Anagrams of deliberation
Word deliberation has
1700 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of deliberation.
- deliration
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noun,
mental derangement; raving; delirium.
- delineator
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noun,
a person or thing that delineates.
- liberation
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noun,
the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- editorial
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noun,
an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
- libration
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noun,
a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- libertine
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noun,
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
- inebriate
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noun,
an intoxicated person.
- bandoleer
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noun,
a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.
- diablerie
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noun,
diabolic magic or art; sorcery; witchcraft.
- deliriant
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noun,
a substance, as a compound or drug, that causes delirium.
- banderole
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noun,
a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- Albertine
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noun,
a female given name: derived from Albert.
- bilineate
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adjective,
marked with two usually parallel lines.
- deniable
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adjective,
capable of being or liable to be denied or contradicted.
- dolerite
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noun,
a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- detailer
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noun,
a manufacturer's representative who calls on customers to supply information on products and visits stores to monitor sales and replenish stock.
- detainer
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noun,
a writ for the further detention of a person already in custody.
- tolidine
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noun,
any of several isomeric derivatives of biphenyl containing two methyl and two amino groups, especially the ortho isomer that is used as a reagent and in the preparation of dyes.
- ordinate
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noun,
Mathematics. (in plane Cartesian coordinates) the y-coordinate of a point: its distance from the x-axis measured parallel to the y-axis.
- retinoid
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of a group of substances related to vitamin A and functioning like vitamin A in the body.
- deration
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verb (used with object),
to discontinue the rationing of (something).
- liberate
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verb (used with object),
to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- Oriental
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noun,
(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.
- libation
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noun,
a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- inedible
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adjective,
not edible; unfit to be eaten.
- Tirolean
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of the Tyrol.
- Alberoni
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noun,
Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1664–1752, Italian cardinal and statesman: prime minister of Spain 1715–19.
- brontide
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noun,
a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- ideation
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noun,
the process of forming ideas or images.
- relation
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noun,
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
- aerolite
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noun,
a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
- orbitale
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noun,
Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- baritone
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noun,
a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
- dilation
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noun,
the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- tail-end
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noun,
the hinder or rear part of anything.
- leeboard
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noun,
either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- redolent
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adjective,
having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
- air-line
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adjective,
straight; direct; traveling a direct route:
- diatribe
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noun,
a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:
- bandelet
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noun,
a flat molding, broader than a fillet and narrower than a fascia.
- idolater
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noun,
Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
- debonair
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adjective,
courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm:
- Tiberian
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adjective,
of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- Bodleian
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noun,
the library of Oxford University, reestablished by Sir Thomas Bodley, 1545–1613, English diplomat and scholar.
- iodinate
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verb (used with object),
to iodize.
- obedient
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adjective,
obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority:
- rondelet
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noun,
a short poem of fixed form, consisting of five lines on two rhymes, and having the opening words or word used after the second and fifth lines as an unrhymed refrain.
- lie-abed
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noun,
a person who remains in bed until a relatively late hour; late riser.
- Oberland
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noun,
a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- treenail
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noun,
a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- trilobed
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adjective,
trilobate.
- dateline
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noun,
a line of text giving the place of origin and usually the date of a news dispatch or the like.
- Rodentia
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noun,
the order comprising the rodents.
- bilinear
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adjective,
of, relating to, or having reference to two lines:
- trinodal
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adjective,
having three nodes or joints.
- bilander
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noun,
a small two-masted merchant vessel, a type of hoy distinguished by the trapezoidal shape of the mainsail, used especially on canals and along coasts of the Low Countries.
- linebred
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adjective,
produced by linebreeding.
- trade-in
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noun,
goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase:
- linarite
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noun,
a mineral, a complex basic sulfate of lead and copper, having a deep-blue color resembling that of azurite.
- antlered
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adjective,
having antlers.
- rideable
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adjective,
ridable.
- tailbone
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noun,
the coccyx.
- deletion
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noun,
an act or instance of deleting.
- elaterid
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noun,
any beetle of the family Elateridae, comprising the click beetles.
- triolein
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noun,
olein (def 1).
- Laborite
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noun,
a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- oleander
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noun,
a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- tailored
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noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- taborin
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noun,
a small tabor.
- redbone
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noun,
an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- deboite
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noun,
a step in which the dancer stands on the toes with legs together and then springs up, swinging one foot out and around to the back of the other.
- Britain
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noun,
Great Britain.
- Tabloid
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noun,
a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.
- latrine
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noun,
a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.
- Latrobe
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noun,
Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- bainite
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noun,
an aggregate of iron carbide and ferrite, formed from austenite below the temperature at which pearlite forms and above that at which martensite forms.
- ridable
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- redline
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noun,
Automotive.
the maximum rotational speed, or angular velocity, of the engine crankshaft that is considered safe: often measured in rpm.
a red line or boundary of a red area that delineates such a value, as on a tachometer.
- nitrile
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noun,
any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula RC≡N.
- atelier
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noun,
a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.
- redbait
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verb (used without object),
to denounce or deprecate as a political radical, especially to accuse of being communist.
- ladrone
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noun,
a thief.
- retinol
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noun,
vitamin A.
- retinal
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noun,
an orange pigment, C 20 H 28 O, that is the active component of rhodopsin and is liberated upon the absorption of light in the vision cycle; vitamin A aldehyde.
- retable
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noun,
a decorative structure raised above an altar at the back, often forming a frame for a picture, bas-relief, or the like, and sometimes including a shelf or shelves, as for ornaments.
- dariole
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noun,
a small round mold.
- debitor
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noun,
a debtor.
- Darlene
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noun,
a female given name: from the Old English word meaning “darling.”.
- Ireland
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noun,
John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- reliant
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adjective,
having or showing dependence:
- Aretino
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noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- arenite
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noun,
psammite.
- re-laid
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verb,
simple past tense and past participle of re-lay.
- broaden
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verb (used with or without object),
to become or make broad.
- related
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adjective,
associated; connected.
- earlobe
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noun,
the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- lead-in
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noun,
something that leads in or introduces; introduction; opening.
- Oberlin
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noun,
Jean Frédéric [French zhahn frey-dey-reek] /French ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1740–1826, Alsatian clergyman.
- belated
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adjective,
coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time:
- Belinda
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noun,
a female given name: from an Old Spanish word meaning “beautiful.”.
- Beltane
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noun,
an ancient Celtic festival observed on May Day in Scotland and Ireland to mark the beginning of summer.
- lineate
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adjective,
marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- oilbird
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noun,
guacharo.
- Blondie
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noun,
Informal. a blond person:
- berline
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noun,
an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.
- bloater
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noun,
a herring cured by being salted and briefly smoked and dried.
- bloated
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noun,
Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology. (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
- betaine
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noun,
a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, sweet-tasting alkaloid, C 5 H 11 NO 2 , usually obtained from sugar beets or synthesized from glycine, used chiefly in medicine.
- orbital
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noun,
Physics, Chemistry.
a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom (atomic orbital) or in a molecule (molecular orbital)
the electron in that state.
- Loraine
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noun,
a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- blinder
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noun,
a person or thing that blinds.
- Bleriot
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noun,
Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1872–1936, French aviator, pioneer aeronautical engineer, and inventor.
- Lorient
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noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- blender
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noun,
a person or thing that blends.
- Nairobi
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Kenya, in the SW part.
- notable
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noun,
a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
- bitonal
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adjective,
marked by or using bitonality.
- niobate
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noun,
any salt of niobic acid; columbate.
- Niteroi
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noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- Bonaire
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noun,
an island in the E Netherlands Antilles, in the S West Indies. 95 sq. mi. (245 sq. km).
- librate
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verb (used without object),
to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- Leander
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noun,
a Greek youth, the lover of Hero, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit her until he was drowned in a storm.
- Leonard
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noun,
Sugar Ray (Ray Charles Leonard) born 1956, U.S. boxer.
- Brindle
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noun,
a brindled coloring.
- reboant
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adjective,
resounding or reverberating loudly.
- bandlet
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noun,
annulet (def 1).
- bandore
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noun,
an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- rebated
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noun,
a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- lean-to
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noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- ratline
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noun,
any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- Learned
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adjective,
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite:
- Bardeen
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noun,
John, 1908–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956, 1972.
- lentoid
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noun,
a lentoid body.
- brained
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- bedrail
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noun,
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.
- baronet
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noun,
a member of a British hereditary order of honor, ranking below the barons and made up of commoners, designated by Sir before the name and Baronet, usually abbreviated Bart., after:
- bartend
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verb (used without object),
to serve or work as a bartender.
- leotard
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noun,
a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- Leotine
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noun,
a female given name.
- bo-tree
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noun,
the pipal, or sacred fig tree, Ficus religiosa, of India, under which the founder of Buddhism is reputed to have attained the Enlightenment that constituted him the Buddha.
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- bornite
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noun,
a common mineral and important ore of copper, copper iron sulfide, Cu 5 FeS 4 , occurring in masses, of brownish color when first exposed to the air; peacock ore.
- Liberia
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noun,
a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- Bearden
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noun,
Romare Howard [roh-mair] /ˈroʊ mɛər/ (Show IPA), 1911–88, U.S. artist.
- ordinal
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noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- Lenotre
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noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1613–1700, French architect and landscape designer.
- labored
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noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- nitride
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noun,
a compound, containing two elements only, of which the more electronegative one is nitrogen.
- treadle
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noun,
a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- trenail
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noun,
treenail.
- Eleanor
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noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Teleran
-
noun,
a navigational aid that uses radar to map the sky above an airfield, which, together with a map of the airfield itself, is transmitted by television to aircraft approaching the field.
- Alberti
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noun,
Leon Battista [le-awn baht-tee-stah] /lɛˈɔn bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1404–72, Italian architect, artist, musician, and poet.
- tenable
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adjective,
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute:
- inertia
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noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- inedita
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plural noun,
unpublished literary works.
- Abilene
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noun,
a city in central Texas.
- tendril
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noun,
a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- entero-
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- enteral
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adjective,
enteric.
- inboard
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noun,
an inboard motor.
- Adeline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adele.
- deliria
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noun,
Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.
- alienor
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noun,
a person who transfers property.
- inbreed
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verb (used with object),
to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- erodent
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adjective,
eroding; erosive:
- airline
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noun,
Aeronautics.
a system furnishing air transport, usually scheduled, between specified points.
the airplanes, airports, etc., of such a system.
Often, airlines. a company that owns or operates such a system.
- alerion
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noun,
an eagle displayed, usually represented without a beak or legs.
- deorbit
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verb (used with object),
to cause to deliberately depart from orbit.
- Alebion
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noun,
a son of Poseidon who, with his brother Dercynus, was killed by Hercules while attempting to steal the cattle that Hercules had taken from Geryon.
- enolate
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noun,
any metallic derivative of an enol.
- trainee
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noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- Derbent
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noun,
a seaport in the SE Dagestan Autonomous Republic, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Caspian Sea.
- Torenia
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noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- detrain
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verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- donable
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adjective,
available free from government surpluses:
- Elberta
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noun,
a freestone peach having reddish-yellow skin.
- Deloria
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noun,
Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- triable
-
- Iberian
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noun,
one of the ancient inhabitants of Iberia in Europe, from whom the Basques are supposed to be descended.
- 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.
- anilide
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noun,
any compound containing the univalent group C 6 H 5 NH–, derived from aniline, as acetanilide, C 8 H 9 NO.
- diorite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- entrail
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plural noun,
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
- aileron
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noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- trindle
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noun,
British Dialect. a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- Delaine
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noun,
(initial capital letter) Delaine Merino.
- toenail
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noun,
a nail of a toe.
- ebonite
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noun,
vulcanite.
- antbird
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noun,
any of numerous passerine birds of the family Formicariidae, of the New World tropics, many species of which follow army ant swarms to feed on insects disturbed by the ants.
- aneroid
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noun,
aneroid barometer.
- eternal
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- driblet
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noun,
a small portion or part.
- antero-
-
- Delbert
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noun,
a male given name, form of Albert.
- tribade
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noun,
lesbian (def 5).
- elation
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noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- dilator
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
- edition
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noun,
one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- enrobe
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verb (used with object),
to dress; attire:
- obtain
-
verb (used with object),
to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request:
- lierne
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noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- enter-
-
- Bonita
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noun,
a female given name.
- boride
-
noun,
a compound consisting of two elements of which boron is the more electronegative one.
- entail
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- Boreal
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adjective,
of or relating to the north wind.
- libido
-
noun,
Psychoanalysis. all of the instinctual energies and desires that are derived from the id.
- Bordet
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noun,
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent [zhyl zhahn ba-teest van-sahn] /ʒül ʒɑ̃ baˈtist vɛ̃ˈsɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1870–1961, Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1919.
- entire
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- borane
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noun,
any of the compounds, both neutral and anionic, of boron and hydrogen with formulas ranging from B 2 H 6 to B 20 H 16 .
- borate
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noun,
a salt or ester of boric acid.
- Borden
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noun,
Gail, 1801–74, U.S. inventor: developed technique for condensing milk.
- Doblin
-
noun,
Alfred [ahl-freyt] /ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1878–1957, German physician and novelist.
- bordel
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noun,
a brothel.
- entoil
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- donate
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- Dorati
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noun,
Antal [ahn-tahl;; Hungarian on-tol] /ˈɑn tɑl;; Hungarian ˈɒn tɒl/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Hungarian conductor, in the U.S.
- bolita
-
noun,
a form of numbers pool.
- Blaine
-
noun,
James Gillespie [gi-les-pee] /gɪˈlɛs pi/ (Show IPA), 1830–93, U.S. statesman.
- Elbert
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noun,
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range: second highest peak of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. 14,431 feet (4399 meters).
- Lorena
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noun,
a female given name.
- elater
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- blende
-
noun,
sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
- nailer
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- elated
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adjective,
very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits:
- Elaine
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noun,
any of several women in Arthurian romance, as the daughter of King Pelles and the mother, by Lancelot, of Sir Galahad.
- editor
-
noun,
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- Nereid
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noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- edible
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noun,
Usually, edibles. edible substances; food.
- birota
-
noun,
a two-wheeled cart, usually drawn by three mules, used for transporting commercial goods and one or two passengers.
- Birdie
-
noun,
a small bird.
- biotin
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-soluble vitamin, C 10 H 16 O 3 N 2 S, of the vitamin B complex, that is present in all living cells and functions as a growth factor and as a catalyst in carboxylation reactions.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- bolide
-
noun,
a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- endear
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verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- bolden
-
noun,
Charles ("Buddy") 1868?–1931, U.S. cornet player: early pioneer in jazz.
- linear
-
adjective,
of, consisting of, or using lines:
- enable
-
verb (used with object),
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
- Elodea
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- boiler
-
noun,
a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which steam or other vapor is generated from water to drive turbines or engines, supply heat, process certain materials, etc.
Compare fire-tube boiler, water-tube boiler.
- boiled
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- boater
-
noun,
a person who boats, especially for pleasure.
- boatel
-
noun,
a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- loader
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- loaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- lobate
-
adjective,
having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- blonde
-
noun,
a woman or girl having this coloration.
- doable
-
adjective,
capable of being done.
- debone
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone:
- Libera
-
noun,
an ancient Italian goddess of wine, vineyards, and fertility and the wife of Liber, in later times identified with Persephone.
- Landor
-
noun,
Walter Savage, 1775–1864, English poet and prose writer.
- Danite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Dan.
- Delian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Delos.
- Daniel
-
noun,
Bible.
a prophet living in Babylon during the Captivity.
the book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Dan.
- Ladino
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- Dalton
-
noun,
atomic mass unit.
- Lander
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- Lanier
-
noun,
Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- labret
-
noun,
an ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- lardon
-
noun,
a strip of fat used in larding, especially as drawn through the substance of meat, chicken, etc., with a kind of needle or pin.
- Laredo
-
noun,
a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- Larine
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- lateen
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having a lateen sail or sails.
- denial
-
noun,
an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false:
- Bronte
-
noun,
Anne ("Acton Bell") 1820–49, English novelist.
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- Latino
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- labrid
-
noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Labridae, including the wrasses, the tautog, and the cunner, and characterized chiefly by well-developed teeth and, often, brilliant colors.
- inlaid
-
noun,
inlaid work.
- Brodie
-
noun,
a suicidal or daredevil leap; wild dive:
- iodine
-
noun,
a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- intra-
-
- debtor
-
noun,
a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another (opposed to creditor).
- iodate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- intoed
-
adjective,
having inwardly turned toes.
- inter.
-
- debate
-
noun,
a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints:
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- iolite
-
noun,
cordierite.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- dealer
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- inlier
-
noun,
an outcrop of a formation completely surrounded by rocks of younger age.
- irido-
-
- Delano
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- dartle
-
verb (used with or without object),
to dart or shoot forth repeatedly.
- darnel
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- delate
-
verb (used with object),
Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- labio-
-
- denote
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- dental
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dental sound.
- etalon
-
noun,
an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
- branle
-
noun,
a lively 16th- and 17th-century round dance originating in France.
- learnt
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- Ilorin
-
noun,
a town in W central Nigeria.
- Leiden
-
noun,
a city in W Netherlands.
- dilate
-
verb (used with object),
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- Lenard
-
noun,
Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- Lenore
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- intro.
-
- Brenda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “flame” or “sword.”.
- Brandt
-
noun,
Willy [wil-ee;; German vil-ee] /ˈwɪl i;; German ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), (Karl Herbert Frahm) 1913–1992, West German political leader: chancellor 1969–74; Nobel Peace Prize 1971.
- Brando
-
noun,
Marlon, 1924–2004, U.S. actor.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- Leonid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- Iberia
-
noun,
Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
- iatro-
-
- Lerida
-
noun,
a city in NE Spain.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- inbred
-
adjective,
naturally inherent; innate; native:
- Breton
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1966, French poet, essayist, and critic.
- denti-
-
- detail
-
noun,
an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- dentil
-
noun,
any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
- derail
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- leaden
-
adjective,
inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move:
- Briton
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Great Britain, especially of England.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- leader
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- indole
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- detain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- dialer
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- leaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- bridle
-
noun,
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- Bridie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Bridget.
- bridal
-
noun,
a wedding.
- indite
-
verb (used with object),
to compose or write, as a poem.
- Briand
-
noun,
Aristide [ar-uh-steed;; French a-ree-steed] /ˈær əˌstid;; French a riˈstid/ (Show IPA), 1862–1932, French statesman: minister of France 11 times; Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- diable
-
adjective,
highly spiced; prepared with hot or piquant seasoning; deviled.
- Diablo
-
noun,
Spanish for “devil.”.
- Iletin
-
- ideate
-
noun,
ideatum.
- nitro-
-
- Arnold
-
noun,
Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
- retail
-
noun,
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- Rialto
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- ribald
-
noun,
a ribald person.
- riband
-
noun,
a decorative ribbon.
- riblet
-
noun,
a boneless cut of meat from the end of a rib of veal, lamb, or pork.
- rident
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- roband
-
noun,
a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- Arlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rodent
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- Arleen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Roland
-
noun,
Italian Orlando. the greatest of the paladins in the Charlemagne cycle of the chansons de geste, renowned for his prowess and the manner of his death in the battle of Roncesvalles (a.d. 778), also for his five days' combat with Oliver in which neither was the victor.
- Ronald
-
noun,
a male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.
- areole
-
noun,
an areola.
- rondel
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- Arendt
-
noun,
Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.
- ardent
-
adjective,
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:
- rental
-
noun,
an amount received or paid as rent.
- relate
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- Tailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- Barton
-
noun,
Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- radio-
-
- Barnet
-
noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- barite
-
noun,
a common mineral, barium sulfate, BaSO 4 , occurring in white, yellow, or colorless tabular crystals: the principal ore of barium.
- barit.
-
- Bardot
-
noun,
Brigitte (Camille Javal) born 1934, French film actress and animal rights activist.
- bardee
-
noun,
bardy2 .
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- banter
-
noun,
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
- bailee
-
noun,
a person to whom personal property is delivered in bailment.
- rebate
-
noun,
a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- bandit
-
noun,
a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- rebato
-
noun,
rabato.
- rebote
-
noun,
the rear wall of a cancha or jai alai court.
Compare frontis.
- baleen
-
noun,
whalebone (def 1).
- Baldie
-
noun,
a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- Balder
-
noun,
a god, a son of Odin and Frigg and the twin brother of Hod, by whom he was killed.
- redial
-
noun,
automatic redial.
- bailor
-
noun,
a person who delivers personal property in bailment.
- Bailie
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a municipal officer or magistrate, corresponding to an English alderman.
- tailed
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- antler
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Toland
-
noun,
Gregg, 1904–48, U.S. cinematographer.
- aeron.
-
- aerobe
-
noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- Aeneid
-
noun,
a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
- aedile
-
noun,
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- tobira
-
noun,
a shrub, Pittosporum tobira, of China and Japan, having leathery leaves, fragrant, greenish-white flower clusters, densely hairy fruit, and lemon-scented foliage.
- adroit
-
adjective,
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- adreno
-
- adren-
-
- ad-lib
-
noun,
something improvised in speech, music, etc.:
- tineid
-
noun,
a moth of the family Tineidae, comprising the clothes moths.
- adient
-
adjective,
tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adeno-
-
- Tralee
-
noun,
a city in and the county seat of Kerry, in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- treble
-
noun,
Music.
the treble or soprano part.
a treble voice, singer, or instrument.
- abient
-
adjective,
tending to move away from a stimulus or situation.
- tribal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of a tribe:
- tribo-
-
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- trinal
-
adjective,
threefold; triple; trine.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- tirade
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- Aileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Talien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- Aldine
-
noun,
an Aldine or other early edition.
- talion
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- andro-
-
- teleo-
-
- altern
-
adjective,
alternate; following one another.
- tender
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- A-line
-
noun,
(especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- terbia
-
noun,
an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- Aldrin
-
noun,
a brown, water-insoluble, toxic solid consisting of more than 95 percent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon C 12 H 8 Cl 6 : used as an insecticide.
- Alboin
-
noun,
died a.d. 573? king of the Langobards 561?–573?
- tinder
-
noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- albite
-
noun,
the sodium end member of the plagioclase feldspar group, light-colored and found in alkalic igneous rocks.
- Albion
-
noun,
Alebion.
- albino
-
noun,
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
- Albert
-
noun,
Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- albeit
-
conjunction,
although; even if:
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- albedo
-
noun,
Astronomy. the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- tiered
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Tilden
-
noun,
Samuel Jones, 1814–86, U.S. statesman.
- Tindal
-
noun,
Matthew, c1655–1733, English deist.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- Niobid
-
noun,
any of the children of Niobe.
- Bertie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- binder
-
noun,
a person or thing that binds.
- Beaton
-
noun,
Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy) 1904–80, English photographer, writer, and theatrical designer.
- ordeal
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- bindle
-
noun,
a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- Beloit
-
noun,
a city in S Wisconsin.
- oleate
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- belted
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- Belton
-
noun,
a town in W Missouri.
- Bender
-
noun,
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
- beaten
-
noun,
a stroke or blow.
- Benita
-
noun,
a female given name.
- binate
-
adjective,
produced or borne in pairs; double.
- Benoit
-
noun,
Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- berate
-
verb (used with object),
to scold; rebuke:
- 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.
- Berlin
-
noun,
a large, four-wheeled, closed carriage hung between two perches and having two interior seats.
- Bernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Bernard.
- oblate
-
noun,
a person offered to the service of and living in a monastery, but not under monastic vows or full monastic rule.
- betide
-
verb (used with object),
to happen to; come to; befall:
- beater
-
noun,
a person or thing that beats.
- Obelia
-
noun,
a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- Beadle
-
noun,
a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
- beanie
-
noun,
a skullcap, often brightly colored, worn especially by children and by college freshmen, especially in the 1940s.
- beader
-
noun,
a tool for forming beads on lumber.
- Nobile
-
noun,
Umberto [oo m-ber-taw] /ʊmˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
- nitr-
-
- Ndola
-
noun,
a city in N Zambia.
- ileo-
-
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- Iliad
-
noun,
(italics) a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.
- ilio-
-
- natl.
-
- Ebert
-
noun,
Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.
- naled
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- Nebr.
-
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- idiot
-
noun,
Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
- idion
-
- idio-
-
- ideo-
-
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- ideal
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- ibid.
-
- Ibert
-
noun,
Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- to-be
-
adjective,
future; soon to be the thing specified (usually used in combination):
- Ilion
-
noun,
Greek name of ancient Troy.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- tidal
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or subject to tides:
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Tiber
-
noun,
a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.
- LORAN
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- tibia
-
noun,
Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- Obeid
-
noun,
El Obeid.
- obdt.
-
- Obad.
-
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Indo-
-
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Indio
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- indie
-
noun,
an independently or privately owned business, especially a film or music company that is not affiliated with a larger and more commercial company:
- tilde
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- India
-
noun,
Hindi Bharat [buh-ruht] /ˈbʌ rʌt/ (Show IPA). a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950. 1,246,880 sq. mi. (3,229,419 sq. km). Capital: New Delhi.
- tiled
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Tobin
-
noun,
James, 1918–2002, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1981.
- Nelda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- trail
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Eilat
-
noun,
a seaport at the N tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, in S Israel.
- treed
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- endo-
-
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- nitid
-
adjective,
bright; lustrous.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- Noble
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- Triad
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- trial
-
noun,
Law.
the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- Eland
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- nodal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- tribe
-
noun,
any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- Erbil
-
noun,
a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- Nolde
-
noun,
Emil (Emil Hansen) 1867–1956, German painter.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- tolan
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- ento-
-
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- edit.
-
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- Tolar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- tonal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having tonality.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- tonia
-
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Niobe
-
noun,
the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- reni-
-
- Latin
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- lated
-
adjective,
belated.
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- LIDAR
-
noun,
a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- Linda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “pretty.”.
- retd.
-
- Lindi
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Tanzania.
- Lando
-
noun,
died a.d. 914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 913–914.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Laird
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- Ladon
-
noun,
a dragon having 100 heads and guarding the garden of the Hesperides: killed by Hercules.
- ribat
-
noun,
a building housing a community of Sufis.
- Ladin
-
noun,
a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- Laden
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- Lidia
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) one section of a corrida, comprising the action that takes place from the entrance of the bull to the time it is killed and dragged from the arena by mules.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Liber
-
noun,
phloem.
- Liard
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- rabid
-
adjective,
irrationally extreme in opinion or practice:
- Rabin
-
noun,
Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- orial
-
- rabot
-
noun,
a hardwood block used for rubbing marble before polishing.
- radii
-
noun,
a plural of radius.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Libia
-
noun,
Libya.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- libri
-
noun,
plural of liber2 .
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- ordn.
-
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- Libra
-
noun,
the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Rebel
-
noun,
a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- rebid
-
noun,
Bridge. a second bid:
- orbit
-
noun,
the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- olden
-
adjective,
of or relating to the distant past or bygone times; ancient.
- indri
-
noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- oidea
-
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- OBrit
-
- talon
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- T-bar
-
noun,
a rolled metal bar or beam with a cross section resembling a T .
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- in-lb
-
- teiid
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- tele-
-
- telia
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- telo-
-
- init.
-
- oribi
-
noun,
a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- tera-
-
- obiit
-
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- intr.
-
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- labor
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- Robin
-
noun,
any of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, especially Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
- roble
-
noun,
a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- Nobel
-
noun,
Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- Oland
-
noun,
an island in SE Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound. 26,750; 519 sq. mi. (1345 sq. km).
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Ital.
-
- 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.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- irid-
-
- Irbid
-
noun,
a town in NW Jordan.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- Iran.
-
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- oiled
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- lobar
-
adjective,
of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- oidia
-
noun,
one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- lobed
-
adjective,
having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
- Taber
-
noun,
tabor.
- table
-
noun,
an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports:
- Tabor
-
noun,
a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- loden
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- ition
-
- 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.
- birle
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- balon
-
noun,
ballon.
- Debra
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Deborah.
- debit
-
noun,
the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- Debir
-
noun,
a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- debar
-
verb (used with object),
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition:
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- ation
-
- dealt
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Baden
-
noun,
a region in SW Germany, formerly a state, now incorporated in Baden-Württemberg.
- bairn
-
noun,
a child; son or daughter.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- Balt.
-
- Arnel
-
- Dante
-
noun,
(Dante Alighieri) 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Dalen
-
noun,
Gustaf [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, Swedish inventor: Nobel Prize in Physics 1912.
- Barde
-
noun,
bard2 (def 1).
- Bardo
-
noun,
(in Lamaism) the state of the soul between death and rebirth.
- baro-
-
- Baron
-
noun,
a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- Bart.
-
- Baton
-
noun,
Music. a wand used by a conductor.
- broil
-
noun,
the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
- Broad
-
noun,
the broad part of anything.
- beano
-
noun,
bingo.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- Delia
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cordelia.
- Brit.
-
- ardeb
-
noun,
a unit of capacity used for dry measure in Egypt and neighboring countries, officially equivalent in Egypt to 5.62 U.S. bushels, but varying greatly in different localities.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- anole
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- ante-
-
- anti-
-
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- Arbil
-
noun,
Erbil.
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- Delta
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ, δ).
- areo-
-
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- Dibai
-
noun,
Dubai.
- dial.
-
- Ariel
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- dent.
-
- Arndt
-
noun,
Ernst Moritz [ernst moh-rits] /ɛrnst ˈmoʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1769–1860, German poet and historian.
- Deneb
-
noun,
a first-magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Beard
-
noun,
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- beedi
-
noun,
bidi.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- blond
-
noun,
a blond person.
- binal
-
adjective,
double; twofold.
- bolar
-
adjective,
of or relating to bole or clay.
- boite
-
noun,
a nightclub; cabaret.
- Binet
-
noun,
Alfred [al-frid;; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd;; French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1857–1911, French psychologist: co-deviser of the Binet-Simon scale.
- biol.
-
- biont
-
- Biota
-
noun,
the animals, plants, fungi, etc., of a region or period.
- birne
-
noun,
boule1 (def 1).
- boart
-
noun,
bort.
- board
-
noun,
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- biter
-
noun,
a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously:
- blade
-
noun,
the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc.
- bloat
-
noun,
Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology. (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
- boned
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- Blain
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- blite
-
noun,
sea blite.
- blini
-
plural noun,
pancakes made with yeast and either white or buckwheat flour and traditionally served during Shrovetide with caviar and sour cream.
- blind
-
noun,
something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- Blair
-
noun,
Anthony Charles Lynton [lin-tuh n] /ˈlɪn tən/ (Show IPA), ("Tony") born 1953, British political leader: prime minister 1997–2007.
- Blida
-
noun,
a city in N Algeria.
- blent
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- blend
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- bleed
-
noun,
Printing.
a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
a part thus trimmed off.
- bleat
-
noun,
the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf.
- Bland
-
noun,
James A(llen) 1854–1911, U.S. songwriter and minstrel performer.
- blare
-
noun,
a loud, raucous noise:
- blate
-
noun,
bleat (def 4).
- bield
-
noun,
a shelter; refuge.
- boner
-
noun,
a person or thing that bones.
- Brine
-
noun,
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- Brand
-
noun,
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
- Bride
-
noun,
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
- Brian
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Brent
-
noun,
brant.
- Breen
-
noun,
a deep brownish green.
- Beira
-
noun,
a seaport in central Mozambique.
- Breed
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- brede
-
noun,
something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
- Breda
-
noun,
a city in the S Netherlands.
- belie
-
verb (used with object),
to show to be false; contradict:
- bread
-
noun,
a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- Benet
-
noun,
Stephen Vincent, 1898–1943, U.S. poet and novelist.
- Brant
-
noun,
any of several species of small, dark-colored geese of the genus Branta, especially B. bernicla, breeding in high northern latitudes and migrating south in the autumn.
- Brale
-
- boral
-
noun,
a compound of an aluminum tartrate and borate, used chiefly as an astringent and antiseptic.
- brain
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- brail
-
noun,
Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- braid
-
noun,
a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
- berat
-
noun,
a city in S central Albania.
- Berea
-
noun,
a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- Beret
-
noun,
a soft, visorless cap with a close-fitting headband and a wide, round top often with a tab at its center.
- Beria
-
noun,
Lavrenti Pavlovich [luh v-ren-tee pav-loh-vich;; Russian luh-vryen-tyee puh-vlaw-vyich] /ləvˈrɛn ti pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian lʌˈvryɛn tyi pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1953, Soviet secret-police chief: executed for treason.
- Berne
-
noun,
Bern.
- botel
-
noun,
boatel.
- betel
-
noun,
an East Indian pepper plant, Piper betle, the leaves of which are chewed with other ingredients.
- borne
-
noun,
a circular sofa having a conical or cylindrical back piece at the center.
- Borel
-
noun,
Félix Édouard Émile [fey-leeks ey-dwar ey-meel] /feɪˈliks eɪˈdwar eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1871–1956, French mathematician.
- bidet
-
noun,
a low, basinlike bathroom fixture, usually with spigots, used for bathing the genital and perineal areas.
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- blear
-
noun,
a blur; cloudiness; dimness:
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- Abner
-
noun,
the commander of the Israelite army and a cousin of Saul. I Sam. 14:50; 26:5.
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- abide
-
Verb phrases,
abide by,
to act in accord with.
to submit to; agree to:
to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:
- drail
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- alibi
-
noun,
Law. the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed.
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Alden
-
noun,
John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adobe
-
noun,
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
- Adler
-
noun,
Alfred, 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.
- abode
-
noun,
a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
- aero-
-
- dobla
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain.
- Adele
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- aden-
-
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- abrin
-
noun,
a highly poisonous protein found in the seeds of the rosary pea: inhibits protein synthesis, causing symptoms such as internal bleeding, intestinal upset, and irritation of mucous membranes.
- dobra
-
noun,
any of various former Portuguese coins, especially a gold coin of John V equal to two johannes.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- aioli
-
noun,
a garlic-flavored mayonnaise of Provence, served with fish and seafood and often with vegetables.
- aboil
-
adverb, adjective,
boiling:
- Dobie
-
noun,
Chiefly Southwestern U.S. adobe.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- dolia
-
noun,
a large earthenware jar used by the ancient Romans.
- Albee
-
noun,
Edward, born 1928, U.S. playwright.
- abort
-
noun,
a missile, rocket, etc., that has aborted.
- Dolin
-
noun,
Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- alien
-
noun,
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).
See also resident alien, illegal alien.
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- Alton
-
noun,
a city in SW Illinois.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- abele
-
noun,
the white poplar tree, Populus alba.
- 30-30
-
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- andr-
-
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- dorab
-
noun,
wolf herring.
- aeri-
-
- alto-
-
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- alti-
-
- Abdon
-
noun,
one of the minor judges of Israel. Judges 12:13–15.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Obie
-
noun,
one of a group of awards given annually, beginning in 1956, by New York City's The Village Voice newspaper for achievement in the off-Broadway theater.
- Beer
-
noun,
an alcoholic beverage made by brewing and fermentation from cereals, usually malted barley, and flavored with hops and the like for a slightly bitter taste.
- BERT
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Albert, Bertram, Herbert, Hubert, etc.
- obit
-
noun,
Informal. an obituary.
- Tob.
-
- Ont.
-
- bet.
-
- been
-
verb,
past participle of be.
- belt
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- Beta
-
noun,
the second letter of the Greek alphabet (β, B).
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- beld
-
adjective,
bald; hairless.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- bide
-
Idioms,
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- bidi
-
noun,
(in India) an inexpensive cigarette, locally produced usually from cut tobacco rolled in leaf.
- Biel
-
noun,
Lake. Bienne, Lake of.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- 1080
-
- Bend
-
noun,
the act of bending.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Bela
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Beni
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- NTIA
-
- tola
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- told
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- adit
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Bent
-
noun,
direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Bene
-
adverb,
of validity for the time being but subject to objection or nullification at a later date; provisionally:
- Bern
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
- ole-
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- beet
-
noun,
any of various biennial plants belonging to the genus Beta, of the amaranth family, especially B. vulgaris, having a fleshy red or white root.
Compare sugar beet.
- Tobe
-
noun,
the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- abed
-
adverb,
in bed:
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- blad
-
noun,
a flier or other promotional material distributed by a company to sell a product.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- blae
-
adjective,
bluish-black; blue-gray.
- neo-
-
- abet
-
verb (used with object),
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing:
- tri-
-
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- ABEL
-
noun,
the second son of Adam and Eve, slain by his brother, Cain. Gen. 4.
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- TRIB
-
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- bldr
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- blat
-
noun,
bleat (def 4).
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- tron
-
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Nebo
-
noun,
Mt. See under Pisgah.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- tRNA
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- trid
-
- NEbE
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Abie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- NRAB
-
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- 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.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- bier
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- not-
-
- bile
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- bin-
-
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nor.
-
- BIND
-
noun,
the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- toad
-
noun,
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
Compare frog1 (def 1).
- abri
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- abl.
-
- biri
-
noun,
bidi.
- bite
-
noun,
an act of biting.
- able
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- NIRA
-
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- birl
-
noun,
British Informal. an attempt; a gamble.
- Bird
-
noun,
any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- abr.
-
- Bion
-
noun,
flourished c100 b.c, Greek pastoral poet.
- NLRB
-
- bio-
-
- bint
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl.
- bine
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- ord.
-
- bdl.
-
plural,
bundle.
- aer-
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- 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.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- robe
-
noun,
a long, loose or flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rit.
-
- 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.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- RIIA
-
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- Rida
-
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- Atli
-
noun,
Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- Alb.
-
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Ald.
-
- art.
-
- 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.
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Albi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tarn, in S France: center of the Albigenses.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- ALIT
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of alight1 .
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- tel-
-
- ant.
-
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- ano-
-
- tail
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- ter.
-
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- RONA
-
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- alt.
-
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- ten.
-
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- tab.
-
- tabi
-
noun,
a covering for the foot, similar to a sock, having a separate pouchlike stall for the large toe, worn especially in Japan, often with zoris.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ator
-
- 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.
- Bede
-
noun,
Saint ("the Venerable Bede") a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.
- rad.
-
- tion
-
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- raob
-
noun,
Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Bare
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Bari
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Barn
-
noun,
a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- aet.
-
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Bard
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
- bead
-
noun,
a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- beat
-
noun,
a stroke or blow.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Bear
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Bean
-
noun,
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- Beal
-
noun,
a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Bate
-
noun,
a state of violent anger or fear.
- bdle
-
plural,
bundle.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- RIBA
-
- Rabi
-
noun,
Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1944.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- bar.
-
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rel.
-
- Baer
-
noun,
Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- 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.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Bael
-
noun,
a spiny citrus tree, Aegle marmelos, of India.
- Bail
-
noun,
property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- BAEd
-
- Badr
-
noun,
Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- bade
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- nabe
-
noun,
a neighborhood movie theater.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Aire
-
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- band
-
noun,
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- bant
-
verb (used without object),
to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- bani
-
noun,
plural of ban4 .
- bane
-
noun,
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
- AInd
-
- bait
-
noun,
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- Bali
-
noun,
an island in Indonesia, E of Java. 2147 sq. mi. (5561 sq. km). Capital: Singaraja.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Bale
-
noun,
a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage, or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords, or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering:
- Bald
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name.
- bal.
-
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Bond
-
noun,
something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- Brea
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Bred
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- ile-
-
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- dolt
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- dol.
-
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- BRAT
-
noun,
a child, especially an annoying, spoiled, or impolite child (usually used in contempt or irritation).
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- dbl.
-
- Leda
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the mother, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra and, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Pollux and Helen.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- brei
-
noun,
a suspension of finely divided tissue in an isotonic medium, used chiefly as a culture for certain viruses.
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Brie
-
noun,
a region in NE France, between the Seine and the Marne.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- brio
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- Brno
-
noun,
a city in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: former capital of Moravia.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- lea.
-
- Ilia
-
noun,
the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- bot.
-
- Din.
-
- bota
-
noun,
Also called bota bag. a wine bag of Spain made of untanned goatskin and usually holding 1–2 liters (1.1–2.2 quarts).
- bote
-
noun,
compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
- Lib.
-
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Danl
-
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- enl.
-
- Ire.
-
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- Brad
-
noun,
a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end.
- brae
-
noun,
a slope; declivity; hillside.
- end-
-
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Bran
-
noun,
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Lead
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- lard
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- itol
-
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- Iban
-
noun,
Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- Lani
-
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- Land
-
noun,
any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
- Dale
-
noun,
a valley, especially a broad valley.
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- laid
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- Lab.
-
- idae
-
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- ible
-
- Dali
-
noun,
Salvador [sal-vuh-dawr;; Spanish sahl-vah-th awr] /ˈsæl vəˌdɔr;; Spanish ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, Spanish painter and illustrator.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- lade
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- IADB
-
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- dobe
-
noun,
Informal. adobe.
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- Dino
-
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- 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.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- btl.
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- dir.
-
- dat.
-
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- dlr.
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Ind.
-
- Lat.
-
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- bort
-
noun,
low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- deal
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- Dili
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- lobe
-
noun,
a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Loeb
-
noun,
Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, German physiologist and experimental biologist in the U.S.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- int.
-
- inae
-
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- lobi
-
noun,
plural of lobus.
- intl
-
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- 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.
- Boar
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- load
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- EDTA
-
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- boat
-
noun,
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- Bode
-
verb,
a simple past tense of bide.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- LitD
-
- blot
-
noun,
a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- lond
-
- lit.
-
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- Earl
-
noun,
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
- der.
-
- ebon
-
adjective,
ebony (def 6).
- Ebro
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Ltd.
-
- Den.
-
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- Del.
-
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- INRI
-
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- dia-
-
- IndE
-
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- blin
-
noun,
singular of blini.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- BLit
-
- LitB
-
- debt
-
noun,
something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another:
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- Bone
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- lin.
-
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- iod-
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drib
-
noun,
a small or minute quantity; bit.
- Bolt
-
noun,
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Elba
-
noun,
an Italian island in the Mediterranean, between Corsica and Italy: the scene of Napoleon's first exile 1814–15. 94 sq. mi. (243 sq. km).
- Elbe
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the W Czech Republic NW through Germany to the North Sea. 725 miles (1165 km) long.
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- bor.
-
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- Bora
-
noun,
(on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.
- drab
-
noun,
dull gray; dull brownish or yellowish gray.
- Bore
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- Born
-
noun,
Max, 1882–1970, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Bona
-
noun,
Bône, the former name of Annaba.
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- deb.
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- Boer
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- bole
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- boil
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- Bol.
-
- bold
-
Idioms,
be / make (so) bold, to presume or venture; dare:
- bola
-
noun,
Also, bolas. a weapon consisting of two or more heavy balls secured to the ends of one or more strong cords, hurled by the Indians and gauchos of southern South America to entangle the legs of cattle and other animals.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ier
-
- di.
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- DIL
-
- TAL
-
- aor
-
- rt.
-
- ROI
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- il-
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- rte
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- arb
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- IDB
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- ard
-
- DIB
-
verb (used without object),
to fish by letting the bait bob lightly on the water.
- ILO
-
- ide
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- in.
-
- Ibo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- IBN
-
- eir
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EDT
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- EEO
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- abt
-
- ADB
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- abn
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- 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.
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- DRE
-
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- Dr.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Abo
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- eo-
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- Ar.
-
- EbN
-
- Tro
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ab-
-
- ad-
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- al.
-
- an.
-
- ed.
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- abd
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Abe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- EdB
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- ean
-
- ead
-
- ea.
-
- ETD
-
- ae.
-
- en-
-
- TBA
-
- DLO
-
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- id.
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- ial
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ib.
-
- ERT
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TBO
-
- Tbi
-
- TBD
-
- DNA
-
- DNB
-
- TNB
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- tlr
-
- tlo
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- ene
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- 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.
- Doi
-
- DNR
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- DOB
-
- TID
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- TIA
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- DBA
-
- DET
-
- OIr
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Ben
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- BRE
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Ola
-
- OIt
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- ONR
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- oid
-
- ODT
-
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- Bra
-
noun,
brassiere.
- obl
-
- ONI
-
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- bi-
-
- Bro
-
noun,
a brother.
- ot-
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- BTE
-
- BDA
-
- Bde
-
- Bt.
-
- BRT
-
- BEA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- lb.
-
plural,
pound.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- LBO
-
- ine
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- BEE
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- ORB
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- Bel
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- obi
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- Bia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of force: daughter of Pallas and Styx and sister of Cratus, Nike, and Zelos.
- OTB
-
- NEA
-
- 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:
- BLT
-
plural,
a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LON
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- NEB
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- ne-
-
- nib
-
noun,
the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- NDE
-
- NbE
-
- NBA
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- LTA
-
- ltr
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- ble
-
- NAD
-
- NIA
-
- Bn.
-
- BID
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- nr.
-
- OBE
-
- Oba
-
noun,
a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- BIE
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OED
-
- ob.
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- NRA
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- Bon
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- nob
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- BIT
-
noun,
Machinery.
a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like.
a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill.
a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
- BLA
-
- boa
-
noun,
any of several nonvenomous, chiefly tropical constrictors of the family Boidae, having vestigial hind limbs at the base of the tail.
- OTA
-
- Ld.
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Lt.
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- Bai
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- bd.
-
plural,
board.
- La.
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- RLD
-
- ITA
-
- RNA
-
- Ir.
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- DAR
-
- rnd
-
- Ban
-
noun,
the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
- ite
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- Reb
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- BOD
-
noun,
body:
- 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.
- bl.
-
- IOT
-
- ATB
-
- at.
-
- NAB
-
verb (used with object),
to arrest or capture.
- ior
-
- IRO
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- 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 = .
- ote
-
- Br.
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- bad
-
noun,
that which is bad:
- IRL
-
- Lad
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- REA
-
- be-
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- DEA
-
- Rd.
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- rib
-
noun,
one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- de-
-
- Re.
-
- ROB
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- ROA
-
- Rab
-
noun,
a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- Bat
-
noun,
Sports.
the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball.
a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis.
a whip used by a jockey.
the act of using a club or racket in a game.
the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- DBE
-
- do.
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- DOA
-
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- RDA
-
- RBI
-
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- BAO
-
noun,
an African board game usually played by moving pebbles along two rows of holes.
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- Dal
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- DAE
-
- DAB
-
noun,
a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- BED
-
noun,
a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- TB
-
- T1
-
- EI
-
- TD
-
- t.
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- AO
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- RO
-
- N.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- NB
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- Eb
-
- ND
-
- LR
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- B-
-
- RN
-
- TL
-
- ol
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- dl
-
- le
-
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- i.
-
- L2
-
- RI
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- D.
-
- DN
-
- TN
-
- L1
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ln
-
- NL
-
- BA
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- ee
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- BO
-
- O.
-
- DB
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OA
-
- 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.
- L.
-
- NI
-