
- Ps.
-
- prn
-
- Pr.
-
- pc.
-
- OSP
-
- Pa.
-
- SCP
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- OTS
-
- ote
-
- OTA
-
- ot-
-
- oo-
-
- ons
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- OAO
-
- OTC
-
- OSA
-
- op.
-
- Oc.
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- Nun
-
noun,
a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- 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.
- NUM
-
- NSU
-
- SNU
-
- NSC
-
- NSA
-
- NRC
-
- NRA
-
- OAP
-
- SMA
-
- ONR
-
- Om.
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- 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).
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OAS
-
- OEO
-
- OEM
-
- OCS
-
- OCR
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- OAU
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- SCM
-
- PAU
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in SW France: winter resort.
- nr.
-
- RCP
-
- RPS
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RMA
-
- Re.
-
- RCS
-
- ROP
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- PUC
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- PSE
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RMC
-
- RNA
-
- ROA
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- RCN
-
- RCA
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PSC
-
- PCM
-
- PMT
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- SAE
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- POC
-
- POA
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- SRO
-
- SAR
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- sc.
-
- PCS
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- Sp.
-
- PSA
-
- rt.
-
- RPM
-
- RPO
-
- PRC
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- rte
-
- So.
-
- RTS
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- PRA
-
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- POR
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- Npt
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSC
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Mao
-
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- MCP
-
- MCR
-
- eu-
-
- STP
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- MNE
-
- MNA
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- MEP
-
- NPR
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- Mc-
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- STM
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- TCS
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- EPS
-
- EPA
-
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EOE
-
- EPT
-
- ene
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- en-
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- EMT
-
- TCA
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ETS
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ETR
-
- ETO
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- ESU
-
- ESR
-
- ese
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- Esc
-
- ESA
-
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERP
-
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- MOR
-
- MUP
-
- NOC
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SPR
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- NNP
-
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- NNE
-
- NMU
-
- NMR
-
- NCO
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- MTS
-
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- Nan
-
noun,
naan.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- NES
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- NEC
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- spt
-
- MSA
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- NOP
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- MPA
-
- MPE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- MTP
-
- MRP
-
- Sta
-
- MSE
-
- MTO
-
- mtn
-
- Mt.
-
- MST
-
- MSN
-
- Sr.
-
- St.
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TC
-
- OA
-
- CE
-
- RC
-
- SN
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- RN
-
- AO
-
- CM
-
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- RO
-
- NM
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- SA
-
- SM
-
- TN
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- t.
-
- SU
-
- N.
-
- MN
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- U.
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- UC
-
- S.
-
- TM
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RP
-
- R.
-
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- PU
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- TP
-
- M.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- NP
-
- CU
-
- RU
-
- NC
-
- MP
-
- O.
-