Anagrams of deliberations
Word deliberations has
3519 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of deliberations.
- liberations
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noun,
the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- residential
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adjective,
of or relating to residence or to residences:
- banditries
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noun,
the activities or practices of bandits.
- banderoles
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noun,
a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bandoleers
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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.
- inebriates
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noun,
an intoxicated person.
- deliration
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noun,
mental derangement; raving; delirium.
- delineator
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noun,
a person or thing that delineates.
- Bordelaise
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noun,
a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bes-antler
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noun,
bay antler.
- arsenolite
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noun,
a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.
- idolatries
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noun,
the religious worship of idols.
- side-table
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noun,
a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- liberation
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noun,
the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- siderolite
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noun,
stony-iron meteorite.
- editorials
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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.
- brasilein
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noun,
brazilein.
- tolidines
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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.
- Esdraelon
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noun,
a plain in N Israel, extending from the Mediterranean near Mt. Carmel to the Jordan River: scene of ancient battles.
- elaterids
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noun,
any beetle of the family Elateridae, comprising the click beetles.
- estradiol
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 24 O 2 , produced by the maturing Graafian follicle, that causes proliferation and thickening of the tissues and blood vessels of the endometrium.
- diablerie
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noun,
diabolic magic or art; sorcery; witchcraft.
- liberties
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noun,
freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- detainers
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noun,
a writ for the further detention of a person already in custody.
- libertine
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noun,
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
- banderole
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noun,
a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- libations
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noun,
a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- dietaries
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noun,
a regulated allowance of food.
- realities
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noun,
the state or quality of being real.
- detailers
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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.
- dilations
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noun,
the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- ordinates
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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.
- trailside
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noun,
the side or border of a trail.
- liberates
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verb (used with object),
to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- Orleanist
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noun,
a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- orientals
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noun,
(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.
- aerolites
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noun,
a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
- endoblast
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noun,
endoderm (def 1).
- sea-robin
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noun,
any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- leeboards
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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.
- seriation
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noun,
the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- 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.
- disorient
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verb (used with object),
to cause to lose one's way:
- disentail
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verb (used with object),
to free (an estate) from entail.
- disenable
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- Bordelais
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noun,
a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- serotinal
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adjective,
pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- treenails
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noun,
a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- Israelite
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noun,
a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel.
- tailbones
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noun,
the coccyx.
- desirable
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noun,
a person or thing that is desirable.
- baseliner
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noun,
a player who typically plays near the baseline using ground strokes, as distinguished from one who typically goes to the net.
- deletions
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noun,
an act or instance of deleting.
- Albertine
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noun,
a female given name: derived from Albert.
- ideations
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noun,
the process of forming ideas or images.
- solitaire
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noun,
Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- deliriant
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noun,
a substance, as a compound or drug, that causes delirium.
- last-born
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noun,
a last-born or youngest child.
- 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.
- binderies
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noun,
a place where books are bound.
- libration
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noun,
a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- asiderite
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noun,
an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- idolaters
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noun,
Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
- datelines
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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.
- bilineate
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adjective,
marked with two usually parallel lines.
- bilestone
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noun,
gallstone.
- resilient
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adjective,
springing back; rebounding.
- bilanders
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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.
- relations
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noun,
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
- oleanders
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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.
- idioblast
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noun,
a cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
- oralities
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noun,
the condition or quality of being oral; collectively, the personality traits characteristic of the oral phase of psychosexual development.
- rondelets
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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.
- desertion
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noun,
the act of deserting or the state of being deserted.
- sideliner
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noun,
a person who is on the sidelines and does not participate in an activity or situation.
- dentaries
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noun,
one of a pair of membrane bones that in lower vertebrates form the distal part of the lower jaws and in mammals comprise the mandible.
- biseriate
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adjective,
arranged in two rows; arranged in two cycles or whorls.
- laborites
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noun,
a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- brontides
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noun,
a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- dolerites
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noun,
a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- inebriate
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noun,
an intoxicated person.
- iodinates
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verb (used with object),
to iodize.
- Elsinore
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noun,
Helsingør.
- elaterid
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noun,
any beetle of the family Elateridae, comprising the click beetles.
- betaines
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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.
- obedient
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adjective,
obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority:
- Basildon
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noun,
a town in S Essex, in SE England: designated as a model residential community after World War II.
- Oberland
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noun,
a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- notables
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noun,
a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
- bestride
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verb (used with object),
to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- niteries
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noun,
a nightclub.
- bedrails
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noun,
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.
- nitrides
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noun,
a compound, containing two elements only, of which the more electronegative one is nitrogen.
- notaries
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noun,
notary public.
- berlines
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noun,
an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.
- debonair
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adjective,
courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm:
- soredial
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adjective,
pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- nitriles
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noun,
any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula RC≡N.
- solander
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noun,
a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- elations
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noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- sodalite
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noun,
a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- deboites
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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.
- baseline
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noun,
Baseball. the area between bases within which a base runner must keep when running from one base to another.
- ideation
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noun,
the process of forming ideas or images.
- astonied
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adjective,
dazed; bewildered; filled with consternation.
- iberians
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noun,
one of the ancient inhabitants of Iberia in Europe, from whom the Basques are supposed to be descended.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- asteroid
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noun,
Also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter.
- litanies
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noun,
a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
- Listeria
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noun,
any of several rod-shaped, aerobic, parasitic bacteria of the genus Listeria, pathogenic for humans and animals.
- idealist
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noun,
a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist.
Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.
- telerans
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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.
- arsenite
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- ateliers
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noun,
a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.
- arsenide
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noun,
a compound containing two elements of which arsenic is the negative one, as silver arsenide, Ag 3 As.
- idolater
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noun,
Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
- tendrils
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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.
- linebred
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adjective,
produced by linebreeding.
- Aristide
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noun,
Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- tensible
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adjective,
capable of being stretched; tensile.
- 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.
- lie-abed
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noun,
a person who remains in bed until a relatively late hour; late riser.
- inboards
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noun,
an inboard motor.
- lodestar
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noun,
a star that shows the way.
- Taliesin
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noun,
flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
- bartends
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verb (used without object),
to serve or work as a bartender.
- bandores
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noun,
an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- stilbene
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noun,
a colorless to slightly yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 14 H 12 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes (stilbene dyes)
- baronies
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noun,
the domain of a baron.
- baronets
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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:
- baritone
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noun,
a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
- storable
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noun,
Usually, storables. articles that are storable.
- banister
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noun,
a baluster.
- strained
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noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- entrails
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plural noun,
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
- entresol
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noun,
a low floor between two higher floors, the lower one usually being a ground floor; mezzanine.
- ebonites
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noun,
vulcanite.
- eternals
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- bandelet
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noun,
a flat molding, broader than a fillet and narrower than a fascia.
- strobila
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noun,
the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region.
Compare scolex.
- Balinese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Bali.
- tabloids
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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.
- taborins
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noun,
a small tabor.
- Lorestan
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noun,
Luristan.
- tailbone
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noun,
the coccyx.
- tail-end
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noun,
the hinder or rear part of anything.
- 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.
- betonies
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noun,
a plant, Stachys (formerly Betonica) officinalis, of the mint family, having hairy leaves and dense spikes of purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing.
- sideline
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noun,
a line at the side of something.
- obsidian
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noun,
a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- desolate
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adjective,
barren or laid waste; devastated:
- brontide
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noun,
a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- deration
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verb (used with object),
to discontinue the rationing of (something).
- broadens
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verb (used with or without object),
to become or make broad.
- Rosalind
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noun,
a female given name.
- Rosedale
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noun,
a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- derision
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noun,
ridicule; mockery:
- redbaits
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verb (used without object),
to denounce or deprecate as a political radical, especially to accuse of being communist.
- brionies
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noun,
bryony.
- brindles
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noun,
a brindled coloring.
- 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.
- redbones
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noun,
an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- detainer
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noun,
a writ for the further detention of a person already in custody.
- detrains
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verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- Breasted
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noun,
James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
- diabetes
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noun,
any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- brasilin
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noun,
brazilin.
- diastole
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noun,
Physiology. the normal rhythmical dilatation of the heart during which the chambers are filling with blood.
Compare systole (def 1).
- brandies
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noun,
a spirit distilled from wine or from the fermented juice of grapes or of apples, peaches, plums, etc.
- Brandeis
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noun,
Louis Dembitz [dem-bits] /ˈdɛm bɪts/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, U.S. lawyer and writer: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1916–39.
- diatribe
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noun,
a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:
- 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.
- deorbits
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verb (used with object),
to cause to deliberately depart from orbit.
- realties
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noun,
real property or real estate.
- deletion
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noun,
an act or instance of deleting.
- relation
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noun,
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
- resident
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noun,
a person who resides in a place.
- resinate
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- resinoid
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noun,
a resinoid substance.
- delaines
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noun,
(initial capital letter) Delaine Merino.
- resonate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- 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.
- retables
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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.
- darioles
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noun,
a small round mold.
- retinals
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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.
- Rodentia
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noun,
the order comprising the rodents.
- 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.
- retinols
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noun,
vitamin A.
- reenlist
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verb (used with or without object),
to enlist again.
- dainties
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noun,
something delicious to the taste; a delicacy.
- Delsarte
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noun,
François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- Redstone
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noun,
a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- rideable
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adjective,
ridable.
- redolent
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adjective,
having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
- redlines
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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.
- deniable
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adjective,
capable of being or liable to be denied or contradicted.
- reasoned
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noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- botanies
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noun,
the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals with plant life.
- east-end
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noun,
a section of E London, England.
- orbitals
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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.
- 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.
- siberite
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noun,
a violet or violet-red tourmaline, used as a gem.
- sibilant
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noun,
Phonetics. a sibilant consonant.
- ordinals
-
noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- sibilate
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verb (used with object),
to utter or pronounce with a hissing sound.
- sidebone
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noun,
ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- inbreeds
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verb (used with object),
to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- sidereal
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adjective,
determined by or from the stars:
- siderite
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noun,
Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.
- biserial
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adjective,
of or relating to the correlation between two sets of measurements, one set of which is limited to one of two values.
- blenders
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noun,
a person or thing that blends.
- 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.
- driblets
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noun,
a small portion or part.
- oleaster
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noun,
an ornamental shrub or small tree, Elaeagnus angustifolia, of Eurasia, having fragrant yellow flowers and an olivelike fruit.
- 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.
- earlobes
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noun,
the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- binaries
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noun,
a whole composed of two.
- bilinear
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adjective,
of, relating to, or having reference to two lines:
- oilbirds
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noun,
guacharo.
- 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.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- Oresteia
-
noun,
a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- dilation
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noun,
the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- sea-lion
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noun,
any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- bornites
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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.
- dilators
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
- ratlines
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noun,
any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- Ratisbon
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noun,
Regensburg.
- diorites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- disinter
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verb (used with object),
to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- sea-born
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adjective,
born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- seaborne
-
adjective,
transported by ship over the sea.
- Disraeli
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noun,
Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- distrail
-
noun,
dissipation trail.
- blinders
-
noun,
a person or thing that blinds.
- distrain
-
verb (used with object),
to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- sedation
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noun,
the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- boiserie
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noun,
sculptured paneling, especially that of French architecture in the 18th century.
- sedition
-
noun,
incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- Dniester
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noun,
a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.
- Bodleian
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noun,
the library of Oxford University, reestablished by Sir Thomas Bodley, 1545–1613, English diplomat and scholar.
- dolerite
-
noun,
a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- senorita
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- 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.
- bloaters
-
noun,
a herring cured by being salted and briefly smoked and dried.
- arenites
-
noun,
psammite.
- Nobelist
-
noun,
a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- Alberoni
-
noun,
Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1664–1752, Italian cardinal and statesman: prime minister of Spain 1715–19.
- tolidine
-
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.
- Ironside
-
noun,
a strong person with great power of endurance or resistance.
- abristle
-
adverb, adjective,
in a bristling state:
- trendies
-
noun,
a trendy person, place, object, or idea.
- air-line
-
adjective,
straight; direct; traveling a direct route:
- Laborite
-
noun,
a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- Tirolese
-
adjective, noun,
Tyrolese.
- tribades
-
noun,
lesbian (def 5).
- inertias
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- Tirolean
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the Tyrol.
- inedible
-
adjective,
not edible; unfit to be eaten.
- intrados
-
noun,
the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- Leonidas
-
noun,
died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- Tiberias
-
noun,
Lake. Galilee, Sea of.
- Tiberian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- leotards
-
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.
- trilbies
-
noun,
a hat of soft felt with an indented crown.
- trilobed
-
adjective,
trilobate.
- trenails
-
noun,
treenail.
- treenail
-
noun,
a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- librates
-
verb (used without object),
to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- Libertas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
- instable
-
adjective,
not stable; unstable.
- andesite
-
noun,
a dark-colored volcanic rock composed essentially of plagioclase feldspar and one or more mafic minerals, as hornblende or biotite.
- isolated
-
noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- insolate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- leeboard
-
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.
- lean-tos
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- islander
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of an island.
- inserted
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- aerolite
-
noun,
a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
- adenitis
-
noun,
lymphadenitis.
- trade-in
-
noun,
goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase:
- Leinster
-
noun,
a province in the E Republic of Ireland. 7576 sq. mi. (19,620 sq. km).
- treadles
-
noun,
a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- liberate
-
verb (used with object),
to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- aneroids
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- tileries
-
noun,
a factory or kiln for making tiles.
- lenities
-
noun,
the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- ailerons
-
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.
- Ladrones
-
noun,
a thief.
- airlines
-
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.
- antlered
-
adjective,
having antlers.
- iodinate
-
verb (used with object),
to iodize.
- triolein
-
noun,
olein (def 1).
- alienist
-
noun,
(formerly) a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness.
- libation
-
noun,
a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- toenails
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- Landseer
-
noun,
Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- alienors
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- trinodal
-
adjective,
having three nodes or joints.
- Teresian
-
noun,
a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- Teresina
-
noun,
a port in NE Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.
- trindles
-
noun,
British Dialect. a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- boneset
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Eupatorium, especially E. perfoliatum, of North America, having white flowers in a flat-topped cluster.
- torsade
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- betides
-
verb (used with object),
to happen to; come to; befall:
- diorite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- Seeland
-
noun,
Zealand.
- seleno-
-
- boaters
-
noun,
a person who boats, especially for pleasure.
- boatels
-
noun,
a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- boaster
-
noun,
a person who boasts or brags.
- boranes
-
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 .
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- doilies
-
noun,
any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
- oblates
-
noun,
a person offered to the service of and living in a monastery, but not under monastic vows or full monastic rule.
- leister
-
noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- isation
-
- Orleans
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loiret, in central France, SSW of Paris: English siege of the city raised by Joan of Arc 1428.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Liatris
-
noun,
any of various composite plants of the genus Liatris, native to North America, having long spikes of purplish flowers.
- Oriente
-
noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- Blondie
-
noun,
Informal. a blond person:
- aileron
-
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.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- ebonite
-
noun,
vulcanite.
- ebonist
-
noun,
a worker in ebony.
- donable
-
adjective,
available free from government surpluses:
- aediles
-
noun,
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- boilers
-
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.
- Alebion
-
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.
- disrate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- obelias
-
noun,
a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- disable
-
verb (used with object),
to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate:
- isolate
-
noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- seabird
-
noun,
a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- toenail
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- betaine
-
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.
- Bonaire
-
noun,
an island in the E Netherlands Antilles, in the S West Indies. 95 sq. mi. (245 sq. km).
- bestial
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or having the form of a beast:
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- aldrins
-
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.
- Oberlin
-
noun,
Jean Frédéric [French zhahn frey-dey-reek] /French ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1740–1826, Alsatian clergyman.
- bolster
-
noun,
a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- disrobe
-
verb (used with or without object),
to undress.
- bolides
-
noun,
a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.
- distain
-
verb (used with object),
to discolor; stain; sully.
- aerobes
-
noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- edibles
-
noun,
Usually, edibles. edible substances; food.
- bloater
-
noun,
a herring cured by being salted and briefly smoked and dried.
- bonitas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Isidora
-
noun,
a female given name.
- randies
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- dirties
-
Idioms,
do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
- Isadore
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- donates
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- bloated
-
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.
- leotard
-
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.
- side-on
-
adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- ordains
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- bitonal
-
adjective,
marked by or using bitonality.
- sidero-
-
- bilsted
-
noun,
the liquidambar tree.
- slander
-
noun,
defamation; calumny:
- albedos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- Ireland
-
noun,
John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- Leonids
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- orbital
-
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.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- driblet
-
noun,
a small portion or part.
- oralist
-
noun,
an advocate of oralism.
- lentoid
-
noun,
a lentoid body.
- biotins
-
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.
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- oneidas
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- oilseed
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- oleates
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- albinos
-
noun,
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
- Alberti
-
noun,
Leon Battista [le-awn baht-tee-stah] /lɛˈɔn bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1404–72, Italian architect, artist, musician, and poet.
- Leotine
-
noun,
a female given name.
- oldster
-
noun,
an old or elderly person.
- binders
-
noun,
a person or thing that binds.
- earlobe
-
noun,
the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- sirloin
-
noun,
the portion of the loin of beef in front of the rump.
- Leonard
-
noun,
Sugar Ray (Ray Charles Leonard) born 1956, U.S. boxer.
- Lesbian
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Lesbos.
- Serbian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Serbia, especially one of the Slavic peoples inhabiting it.
- Lenotre
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1613–1700, French architect and landscape designer.
- bindles
-
noun,
a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.
- blister
-
noun,
a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- Torenia
-
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.
- blinder
-
noun,
a person or thing that blinds.
- seriate
-
adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- Bleriot
-
noun,
Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1872–1936, French aviator, pioneer aeronautical engineer, and inventor.
- ebonies
-
noun,
a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- obtains
-
verb (used with object),
to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request:
- blendes
-
noun,
sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
- blender
-
noun,
a person or thing that blends.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- oersted
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- ironist
-
noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- albites
-
noun,
the sodium end member of the plagioclase feldspar group, light-colored and found in alkalic igneous rocks.
- blasto-
-
- blasted
-
noun,
a sudden and violent gust of wind:
- Siberia
-
noun,
Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- airline
-
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.
- slender
-
adjective,
having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length:
- liaison
-
noun,
the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
- bordels
-
noun,
a brothel.
- ironies
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- ordinal
-
noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- ordeals
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- oilbird
-
noun,
guacharo.
- sidebar
-
noun,
follow-up (def 3b).
- borates
-
noun,
a salt or ester of boric acid.
- dilates
-
verb (used with object),
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- Abilene
-
noun,
a city in central Texas.
- Delibes
-
noun,
(Clément Philibert) Léo [kley-mahn fee-lee-ber ley-aw] /kleɪˈmɑ̃ fi liˈbɛr leɪˈɔ/ (Show IPA), 1836–91, French composer, especially of operas, operettas, and ballets.
- rialtos
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- daltons
-
noun,
atomic mass unit.
- deliria
-
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.
- ribalds
-
noun,
a ribald person.
- Delores
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ribands
-
noun,
a decorative ribbon.
- Deloria
-
noun,
Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- dairies
-
noun,
an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
- ladrone
-
noun,
a thief.
- dailies
-
noun,
a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.
- Ladinos
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- dabster
-
noun,
Slang. an expert.
- riblets
-
noun,
a boneless cut of meat from the end of a rib of veal, lamb, or pork.
- ridable
-
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- deorbit
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to deliberately depart from orbit.
- broaden
-
verb (used with or without object),
to become or make broad.
- triable
-
- rondels
-
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.
- derails
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- labrets
-
noun,
an ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- tribade
-
noun,
lesbian (def 5).
- dentils
-
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.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- rodents
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- dentals
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dental sound.
- denotes
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- redline
-
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.
- risible
-
adjective,
causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.
- deniers
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- Daniels
-
noun,
Jonathan Worth, 1902–81, U.S. journalist, editor, and author.
- trindle
-
noun,
British Dialect. a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- Delanos
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- deboite
-
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.
- debones
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone:
- debitor
-
noun,
a debtor.
- debates
-
noun,
a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints:
- debtors
-
noun,
a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another (opposed to creditor).
- reliant
-
adjective,
having or showing dependence:
- relents
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- dearies
-
noun,
darling.
- lardons
-
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.
- dealers
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- deities
-
noun,
a god or goddess.
- relates
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- Delaine
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Delaine Merino.
- Landers
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- laities
-
noun,
the body of religious worshipers, as distinguished from the clergy.
- retinol
-
noun,
vitamin A.
- Darlene
-
noun,
a female given name: from the Old English word meaning “darling.”.
- Laertes
-
noun,
the father of Odysseus.
- darbies
-
noun,
a float having two handles, used by plasterers.
- retinal
-
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.
- re-laid
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of re-lay.
- dariole
-
noun,
a small round mold.
- triodes
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- retable
-
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.
- darnels
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- related
-
adjective,
associated; connected.
- Delbert
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Albert.
- dartles
-
verb (used with or without object),
to dart or shoot forth repeatedly.
- retails
-
noun,
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- delates
-
verb (used with object),
Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- Rosalie
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- Derbent
-
noun,
a seaport in the SE Dagestan Autonomous Republic, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Caspian Sea.
- isoline
-
noun,
isogram.
- saltine
-
noun,
a crisp, salted cracker.
- Brandes
-
noun,
Georg Morris [ge-ohrg moh-ris] /gɛˈoʊrg ˈmoʊ rɪs/ (Show IPA), (Georg Morris Cohen) 1842–1927, Danish historian and literary critic.
- Salerno
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943.
- salient
-
noun,
a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
- Salieri
-
noun,
Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.
- leaners
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- rebatos
-
noun,
rabato.
- brained
-
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.
- rebated
-
noun,
a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- lean-to
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- bradsot
-
noun,
braxy (def 1).
- treadle
-
noun,
a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- saltern
-
noun,
a saltworks.
- saltier
-
noun,
saltire.
- bo-tree
-
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.
- diester
-
noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- diaster
-
noun,
the stage in mitosis at which the chromosomes, after their division and separation, are grouped near the poles of the spindle.
- bornite
-
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.
- dineros
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- sardine
-
noun,
the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- ratline
-
noun,
any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- borides
-
noun,
a compound consisting of two elements of which boron is the more electronegative one.
- readies
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- Israeli
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of modern Israel.
- transl.
-
- saltire
-
noun,
an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross.
- dilator
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
- borstal
-
noun,
(in England) a school for delinquent boys that provides therapy and vocational training.
- sandlot
-
noun,
a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- iolites
-
noun,
cordierite.
- realist
-
noun,
a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- Learned
-
adjective,
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite:
- Leander
-
noun,
a Greek youth, the lover of Hero, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit her until he was drowned in a storm.
- diarist
-
noun,
a person who keeps a diary.
- Britain
-
noun,
Great Britain.
- bretons
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1966, French poet, essayist, and critic.
- Derbies
-
noun,
a city in Derbyshire in central England.
- Bristol
-
noun,
a seaport in Avon, in SW England, on the Avon River near its confluence with the Severn estuary.
- bristle
-
noun,
one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- redbone
-
noun,
an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- labored
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- latinos
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- brinies
-
noun,
ocean.
- trenail
-
noun,
treenail.
- Brindle
-
noun,
a brindled coloring.
- Rostand
-
noun,
Edmond [ed-mawn] /ɛdˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1868–1918, French dramatist and poet.
- bridles
-
noun,
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- bridals
-
noun,
a wedding.
- destain
-
verb (used with object),
to remove stain (from a specimen) to enhance visibility and contrast of parts.
- destine
-
verb (used with object),
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
- redbait
-
verb (used without object),
to denounce or deprecate as a political radical, especially to accuse of being communist.
- diaries
-
noun,
a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
- leaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- branles
-
noun,
a lively 16th- and 17th-century round dance originating in France.
- sainted
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- dialers
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- lead-in
-
noun,
something that leads in or introduces; introduction; opening.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- reboant
-
adjective,
resounding or reverberating loudly.
- sadiron
-
noun,
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Older Use. a flatiron that is pointed at both ends and has a detachable handle.
- Adeline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adele.
- trebles
-
noun,
Music.
the treble or soprano part.
a treble voice, singer, or instrument.
- detrain
-
verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- detains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- Latrobe
-
noun,
Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- details
-
noun,
an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- latrine
-
noun,
a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.
- bestead
-
adjective,
Archaic. placed or situated, often unfavorably or in difficulty.
- teredos
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- robands
-
noun,
a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- storied
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- banters
-
noun,
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
- entoils
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- entrail
-
plural noun,
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
- tineids
-
noun,
a moth of the family Tineidae, comprising the clothes moths.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- bandore
-
noun,
an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- tinders
-
noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- Liberia
-
noun,
a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- bandlet
-
noun,
annulet (def 1).
- insider
-
noun,
a person who is a member of a group, organization, society, etc.
- bandies
-
noun,
an early form of tennis.
- baleens
-
noun,
whalebone (def 1).
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Nairobi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Kenya, in the SW part.
- erodent
-
adjective,
eroding; erosive:
- nailers
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- Tabloid
-
noun,
a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.
- inroads
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- taborin
-
noun,
a small tabor.
- bainite
-
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.
- Lorient
-
noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- bailors
-
noun,
a person who delivers personal property in bailment.
- Estonia
-
noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- bailees
-
noun,
a person to whom personal property is delivered in bailment.
- Nereids
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- edition
-
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).
- inliers
-
noun,
an outcrop of a formation completely surrounded by rocks of younger age.
- basinet
-
noun,
a globular or pointed helmet of the 14th century, often provided with a visor or aventail: evolved from the cervellière.
Compare great basinet.
- stearo-
-
- endears
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- niobate
-
noun,
any salt of niobic acid; columbate.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- Nilotes
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- endorse
-
noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- stereo-
-
- bastion
-
noun,
Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
- bastide
-
noun,
a medieval fortified town, planned as a whole and built at one time, especially in southern France, for strategic or commercial purposes.
- sterile
-
adjective,
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic:
- sternal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the sternum.
- Nidaros
-
noun,
former name of Trondheim.
- sterno-
-
- entero-
-
- steroid
-
noun,
any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stibial
-
adjective,
of or resembling antimony.
- stibine
-
noun,
a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous gas, SbH 3 , usually produced by the reaction of dilute hydrochloric acid with an alloy of antimony and either zinc or magnesium.
- enolate
-
noun,
any metallic derivative of an enol.
- tirades
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- bartend
-
verb (used without object),
to serve or work as a bartender.
- instead
-
Idioms,
instead of, in place of; in lieu of:
- baronet
-
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:
- enrobes
-
verb (used with object),
to dress; attire:
- barites
-
noun,
a common mineral, barium sulfate, BaSO 4 , occurring in white, yellow, or colorless tabular crystals: the principal ore of barium.
- entails
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- enteral
-
adjective,
enteric.
- Barents
-
noun,
Willem [wil-uh m] /ˈwɪl əm/ (Show IPA), died 1597, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- estrade
-
noun,
a slightly raised platform in a room or hall.
- anilide
-
noun,
any compound containing the univalent group C 6 H 5 NH–, derived from aniline, as acetanilide, C 8 H 9 NO.
- enables
-
verb (used with object),
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
- Teniers
-
noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- Antibes
-
noun,
a seaport in SE France, SW of Nice: preserved ruins of 4th-century b.c. Roman town.
- librate
-
verb (used without object),
to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- arseno-
-
- tenable
-
adjective,
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute:
- linters
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- tenders
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- Antlers
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- tendril
-
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.
- indorse
-
verb (used with object),
endorse.
- indoles
-
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.
- Tenedos
-
noun,
an island in the Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, belonging to Turkey.
- linseed
-
noun,
flaxseed.
- lineate
-
adjective,
marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- aristo-
-
- indites
-
verb (used with object),
to compose or write, as a poem.
- lindies
-
noun,
Also called lindy hop, Lindy Hop. an energetic jitterbug dance.
- tensile
-
adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- Linares
-
noun,
a city in S Spain.
- liernes
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- inboard
-
noun,
an inboard motor.
- areoles
-
noun,
an areola.
- terbias
-
noun,
an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- inbreed
-
verb (used with object),
to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- lisente
-
noun,
plural of sente.
- 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.
- tailors
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- libidos
-
noun,
Psychoanalysis. all of the instinctual energies and desires that are derived from the id.
- estriol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- estrone
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- etalons
-
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.
- eternal
-
noun,
something that is eternal.
- aniseed
-
noun,
the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- etesian
-
adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- talions
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- etoiles
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- Loraine
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- Londres
-
noun,
a cylindrically shaped cigar of medium to large size.
- loiters
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- atelier
-
noun,
a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.
- ideates
-
noun,
ideatum.
- anisole
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, having a pleasant, aromatic odor, used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis, and as a vermicide.
- astrol.
-
- astroid
-
noun,
a hypocycloid with four cusps.
- lobster
-
noun,
any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
- astride
-
preposition,
with a leg on each side of; straddling:
- Iberian
-
noun,
one of the ancient inhabitants of Iberia in Europe, from whom the Basques are supposed to be descended.
- inertia
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- inedita
-
plural noun,
unpublished literary works.
- Astilbe
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Astilbe, of the saxifrage family, having spirelike clusters of small white, pink, or reddish flowers.
- loaners
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- loaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- antbird
-
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.
- antero-
-
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- Bardeen
-
noun,
John, 1908–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956, 1972.
- Niteroi
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- Benares
-
noun,
a former name of Varanasi.
- benders
-
noun,
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
- Eleanor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- iodates
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- nitride
-
noun,
a compound, containing two elements only, of which the more electronegative one is nitrogen.
- elation
-
noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- bedsore
-
noun,
an ulceration of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by poor circulation due to prolonged pressure on body parts, especially bony protuberances, occurring in bedridden or immobile patients; decubitus ulcer.
- berline
-
noun,
an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.
- beastie
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. a small animal, especially one toward which affection is felt.
- sorbent
-
noun,
a surface that sorbs.
- sorbate
-
noun,
a sorbed substance.
- elision
-
noun,
the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
- Beltane
-
noun,
an ancient Celtic festival observed on May Day in Scotland and Ireland to mark the beginning of summer.
- berates
-
verb (used with object),
to scold; rebuke:
- notable
-
noun,
a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
- Stalino
-
noun,
a former name of Donetsk.
- soldier
-
noun,
a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- elaters
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- nostril
-
noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- norites
-
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.
- stabile
-
noun,
a piece of abstract sculpture having immobile units constructed of sheet metal, wire, or other material and attached to fixed supports.
Compare mobile (def 10).
- Bearden
-
noun,
Romare Howard [roh-mair] /ˈroʊ mɛər/ (Show IPA), 1911–88, U.S. artist.
- Iobates
-
noun,
a Lycian king commissioned by his son-in-law, Proetus, to kill Bellerophon: after surviving ordeals designed to destroy him, Bellerophon was believed to be divinely protected, and Iobates gave him half his kingdom.
- standee
-
noun,
a person who stands, as a passenger in a train, a spectator at a theater, etc., either because all the seats are taken or because standing room is cheaper than a seat.
- elodeas
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- berlins
-
noun,
a large, four-wheeled, closed carriage hung between two perches and having two interior seats.
- nitrile
-
noun,
any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula RC≡N.
- Beatles
-
noun,
the (used with a plural verb) British rock-'n'-roll group (1962–70) including George Harrison, (born 1943), John (Winston) Lennon [len-uh n] /ˈlɛn ən/ (Show IPA) (1940–80), Paul (James) McCartney [muh-kahrt-nee] /məˈkɑrt ni/ (Show IPA) (born 1942), and Ringo [ring-goh] /ˈrɪŋ goʊ/ (Show IPA), Starr, (Richard Starkey) (born 1940).
- soredia
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- Belinda
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old Spanish word meaning “beautiful.”.
- Elberta
-
noun,
a freestone peach having reddish-yellow skin.
- elastin
-
noun,
a protein constituting the basic substance of elastic tissue.
- Sorbian
-
noun,
Also called Lusatian, Wendish. a Slavic language spoken by an isolated group in E Germany.
- toadies
-
noun,
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- belated
-
adjective,
coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time:
- alerion
-
noun,
an eagle displayed, usually represented without a beak or legs.
- beaters
-
noun,
a person or thing that beats.
- stabler
-
noun,
a person who runs a horse stable.
- bedrail
-
noun,
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.
- iodines
-
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.
- alienor
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- derail
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- loaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- Latino
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- denti-
-
- denote
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- 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.
- dentes
-
noun,
plural of dens.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- ladens
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- 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.
- liaise
-
verb (used without object),
to form a liaison.
- Labors
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labret
-
noun,
an ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- elater
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- lobate
-
adjective,
having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- elated
-
adjective,
very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits:
- dental
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dental sound.
- Iberia
-
noun,
Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
- redial
-
noun,
automatic redial.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- oldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- inlier
-
noun,
an outcrop of a formation completely surrounded by rocks of younger age.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- detain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- libido
-
noun,
Psychoanalysis. all of the instinctual energies and desires that are derived from the id.
- detail
-
noun,
an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- 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.
- Elbert
-
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).
- desorb
-
verb (used with object),
to remove an absorbate or adsorbate from (an absorbent or adsorbent).
- Lorena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- latins
-
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.
- inlaid
-
noun,
inlaid work.
- Olbers
-
noun,
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus [hahyn-rikh vil-helm mah-te-oo s] /ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm mɑˈtɛ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1758–1840, German astronomer and physician.
- iatro-
-
- lorans
-
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.
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- desalt
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the salt from (especially sea water), usually to make it drinkable.
- labio-
-
- elates
-
adjective,
elated.
- Lerida
-
noun,
a city in NE Spain.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- lodens
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- loader
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- delate
-
verb (used with object),
Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- Indies
-
noun,
the. (used with a plural verb) West Indies (def 1).
- Landes
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
- Lander
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- Delano
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- indite
-
verb (used with object),
to compose or write, as a poem.
- Laredo
-
noun,
a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- iliads
-
noun,
(italics) a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.
- Ilorin
-
noun,
a town in W central Nigeria.
- linear
-
adjective,
of, consisting of, or using lines:
- lairds
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- Iletin
-
- edible
-
noun,
Usually, edibles. edible substances; food.
- lanose
-
adjective,
lanate.
- oblast
-
noun,
(in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- 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.
- Landis
-
noun,
Kenesaw Mountain [ken-uh-saw] /ˈkɛn əˌsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, U.S. jurist: first commissioner of baseball 1920–44.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- Obelia
-
noun,
a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- inbred
-
adjective,
naturally inherent; innate; native:
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- debris
-
noun,
the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble:
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- lidars
-
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.
- debtor
-
noun,
a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another (opposed to creditor).
- rental
-
noun,
an amount received or paid as rent.
- 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.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- 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:
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- 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.
- lierne
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- Landor
-
noun,
Walter Savage, 1775–1864, English poet and prose writer.
- relate
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- iodate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- elands
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- ideate
-
noun,
ideatum.
- lateen
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having a lateen sail or sails.
- ideals
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- libras
-
noun,
the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- Indris
-
noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Ladino
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- ladies
-
noun,
a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken:
- latens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- denial
-
noun,
an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false:
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- oblate
-
noun,
a person offered to the service of and living in a monastery, but not under monastic vows or full monastic rule.
- idlers
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- larees
-
noun,
lari.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- Larine
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- Delian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Delos.
- liards
-
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.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- delist
-
verb (used with object),
to delete from a list, as one that indicates acceptability, legitimacy, or the like.
- obtain
-
verb (used with object),
to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request:
- 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.
- Li-sao
-
noun,
a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan.
- Lisbon
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Portugal, in the SW part, on the Tagus estuary.
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- Elaine
-
noun,
any of several women in Arthurian romance, as the daughter of King Pelles and the mother, by Lancelot, of Sir Galahad.
- listed
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- estral
-
adjective,
estrous.
- Diablo
-
noun,
Spanish for “devil.”.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- doable
-
adjective,
capable of being done.
- radons
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- Dnestr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dniester.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- radio-
-
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Lenard
-
noun,
Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- rabies
-
noun,
an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- doblas
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain.
- Elodea
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Doblin
-
noun,
Alfred [ahl-freyt] /ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1878–1957, German physician and novelist.
- Isidor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- raisin
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- Leiden
-
noun,
a city in W Netherlands.
- isobar
-
noun,
Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- elints
-
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.
- enrobe
-
verb (used with object),
to dress; attire:
- Nesbit
-
noun,
E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- instil
-
verb (used with object),
instill.
- inter.
-
- instr.
-
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- nested
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- distal
-
adjective,
situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal.
Compare proximal.
- distil
-
verb (used with or without object),
distill.
- distr.
-
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- dobras
-
noun,
any of various former Portuguese coins, especially a gold coin of John V equal to two johannes.
- ordeal
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- Donets
-
noun,
a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- donate
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Niobid
-
noun,
any of the children of Niobe.
- Dorati
-
noun,
Antal [ahn-tahl;; Hungarian on-tol] /ˈɑn tɑl;; Hungarian ˈɒn tɒl/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Hungarian conductor, in the U.S.
- oribis
-
noun,
a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lenore
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- Isabel
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- enable
-
verb (used with object),
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
- intoed
-
adjective,
having inwardly turned toes.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- endear
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- dorsi-
-
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Ostend
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Belgium.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- osteal
-
adjective,
osseous.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- Osbert
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “god” and “bright.”.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- isatin
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- dorsal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dorsal speech sound.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- Libera
-
noun,
an ancient Italian goddess of wine, vineyards, and fertility and the wife of Liber, in later times identified with Persephone.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- 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).
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- disbar
-
verb (used with object),
to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- oleate
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- naleds
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- lidias
-
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.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Nobile
-
noun,
Umberto [oo m-ber-taw] /ʊmˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- rebato
-
noun,
rabato.
- rebate
-
noun,
a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- nadirs
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- intro.
-
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- nebris
-
noun,
a fawn skin worn in Greek mythology by Dionysus and his followers.
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- nailer
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- leaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- libers
-
noun,
phloem.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- leaden
-
adjective,
inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move:
- rebote
-
noun,
the rear wall of a cancha or jai alai court.
Compare frontis.
- leader
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- diable
-
adjective,
highly spiced; prepared with hot or piquant seasoning; deviled.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- oleins
-
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.
- 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.
- dialer
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- eldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- nobles
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- rebids
-
noun,
Bridge. a second bid:
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- inside
-
noun,
the inner or internal part; interior:
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Isolde
-
noun,
German name of Iseult.
- Isolda
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Iseult.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- ratels
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- rastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- ranids
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- enter-
-
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- entail
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- instal
-
verb (used with object),
install.
- intra-
-
- drains
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- nitro-
-
- learns
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- dilate
-
verb (used with object),
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- Leonid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- drails
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- learnt
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- orbits
-
noun,
the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- leones
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- irides
-
noun,
a plural of iris.
- irido-
-
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- dinars
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- Israel
-
noun,
a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- iolite
-
noun,
cordierite.
- Island
-
noun,
a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- debone
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone:
- alines
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- alters
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- altern
-
adjective,
alternate; following one another.
- Alston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- biased
-
noun,
a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned:
- Sloane
-
noun,
Sir Hans, 1660–1753, English physician and naturalist.
- bidets
-
noun,
a low, basinlike bathroom fixture, usually with spigots, used for bathing the genital and perineal areas.
- aloins
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- slider
-
noun,
a person or thing that slides.
- bields
-
noun,
a shelter; refuge.
- Alison
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alice.
- Slater
-
noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- betide
-
verb (used with object),
to happen to; come to; befall:
- 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.
- Tobias
-
noun,
the son of Tobit.
- Tobies
-
noun,
Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- Aletes
-
noun,
a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- binate
-
adjective,
produced or borne in pairs; double.
- binder
-
noun,
a person or thing that binds.
- bindle
-
noun,
a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.
- alerts
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- 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.
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- betise
-
noun,
lack of understanding, perception, or the like; stupidity.
- tirade
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- 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.
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- Tilden
-
noun,
Samuel Jones, 1814–86, U.S. statesman.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- berate
-
verb (used with object),
to scold; rebuke:
- solder
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- Soldan
-
noun,
the ruler of an Islamic country.
- solate
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- tildes
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- Berlin
-
noun,
a large, four-wheeled, closed carriage hung between two perches and having two interior seats.
- aneles
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- Tindal
-
noun,
Matthew, c1655–1733, English deist.
- Bernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Bernard.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- andro-
-
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Bertie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Besant
-
noun,
bezant.
- Andres
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- beside
-
Idioms,
beside oneself, almost out of one's senses from a strong emotion, as from joy, delight, anger, fear, or grief:
- 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.
- sobeit
-
conjunction,
if it be so that; provided that.
- bestir
-
verb (used with object),
to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively):
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- tineid
-
noun,
a moth of the family Tineidae, comprising the clothes moths.
- betels
-
noun,
an East Indian pepper plant, Piper betle, the leaves of which are chewed with other ingredients.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- aldose
-
noun,
a sugar containing the aldehyde group or its hemiacetal equivalent.
- 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.
- serial
-
noun,
anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- blares
-
noun,
a loud, raucous noise:
- sialid
-
noun,
any neuropterous insect of the family Sialidae, comprising the alderflies.
- Toland
-
noun,
Gregg, 1904–48, U.S. cinematographer.
- tolans
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- blears
-
noun,
a blur; cloudiness; dimness:
- bleats
-
noun,
the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- bleeds
-
noun,
Printing.
a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
a part thus trimmed off.
- blende
-
noun,
sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
- blends
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Blairs
-
noun,
Anthony Charles Lynton [lin-tuh n] /ˈlɪn tən/ (Show IPA), ("Tony") born 1953, British political leader: prime minister 1997–2007.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- blinds
-
noun,
something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- serdab
-
noun,
a chamber inside a mastaba containing a statue of the deceased.
- blinis
-
plural noun,
pancakes made with yeast and either white or buckwheat flour and traditionally served during Shrovetide with caviar and sour cream.
- serbo-
-
- blites
-
noun,
sea blite.
- Serbia
-
noun,
a republic in S Europe since 2006; includes the autonomous province of Vojvodina and claims sovereignty over the autonomous province of Kosovo, which has declared itself independent; formerly part of Yugoslavia, in the N part: a former kingdom in S Europe. 34,116 sq. mi. (88,360 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- bloats
-
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.
- blonde
-
noun,
a woman or girl having this coloration.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Blaise
-
noun,
a male given name.
- blains
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- Aldine
-
noun,
an Aldine or other early edition.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- alders
-
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- Sinbad
-
noun,
Sindbad the Sailor.
- Alboin
-
noun,
died a.d. 573? king of the Langobards 561?–573?
- albite
-
noun,
the sodium end member of the plagioclase feldspar group, light-colored and found in alkalic igneous rocks.
- biotas
-
noun,
the animals, plants, fungi, etc., of a region or period.
- 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.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- Birdie
-
noun,
a small bird.
- silane
-
noun,
Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- Blaine
-
noun,
James Gillespie [gi-les-pee] /gɪˈlɛs pi/ (Show IPA), 1830–93, U.S. statesman.
- 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.
- birles
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- Albert
-
noun,
Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- Albers
-
noun,
Josef, 1888–1976, U.S. painter, born in Germany.
- albeit
-
conjunction,
although; even if:
- albedo
-
noun,
Astronomy. the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- birota
-
noun,
a two-wheeled cart, usually drawn by three mules, used for transporting commercial goods and one or two passengers.
- bistre
-
noun,
a brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood, often used in pen and wash drawings.
- bistro
-
noun,
a small, modest, European-style restaurant or café.
- biters
-
noun,
a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously:
- bitser
-
noun,
a mongrel dog.
- Solera
-
noun,
(especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- Benita
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- artels
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- arsen-
-
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- strobe
-
noun,
Also called strobe light. stroboscope (def 2a).
- tender
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- Arnold
-
noun,
Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
- bandit
-
noun,
a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Strand
-
noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- banter
-
noun,
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
- Strabo
-
noun,
63? b.c.–a.d. 21? Greek geographer and historian.
- bardee
-
noun,
bardy2 .
- bardes
-
noun,
bard2 (def 1).
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- Bardot
-
noun,
Brigitte (Camille Javal) born 1934, French film actress and animal rights activist.
- stoned
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stolid
-
adjective,
not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- tabers
-
noun,
tabor.
- baleen
-
noun,
whalebone (def 1).
- barit.
-
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Tarbes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Hautes-Pyrénées, in SW France.
- astron
-
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- astro-
-
- talons
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- Astrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from Scandinavian, meaning “divine strength.”.
- tarso-
-
- talion
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- Talien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- talers
-
noun,
thaler.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Tailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- teleo-
-
- tailed
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- bailee
-
noun,
a person to whom personal property is delivered in bailment.
- Bailie
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a municipal officer or magistrate, corresponding to an English alderman.
- bailor
-
noun,
a person who delivers personal property in bailment.
- tabors
-
noun,
a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- bairns
-
noun,
a child; son or daughter.
- teasel
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- tables
-
noun,
an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports:
- Balder
-
noun,
a god, a son of Odin and Frigg and the twin brother of Hod, by whom he was killed.
- Baldie
-
noun,
a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- teiids
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- 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.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- debits
-
noun,
the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- beaten
-
noun,
a stroke or blow.
- beater
-
noun,
a person or thing that beats.
- Beaton
-
noun,
Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy) 1904–80, English photographer, writer, and theatrical designer.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- stadle
-
noun,
staddle.
- stable
-
noun,
a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antler
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- Beloit
-
noun,
a city in S Wisconsin.
- Stalin
-
noun,
Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- Belsen
-
noun,
locality in NW Germany: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
- tibias
-
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.
- sorbet
-
noun,
sherbet (defs 1, 3).
- belted
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- Belton
-
noun,
a town in W Missouri.
- anoles
-
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.
- Bender
-
noun,
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tidies
-
noun,
any of various articles for keeping things tidy, as a box having small drawers and compartments.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- aniso-
-
- beards
-
noun,
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- barite
-
noun,
a common mineral, barium sulfate, BaSO 4 , occurring in white, yellow, or colorless tabular crystals: the principal ore of barium.
- steno-
-
- Barnes
-
noun,
Albert Coombs [koomz] /kumz/ (Show IPA), 1873–1951, U.S. inventor and art collector.
- Arlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Barnet
-
noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- Arleen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Barton
-
noun,
Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- basion
-
noun,
the midpoint of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- basnet
-
noun,
basinet.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- baster
-
noun,
a person or thing that bastes.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- beanos
-
noun,
bingo.
- ariels
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- beader
-
noun,
a tool for forming beads on lumber.
- Beadle
-
noun,
a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
- terbia
-
noun,
an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- areole
-
noun,
an areola.
- Arendt
-
noun,
Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- ardent
-
adjective,
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:
- ardebs
-
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.
- beanie
-
noun,
a skullcap, often brightly colored, worn especially by children and by college freshmen, especially in the 1940s.
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- bister
-
noun,
bistre.
- aiolis
-
noun,
a garlic-flavored mayonnaise of Provence, served with fish and seafood and often with vegetables.
- trends
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- adeno-
-
- bredes
-
noun,
something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
- breeds
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Sabine
-
noun,
one of the Sabine people.
- Brenda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “flame” or “sword.”.
- absent
-
adjective,
not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present):
- brents
-
noun,
brant.
- abseil
-
noun, verb (used without object),
rappel.
- Breton
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1966, French poet, essayist, and critic.
- 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.
- breast
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- bridal
-
noun,
a wedding.
- Bridie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Bridget.
- bridle
-
noun,
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- brines
-
noun,
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- triads
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- aborts
-
noun,
a missile, rocket, etc., that has aborted.
- Briton
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Great Britain, especially of England.
- Broads
-
noun,
The, (used with a plural verb) a low-lying region in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk: bogs and marshy lakes.
- treble
-
noun,
Music.
the treble or soprano part.
a treble voice, singer, or instrument.
- breads
-
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.
- broils
-
noun,
the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
- brails
-
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.
- Bosnia
-
noun,
a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary (1879–1918) now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Sandie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Sandro.
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- Adonis
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- botels
-
noun,
boatel.
- saltie
-
noun,
an ocean-going sailor.
- Salter
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- Salten
-
noun,
Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- salted
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- braids
-
noun,
a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
- adobes
-
noun,
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
- saline
-
noun,
a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
- sailer
-
noun,
a vessel propelled by a sail or sails.
- brains
-
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.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- braise
-
verb (used with object),
to cook (meat, fish, or vegetables) by sautéeing in fat and then simmering slowly in very little liquid.
- Brando
-
noun,
Marlon, 1924–2004, U.S. actor.
- brands
-
noun,
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
- ad-lib
-
noun,
something improvised in speech, music, etc.:
- 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.
- branle
-
noun,
a lively 16th- and 17th-century round dance originating in France.
- brants
-
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.
- Brasil
-
noun,
Brazil.
- sailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- Brodie
-
noun,
a suicidal or daredevil leap; wild dive:
- Bronte
-
noun,
Anne ("Acton Bell") 1820–49, English novelist.
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dealer
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- 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.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- darnel
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- dartle
-
verb (used with or without object),
to dart or shoot forth repeatedly.
- retail
-
noun,
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- danios
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- deasil
-
adverb,
clockwise or in a direction following the apparent course of the sun: considered as lucky or auspicious.
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- debars
-
verb (used with object),
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition:
- debase
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce in quality or value; adulterate:
- debate
-
noun,
a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints:
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- resale
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- resail
-
verb (used without object),
to sail back or again.
- Danite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Dan.
- Daniel
-
noun,
Bible.
a prophet living in Babylon during the Captivity.
the book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Dan.
- 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.
- 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.
- tribal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of a tribe:
- Ronald
-
noun,
a male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.
- 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.
- rodent
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- robles
-
noun,
a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.
- tribo-
-
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Lanier
-
noun,
Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- roband
-
noun,
a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- abient
-
adjective,
tending to move away from a stimulus or situation.
- abides
-
Verb phrases,
abide by,
to act in accord with.
to submit to; agree to:
to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- trinal
-
adjective,
threefold; triple; trine.
- abeles
-
noun,
the white poplar tree, Populus alba.
- rident
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- ribose
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble, slightly sweet solid, C 5 H 10 O 5 , a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of RNA.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- riblet
-
noun,
a boneless cut of meat from the end of a rib of veal, lamb, or pork.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- riband
-
noun,
a decorative ribbon.
- ribald
-
noun,
a ribald person.
- Dalton
-
noun,
atomic mass unit.
- Rialto
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- adient
-
adjective,
tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- Bonita
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sealer
-
noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- seabed
-
noun,
seafloor.
- boatel
-
noun,
a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- boners
-
noun,
a person or thing that bones.
- Aileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Aeolis
-
noun,
an ancient coastal region and Greek colony in NW Asia Minor: settled by Aeolians.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Searle
-
noun,
Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- bonsai
-
noun,
a tree or shrub that has been dwarfed, as by pruning the roots and pinching, and is grown in a pot or other container and trained to produce a desired shape or effect.
- aedile
-
noun,
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- Tralee
-
noun,
a city in and the county seat of Kerry, in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- trans.
-
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- adsorb
-
verb (used with object),
to gather (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) on a surface in a condensed layer:
- boater
-
noun,
a person who boats, especially for pleasure.
- selen-
-
- boarts
-
noun,
bort.
- bodies
-
noun,
the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- aeron.
-
- 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.
- aerobe
-
noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- boiled
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- boites
-
noun,
a nightclub; cabaret.
- bolita
-
noun,
a form of numbers pool.
- sedate
-
adjective,
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- Selden
-
noun,
George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- trails
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- bolden
-
noun,
Charles ("Buddy") 1868?–1931, U.S. cornet player: early pioneer in jazz.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- bolide
-
noun,
a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- borals
-
noun,
a compound of an aluminum tartrate and borate, used chiefly as an astringent and antiseptic.
- Aeneid
-
noun,
a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- Sendai
-
noun,
a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- Boreas
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the north wind.
- Boreal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the north wind.
- sendal
-
noun,
a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- adreno
-
- Bordet
-
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.
- Borden
-
noun,
Gail, 1801–74, U.S. inventor: developed technique for condensing milk.
- bordel
-
noun,
a brothel.
- adren-
-
- borate
-
noun,
a salt or ester of boric acid.
- boards
-
noun,
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- boride
-
noun,
a compound consisting of two elements of which boron is the more electronegative one.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- adroit
-
adjective,
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- borane
-
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 .
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- tonia
-
- liras
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- 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.
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- lends
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- Tolar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- LASER
-
noun,
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- Laris
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- lenos
-
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.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- loden
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- telo-
-
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- lobed
-
adjective,
having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
- tsadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- telia
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- 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).
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- 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.
- loads
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- 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.
- litas
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- 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.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tears
-
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- loans
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- tele-
-
- lobar
-
adjective,
of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- lards
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- tonal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having tonality.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- tolas
-
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.
- 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.
- T-bar
-
noun,
a rolled metal bar or beam with a cross section resembling a T .
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- Lindi
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Tanzania.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Libra
-
noun,
the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- 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.
- to-be
-
adjective,
future; soon to be the thing specified (usually used in combination):
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- treas
-
- Libia
-
noun,
Libya.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Tobin
-
noun,
James, 1918–2002, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1981.
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- lease
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- 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.
- lebes
-
noun,
a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- tidal
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or subject to tides:
- 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.
- Tiber
-
noun,
a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- leads
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- 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.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Liber
-
noun,
phloem.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- Linda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “pretty.”.
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- trail
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- teno-
-
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- tolan
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- lated
-
adjective,
belated.
- 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.
- 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.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- 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.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- Triad
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- libri
-
noun,
plural of liber2 .
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- 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.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- 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.
- tera-
-
- 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.
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- lidos
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- oste-
-
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- 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.
- rabot
-
noun,
a hardwood block used for rubbing marble before polishing.
- radii
-
noun,
a plural of radius.
- 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.
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- sebi-
-
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rails
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- Oland
-
noun,
an island in SE Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound. 26,750; 519 sq. mi. (1345 sq. km).
- olden
-
adjective,
of or relating to the distant past or bygone times; ancient.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Sino-
-
- 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.
- sinal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- Sinai
-
noun,
Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- orals
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- oribi
-
noun,
a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.
- ordn.
-
- orial
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sero-
-
- seti-
-
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- orbit
-
noun,
the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- 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.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- slain
-
noun,
sley.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- roble
-
noun,
a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.
- Robin
-
noun,
any of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, especially Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- robes
-
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.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- reni-
-
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- retd.
-
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- rials
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- ribat
-
noun,
a building housing a community of Sufis.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- Rebel
-
noun,
a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- sanit
-
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- Salto
-
noun,
a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- salon
-
noun,
a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- rebid
-
noun,
Bridge. a second bid:
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Sabin
-
noun,
Physics. a unit of sound absorption, equal to one square foot (929 square centimeters) of a perfectly absorptive surface.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Saber
-
noun,
a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- Sabir
-
noun,
lingua franca (def 2).
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Sable
-
noun,
an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- sabot
-
noun,
a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
- SABRE
-
noun,
a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- sito-
-
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- naso-
-
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- natl.
-
- Ndola
-
noun,
a city in N Zambia.
- nears
-
- Nebr.
-
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Nelda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- 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.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- ster.
-
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- stilb
-
noun,
a unit of luminance, equal to one candle per square centimeter.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- stola
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- Taber
-
noun,
tabor.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- 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.
- Talos
-
noun,
a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- talon
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- Lords
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- tails
-
noun,
tail1 (def 6).
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- tabes
-
noun,
a gradually progressive emaciation.
- Nabis
-
- naled
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- nails
-
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.
- tabis
-
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.
- table
-
noun,
an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports:
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- nabes
-
noun,
a neighborhood movie theater.
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lotas
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Tabor
-
noun,
a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- 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.
- obits
-
noun,
Informal. an obituary.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- solar
-
noun,
Informal. solar energy.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Obad.
-
- obdt.
-
- solan
-
noun,
a gannet.
- Obeid
-
noun,
El Obeid.
- sober
-
adjective,
not intoxicated or drunk.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- obese
-
adjective,
very fat or overweight; corpulent.
- obiit
-
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- slate
-
noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- oidia
-
noun,
one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- oidea
-
- Sloan
-
noun,
John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- OBrit
-
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- sloid
-
noun,
sloyd.
- snail
-
noun,
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stand
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- nitid
-
adjective,
bright; lustrous.
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- staid
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- Nobel
-
noun,
Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- Srta.
-
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- solid
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- Nolde
-
noun,
Emil (Emil Hansen) 1867–1956, German painter.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- Noble
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- nodal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- 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.
- Brine
-
noun,
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- Dalen
-
noun,
Gustaf [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, Swedish inventor: Nobel Prize in Physics 1912.
- betas
-
noun,
the second letter of the Greek alphabet (β, B).
- binds
-
noun,
the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- binal
-
adjective,
double; twofold.
- Biles
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- biers
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- bield
-
noun,
a shelter; refuge.
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edit.
-
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- bidet
-
noun,
a low, basinlike bathroom fixture, usually with spigots, used for bathing the genital and perineal areas.
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- bides
-
Idioms,
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
- betel
-
noun,
an East Indian pepper plant, Piper betle, the leaves of which are chewed with other ingredients.
- besot
-
verb (used with object),
to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
- Ebert
-
noun,
Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.
- Berea
-
noun,
a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- Benet
-
noun,
Stephen Vincent, 1898–1943, U.S. poet and novelist.
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Benis
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- Eland
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- bents
-
noun,
direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
- berat
-
noun,
a city in S central Albania.
- Beret
-
noun,
a soft, visorless cap with a close-fitting headband and a wide, round top often with a tab at its center.
- beset
-
verb (used with object),
to attack on all sides; assail; harass:
- 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.
- Eilat
-
noun,
a seaport at the N tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, in S Israel.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- Berne
-
noun,
Bern.
- Berns
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
- bines
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- 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.
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- Blain
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- Blida
-
noun,
a city in N Algeria.
- blest
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of bless.
- 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.
- blear
-
noun,
a blur; cloudiness; dimness:
- blats
-
noun,
bleat (def 4).
- blate
-
noun,
bleat (def 4).
- Blase
-
adjective,
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
- blare
-
noun,
a loud, raucous noise:
- Bland
-
noun,
James A(llen) 1854–1911, U.S. songwriter and minstrel performer.
- Blair
-
noun,
Anthony Charles Lynton [lin-tuh n] /ˈlɪn tən/ (Show IPA), ("Tony") born 1953, British political leader: prime minister 1997–2007.
- blade
-
noun,
the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc.
- bints
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- biol.
-
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- biont
-
- Biota
-
noun,
the animals, plants, fungi, etc., of a region or period.
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- birle
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- bites
-
noun,
an act of biting.
- birls
-
noun,
British Informal. an attempt; a gamble.
- birne
-
noun,
boule1 (def 1).
- birse
-
noun,
a short hair of the beard or body; a bristle.
- bison
-
noun,
Also called American bison, American buffalo. a North American, oxlike ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders: formerly common in North America, its small remaining population in isolated western areas of the U.S. and Canada is now protected.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- biter
-
noun,
a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously:
- Benes
-
noun,
Eduard [e-doo-ahrt] /ˈɛ dʊˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1884–1948, Czech patriot and statesman: president of Czechoslovakia 1935–38 and 1945–48.
- bends
-
noun,
the act of bending.
- blind
-
noun,
something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- Bardo
-
noun,
(in Lamaism) the state of the soul between death and rebirth.
- Basle
-
noun,
Basel.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- basin
-
noun,
a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, especially for washing.
- Basil
-
noun,
any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- Basie
-
noun,
William ("Count") 1904–84, U.S. jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer.
- Basel
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Basel-Stadt, in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine River.
- Bart.
-
- Baron
-
noun,
a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- Erbil
-
noun,
a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- baro-
-
- baris
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- bares
-
verb,
simple past tense of bear1 .
- Barde
-
noun,
bard2 (def 1).
- baste
-
noun,
liquid used to moisten and flavor food during cooking:
- bales
-
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:
- bails
-
noun,
property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- bairn
-
noun,
a child; son or daughter.
- baits
-
noun,
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- balds
-
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.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- banes
-
noun,
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- balon
-
noun,
ballon.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Balt.
-
- bands
-
noun,
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
- bason
-
noun,
a basin.
- Bates
-
noun,
Katherine Lee, 1859–1929, U.S. educator and author.
- belts
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- beedi
-
noun,
bidi.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Beers
-
noun,
Clifford Whittingham [hwit-ing-uh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt ɪŋ əm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1876–1943, U.S. pioneer in mental hygiene.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Elisa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- 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.
- beats
-
noun,
a stroke or blow.
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- Elias
-
noun,
Douay Bible. Elijah (def 1).
- Beira
-
noun,
a seaport in central Mozambique.
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- belie
-
verb (used with object),
to show to be false; contradict:
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- ento-
-
- beads
-
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.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- Baton
-
noun,
Music. a wand used by a conductor.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Beals
-
noun,
a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- beano
-
noun,
bingo.
- beans
-
noun,
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- Beard
-
noun,
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bears
-
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.
- endo-
-
- beast
-
noun,
any nonhuman animal, especially a large, four-footed mammal.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- 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.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- brise
-
noun,
a ballet movement in which the dancer jumps off one foot, beats the legs together, and lands on both feet.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- dent.
-
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- brios
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- Bride
-
noun,
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- Brian
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dial.
-
- dials
-
noun,
a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
- Brest
-
noun,
a seaport in the W extremity of France: German submarine base in World War II; surrendered to Allies September 1944.
- Dibai
-
noun,
Dubai.
- Brent
-
noun,
brant.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Deneb
-
noun,
a first-magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- diols
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- dints
-
noun,
force; power:
- Brans
-
noun,
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
- 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.
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- Breen
-
noun,
a deep brownish green.
- 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.
- dilis
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- Breda
-
noun,
a city in the S Netherlands.
- brede
-
noun,
something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
- Breed
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Brit.
-
- Brale
-
- Debra
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Deborah.
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- Dante
-
noun,
(Dante Alighieri) 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- darns
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- darts
-
- dates
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- deals
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- dealt
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- debar
-
verb (used with object),
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition:
- Debir
-
noun,
a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- debit
-
noun,
the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- BSRet
-
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Brose
-
noun,
a porridge made by stirring boiling liquid into oatmeal or other meal.
- brits
-
noun,
the group of small marine animals forming the food of whalebone whales.
- Broad
-
noun,
the broad part of anything.
- Delta
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ, δ).
- broil
-
noun,
the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
- bros.
-
noun,
a brother.
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Delia
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cordelia.
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- BSElE
-
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- Brand
-
noun,
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
- 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.
- blini
-
plural noun,
pancakes made with yeast and either white or buckwheat flour and traditionally served during Shrovetide with caviar and sour cream.
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- dolia
-
noun,
a large earthenware jar used by the ancient Romans.
- Dolin
-
noun,
Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- dolts
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- boers
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- bodes
-
verb,
a simple past tense of bide.
- dorab
-
noun,
wolf herring.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- boats
-
noun,
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- boast
-
noun,
a thing boasted of; a cause for pride:
- boart
-
noun,
bort.
- boils
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Blois
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loire-et-Cher, in central France, on the Loire River: historic castle.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- dribs
-
noun,
a small or minute quantity; bit.
- blite
-
noun,
sea blite.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- 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.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- blond
-
noun,
a blond person.
- boars
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- drail
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- drabs
-
noun,
dull gray; dull brownish or yellowish gray.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- board
-
noun,
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- Boise
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Idaho, in the SW part: built on the site of an army post on the Oregon Trail.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- dist.
-
- Bores
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- Boris
-
noun,
a male given name.
- borne
-
noun,
a circular sofa having a conical or cylindrical back piece at the center.
- borts
-
noun,
low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- botas
-
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).
- botel
-
noun,
boatel.
- boras
-
noun,
a city in S Sweden, near Göteborg.
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- Botes
-
noun,
compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
- dirls
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- brads
-
noun,
a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end.
- braid
-
noun,
a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
- 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.
- Borel
-
noun,
Félix Édouard Émile [fey-leeks ey-dwar ey-meel] /feɪˈliks eɪˈdwar eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1871–1956, French mathematician.
- boral
-
noun,
a compound of an aluminum tartrate and borate, used chiefly as an astringent and antiseptic.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- dobra
-
noun,
any of various former Portuguese coins, especially a gold coin of John V equal to two johannes.
- boite
-
noun,
a nightclub; cabaret.
- bolar
-
adjective,
of or relating to bole or clay.
- bolas
-
noun,
bola (def 1).
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Boles
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- bolts
-
noun,
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- bonds
-
noun,
something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- 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.
- boner
-
noun,
a person or thing that bones.
- bones
-
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.
- dobla
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain.
- Dobie
-
noun,
Chiefly Southwestern U.S. adobe.
- Baden
-
noun,
a region in SW Germany, formerly a state, now incorporated in Baden-Württemberg.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- init.
-
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- anti-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- ante-
-
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- aeri-
-
- aero-
-
- idion
-
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- isnad
-
noun,
the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- 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.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- anis-
-
- anils
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- ileo-
-
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- 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.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- arils
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- aden-
-
- Ibsen
-
noun,
Henrik [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Ariel
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- adits
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- areo-
-
- Adler
-
noun,
Alfred, 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.
- adobe
-
noun,
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- Ital.
-
- ition
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- 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.
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- ideal
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- ideo-
-
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- Arbil
-
noun,
Erbil.
- idio-
-
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- Iliad
-
noun,
(italics) a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.
- Adele
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- irids
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insol
-
- inst.
-
- Albee
-
noun,
Edward, born 1928, U.S. playwright.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- intr.
-
- Alost
-
noun,
a city in central Belgium, NW of Brussels.
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- alist
-
adjective,
inclined to one side; heeling or listing.
- alti-
-
- irid-
-
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- Alden
-
noun,
John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- 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.
- Irbid
-
noun,
a town in NW Jordan.
- alibi
-
noun,
Law. the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- ilio-
-
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- Ilion
-
noun,
Greek name of ancient Troy.
- aioli
-
noun,
a garlic-flavored mayonnaise of Provence, served with fish and seafood and often with vegetables.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- 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.
- andr-
-
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Andes
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- aisle
-
noun,
a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- 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.
- in-lb
-
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- 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:
- Indio
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Alton
-
noun,
a city in SW Illinois.
- alto-
-
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- Indo-
-
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- indri
-
noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- 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.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- idiot
-
noun,
Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
- abstr
-
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- ables
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- Asben
-
noun,
Aïr.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- Ladon
-
noun,
a dragon having 100 heads and guarding the garden of the Hesperides: killed by Hercules.
- abide
-
Verb phrases,
abide by,
to act in accord with.
to submit to; agree to:
to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:
- Ladin
-
noun,
a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.
- lades
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- Laden
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- Abner
-
noun,
the commander of the Israelite army and a cousin of Saul. I Sam. 14:50; 26:5.
- abode
-
noun,
a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
- labor
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- abets
-
verb (used with object),
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing:
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- Laird
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- 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.
- 30-30
-
- lands
-
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:
- Lando
-
noun,
died a.d. 914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 913–914.
- ation
-
- estab
-
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- Abdon
-
noun,
one of the minor judges of Israel. Judges 12:13–15.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- abele
-
noun,
the white poplar tree, Populus alba.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- IATSE
-
- Iran.
-
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Ibert
-
noun,
Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- Arnel
-
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- ibid.
-
- Arndt
-
noun,
Ernst Moritz [ernst moh-rits] /ɛrnst ˈmoʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1769–1860, German poet and historian.
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- Iblis
-
noun,
an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the wicked jinn.
- abris
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- abort
-
noun,
a missile, rocket, etc., that has aborted.
- 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.
- aboil
-
adverb, adjective,
boiling:
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Bolt
-
noun,
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- Bona
-
noun,
Bône, the former name of Annaba.
- 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.
- Bond
-
noun,
something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- btl.
-
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- Brno
-
noun,
a city in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: former capital of Moravia.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- 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.
- bor.
-
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- bons
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- told
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- abet
-
verb (used with object),
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing:
- RNAS
-
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- rit.
-
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- ABEL
-
noun,
the second son of Adam and Eve, slain by his brother, Cain. Gen. 4.
- abed
-
adverb,
in bed:
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- SBLI
-
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- Alb.
-
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- 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.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tron
-
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- boil
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Dali
-
noun,
Salvador [sal-vuh-dawr;; Spanish sahl-vah-th awr] /ˈsæl vəˌdɔr;; Spanish ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, Spanish painter and illustrator.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- dals
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Brie
-
noun,
a region in NE France, between the Seine and the Marne.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Boer
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- Dale
-
noun,
a valley, especially a broad valley.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- Albi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tarn, in S France: center of the Albigenses.
- RIIA
-
- 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.
- AISI
-
- tRNA
-
- bole
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- bold
-
Idioms,
be / make (so) bold, to presume or venture; dare:
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- albs
-
noun,
a linen vestment with narrow sleeves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but can be in a color in the Eastern Church.
- abs-
-
- 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.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Bol.
-
- Ald.
-
- Rida
-
- dabs
-
noun,
a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- 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.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- aet.
-
- BSAE
-
- BRAT
-
noun,
a child, especially an annoying, spoiled, or impolite child (usually used in contempt or irritation).
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- ABLS
-
- BSEE
-
- Bran
-
noun,
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
- Bres
-
noun,
a Fomorian king of Ireland, whose unpopular rule led to the expulsion of the Fomorians by the Tuatha De Danann.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- Sab.
-
- std.
-
- SALT
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- able
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- brae
-
noun,
a slope; declivity; hillside.
- abl.
-
- BSIE
-
- aer-
-
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Brad
-
noun,
a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end.
- abr.
-
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- TRIB
-
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Bred
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- abos
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- brei
-
noun,
a suspension of finely divided tissue in an isotonic medium, used chiefly as a culture for certain viruses.
- Brea
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- sail
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- RONA
-
- abri
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- bris
-
noun,
Brith.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- 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.
- tri-
-
- trid
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- 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.
- SATB
-
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Bors
-
noun,
Sir Arthurian Romance.. Also, Sir Bors de Ganis [duh gan-is] /də ˈgæn ɪs/ (Show IPA). a knight of the Round Table, cousin of Lancelot.
- BSOT
-
- adit
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Born
-
noun,
Max, 1882–1970, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- BSRT
-
- Aire
-
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- Bore
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Bora
-
noun,
(on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Sat.
-
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- brio
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- bots
-
noun,
a disease affecting various mammals, especially horses, caused by the attachment of the parasitic larvae of botflies to the stomach of the host.
- BSIT
-
- AIDS
-
noun,
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- ails
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Abie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- robs
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- BSIR
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- bote
-
noun,
compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- BSNA
-
- 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).
- bot.
-
- AInd
-
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Bose
-
noun,
Sir Jagadis Chandre [juh-guh-dees chuhn-druh] /dʒə gəˈdis ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1858–1937, Indian physicist and plant physiologist.
- 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.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- bods
-
noun,
body:
- bdle
-
plural,
bundle.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Bean
-
noun,
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- stbd
-
- Ste.
-
- Beal
-
noun,
a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- 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.
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- BDSA
-
- bdls
-
plural,
bundle.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- 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.
- bdl.
-
plural,
bundle.
- ten.
-
- BDes
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- Bate
-
noun,
a state of violent anger or fear.
- Bast
-
noun,
Botany. phloem.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- tel-
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Bend
-
noun,
the act of bending.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Sorb
-
noun,
a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- belt
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- bels
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- Bela
-
noun,
a male given name.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- beat
-
noun,
a stroke or blow.
- 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.
- bees
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- ter.
-
- Sra.
-
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- stab
-
noun,
the act of stabbing.
- 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.
- ARIS
-
- been
-
verb,
past participle of be.
- Bede
-
noun,
Saint ("the Venerable Bede") a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.
- Base
-
noun,
the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests:
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Bail
-
noun,
property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- 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:
- ates
-
- 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.
-
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- bait
-
noun,
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- Bais
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- 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.
- tabs
-
noun,
a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- tail
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- 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.
- Baer
-
noun,
Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- Bael
-
noun,
a spiny citrus tree, Aegle marmelos, of India.
- BAEd
-
- bads
-
noun,
that which is bad:
- 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.
- 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.
- bade
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- ator
-
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Bard
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- stob
-
noun,
a post, stump, or stake.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- Barn
-
noun,
a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Bari
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- 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.
- bar.
-
- 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.
- str.
-
- bant
-
verb (used without object),
to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- bani
-
noun,
plural of ban4 .
- bane
-
noun,
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- band
-
noun,
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
- TDRS
-
- bals
-
noun,
Balmoral (def 2).
- tab.
-
- Bali
-
noun,
an island in Indonesia, E of Java. 2147 sq. mi. (5561 sq. km). Capital: Singaraja.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Soni
-
- Bene
-
adverb,
of validity for the time being but subject to objection or nullification at a later date; provisionally:
- Bode
-
verb,
a simple past tense of bide.
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- bldr
-
- tion
-
- sial
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- blat
-
noun,
bleat (def 4).
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- blae
-
adjective,
bluish-black; blue-gray.
- blad
-
noun,
a flier or other promotional material distributed by a company to sell a product.
- bite
-
noun,
an act of biting.
- 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).
- alt.
-
- birl
-
noun,
British Informal. an attempt; a gamble.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- biri
-
noun,
bidi.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- 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.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- BIOS
-
noun,
computer firmware that directs many basic functions of the operating system, as booting and keyboard control.
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- ands
-
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- TODS
-
- boat
-
noun,
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- Boas
-
noun,
Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. anthropologist, born in Germany.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- 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.
- Tob.
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Boar
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- Alis
-
- blot
-
noun,
a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- blin
-
noun,
singular of blini.
- 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).
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- ALIT
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of alight1 .
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- Serb
-
noun, adjective,
Serbian.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- BLit
-
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Bion
-
noun,
flourished c100 b.c, Greek pastoral poet.
- arbs
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- 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.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- snob
-
noun,
a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- ANSI
-
- Beta
-
noun,
the second letter of the Greek alphabet (β, B).
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- bet.
-
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- BEST
-
noun,
something or someone that is best:
- ant.
-
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- Bias
-
noun,
a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned:
- BERT
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Albert, Bertram, Herbert, Hubert, etc.
- Sol.
-
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- Bern
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- Bent
-
noun,
direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
- bens
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- Beni
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- 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.
- soln
-
- snib
-
noun,
a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.
- bide
-
Idioms,
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- bin-
-
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- bio-
-
- bint
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- 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.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- bine
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- BIND
-
noun,
the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- slab
-
noun,
a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- slat
-
noun,
a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- bile
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- sld.
-
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- bier
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- Biel
-
noun,
Lake. Bienne, Lake of.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- 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.
- bidi
-
noun,
(in India) an inexpensive cigarette, locally produced usually from cut tobacco rolled in leaf.
- ano-
-
- slob
-
noun,
a slovenly or boorish person.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- beld
-
adjective,
bald; hairless.
- nobs
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- intl
-
- int.
-
- Ens.
-
- libs
-
noun,
liberation (def 2):
- 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.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- INRI
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- ins.
-
- Ltd.
-
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- 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.
- iod-
-
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Ont.
-
- Lib.
-
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- IndE
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Ilia
-
noun,
the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- 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.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- inae
-
- lin.
-
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- ole-
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- 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:
- drib
-
noun,
a small or minute quantity; bit.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- dolt
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- 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:
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- dol.
-
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- OSRD
-
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- neo-
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- drab
-
noun,
dull gray; dull brownish or yellowish gray.
- Lias
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- orbs
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- ord.
-
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- ile-
-
- nibs
-
noun,
his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical:
- Ire.
-
- lobs
-
- nos-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- lobi
-
noun,
plural of lobus.
- lond
-
- NRAB
-
- Ind.
-
- NTIA
-
- lobe
-
noun,
a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
- NTSB
-
- Iban
-
noun,
Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
- ibis
-
noun,
any of several large wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae, of warm temperate and tropical regions, related to the herons and storks, and characterized by a long, thin, downward-curved bill.
Compare sacred ibis.
- ible
-
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- load
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- NLRB
-
- IADB
-
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- 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.
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- Lani
-
- Loeb
-
noun,
Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, German physiologist and experimental biologist in the U.S.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- 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.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- 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).
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- ELAS
-
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- obit
-
noun,
Informal. an obituary.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- 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.
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- Ebro
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.
- obs.
-
- ebon
-
adjective,
ebony (def 6).
- 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.
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- LISA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- 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.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- enl.
-
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- obis
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- 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.
- Ibos
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- NIRA
-
- idae
-
- EDTA
-
- Idas
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- LitD
-
- LitB
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- lit.
-
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- end-
-
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Lead
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- lea.
-
- 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.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- rel.
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- 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.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- Del.
-
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- rebs
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- itis
-
- NASD
-
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- itol
-
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- dia-
-
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Den.
-
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- Esd.
-
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- der.
-
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Lab.
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- dbl.
-
- LAIS
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- nabe
-
noun,
a neighborhood movie theater.
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- 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:
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- laid
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- dat.
-
- lard
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Danl
-
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- deal
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- Debs
-
noun,
Eugene Victor, 1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900–20.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- lade
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- 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.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- debt
-
noun,
something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another:
- lads
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Lat.
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- deb.
-
- 1080
-
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- nabs
-
verb (used with object),
to arrest or capture.
- 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.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- 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.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- NDSL
-
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- 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).
- dlr.
-
- eso-
-
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- dis-
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- 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.
- ISBN
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- 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.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- 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.
- 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.
- NEBS
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- Nebo
-
noun,
Mt. See under Pisgah.
- NEbE
-
- est.
-
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- RIBA
-
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- isba
-
noun,
izba.
- Rabi
-
noun,
Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1944.
- dobe
-
noun,
Informal. adobe.
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- rad.
-
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- 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.
- iso-
-
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- dibs
-
noun,
money in small amounts.
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- 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.
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- Din.
-
- raob
-
noun,
Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- Dili
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- 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).
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- Dino
-
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- dir.
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- at.
-
- TAL
-
- BOD
-
noun,
body:
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- LST
-
- ASR
-
- Br.
-
- TBA
-
- ETS
-
- Tbi
-
- LSI
-
- bad
-
noun,
that which is bad:
- ASI
-
- ETR
-
- TBO
-
- bl.
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ESL
-
- ETO
-
- ast
-
- 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.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- id.
-
- ASN
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ESR
-
- BED
-
noun,
a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- bd.
-
plural,
board.
- ATB
-
- ese
-
- BDS
-
plural,
board.
- 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.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- be-
-
- LON
-
- TBD
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- io-
-
- tr.
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- ae.
-
- ite
-
- ITA
-
- ist
-
- ISR
-
- 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.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- tra
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- LDS
-
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- Isl
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ise
-
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- ISA
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- La.
-
- LSD
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Abe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- ab-
-
- ad-
-
- Tro
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- al.
-
- an.
-
- Ar.
-
- abd
-
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- Lt.
-
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- abn
-
- Abo
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- Lad
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- lb.
-
plural,
pound.
- LBO
-
- LBS
-
plural,
pound.
- Ld.
-
- abt
-
- ADB
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- IRS
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Ia.
-
- ide
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- TID
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- TIA
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- aor
-
- arb
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- ard
-
- 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.
- il-
-
- IDB
-
- 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).
- Ibo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- IBN
-
- ib.
-
- ARS
-
- IAS
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ial
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- asb
-
- ase
-
- ier
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- IRO
-
- TNB
-
- IRL
-
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- Ir.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Les
-
- IOT
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ior
-
- tlr
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- tlo
-
- 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 = .
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- ine
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- in.
-
- 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.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ILS
-
- ILO
-
- LTA
-
- St.
-
- ltr
-
- SDI
-
- SED
-
- ose
-
- Doi
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- Bon
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- OTB
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- Rd.
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- SDR
-
- SDA
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- DNA
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- DLO
-
- DLS
-
- SAR
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- DNB
-
- SBE
-
- DNR
-
- DOB
-
- Rab
-
noun,
a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- Re.
-
- sb.
-
- SBA
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- 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.
- Sib
-
noun,
a kinsman; relative.
- ONI
-
- DSR
-
- DST
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ble
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- eo-
-
- ONR
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ETD
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- ea.
-
- ead
-
- BLA
-
- DSA
-
- ons
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- boa
-
noun,
any of several nonvenomous, chiefly tropical constrictors of the family Boidae, having vestigial hind limbs at the base of the tail.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- Dr.
-
- BNS
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Bn.
-
- BLT
-
plural,
a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
- BLS
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- DRE
-
- ORB
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- Bra
-
noun,
brassiere.
- 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.
- de-
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- BSN
-
- BSO
-
- ROB
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- BST
-
- ROA
-
- rnd
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- RNA
-
- RLD
-
- Bt.
-
- BTE
-
- DEA
-
- DBS
-
- BSE
-
- DAB
-
noun,
a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
- DAR
-
- 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.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- Dal
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- DAE
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- 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.
- DSO
-
- DOA
-
- do.
-
- DBE
-
- DBA
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- REA
-
- So.
-
- SRO
-
- 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.
- Reb
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- DIL
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RDS
-
- RTS
-
- SAE
-
- RDA
-
- RBI
-
- BRE
-
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- 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.
- sd.
-
- rte
-
- ROI
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- BSD
-
- BSA
-
- BSL
-
- BRT
-
- Bro
-
noun,
a brother.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- DET
-
- rt.
-
- di.
-
- 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.
- DIB
-
verb (used without object),
to fish by letting the bait bob lightly on the water.
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- ean
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- en-
-
- BEE
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Sta
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- SRB
-
- Sr.
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- 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.
- Bel
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- nob
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- Ben
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- EEO
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- nr.
-
- NAD
-
- NRA
-
- NbE
-
- NSA
-
- ene
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERT
-
- STI
-
- NDE
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- NBA
-
- BAO
-
noun,
an African board game usually played by moving pebbles along two rows of holes.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- NEB
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- STL
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- BAS
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- 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.
- Ban
-
noun,
the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOE
-
- BDA
-
- Bde
-
- NES
-
- BEA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- 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:
- NIA
-
- nib
-
noun,
the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- STB
-
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- NBS
-
- SOB
-
noun,
the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- BIE
-
- OBE
-
- SLE
-
- obi
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Bai
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- EdB
-
- obl
-
- ob.
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- SLA
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- oid
-
- ed.
-
- EBS
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- EbN
-
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- Oba
-
noun,
a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Ola
-
- ESA
-
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- OED
-
- OSA
-
- OIt
-
- NAB
-
verb (used with object),
to arrest or capture.
- OSB
-
- EDT
-
- OSD
-
- 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.
- OIr
-
- 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.
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- SLR
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- BID
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- ODT
-
- OAS
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- Bia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of force: daughter of Pallas and Styx and sister of Cratus, Nike, and Zelos.
- bi-
-
- LR
-
- NB
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- RO
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- BO
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- B-
-
- 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.
- DB
-
- 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.
- D.
-
- BA
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- dl
-
- NI
-
- t.
-
- ND
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- TD
-
- 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.
- TB
-
- AO
-
- NL
-
- L2
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- ln
-
- OA
-
- SN
-
- TN
-
- TL
-
- Eb
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- N.
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- EI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- ol
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- R.
-
- L1
-
- SL
-
- le
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- L.
-
- S.
-
- SA
-
- 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.
- O.
-
- i.
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- DN
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- RN
-
- RI
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- 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.