Anagrams of conterminous
Word conterminous has
1575 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of conterminous.
- counter-ion
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noun,
an ion in solution that associates itself with an ion of opposite charge on the surface of a member of a solute.
- consortium
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noun,
a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- centurions
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noun,
(in the ancient Roman army) the commander of a century.
- serotonin
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noun,
a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.
- continues
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verb (used with object),
to go on with or persist in:
- noontimes
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noun,
noon; noontide; noonday:
- encrimson
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verb (used with object),
to make crimson.
- contusion
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noun,
an injury, as from a blow with a blunt instrument, in which the subsurface tissue is injured but the skin is not broken; bruise.
- microtone
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noun,
any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- nocturnes
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noun,
a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- countries
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noun,
a state or nation:
- unmortise
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verb (used with object),
to unfasten or separate (something mortised).
- ironstone
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noun,
any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities.
- continuos
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noun,
a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- centurion
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noun,
(in the ancient Roman army) the commander of a century.
- costumier
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noun,
costumer (def 1).
- economist
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noun,
a specialist in economics.
- neurotics
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noun,
a neurotic person.
- intercoms
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noun,
an intercommunication system.
- innermost
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noun,
the innermost part.
- Comintern
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noun,
Third International.
- remotions
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noun,
the act of removing; removal.
- cortisone
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noun,
Biochemistry. a steroid hormone of the adrenal cortex, C 21 H 28 O 5 , active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- monecious
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adjective,
monoecious.
- ructions
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noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- moonrise
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noun,
the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- enormous
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adjective,
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense:
- construe
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noun,
the act of construing.
- Montrose
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noun,
James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- contemns
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verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- 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?.
- miscount
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noun,
an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- monsieur
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noun,
the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- citreous
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adjective,
lemon-yellow; greenish-yellow.
- coinsure
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verb (used with or without object),
to insure jointly with another or others.
- consumer
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noun,
a person or thing that consumes.
- omicrons
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noun,
the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (O, o).
- monurons
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noun,
a white crystalline solid, C 9 H 11 ClN 2 O, used as a herbicide, especially for broad-leaved plants.
- mounters
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- monitors
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noun,
(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- continuo
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noun,
a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- continue
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verb (used with object),
to go on with or persist in:
- Notornis
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noun,
a rare, flightless gallinulelike bird, Notornis mantelli, of New Zealand.
- unmiters
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- routines
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noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- tournois
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adjective,
(of coins) minted in Tours, France:
- unmitres
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verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- customer
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noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- Comenius
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noun,
John Amos (Jan Amos Komenský) 1592–1670, Moravian educational reformer and bishop.
- moisture
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noun,
condensed or diffused liquid, especially water:
- mesotron
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noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- mortices
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- Rosemont
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noun,
a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- neutrino
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noun,
any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- nitroso-
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- timorous
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adjective,
full of fear; fearful:
- re-count
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noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- rimstone
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noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- centimos
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- cornutos
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noun,
a cuckold.
- intercom
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noun,
an intercommunication system.
- costumer
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- coronium
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noun,
a hypothetical element once thought to exist because certain spectral lines in the emission spectrum of the solar corona could not be identified by known elements. These lines were subsequently found to be emitted by certain highly ionized metals.
- 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:
- remotion
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noun,
the act of removing; removal.
- incomers
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noun,
a person who comes in.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- trounces
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verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- 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.
- centrums
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noun,
a center.
- ionomers
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noun,
any of a class of plastics that because of its ionic bonding action is capable of conducting electric current.
- corneous
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adjective,
consisting of a horny substance; horny.
- counties
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noun,
the largest administrative division of a U.S. state:
- unctions
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noun,
an act of anointing, especially as a medical treatment or religious rite.
- mentions
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noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- noontime
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noun,
noon; noontide; noonday:
- croutons
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noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- sermonic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- nocturns
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noun,
the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
- nocturne
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noun,
a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- counters
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noun,
a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
- no-count
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adjective, noun,
no-account.
- Terminus
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noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- counter-
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- neurotic
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noun,
a neurotic person.
- ternions
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- outcries
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noun,
a strong and usually public expression of protest, indignation, or the like.
- monteros
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- motions
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noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- mounter
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- Mountie
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noun,
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- moutons
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noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- motoric
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adjective,
motor (def 11).
- triunes
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noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- crouton
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noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- cretins
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noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- neutron
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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.
- neutro-
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- neuston
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noun,
the aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that float or swim in the surface film of a body of water.
- costume
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noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- Coueism
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noun,
a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- muscone
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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.
- murines
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noun,
a murine rodent.
- crotons
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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.
- Sirenum
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noun,
Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- muntins
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noun,
Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- crinose
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adjective,
hairy.
- crinums
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noun,
any of the tropical and subtropical bulbous plants constituting the genus Crinum, of the amaryllis family, usually having umbels of large, showy flowers.
- Munster
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noun,
muenster.
- cronies
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noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- Crotone
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noun,
a city in S Italy; ancient Greek colony.
- crimson
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noun,
a crimson color, pigment, or dye.
- monitor
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noun,
(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- mortise
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- tonners
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noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- Ericson
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noun,
Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- Mencius
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noun,
c380–289 b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- Sunnite
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noun,
Sunni (def 1).
- sunroom
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noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- erosion
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noun,
the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
- erotics
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noun,
an erotic poem.
- tension
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noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- isotone
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noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- Tonnies
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noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- ternion
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Ironton
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noun,
a city in S Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- timeous
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adjective,
timely; sufficiently early.
- merinos
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- ionones
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noun,
a light-yellow to colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid that is either one or a mixture of two unsaturated ketones having the formula C 13 H 20 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
- ionomer
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noun,
any of a class of plastics that because of its ionic bonding action is capable of conducting electric current.
- Ionesco
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noun,
Eugène [French œ-zhen;; English yoo-jeen,, yoo-jeen] /French œˈʒɛn;; English yuˈdʒin,, ˈyu dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, French playwright, born in Romania.
- inturns
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noun,
an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- introns
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noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- intones
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verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- icterus
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noun,
jaundice (def 1).
- interns
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noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- intens.
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- incomer
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noun,
a person who comes in.
- incomes
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noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- incrust
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verb (used with object),
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- mention
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noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- entomo-
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- trounce
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verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- Moncton
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noun,
a city in SE New Brunswick, in E Canada.
- mortice
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- Morison
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noun,
Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.
- Morisco
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noun,
a Moor, especially one of the Moors of Spain.
- morions
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noun,
an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.
- cunners
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noun,
a small wrasse, Tautogolabrus adspersus, common in North Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
- Soutine
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noun,
Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- moonset
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noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- monuron
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noun,
a white crystalline solid, C 9 H 11 ClN 2 O, used as a herbicide, especially for broad-leaved plants.
- curites
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noun,
a radioactive uranium mineral, Pb 2 U 5 O 17 ·4H 2 O, with adamantine luster, occurring as reddish-brown to deep-yellow needle-shaped crystals, formed by alteration of uraninite.
- montero
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- monster
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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.
- moisten
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- enroots
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- sterno-
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- sternum
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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.
- minutes
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noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minuets
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noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- tourism
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noun,
the activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure.
- Minster
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- stunner
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noun,
a person or thing that stuns.
- emotion
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noun,
an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
- torsion
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noun,
the act of twisting.
- microns
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noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- encrust
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verb (used with or without object),
incrust.
- suction
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noun,
the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- tunnies
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noun,
tuna1 .
- couters
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noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- coniums
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noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- unmiter
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- nuncios
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noun,
a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
- come-on
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noun,
inducement; lure.
- Comines
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noun,
Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), 1445?–1511? French historian and diplomat.
- Comorin
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noun,
Cape, a cape on the S tip of India, extending into the Indian Ocean.
- nourice
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noun,
a nurse.
- notions
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noun,
a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something:
- notices
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noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- unicorn
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noun,
a mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead: often symbolic of chastity or purity.
- nostrum
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noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- ruction
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noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- Connors
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noun,
James Scott (Jimmy) born 1952, U.S. tennis player.
- connote
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verb (used with object),
to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
- Noricum
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noun,
an ancient Roman province in central Europe, roughly corresponding to the part of Austria south of the Danube.
- scooter
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- consent
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noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- consort
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noun,
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- constr.
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- consume
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verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- nonuser
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noun,
a person who does not use or partake of something, as drugs or alcoholic beverages.
- unmitre
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verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- unmoors
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verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- nonsuit
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noun,
a judgment given against a plaintiff who neglects to prosecute, or who fails to show a legal cause of action or to bring sufficient evidence.
- outcome
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noun,
a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
- Reunion
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noun,
the act of uniting again.
- remount
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- centimo
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- centri-
-
- centro-
-
- centrum
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noun,
a center.
- recount
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noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- centums
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noun,
one hundred.
- riotous
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adjective,
(of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- ceriums
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noun,
a steel-gray, ductile metallic element of the rare-earth group found only in combination. Symbol: Ce; atomic weight: 140.12; atomic number: 58.
- ronions
-
noun,
ronyon.
- routine
-
noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- Orontes
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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.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orceins
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noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- cistern
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noun,
a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
- cistron
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noun,
a segment of DNA that encodes for the formation of a specific polypeptide chain; a structural gene.
- unroots
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verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- onerous
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adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- ominous
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adjective,
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:
- citrons
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noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- omicron
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noun,
the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (O, o).
- contemn
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verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- tinners
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noun,
a tinsmith.
- scrotum
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noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scouter
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noun,
a person who scouts.
- contuse
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verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- nitrous
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adjective,
pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- noisome
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adjective,
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
- contour
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noun,
the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- coontie
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noun,
either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Z. floridana, of Florida, having a short trunk, pinnate leaves, and cones: Z. floridana is an endangered species.
- unction
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noun,
an act of anointing, especially as a medical treatment or religious rite.
- coronet
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noun,
a small crown.
- nocturn
-
noun,
the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
- section
-
noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- noetics
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noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- cornute
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adjective,
cornuted.
- cornets
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noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- cornuto
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noun,
a cuckold.
- scunner
-
noun,
an irrational dislike; loathing:
- noncoms
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noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- tenson
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noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tennis
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noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- tensor
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Osetic
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adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- roomie
-
noun,
roommate.
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- ostium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- otiose
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adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- osteo-
-
- tenuis
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noun,
an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.
- Ronnie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Ronald or Veronica.
- tenons
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noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- Roscoe
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noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- neuro-
-
- metros
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noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- metric
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noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- me-too
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adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- rouens
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- Merton
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noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- merous
-
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- 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.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Menton
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- orison
-
noun,
a prayer.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- ronion
-
noun,
ronyon.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- rectum
-
noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- intern
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- rectus
-
noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- inter.
-
- rictus
-
noun,
the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- rectos
-
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- instr.
-
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- insect
-
noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- tinmen
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- Timour
-
noun,
Tamerlane.
- ounces
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- roncos
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- nitro-
-
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- ionone
-
noun,
a light-yellow to colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid that is either one or a mixture of two unsaturated ketones having the formula C 13 H 20 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- inurns
-
verb (used with object),
to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- inturn
-
noun,
an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- recti-
-
- intron
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- intro.
-
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- mucins
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- 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.
- morion
-
noun,
an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- scoto-
-
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- morons
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- Moroni
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of the Comoros.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- Norton
-
noun,
Charles Eliot, 1827–1908, U.S. scholar.
- Scioto
-
noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- murine
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- muntin
-
noun,
Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- moonie
-
noun,
a member or follower of the Unification Church.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- notion
-
noun,
a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something:
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- nonces
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- Morton
-
noun,
Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Morton) 1885–1941, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- socmen
-
noun,
sokeman.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- mucors
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- somni-
-
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- no-one
-
pronoun,
no person; not anyone; nobody:
- Mouton
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- Muncie
-
noun,
a city in E Indiana.
- munite
-
verb (used with object),
to fortify.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- 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.
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- noncom
-
noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- motion
-
noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- rutins
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- micro-
-
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- necro-
-
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- octroi
-
noun,
(formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- minute
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- 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.
- minuet
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- minces
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- nocti-
-
- nocent
-
adjective,
harmful; injurious.
- socio-
-
- micros
-
noun,
anything extremely small in scope or capability.
- Onions
-
noun,
Charles Talbut [tawl-buh t,, tal-] /ˈtɔl bət,, ˈtæl-/ (Show IPA), 1873–1965, English lexicographer and philologist.
- micron
-
noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- miscue
-
noun,
Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
- misrun
-
noun,
an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- Monroe
-
noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- Monnet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- Rustin
-
noun,
Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- rustic
-
noun,
a country person.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- numis.
-
- nuncio
-
noun,
a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
- steno-
-
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- run-on
-
noun,
run-on matter.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- run-in
-
noun,
a quarrel; argument.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- Nistru
-
noun,
Romanian name of Dniester.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- Citron
-
noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- Citrus
-
noun,
any small tree or spiny shrub of the genus Citrus, of the rue family, including the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, citron, kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental.
- unrent
-
adjective,
not rent; not torn, disturbed, pained, or the like:
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- ennuis
-
noun,
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
- cnemis
-
noun,
the tibia or shin.
- Ennius
-
noun,
Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), 239–169? b.c, Roman poet.
- unmoor
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- coeno-
-
- cueist
-
noun,
a billiard player.
- Torino
-
noun,
Turin.
- cunner
-
noun,
a small wrasse, Tautogolabrus adspersus, common in North Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
- truism
-
noun,
a self-evident, obvious truth.
- Cosimo
-
noun,
Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
- eroto-
-
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- erotic
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- uremic
-
adjective,
pertaining to uremia.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- turco-
-
- 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.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- cteno-
-
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- 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.
- cumins
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- cosmo-
-
- Curtis
-
noun,
Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- contr.
-
- Connie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Constance.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- contos
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- Curtin
-
noun,
John, 1885–1945, Australian statesman: prime minister 1941–45.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Connor
-
noun,
Ralph (Charles William Gordon) 1860–1937, Canadian novelist and clergyman.
- Conium
-
noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- Custer
-
noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- Conroe
-
noun,
a town in E Texas.
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- contin
-
- cut-in
-
noun,
Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
- conure
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed New World parrots, especially of the genus Aratinga, certain species of which are kept as pets.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- corium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- coitus
-
noun,
sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- unites
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- cootie
-
noun,
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
- Triune
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- curets
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- cooner
-
noun,
coon dog.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- 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.
- curios
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curite
-
noun,
a radioactive uranium mineral, Pb 2 U 5 O 17 ·4H 2 O, with adamantine luster, occurring as reddish-brown to deep-yellow needle-shaped crystals, formed by alteration of uraninite.
- unison
-
noun,
coincidence in pitch of two or more musical tones, voices, etc.
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- cruise
-
noun,
the act of cruising.
- cerium
-
noun,
a steel-gray, ductile metallic element of the rare-earth group found only in combination. Symbol: Ce; atomic weight: 140.12; atomic number: 58.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- cesium
-
noun,
a rare, highly reactive, soft, metallic element of the alkali metal group, used chiefly in photoelectric cells. Symbol: Cs; atomic weight: 132.905; atomic number: 55; specific gravity: 1.9 at 20°C; melts at 28.5°C.
- Cronin
-
noun,
A(rchibald) J(oseph) 1896–1981, Scottish novelist and physician in the U.S.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- 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.
- croons
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- urino-
-
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- 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.
- uretic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or occurring in the urine.
- icono-
-
- 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.
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- centi-
-
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- centr-
-
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- cretin
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- incuse
-
noun,
an incuse figure or impression.
- eructs
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- Crinum
-
noun,
any of the tropical and subtropical bulbous plants constituting the genus Crinum, of the amaryllis family, usually having umbels of large, showy flowers.
- incurs
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- costo-
-
- Cousin
-
noun,
Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- income
-
noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- utero-
-
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- 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.).
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- no-no
-
noun,
anything that is forbidden or not advisable, as because of being improper or unsafe:
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- nonce
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- nomo-
-
- Sino-
-
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- music
-
noun,
an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- Scot.
-
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- 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.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- nomen
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- 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.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- neur-
-
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- non-U
-
adjective,
not characteristic of or appropriate to the upper class, especially of Great Britain:
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tunic
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a coat worn as part of a military or other uniform.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- semi-
-
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- 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.
- 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.
- neut.
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- nitr-
-
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- 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.
- 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.
- cores
-
- seti-
-
- noct-
-
- UNCIO
-
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- 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.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- sero-
-
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- Seric
-
- sect.
-
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- 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.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- Cimon
-
noun,
507–499 b.c, Athenian military leader, naval commander, and statesman (son of Miltiades).
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- Otomi
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of south-central Mexico.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- oste-
-
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- osmo-
-
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- cine-
-
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orion
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- ronin
-
noun,
a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- cert.
-
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- 30-30
-
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- 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.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- reni-
-
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- cent.
-
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- rect.
-
- 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: ¢.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Recit
-
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- cero-
-
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- Ronco
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- noso-
-
- 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.
- Unit.
-
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Comr.
-
- noto-
-
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- crim.
-
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- Union
-
noun,
the act of uniting two or more things.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- nuci-
-
- Conn.
-
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- conns
-
noun,
responsibility for the steering of a ship.
- Conon
-
noun,
died a.d. 687, pope 686–687.
- Norco
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- Cons.
-
- Const
-
- noons
-
noun,
midday.
- cont.
-
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- onto-
-
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- 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.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- onium
-
- onion
-
noun,
a plant, Allium cepa, of the amaryllis family, having an edible, succulent, pungent bulb.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- onco-
-
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- omni-
-
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- numen
-
noun,
divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- octo-
-
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- 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.
- runic
-
adjective,
consisting of or set down in runes:
- 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.
- Nurmi
-
noun,
Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- 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.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- MINCE
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- 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.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- ennui
-
noun,
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
- metr-
-
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- 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.
- meso-
-
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- 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.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- mero-
-
- Minn.
-
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- stome
-
- miso-
-
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- misc.
-
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- 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.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- econ.
-
- 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.
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- ecto-
-
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- 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.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- ento-
-
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- icons
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- Euro-
-
- inurn
-
verb (used with object),
to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- intr.
-
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- ictus
-
noun,
Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Ninus
-
noun,
the legendary husband of Semiramis and founder of Nineveh.
- tious
-
- incor
-
- inst.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- incr.
-
- incur
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Inonu
-
noun,
Ismet [is-met] /ɪsˈmɛt/ (Show IPA), (Ismet Paşa) 1884–1973, president of Turkey 1938–50; prime minister 1923–24, 1925–37, 1961–65.
- incus
-
noun,
Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals.
Compare malleus, stapes.
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- meno-
-
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Sunni
-
noun,
Also called Sunnite. a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law.
Compare Shiʿite.
- 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.
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Tenn.
-
- teno-
-
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- term.
-
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- tono-
-
- 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.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- 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.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- cutis
-
noun,
the true skin, consisting of the dermis and the epidermis.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- mucin
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- 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.
- croon
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- muco-
-
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- cumin
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- munic
-
- Munin
-
noun,
one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- sito-
-
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- MOTOS
-
- 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.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- MSEnt
-
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- MNurs
-
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- 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.
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- cutie
-
noun,
Informal. a charmingly attractive or cute person, especially a girl or a young woman (often used as a form of address):
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- Crius
-
noun,
a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- crit.
-
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- Curie
-
noun,
a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 10 10 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226. Abbreviation: Ci.
- curio
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- 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.
- Mont.
-
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- 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.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- monic
-
adjective,
(of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- mono-
-
- cutin
-
noun,
a transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- 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).
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- ster.
-
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- tonn
-
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- tion
-
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- 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.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- USMC
-
- uro-
-
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- USRC
-
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- USTC
-
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- rit.
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Rom.
-
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- 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.
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- 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.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- Rumi
-
noun,
Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- sec.
-
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- tron
-
- 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.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- uni-
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- 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.
- tri-
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- sci.
-
- str.
-
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- Ste.
-
- scr.
-
- 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.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rus.
-
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- uric
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- sur-
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- uret
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- ten.
-
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- 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.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- ter.
-
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- 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.
- Tues
-
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- 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.
- sumi
-
noun,
black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.
- 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.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- 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.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Sem.
-
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- 1080
-
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- 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.
- mus.
-
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- 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.
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- mun.
-
- Muir
-
noun,
Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- muc-
-
- eco-
-
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- ect-
-
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- MSIE
-
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- msec
-
- MSCE
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- enc.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- mout
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Ens.
-
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- cts.
-
- nom.
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- ctr.
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- 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.
- Ire.
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- 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.
- neo-
-
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- NCTE
-
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- cur.
-
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- non-
-
- Ice.
-
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Eur.
-
- met.
-
- mes-
-
- 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.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- ment
-
- men-
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- 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.
- 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.
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- IMCO
-
- Inc.
-
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- iso-
-
- ious
-
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Mic.
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- eso-
-
- eous
-
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- 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).
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Mon.
-
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- est.
-
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mis-
-
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- etc.
-
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- min.
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- 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.
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- cet-
-
- CERN
-
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- cen.
-
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- Com.
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- Con.
-
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- 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.
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- Ont.
-
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- Cor.
-
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- oto-
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- cir.
-
- Ceto
-
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- out-
-
- Cmon
-
- oro-
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- cis-
-
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- cit.
-
- 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.
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- Oct.
-
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- 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.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- not-
-
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- 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.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- 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.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- Cort
-
- nos-
-
- nunc
-
adverb,
now.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- noon
-
noun,
midday.
- Nor.
-
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- Cres
-
- 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.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- uti
-
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- CIE
-
- IOU
-
- ior
-
- ETS
-
- IOT
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- IOC
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Ir.
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ITU
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- USN
-
- USO
-
- ier
-
- cr.
-
- USR
-
- USM
-
- imu
-
noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- io-
-
- Co.
-
- ine
-
- cs.
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- USC
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- ct.
-
- UTC
-
- ics
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- 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.
- TMO
-
- CEO
-
- eu-
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- CIM
-
- CRS
-
- eo-
-
- UMT
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- UIT
-
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- UCR
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- Tro
-
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- Cui
-
noun,
César [French sey-zar] /French seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), Antonovich [Russian uhn-taw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ʌnˈtɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1918, Russian composer.
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- EOM
-
- 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)
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- cte
-
- CST
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- 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.
- Tu.
-
- CSR
-
- tue
-
- CSO
-
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- unc
-
- ec-
-
- ure
-
- CNN
-
- ESU
-
- ur-
-
- ESR
-
- Esc
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- uns
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- UNO
-
- CNM
-
- CNO
-
- ECM
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- CNS
-
- 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
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMR
-
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- tr.
-
- Une
-
- IRC
-
- 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.
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- So.
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- nr.
-
- NRC
-
- NSC
-
- NSU
-
- NUM
-
- Nun
-
noun,
a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- Oc.
-
- sc.
-
- OTC
-
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- OCR
-
- OCS
-
- OEM
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- SRO
-
- SCM
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- ne-
-
- NEC
-
- NES
-
- 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).
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- in.
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- se-
-
- NMI
-
- NMR
-
- NMU
-
- NNE
-
- NOC
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- oic
-
- OIr
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- RCS
-
- OTS
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- RMC
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- Re.
-
- ot-
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RCN
-
- RCT
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ote
-
- OSO
-
- RTS
-
- ONI
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- OIt
-
- Om.
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONR
-
- ose
-
- ons
-
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- oon
-
- OOT
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- NCO
-
- 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:
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MCR
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- 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.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- 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:
- mi.
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- 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.
- MIE
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- STM
-
- STI
-
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- MCI
-
- TCS
-
- MOI
-
- ITC
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IRO
-
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ise
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- ite
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ium
-
- IUS
-
- Mc-
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSC
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MIT
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MSN
-
- MRE
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- MRI
-
- MSE
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- SNU
-
- MSI
-
- MST
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- Mt.
-
- MTI
-
- mtn
-
- MTO
-
- MTS
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- 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.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- 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.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- St.
-
- Sr.
-
- MOR
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- N.
-
- UC
-
- RC
-
- UI
-
- RO
-
- O.
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- CE
-
- RI
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- U.
-
- NI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- CM
-
- 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.
- NC
-
- RN
-
- CU
-
- M.
-
- NM
-
- SU
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- i.
-
- ic
-
- SM
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- EI
-
- S.
-
- MN
-
- TN
-
- R.
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- TM
-
- T1
-
- TC
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- SN
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- RU
-
- t.
-