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- main-course
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noun,
Nautical. a square mainsail.
- second-rate
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adjective,
of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like:
- considerate
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adjective,
showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.:
- miscreated
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adjective,
badly or wrongly created; misshapen; monstrous.
- rediscount
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verb (used with object),
to discount again.
- educations
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noun,
the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- dormancies
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noun,
the state of being dormant.
- androecium
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noun,
the stamens of a flower collectively.
- Mousterian
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adjective,
of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- centauries
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Centaurium, of the gentian family, having clusters of small pink or red flowers.
- endometria
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noun,
the mucous membrane lining the uterus.
- introduces
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verb (used with object),
to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- erinaceous
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adjective,
of the hedgehog kind or family.
- eudemonics
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noun,
the theory or art of happiness.
- mordancies
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noun,
the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- miseducate
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verb (used with object),
to educate improperly.
- undercoats
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noun,
a coat or jacket worn under another.
- dime-store
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noun,
five-and-ten (def 1).
- nectareous
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adjective,
nectarous.
- mendacious
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adjective,
telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful:
- deaconries
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noun,
the office of a deacon.
- nematocide
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noun,
a substance or preparation used for killing nematodes parasitic to plants.
- auctioneer
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noun,
a person who conducts sales by auction.
- discounter
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noun,
a person who discounts.
- countries
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noun,
a state or nation:
- courantes
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noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- courtesan
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noun,
a prostitute or paramour, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.
- neurotics
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noun,
a neurotic person.
- medicares
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.
Compare Medicaid.
- coumarins
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noun,
a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- costumier
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noun,
costumer (def 1).
- on-stream
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adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- mediators
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noun,
a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- meandrous
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adjective,
meandering; winding; rambling.
- medicates
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verb (used with object),
to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- one-acter
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noun,
a short play consisting of one act.
- Menoetius
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noun,
a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- semiround
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adjective,
having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- courtside
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noun,
(in sports) the area adjoining the official playing area of a court, as in basketball, tennis, or volleyball.
- croustade
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noun,
a shell of bread or pastry, sometimes of noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes, baked or fried and filled with ragout or the like.
- 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.
- intumesce
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verb (used without object),
to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- demeanors
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noun,
conduct; behavior; deportment.
- decurions
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noun,
the head of a decury.
- decimates
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verb (used with object),
to destroy a great number or proportion of:
- decanters
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noun,
a vessel, usually an ornamental glass bottle, for holding and serving wine, brandy, or the like.
- inductees
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noun,
a person inducted into military service.
- indurates
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adjective,
hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
- timecards
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noun,
a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- outrances
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noun,
the utmost extremity.
- intercoms
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noun,
an intercommunication system.
- introduce
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verb (used with object),
to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- unstoried
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adjective,
without a history; not written as history or told as folklore:
- iterances
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noun,
iteration.
- creatines
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noun,
an amino acid, C 4 H 9 N 3 O 2 , that is a constituent of the muscles of vertebrates and is phosphorylated to store energy used for muscular contraction.
- macedoine
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noun,
a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- custodian
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noun,
a person who has custody; keeper; guardian.
- Maidstone
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noun,
a city in Kent, in SE England.
- osmeteria
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noun,
a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- manicures
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noun,
a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- toe-dance
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noun,
a dance performed on the tips of the toes.
- manticore
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noun,
a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mesorecta
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noun,
the mesentery of the rectum.
- unmortise
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verb (used with object),
to unfasten or separate (something mortised).
- Masoretic
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adjective,
of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- neoterism
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noun,
an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- creations
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noun,
the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- Mertensia
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- undermost
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adjective, adverb,
lowest, as in position, status, or the like.
- Cointreau
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- Muscadine
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noun,
a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- ceintures
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noun,
cincture (defs 1, 2).
- ruminates
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verb (used with object),
to chew again or over and over.
- cauteries
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noun,
an escharotic substance, electric current, or hot iron used to destroy tissue.
- catenoids
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noun,
the surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis of symmetry.
- castoreum
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noun,
castor1 (def 1).
- cast-iron
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noun,
an alloy of iron, carbon, and other elements, cast as a soft and strong, or as a hard and brittle, iron, depending on the mixture and methods of molding.
- mouse-ear
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noun,
any of various plants having small, hairy leaves, as the hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella, or the forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris.
- carotenes
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- mucronate
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adjective,
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- muraenids
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noun,
any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- muscarine
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noun,
a poisonous compound, C 8 H 19 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- centiares
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noun,
a square meter. Abbreviation: ca.
- Muscatine
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noun,
a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mutineers
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noun,
a person who mutinies.
- Nicodemus
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noun,
a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin who became a secret follower of Jesus. John 3:1–21; 7:50–52; 19:39.
- narcotism
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noun,
habitual use of narcotics.
- truancies
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noun,
the act or state of being truant.
- nectaries
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noun,
Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- nectarous
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adjective,
of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- autoecism
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noun,
the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- decorates
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verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- neuromast
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noun,
a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- nematodes
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noun,
any unsegmented worm of the phylum Nematoda, having an elongated, cylindrical body; a roundworm.
- centesimo
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noun,
a monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a lira.
- centroids
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noun,
Mechanics. the point that may be considered as the center of a one- or two-dimensional figure, the sum of the displacements of all points in the figure from such a point being zero.
Compare center of mass.
- antimeres
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- cinereous
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adjective,
in the state of or reduced to ashes:
- seed-corn
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noun,
ears or kernels of corn set apart as seed.
- antiserum
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noun,
a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- seduction
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noun,
an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- midcourse
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noun,
the middle of a course.
- tradesmen
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noun,
a person engaged in trade.
- Demetrias
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noun,
an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- undercoat
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noun,
a coat or jacket worn under another.
- undercast
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noun,
Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it.
Compare overcast (def 9).
- transduce
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verb (used with object),
to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- underacts
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verb (used with or without object),
to underplay.
- Trasimeno
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noun,
a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- secretion
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noun,
(in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- centuried
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adjective,
existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- Oceanside
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noun,
a city in SW California.
- miscreant
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noun,
a vicious or depraved person; villain.
- miscreate
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adjective,
miscreated.
- certosina
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noun,
a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- moderates
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noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- modernist
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noun,
a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- nursemaid
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noun,
Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- Ceratodus
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noun,
a lungfish of either of two genera, Ceratodus or Neoceratodus, having hornlike ridges on the teeth.
- Cerastium
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noun,
any of various low-growing plants of the genus Cerastium, having leaves covered with whitish or grayish down and small white flowers, and including mouse-ear chickweed and snow-in-summer.
- numerates
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- centuries
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noun,
a period of 100 years.
- dementias
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noun,
severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- neoterics
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noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- detainers
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noun,
a writ for the further detention of a person already in custody.
- reduction
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noun,
the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- dermatous
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- entoderms
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noun,
endoderm.
- diner-out
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noun,
a person who dines out.
- encomiast
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noun,
a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.
- dosimeter
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noun,
a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- denatures
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verb (used with object),
to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- deuterons
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noun,
a positively charged particle consisting of a proton and a neutron, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of deuterium.
- reductase
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noun,
any enzyme acting as a reducing agent.
- eductions
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noun,
the act of educing.
- documents
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noun,
a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- eudemonic
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adjective,
pertaining or conducive to happiness.
- suctorian
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noun,
a suctorial animal.
- eudemonia
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noun,
happiness; well-being.
- Education
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noun,
the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- domineers
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- dominates
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verb (used with object),
to rule over; govern; control.
- 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.
- estuarine
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adjective,
formed in an estuary.
- ectoderms
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- dicentras
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noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dicentra, of the fumitory family, having long clusters of drooping flowers, as the Dutchman's-breeches or the bleeding heart.
- demoniacs
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noun,
a person seemingly possessed by a demon or evil spirit.
- disenamor
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verb (used with object),
to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with):
- Doncaster
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noun,
a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- disnature
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verb (used with object),
to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- endosteum
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noun,
the membrane lining the medullary cavity of a bone.
- discreate
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verb (used with object),
to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- resection
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noun,
Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- esoterica
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plural noun,
things understood by or meant for a select few; recondite matters or items.
- detrusion
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noun,
the act of detruding.
- recondite
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adjective,
dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:
- desertion
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noun,
the act of deserting or the state of being deserted.
- tenacious
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adjective,
holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of):
- centimos
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- emirates
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- domineer
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- dominate
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verb (used with object),
to rule over; govern; control.
- ceramist
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noun,
a person who makes ceramics.
- centaurs
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- moisture
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noun,
condensed or diffused liquid, especially water:
- Eminescu
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noun,
Mihail [mee-hah-eel] /ˌmi hɑˈil/ (Show IPA), (Mihail Iminovici) 1850–89, Romanian poet.
- centimes
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noun,
a monetary unit of various nations and territories, as Lichtenstein, Martinique, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tahiti, the 100th part of a franc.
- centiare
-
noun,
a square meter. Abbreviation: ca.
- monastic
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noun,
a member of a monastic community or order, especially a monk.
- monacids
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adjective, noun,
monoacid.
- centrums
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noun,
a center.
- centroid
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noun,
Mechanics. the point that may be considered as the center of a one- or two-dimensional figure, the sum of the displacements of all points in the figure from such a point being zero.
Compare center of mass.
- demi-sec
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adjective,
(of wines) semidry; sweeter than sec but drier than doux.
- ceratoid
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adjective,
hornlike; horny.
- secretin
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noun,
a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- mind-set
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noun,
an attitude, disposition, or mood.
- dismount
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noun,
an act or process of dismounting.
- citreous
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adjective,
lemon-yellow; greenish-yellow.
- distance
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noun,
the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- endosarc
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noun,
the endoplasm of a protozoan (opposed to ectosarc).
- endocast
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noun,
endocranial cast.
- cisterna
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noun,
cistern (def 2).
- minorcas
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noun,
Spanish Menorca. one of the Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean. 271 sq. mi. (700 sq. km).
- Minotaur
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- transude
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verb (used without object),
to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- endermic
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adjective,
acting through the skin, as a medicine, by absorption.
- cineaste
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noun,
any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking.
- endemics
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noun,
an endemic disease.
- 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.
- domestic
-
noun,
a hired household servant.
- D-notice
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noun,
a government notice sent to newspapers or other publications requesting them to withhold information for reasons of state security.
- miscount
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noun,
an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- Docetism
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noun,
an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- doctrine
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noun,
a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government:
- document
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noun,
a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- trendies
-
noun,
a trendy person, place, object, or idea.
- cerumens
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noun,
earwax.
- monsieur
-
noun,
the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- seadrome
-
noun,
a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- Cernauti
-
noun,
a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- moderate
-
noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- strained
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noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- cerimans
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noun,
a climbing, tropical American plant, Monstera deliciosa, of the arum family, characterized by cordlike, aerial roots and large, perforated leaves.
- seamount
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noun,
a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- mordants
-
noun,
a substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, especially a metallic compound, as an oxide or hydroxide, that combines with the organic dye and forms an insoluble colored compound or lake in the fiber.
- Monstera
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noun,
any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- cantoris
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adjective,
of or relating to the gospel or liturgical north side of a church (opposed to decani).
- Muscadet
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noun,
a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscadin
-
noun,
a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- tea-rose
-
noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- canotier
-
noun,
a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- edacious
-
adjective,
devouring; voracious; consuming.
- canister
-
noun,
a small box or jar, often one of a kitchen set, for holding tea, coffee, flour, and sugar.
- mutineer
-
noun,
a person who mutinies.
- douanier
-
noun,
a customs officer or official.
- Cameroun
-
noun,
Cameroon (def 1).
- nacreous
-
adjective,
of or relating to nacre.
- ectoderm
-
noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- sardonic
-
adjective,
characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering:
- natriums
-
noun,
(formerly) sodium.
- trounces
-
verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- muriates
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noun,
(not in scientific use) any chloride, especially potassium chloride, KCl, used as a fertilizer.
- taurines
-
noun,
a neutral crystalline substance, C 2 H 7 NO 3 S, obtained from bile.
- dourines
-
noun,
an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- Sumerian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
- east-end
-
noun,
a section of E London, England.
- suricate
-
noun,
a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- Suriname
-
noun,
a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- autocide
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noun,
suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autecism
-
noun,
autoecism.
- duration
-
noun,
the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durances
-
noun,
incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- duramens
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noun,
heartwood.
- nematode
-
noun,
any unsegmented worm of the phylum Nematoda, having an elongated, cylindrical body; a roundworm.
- duecento
-
noun,
the 13th century, with reference to Italy, especially to its art or literature.
- neoteric
-
noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- muricate
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adjective,
covered with short, sharp points.
- muraenid
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noun,
any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- Monteria
-
noun,
a city in N Colombia.
- educator
-
noun,
a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- emersion
-
noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- emeritus
-
noun,
an emeritus professor, minister, etc.
- ceinture
-
noun,
cincture (defs 1, 2).
- moraines
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noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- eductors
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noun,
ejector (def 3).
- sedation
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noun,
the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- Mordecai
-
noun,
the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- mordents
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noun,
a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
- cautions
-
noun,
alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness:
- do-re-mi
-
noun,
money.
- causerie
-
noun,
an informal talk or chat.
- mortices
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- catenoid
-
noun,
the surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis of symmetry.
- eduction
-
noun,
the act of educing.
- mounters
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- sauterne
-
noun,
a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- dormient
-
adjective,
sleeping; dormant.
- Muenster
-
noun,
a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- mudstone
-
noun,
a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- carmines
-
noun,
a crimson or purplish-red color.
- carneous
-
adjective,
fleshlike; flesh-colored.
- educates
-
verb (used with object),
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- carotene
-
noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- carotids
-
noun,
Also called carotid artery. either of the two large arteries, one on each side of the head, that carry blood to the head and that divide into an external branch supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts.
- casimere
-
noun,
cassimere.
- carotins
-
noun,
carotene.
- scandium
-
noun,
a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scenario
-
noun,
an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scienter
-
noun,
a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt:
- Casement
-
noun,
a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- dormeuse
-
noun,
mobcap.
- minarets
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- discount
-
noun,
the act or an instance of discounting.
- sederunt
-
noun,
a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- curtains
-
noun,
a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
- eudemons
-
noun,
a good or benevolent demon or spirit.
- intrados
-
noun,
the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- Timorese
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- eucrites
-
noun,
a basic gabbro consisting mainly of bytownite and augite.
- eucaines
-
noun,
a white, crystalline solid, C 15 H 21 NO 2 , formerly a local anesthetic, used in veterinary medicine as a substitute for cocaine.
- intrudes
-
verb (used with object),
to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- Etruscan
-
noun,
an inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
- iterance
-
noun,
iteration.
- sinecure
-
noun,
an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- dentures
-
noun,
an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
- tiresome
-
adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- customer
-
noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- deration
-
verb (used with object),
to discontinue the rationing of (something).
- madrones
-
noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- inserted
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Madurese
-
noun,
a member of a people native to the island of Madura and also inhabiting the northeastern coast of Java.
- Teresina
-
noun,
a port in NE Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.
- etamines
-
noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- manicure
-
noun,
a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- esurient
-
adjective,
hungry; greedy.
- cumarone
-
noun,
coumarone.
- cumarins
-
noun,
coumarin.
- dermato-
-
- manucode
-
noun,
any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- serotine
-
noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- sermonic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- crudites
-
noun,
an appetizer consisting of a variety of raw vegetables, usually cut into strips or bite-size pieces, and served with a dip.
- Maronite
-
noun,
a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- Teresian
-
noun,
a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- intercom
-
noun,
an intercommunication system.
- insecure
-
adjective,
subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured:
- Masorete
-
noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- decorate
-
verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- demetons
-
noun,
either of two pale-yellow, highly toxic chemicals, C 6 H 15 O 3 PS 2 or C 6 H 15 O 4 PS 2, used as systemic insecticides, lethal to insects feeding on the treated plant or animal.
- demerits
-
noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- dementis
-
noun,
an official denial by a government of actions, aims, etc., ascribed to it.
- Democrat
-
noun,
an advocate of democracy.
- dementia
-
noun,
severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demoniac
-
noun,
a person seemingly possessed by a demon or evil spirit.
- demeanor
-
noun,
conduct; behavior; deportment.
- soredium
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- idocrase
-
noun,
vesuvianite.
- Teucrian
-
noun,
one of the ancient Trojans.
- decurion
-
noun,
the head of a decury.
- decuries
-
noun,
a division, company, or body of ten men.
- decorums
-
noun,
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- incomers
-
noun,
a person who comes in.
- Terminus
-
noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- Increase
-
noun,
growth or augmentation in numbers, size, strength, quality, etc.:
- increate
-
adjective,
not created; uncreated.
- demotics
-
noun,
demotic script.
- decimate
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy a great number or proportion of:
- deciares
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- demounts
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- decanter
-
noun,
a vessel, usually an ornamental glass bottle, for holding and serving wine, brandy, or the like.
- inducers
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a substance that has the capability of activating genes within a cell.
- inductee
-
noun,
a person inducted into military service.
- denarius
-
noun,
a silver coin and monetary unit of ancient Rome, first issued in the latter part of the 3rd century b.c., that fluctuated in value and sometimes appeared as a bronze coin.
- denature
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- inductor
-
noun,
Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- indurate
-
adjective,
hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
- timecard
-
noun,
a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- Masonite
-
- sericate
-
adjective,
sericeous; silky.
- traduces
-
verb (used with object),
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame:
- Comenius
-
noun,
John Amos (Jan Amos Komenský) 1592–1670, Moravian educational reformer and bishop.
- cornuted
-
adjective,
having horns.
- mediocre
-
adjective,
of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate:
Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill.
Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- dimerous
-
adjective,
consisting of or divided into two parts.
- semitone
-
noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- cordites
-
noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- dimeters
-
noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- erection
-
noun,
the act of erecting.
- consumer
-
noun,
a person or thing that consumes.
- construe
-
noun,
the act of construing.
- consider
-
verb (used with object),
to think carefully about, especially in order to make a decision; contemplate; reflect on:
- conduits
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or the like, for conveying water or other fluid.
- Touraine
-
noun,
a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- comrades
-
noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- comedist
-
noun,
a writer of comedies.
- medicate
-
verb (used with object),
to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- comedies
-
noun,
a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- comedian
-
noun,
a professional entertainer who amuses by relating anecdotes, acting out comical situations, engaging in humorous repartee, etc.
- entoderm
-
noun,
endoderm.
- dinosaur
-
noun,
any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- coinsure
-
verb (used with or without object),
to insure jointly with another or others.
- meteoric
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- seicento
-
noun,
the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- diocesan
-
noun,
one of the clergy or people of a diocese.
- sourdine
-
noun,
mute (def 10).
- codeines
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- trade-in
-
noun,
goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase:
- discreet
-
adjective,
judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrete
-
adjective,
apart or detached from others; separate; distinct:
- sediment
-
noun,
the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- Eridanus
-
noun,
the River, a large southern constellation between Cetus and Orion, containing the bright star Achernar.
- die-cast
-
adjective,
formed by die casting.
- matinees
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- courants
-
noun,
courante.
- matrices
-
noun,
something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops:
- cremates
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- esoteric
-
adjective,
understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
- maunders
-
verb (used without object),
to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
- maundies
-
noun,
the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
- detainer
-
noun,
a writ for the further detention of a person already in custody.
- Creation
-
noun,
the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- creatine
-
noun,
an amino acid, C 4 H 9 N 3 O 2 , that is a constituent of the muscles of vertebrates and is phosphorylated to store energy used for muscular contraction.
- 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.
- craniums
-
noun,
the skull of a vertebrate.
- detinues
-
noun,
an old commonlaw form of action to recover possession of personal property wrongfully detained.
- meanders
-
noun,
Usually, meanders. turnings or windings; a winding path or course.
- detrains
-
verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- Escudero
-
noun,
Vicente [bee-then-te] /biˈθɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892?–1980, Spanish dancer.
- deutero-
-
- Medicare
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.
Compare Medicaid.
- courante
-
noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- measured
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- deuteron
-
noun,
a positively charged particle consisting of a proton and a neutron, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of deuterium.
- counties
-
noun,
the largest administrative division of a U.S. state:
- counters
-
noun,
a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
- counter-
-
- diameter
-
noun,
Geometry.
a straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere and meeting the circumference or surface at each end.
a straight line passing from side to side of any figure or body, through its center.
- coumarin
-
noun,
a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- diatreme
-
noun,
a volcanic vent produced in a solid rock structure by the explosive energy of gases in magmas.
- costumer
-
noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- mediants
-
noun,
the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.
- Dicentra
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dicentra, of the fumitory family, having long clusters of drooping flowers, as the Dutchman's-breeches or the bleeding heart.
- mediates
-
adjective,
acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.
- mediator
-
noun,
a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- cremains
-
plural noun,
the ashes of a cremated corpse.
- semantic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols:
- audience
-
noun,
the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert:
- arsenite
-
noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- amniotes
-
noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- ruminate
-
verb (used with object),
to chew again or over and over.
- resinate
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- urinates
-
verb (used without object),
to pass or discharge urine.
- notaries
-
noun,
notary public.
- notecase
-
noun,
billfold.
- arsenide
-
noun,
a compound containing two elements of which arsenic is the negative one, as silver arsenide, Ag 3 As.
- acetones
-
noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- ruinates
-
adjective,
ruined.
- rudiment
-
noun,
Usually, rudiments.
the elements or first principles of a subject:
a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something:
- ructions
-
noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- reasoned
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- numerate
-
adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- Oresteia
-
noun,
a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- reaction
-
noun,
a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- resonate
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- unmitres
-
verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- outraces
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- outsider
-
noun,
a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.:
- rimstone
-
noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- outrides
-
noun,
Prosody. an unaccented syllable or syllables added to a metrical foot, especially in sprung rhythm.
- Americus
-
noun,
a city in SW central Georgia.
- amerinds
-
noun,
Indian (def 1).
- outrance
-
noun,
the utmost extremity.
- astonied
-
adjective,
dazed; bewildered; filled with consternation.
- Turcoman
-
noun,
Turkoman.
- noctuids
-
noun,
Also called owlet moth. any of numerous dull-colored moths of the family Noctuidae, the larvae of which include the armyworms and cutworms.
- asteroid
-
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.
- nocturia
-
noun,
a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- outdares
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- outcries
-
noun,
a strong and usually public expression of protest, indignation, or the like.
- re-sound
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sound again.
- routines
-
noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- routemen
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- untreads
-
verb (used with object),
to go back through in the same steps.
- Romanies
-
noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- romances
-
noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- re-count
-
noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- resident
-
noun,
a person who resides in a place.
- redcoats
-
noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- antimere
-
noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- acrotism
-
noun,
absence or weakness of the pulse.
- Romanist
-
noun,
Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- underset
-
noun,
a current of water below the surface and flowing in a direction contrary to the water on the surface.
- Romanite
-
noun,
a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- Rosamund
-
noun,
a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- romantic
-
noun,
a romantic person.
- recusant
-
noun,
a person who is recusant.
- Ansermet
-
noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- romaunts
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- Rosemead
-
noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- undersea
-
adverb,
underseas.
- unmiters
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- andesite
-
noun,
a dark-colored volcanic rock composed essentially of plagioclase feldspar and one or more mafic minerals, as hornblende or biotite.
- routeman
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- Rodentia
-
noun,
the order comprising the rodents.
- ancestor
-
noun,
a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor.
- Redstone
-
noun,
a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- ordinate
-
noun,
Mathematics. (in plane Cartesian coordinates) the y-coordinate of a point: its distance from the x-axis measured parallel to the y-axis.
- rotundas
-
noun,
a round building, especially one with a dome.
- unitards
-
noun,
a one-piece leotard with full-length stockings; bodysuit.
- aconites
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Aconitum, of the buttercup family, having irregular flowers usually in loose clusters, including species with poisonous and medicinal properties.
- anecdote
-
noun,
a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
- arenites
-
noun,
psammite.
- romaines
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- underact
-
verb (used with or without object),
to underplay.
- aneroids
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- Anicetus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- one-time
-
adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- retinues
-
noun,
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- ascender
-
noun,
a person or thing that ascends or causes ascension.
- racemous
-
adjective,
racemose.
- radiomen
-
noun,
a person who operates a radio.
- neuromas
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- uranites
-
noun,
any of the uranium phosphates, as autunite or torbernite.
- remounts
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- auctions
-
noun,
Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- raiments
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- Aidoneus
-
noun,
a king of Thesprotia.
- Neustria
-
noun,
the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- rainouts
-
noun,
a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- neurotic
-
noun,
a neurotic person.
- racemose
-
adjective,
Botany.
having the form of a raceme.
arranged in racemes.
- reunites
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unite again, as after separation.
- radiums
-
noun,
Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- soredia
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- recites
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- cratons
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- Maurois
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- Romaine
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- craniom
-
- Euratom
-
noun,
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
- Maurist
-
noun,
a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- Maurice
-
noun,
German Moritz. 1521–53, German general: elector of Saxony 1547–53.
- creates
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- Coueism
-
noun,
a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- dineros
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- cranium
-
noun,
the skull of a vertebrate.
- cranio-
-
- entero-
-
- tenrecs
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- courant
-
noun,
courante.
- orceins
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- rodents
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- measure
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- entices
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- ordains
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- icterus
-
noun,
jaundice (def 1).
- stadium
-
noun,
a sports arena, usually oval or horseshoe-shaped, with tiers of seats for spectators.
- Eunomia
-
noun,
one of the Horae: the personification of order.
- enteric
-
noun,
enterics, Bacteriology. enterobacteria.
- androus
-
- 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.
- meander
-
noun,
Usually, meanders. turnings or windings; a winding path or course.
- couters
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- credent
-
adjective,
Archaic. believing.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- residue
-
noun,
something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used; remainder; rest; remnant.
- dim-out
-
noun,
a reduction or concealment of night lighting in wartime to make the source less visible to an enemy from the air or sea.
- cretins
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- matinee
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- dimeter
-
noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- aeneous
-
adjective,
bronze-colored:
- mastoid
-
noun,
the mastoid process.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- crimson
-
noun,
a crimson color, pigment, or dye.
- deniers
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- crinose
-
adjective,
hairy.
- amounts
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- crinums
-
noun,
any of the tropical and subtropical bulbous plants constituting the genus Crinum, of the amaryllis family, usually having umbels of large, showy flowers.
- sterno-
-
- amosite
-
noun,
an asbestine variety of anthophyllite, rich in iron, formerly used as a heat-resistant material.
- eudemon
-
noun,
a good or benevolent demon or spirit.
- Masonic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or characteristic of Freemasons or Freemasonry.
- recants
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- imarets
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- ideates
-
noun,
ideatum.
- coterie
-
noun,
a group of people who associate closely.
- Maureen
-
noun,
a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- credits
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- deicers
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- unmiter
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- maunder
-
verb (used without object),
to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
- 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.
- ideatum
-
noun,
(in epistemology) the object of knowledge as known by the mind.
Compare datum (def 3).
- sternum
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- cremate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- unmitre
-
verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- seriate
-
adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Cremona
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- crenate
-
adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- matrons
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- 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.
- decanes
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon, C 10 H 22 , of the methane series, occurring in several isomeric forms.
- directs
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- menders
-
noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- constr.
-
- consume
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- sounder
-
noun,
a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
- Menorca
-
noun,
Minorca.
- eutocia
-
noun,
normal childbirth.
- demotes
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- Mendota
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- raiment
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- conster
-
verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- contra-
-
- contras
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- contuse
-
verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- 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.
- Mencius
-
noun,
c380–289 b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- cordate
-
adjective,
heart-shaped:
- Demotic
-
noun,
demotic script.
- Soutine
-
noun,
Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- ureides
-
noun,
an acyl urea.
- cordite
-
noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- soutane
-
noun,
a cassock.
- Tenedos
-
noun,
an island in the Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, belonging to Turkey.
- Tourane
-
noun,
former name of Danang.
- mercies
-
noun,
compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
- Mercian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Mercia.
- demonic
-
adjective,
inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- Comtian
-
noun,
a follower of the philosophy of Auguste Comte.
- conatus
-
noun,
an effort or striving.
- Mercast
-
noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- anomite
-
noun,
a variety of mica, similar to biotite but differing in optical orientation.
- conduit
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or the like, for conveying water or other fluid.
- uremias
-
noun,
a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- toucans
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- Mercado
-
noun,
a market.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- coniums
-
noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- disrate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- demeton
-
noun,
either of two pale-yellow, highly toxic chemicals, C 6 H 15 O 3 PS 2 or C 6 H 15 O 4 PS 2, used as systemic insecticides, lethal to insects feeding on the treated plant or animal.
- Romanic
-
noun,
romance1 (def 9).
- unitard
-
noun,
a one-piece leotard with full-length stockings; bodysuit.
- mediate
-
adjective,
acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.
- demount
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- reunite
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unite again, as after separation.
- cortina
-
noun,
a weblike, often evanescent veil covering the gills or hanging from the cap edge of certain mushrooms, particularly those of genus Cortinarius, and sometimes persisting as a ring or remnant of fibrils around the mushroom stalk.
- Romance
-
noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- Romains
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- radomes
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- dementi
-
noun,
an official denial by a government of actions, aims, etc., ascribed to it.
- dements
-
verb (used with object),
to make mad or insane.
- Costain
-
noun,
Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- costard
-
noun,
a large English variety of apple.
- mediant
-
noun,
the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.
- tenured
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- costume
-
noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- Eustace
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “steadfast.”.
- demeans
-
noun,
Archaic. demeanor.
- torsade
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- medico-
-
- menaces
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- discern
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend:
- coremia
-
noun,
the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- Meitner
-
noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- acumens
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- recount
-
noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- endures
-
verb (used with object),
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo:
- medusan
-
noun,
a medusa or jellyfish.
- discant
-
noun,
Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- medicos
-
noun,
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
- corneas
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- enduros
-
noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- demerit
-
noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- cornets
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- medinas
-
noun,
the old Arab quarter of a North African city.
- cornute
-
adjective,
cornuted.
- oneidas
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- radices
-
noun,
a plural of radix.
- seriema
-
noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- tenures
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- destine
-
verb (used with object),
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
- Smeaton
-
noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- steamed
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- iracund
-
adjective,
prone to anger; irascible.
- daimons
-
noun,
daemon.
- Sno-Cat
-
- 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.
- tinamou
-
noun,
any of several birds of the family Tinamidae, of South and Central America, related to the ratite birds but superficially resembling the gallinaceous birds.
- Isadore
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- iodates
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- destain
-
verb (used with object),
to remove stain (from a specimen) to enhance visibility and contrast of parts.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- estamin
-
noun,
a worsted fabric constructed in twill weave with a rough surface.
- Decatur
-
noun,
Stephen, 1779–1820, U.S. naval officer.
- intrude
-
verb (used with object),
to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- 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.
- deceits
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- dacoits
-
noun,
(in India and Burma) a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.
- dancers
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- incudes
-
noun,
a plural of incus.
- outdare
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- deciare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- incrust
-
verb (used with object),
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- detrain
-
verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- detours
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- decerns
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- sincere
-
adjective,
free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
- stearic
-
adjective,
of or relating to suet or fat.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- sinuate
-
adjective,
bent in and out; winding; sinuous.
- detinue
-
noun,
an old commonlaw form of action to recover possession of personal property wrongfully detained.
- outmans
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- tirades
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- outrace
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- Sirenum
-
noun,
Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- detains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- decares
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- somatic
-
adjective,
of the body; bodily; physical.
- sidero-
-
- tierces
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- dereism
-
noun,
autism.
- Daumier
-
noun,
Honoré [aw-naw-rey] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1808–79, French painter, cartoonist, and lithographer.
- randoms
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- 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.
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- etesian
-
adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- inducts
-
verb (used with object),
to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies:
- tierced
-
adjective,
(of an escutcheon) divided vertically or horizontally into three equal parts.
- etamine
-
noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- deontic
-
adjective,
of or relating to duty and moral obligation as ethical concepts.
- denture
-
noun,
an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
- untread
-
verb (used with object),
to go back through in the same steps.
- dearies
-
noun,
darling.
- induces
-
verb (used with object),
to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind:
- indorse
-
verb (used with object),
endorse.
- inducer
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a substance that has the capability of activating genes within a cell.
- inroads
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- retinue
-
noun,
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- AmerInd
-
noun,
Indian (def 1).
- 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.
- descent
-
noun,
the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- descant
-
noun,
Music.
a melody or counterpoint accompanying a simple musical theme and usually written above it.
(in part music) the soprano.
a song or melody.
- estrade
-
noun,
a slightly raised platform in a room or hall.
- danseur
-
noun,
a male ballet dancer.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- amerces
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- outride
-
noun,
Prosody. an unaccented syllable or syllables added to a metrical foot, especially in sprung rhythm.
- insured
-
noun,
the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
- dermat-
-
- stardom
-
noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- instead
-
Idioms,
instead of, in place of; in lieu of:
- decants
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- racemes
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- timeous
-
adjective,
timely; sufficiently early.
- Insecta
-
noun,
the class comprising the insects.
- outside
-
noun,
the outer side, surface, or part; exterior:
- untried
-
adjective,
not tried; not attempted, proved, or tested.
- urinate
-
verb (used without object),
to pass or discharge urine.
- custard
-
noun,
a dessert made of eggs, sugar, and milk, either baked, boiled, or frozen.
- cronies
-
noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- decorum
-
noun,
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- crusted
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- Marcuse
-
noun,
Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- Marconi
-
noun,
Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- tonemes
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Marcion
-
noun,
a.d. c100–c160, Christian Gnostic.
- erodent
-
adjective,
eroding; erosive:
- ctenoid
-
adjective,
comblike or pectinate; rough-edged.
- incomer
-
noun,
a person who comes in.
- stereo-
-
- to-name
-
noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- manures
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- matures
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- randies
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- mantids
-
noun,
mantis.
- endorse
-
noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- erotica
-
noun,
written works, usually fiction, dealing with sexual love.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- crusado
-
noun,
an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.
- uranite
-
noun,
any of the uranium phosphates, as autunite or torbernite.
- tonsure
-
noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- stamin-
-
- Martinu
-
noun,
Bohuslav [baw-hoo-slahf] /ˈbɔ hʊˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1959, Czech composer.
- Oriente
-
noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- decuman
-
noun,
Also called decuman gate. (in ancient Rome) the main gate of a military camp, facing away from the enemy and near which the tenth cohort of the legion was usually stationed.
- martins
-
noun,
Peter, born 1946, U.S. choreographer and ballet master, born in Denmark.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- Ericson
-
noun,
Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- decries
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- crusade
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- eucrite
-
noun,
a basic gabbro consisting mainly of bytownite and augite.
- diester
-
noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- Amorite
-
noun,
a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
- amorist
-
noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- readout
-
noun,
Computers. the output of information from a computer in readable form.
Compare printout.
- readies
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- incomes
-
noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- amniote
-
noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- resound
-
verb (used with object),
to reecho (a sound).
- Maderno
-
noun,
Carlo [kahr-law] /ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1556–1629, Italian architect.
- sidecar
-
noun,
a small car attached on one side to a motorcycle and supported on the other side by a wheel of its own, used for a passenger, parcels, etc.
- admires
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- madrone
-
noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- deuter-
-
- curiosa
-
plural noun,
books, pamphlets, etc., dealing with unusual subjects.
- Madison
-
noun,
Dolly or Dolley [dol-ee] /ˈdɒl i/ (Show IPA), (Dorothea Payne) 1768–1849, wife of James Madison.
- curites
-
noun,
a radioactive uranium mineral, Pb 2 U 5 O 17 ·4H 2 O, with adamantine luster, occurring as reddish-brown to deep-yellow needle-shaped crystals, formed by alteration of uraninite.
- sideman
-
noun,
an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- sidearm
-
adverb,
with a swinging motion of the arm moving to the side of the body at shoulder level or below and nearly parallel to the ground:
- sidemen
-
noun,
an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- side-on
-
adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- macrons
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- teredos
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- curtain
-
noun,
a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
- denotes
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- rinceau
-
noun,
an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- eucaine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline solid, C 15 H 21 NO 2 , formerly a local anesthetic, used in veterinary medicine as a substitute for cocaine.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- Manitou
-
noun,
(among the Algonquian Indians) a supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
- diastem
-
noun,
a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- maniocs
-
noun,
cassava.
- diatoms
-
noun,
any of numerous microscopic, unicellular, marine or freshwater algae of the phylum Chrysophyta, having cell walls containing silica.
- Decimus
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) tenth.
- erotics
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- cumarin
-
noun,
coumarin.
- diaster
-
noun,
the stage in mitosis at which the chromosomes, after their division and separation, are grouped near the poles of the spindle.
- osmatic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the sense of smell.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- toadies
-
noun,
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- Admetus
-
noun,
a Thessalian king, one of the Argonauts and husband of Alcestis.
- mainour
-
noun,
a stolen article found on the person of or near the thief:
- cuneate
-
adjective,
having or being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- erudite
-
adjective,
characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly:
Synonyms: educated, knowledgeable; wise, sapient.
- stearo-
-
- Maidens
-
noun,
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
- 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.
- curates
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- comrade
-
noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- Comines
-
noun,
Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), 1445?–1511? French historian and diplomat.
- Mountie
-
noun,
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- Edomite
-
noun,
a descendant of Esau or Edom. Num. 20:14–21.
- suction
-
noun,
the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- educate
-
verb (used with object),
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- dormins
-
noun,
abscisic acid.
- turdine
-
adjective,
belonging or pertaining to the family Turdidae, comprising the true thrushes.
- rescind
-
verb (used with object),
to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- acerose
-
adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- turacos
-
noun,
touraco.
- noetics
-
noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- mounter
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- nomadic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- mounted
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- dormice
-
noun,
any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- scouter
-
noun,
a person who scouts.
- acerous
-
adjective,
acerose1 .
- tureens
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- Sudanic
-
adjective,
(especially in former systems of classification) of or relating to a residual category of African languages including most of the non-Bantu and non-Hamitic languages of northern and central Africa: most now reclassified as part of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
- Sudeten
-
noun,
Also, Sudetes [soo-dee-teez] /suˈdi tiz/ (Show IPA). Czech Sudety [soo -de-ti] /ˈsʊ dɛ tɪ/ (Show IPA). a mountain range in E central Europe, extending along the N boundary of the Czech Republic between the Elbe and Oder rivers. Highest peak, 5259 feet (1603 meters).
- mortise
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- carnets
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- sautoir
-
noun,
a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- douanes
-
noun,
a custom house; customs.
- carious
-
adjective,
having caries, as teeth; decayed.
- astound
-
adjective,
Archaic. astonished; astounded.
- Ecuador
-
noun,
a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- Carmine
-
noun,
a crimson or purplish-red color.
- mudcats
-
noun,
flathead catfish.
- suimate
-
noun,
self-mate.
- carnies
-
noun,
a person employed by a carnival.
- triodes
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- carnose
-
adjective,
of or relating to flesh; fleshy.
- carnous
-
adjective,
carnose.
- mucoids
-
noun,
Biochemistry. any of a group of substances resembling the mucins, occurring in connective tissue, cysts, etc.
- remands
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- noctuid
-
noun,
Also called owlet moth. any of numerous dull-colored moths of the family Noctuidae, the larvae of which include the armyworms and cutworms.
- carotid
-
noun,
Also called carotid artery. either of the two large arteries, one on each side of the head, that carry blood to the head and that divide into an external branch supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts.
- carotin
-
noun,
carotene.
- carouse
-
noun,
carousal.
- dormant
-
adjective,
lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:
- cations
-
noun,
a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- careens
-
noun,
a careening.
- Emerita
-
noun,
a woman with such status.
- cenotes
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- ARTEMIS
-
noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- scrotum
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- censure
-
noun,
strong or vehement expression of disapproval:
- centare
-
noun,
centiare.
- centaur
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- notices
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- acetous
-
adjective,
containing or producing acetic acid.
- Cenaeum
-
noun,
(in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- monesia
-
noun,
a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- arseno-
-
- centime
-
noun,
a monetary unit of various nations and territories, as Lichtenstein, Martinique, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tahiti, the 100th part of a franc.
- centimo
-
noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- nourice
-
noun,
a nurse.
- tedious
-
adjective,
marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome:
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- monades
-
noun,
plural of monas.
- monster
-
noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- cements
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- acetins
-
noun,
a colorless, thick, hygroscopic liquid, C 5 H 10 O 4 : used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
- acetone
-
noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- catouse
-
noun,
New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- mortice
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- acetoin
-
noun,
a yellowish, pleasant-smelling liquid, C 4 H 8 O 2 , obtained from various carbohydrates, as glucose, by fermentation: used chiefly in the manufacture of flavors and essences.
- caution
-
noun,
alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness:
- Nordica
-
noun,
Lillian (Lillian Norton) 1859–1914, U.S. soprano.
- screeno
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- moreens
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- eductor
-
noun,
ejector (def 3).
- moraine
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- mordent
-
noun,
a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
- Noricum
-
noun,
an ancient Roman province in central Europe, roughly corresponding to the part of Austria south of the Danube.
- Meriden
-
noun,
a city in central Connecticut.
- mordant
-
noun,
a substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, especially a metallic compound, as an oxide or hydroxide, that combines with the organic dye and forms an insoluble colored compound or lake in the fiber.
- 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.
- morceau
-
noun,
piece; morsel.
- Morandi
-
noun,
Giorgio [jawr-jaw] /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1964, Italian painter.
- nostrum
-
noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- reminds
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- Munster
-
noun,
muenster.
- centri-
-
- durians
-
noun,
the edible fruit of a tree, Durio zibethinus, of the bombax family, of southeastern Asia, having a hard, prickly rind, a highly flavored, pulpy flesh, and an unpleasant odor.
- atonics
-
noun,
Grammar. an unaccented word, syllable, or sound.
- neuters
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- neutro-
-
- trounce
-
verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- necrose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- Durante
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jimmy") 1893–1980, U.S. comedian.
- sainted
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- natured
-
adjective,
having a temperament of a particular kind (usually used in combination):
- nectars
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- durmast
-
noun,
a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- Caedmon
-
noun,
fl. a.d. c670, Anglo-Saxon religious poet.
- caesium
-
noun,
cesium.
- natrium
-
noun,
(formerly) sodium.
- sarcode
-
noun,
protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- sarcoid
-
noun,
a growth resembling a sarcoma.
- sardine
-
noun,
the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- atomies
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- Durance
-
noun,
incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- Cairene
-
noun,
a native or resident of Cairo, Egypt.
- neuroma
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- remudas
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- tandems
-
noun,
a vehicle, as a truck, tractor, or trailer, in which a pair or pairs of axles are arranged in tandem.
- auditor
-
noun,
a person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records, compare the charges with the vouchers, verify balance sheet and income items, and state the result.
- sanctum
-
noun,
a sacred or holy place.
- Nereids
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- Tardieu
-
noun,
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée [ahn-drey pyer ga-bree-el a-mey-dey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pyɛr ga briˈɛl a meɪˈdeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, French statesman.
- dunites
-
noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed almost entirely of olivine.
- Dunmore
-
noun,
John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732–1809, Scottish colonial governor in America.
- Tancred
-
noun,
1078?–1112, Norman leader in the first Crusade.
- tsardom
-
noun,
czardom.
- auction
-
noun,
Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- austere
-
adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- nemato-
-
- nematic
-
adjective,
noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is linear.
- Austro-
-
- duramen
-
noun,
heartwood.
- atriums
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- tsunami
-
noun,
an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- Dustman
-
noun,
a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- atomics
-
noun,
the branch of physics that deals with atoms, especially atomic energy.
- saunter
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- asunder
-
adverb, adjective,
into separate parts; in or into pieces:
- nimrods
-
noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- sadiron
-
noun,
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Older Use. a flatiron that is pointed at both ends and has a detachable handle.
- taurine
-
noun,
a neutral crystalline substance, C 2 H 7 NO 3 S, obtained from bile.
- Muscari
-
- ecartes
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- canters
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- murines
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- Saucier
-
noun,
a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- dourine
-
noun,
an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- nitrous
-
adjective,
pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- astroid
-
noun,
a hypocycloid with four cusps.
- trisome
-
noun,
a trisomic individual.
- muriate
-
noun,
(not in scientific use) any chloride, especially potassium chloride, KCl, used as a fertilizer.
- cardio-
-
- Cardium
-
- astride
-
preposition,
with a leg on each side of; straddling:
- muscone
-
noun,
an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 16 H 30 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- mustard
-
noun,
a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- narcose
-
adjective,
characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- camions
-
noun,
a strongly built cart or wagon for transporting heavy loads; dray.
- dustmen
-
noun,
a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- surname
-
noun,
the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- remount
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- Nicetas
-
noun,
Saint Ignatius (def 2).
- Cameron
-
noun,
Julia Margaret, 1815–79, English photographer, born in India.
- tundras
-
noun,
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- surcoat
-
noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- Nidaros
-
noun,
former name of Trondheim.
- candors
-
noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- Camoens
-
noun,
Luis Vaz de [loo-eesh vahzh duh] /luˈiʃ vɑʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.
- uterine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the uterus or womb.
- drastic
-
adjective,
acting with force or violence; violent.
- triunes
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- candier
-
- candies
-
noun,
any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- Candiot
-
noun,
a Cretan.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- centres
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- rainout
-
noun,
a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- cinemas
-
noun,
Chiefly British. motion picture.
- rotunda
-
noun,
a round building, especially one with a dome.
- Miocene
-
noun,
the Miocene Epoch or Series.
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- ocreate
-
adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- codeine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- 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.
- Roscian
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving acting.
- Oceanus
-
noun,
a Titan who was the son of Uranus and Gaea, the consort of Tethys, and the father of the river gods and Oceanids.
- miscode
-
verb (used with object),
to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- endears
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- Oceanid
-
noun,
any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
- aconite
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Aconitum, of the buttercup family, having irregular flowers usually in loose clusters, including species with poisonous and medicinal properties.
- endemic
-
noun,
an endemic disease.
- Domenic
-
noun,
a male given name.
- redcoat
-
noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- misdate
-
noun,
a wrong date.
- seconde
-
noun,
the second of the eight defensive positions.
- cetanes
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- misread
-
verb (used with or without object),
to read wrongly.
- coedits
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- Temenus
-
noun,
a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- coesite
-
noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- cestoid
-
noun,
cestode.
- cestode
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- dominee
-
noun,
dominie (def 2).
- reduces
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- mitered
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- anticum
-
noun,
pronaos.
- minutes
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- microns
-
noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- cerumen
-
noun,
earwax.
- coarsen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become coarse.
- minders
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- minaret
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- sedarim
-
noun,
a plural of Seder.
- redouts
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- Docetae
-
plural noun,
early Christian adherents of Docetism.
- citrons
-
noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- Rostand
-
noun,
Edmond [ed-mawn] /ɛdˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1868–1918, French dramatist and poet.
- encodes
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- Minorca
-
noun,
Spanish Menorca. one of the Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean. 271 sq. mi. (700 sq. km).
- docents
-
noun,
privatdocent.
- encomia
-
noun,
a formal expression of high praise; eulogy:
- cistron
-
noun,
a segment of DNA that encodes for the formation of a specific polypeptide chain; a structural gene.
- traduce
-
verb (used with object),
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame:
- cistern
-
noun,
a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
- minuets
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- octanes
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- coaster
-
noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- Mideast
-
noun,
Middle East.
- encores
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- coatees
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- section
-
noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- centro-
-
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- encrust
-
verb (used with or without object),
incrust.
- storied
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- domines
-
noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- tenaces
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- aristo-
-
- Donatus
-
noun,
early-4th-century bishop of Casae Nigrae in northern Africa: leader of a heretical Christian group.
Compare Donatist.
- Tournai
-
noun,
a city in W Belgium, on the Scheldt River.
- moderns
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- cereous
-
adjective,
waxlike.
- endmost
-
adjective,
farthest; most distant; last:
- routine
-
noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- cerato-
-
- Anterus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 235–236.
- cerates
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- comates
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- cerated
-
adjective,
covered with wax.
- tourism
-
noun,
the activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure.
- sematic
-
adjective,
serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- modiste
-
noun,
Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- tenders
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- ceriman
-
noun,
a climbing, tropical American plant, Monstera deliciosa, of the arum family, characterized by cordlike, aerial roots and large, perforated leaves.
- antero-
-
- emetics
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- reedman
-
noun,
a musician who plays a reed instrument.
- romaunt
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- Ditmars
-
noun,
Raymond Lee, 1876–1942, U.S. zoologist and author.
- moisten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- merinos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- unarmed
-
adjective,
without weapons or armor.
- centums
-
noun,
one hundred.
- monacid
-
adjective, noun,
monoacid.
- actino-
-
- ruction
-
noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- centrum
-
noun,
a center.
- ruinate
-
adjective,
ruined.
- moderne
-
adjective,
pretentiously modern; striving to appear modern but lacking style or conviction.
- donates
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- nutrias
-
noun,
the coypu.
- tediums
-
noun,
the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- diurons
-
noun,
a white crystalline substance, C 9 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a weed-killer.
- emirate
-
noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- certain
-
Idioms,
for certain, without a doubt; surely:
- Cernuda
-
noun,
Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1902–63, Spanish poet, in England after 1939.
- rondeau
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
- tanrecs
-
noun,
tenrec.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- cermets
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- Dominus
-
noun,
God; the Lord.
- Scutari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- acinous
-
adjective,
consisting of acini.
- redacts
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- ceriums
-
noun,
a steel-gray, ductile metallic element of the rare-earth group found only in combination. Symbol: Ce; atomic weight: 140.12; atomic number: 58.
- Eudora
-
noun,
a female given name.
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- 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.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- dunite
-
noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed almost entirely of olivine.
- tandem
-
noun,
a vehicle, as a truck, tractor, or trailer, in which a pair or pairs of axles are arranged in tandem.
- sunder
-
verb (used with object),
to separate; part; divide; sever.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- stance
-
noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- enduro
-
noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- 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.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Dumont
-
noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- rectum
-
noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- Eunice
-
noun,
a city in S central Louisiana.
- recuse
-
verb (used with object),
to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- Durant
-
noun,
Ariel, 1898–1981, U.S. author and historian (wife of Will).
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- remuda
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- endure
-
verb (used with object),
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo:
- endear
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- endues
-
verb (used with object),
to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
- Duster
-
noun,
a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- durain
-
noun,
the coal forming the dull layers in banded bituminous coal.
- Dustin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rectos
-
- recti-
-
- rancid
-
adjective,
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
- encore
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- etudes
-
noun,
a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique.
- random
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- duties
-
noun,
something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- Tadmor
-
noun,
Biblical name of Palmyra.
- rectus
-
noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- redact
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- durian
-
noun,
the edible fruit of a tree, Durio zibethinus, of the bombax family, of southeastern Asia, having a hard, prickly rind, a highly flavored, pulpy flesh, and an unpleasant odor.
- Dunois
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Comte de ("Bastard of Orleans") 1403?–68, French military leader: relieved by Joan of Arc and her troops when besieged at Orleans.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- durocs
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- ericas
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- rescue
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- eructs
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- reseau
-
noun,
a network.
- educes
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- Escaut
-
noun,
French name of Scheldt.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- reduct
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce.
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- escent
-
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- reduce
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Strand
-
noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- emetic
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- emends
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- Stroud
-
noun,
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- steno-
-
- studio
-
noun,
the workroom or atelier of an artist, as a painter or sculptor.
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- erotic
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- escudo
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
- ranids
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- encase
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- stound
-
noun,
Archaic. a short time; short while.
- stoned
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- encode
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- 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.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- redout
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- sundae
-
noun,
ice cream served with syrup poured over it, and often other toppings, as whipped cream, chopped nuts, or fruit.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- remand
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- 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:
- entice
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- edemas
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- Esmond
-
noun,
a male given name.
- 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:
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- enter-
-
- suited
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- enacts
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- remind
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- educts
-
noun,
something educed; eduction.
- Marist
-
noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- nutria
-
noun,
the coypu.
- Modern
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Modena
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, NW of Bologna.
- rounds
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- numis.
-
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- second
-
noun,
a second part.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- misrun
-
noun,
an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- miscue
-
noun,
Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- Nordic
-
noun,
a member of the Nordic people, especially a Scandinavian.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- 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.
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- monied
-
adjective,
moneyed.
- Monica
-
noun,
a female given name.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Moneta
-
noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- mondes
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- monads
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- nudism
-
noun,
the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- Nueces
-
noun,
a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- rotund
-
adjective,
round in shape; rounded:
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- micro-
-
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- metric
-
noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- micros
-
noun,
anything extremely small in scope or capability.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- merous
-
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- Merida
-
noun,
suntan (def 2).
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- micron
-
noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- seduce
-
verb (used with object),
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- octads
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- minute
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minuet
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- octane
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- Octans
-
noun,
the Octant, a southern constellation that contains the south celestial pole.
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- secund
-
adjective,
arranged on one side only; unilateral.
- secure
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- minder
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- minces
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- sedate
-
adjective,
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- odiums
-
noun,
intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- mid-on
-
noun,
the position of a fielder on the on side of the wicket.
- oedema
-
noun,
edema.
- Nordau
-
noun,
Max Simon [mahks zee-mawn] /mɑks ˈzi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1849–1923, Hungarian author, physician, and leader in the Zionist movement.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- Mercia
-
noun,
an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- nicads
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- nasute
-
noun,
a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- nastic
-
adjective,
of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- Sardou
-
noun,
Victorien [veek-taw-ryen] /vik tɔˈryɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1831–1908, French dramatist.
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- narco-
-
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- nadirs
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- nacred
-
adjective,
lined with or resembling nacre.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- Nimrod
-
noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- Saturn
-
noun,
an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- sarco-
-
- Nautes
-
noun,
(in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- sauced
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- Nemrod
-
noun,
Nimrod (def 1).
- 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.
- Neruda
-
noun,
Pablo [pah-vlaw;; English pah-bloh] /ˈpɑ vlɔ;; English ˈpɑ bloʊ/ (Show IPA), (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) 1904–73, Chilean poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1971.
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neuro-
-
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- nemat-
-
- Sandie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Sandro.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- necro-
-
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- saucer
-
noun,
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- Rustin
-
noun,
Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- mucins
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- scato-
-
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- scoria
-
noun,
Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Scotia
-
noun,
a deep concave molding between two fillets, as in the Attic base.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mucors
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- rustic
-
noun,
a country person.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- Mounds
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- nomads
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- Mosaic
-
noun,
a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- mucoid
-
noun,
Biochemistry. any of a group of substances resembling the mucins, occurring in connective tissue, cysts, etc.
- mucosa
-
noun,
mucous membrane.
- muscid
-
noun,
any muscid fly.
- sacrum
-
noun,
a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- Nimrud
-
noun,
modern name of the site of the ancient city of Kalakh.
- Muscat
-
noun,
a variety of grape having a pronounced sweet aroma and flavor, used for making wine and raisins.
- Nistru
-
noun,
Romanian name of Dniester.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- nitro-
-
- murine
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- Murcia
-
noun,
a city in SE Spain.
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- nocti-
-
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- munite
-
verb (used with object),
to fortify.
- sacro-
-
- Muncie
-
noun,
a city in E Indiana.
- sacred
-
adjective,
devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- mudras
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- rutins
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- mudcat
-
noun,
flathead catfish.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- Merced
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- intoed
-
adjective,
having inwardly turned toes.
- iodate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- socmen
-
noun,
sokeman.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- intro.
-
- intra-
-
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- inter.
-
- sodium
-
noun,
Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- instr.
-
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- insect
-
noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- socman
-
noun,
sokeman.
- 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.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- Maceio
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Alagoas, in E Brazil.
- ounces
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- madres
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Madero
-
noun,
Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- macron
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- macro-
-
- macons
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- Maced.
-
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- outman
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Siouan
-
noun,
an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- isotac
-
noun,
a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- maduro
-
adjective,
strong and darkly colored.
- icemen
-
noun,
a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.
- somni-
-
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- radium
-
noun,
Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- ideate
-
noun,
ideatum.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- radius
-
noun,
a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface:
- incase
-
verb (used with object),
encase.
- radome
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- iceman
-
noun,
a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.
- 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.
- Raetic
-
noun,
an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- Icarus
-
noun,
Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- reused
-
adjective,
noting wool that previously has been spun, woven, and used.
- soucar
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- iatro-
-
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- inmate
-
noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- induc.
-
- somat-
-
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- indues
-
verb (used with object),
endue.
- rident
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- rictus
-
noun,
the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- raceme
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- induct
-
verb (used with object),
to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies:
- induce
-
verb (used with object),
to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind:
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- incuse
-
noun,
an incuse figure or impression.
- incurs
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- Racine
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1639–99, French dramatist.
- racism
-
noun,
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racist
-
noun,
a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- income
-
noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- radio-
-
- 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.
- MAeroE
-
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- Seneca
-
noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- Romaic
-
noun,
demotic (def 5).
- rodmen
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Rodman
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- 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.
- meacon
-
verb (used with object),
to give false signals to (electronic navigational equipment), as by means of a radio transmitter.
- McNair
-
noun,
Lesley James, 1883–1944, U.S. army officer.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- rodent
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Mendes
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- mender
-
noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- menads
-
noun,
maenad.
- Menado
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- menace
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- Median
-
noun,
Arithmetic, Statistics. the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers:
- Sendai
-
noun,
a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- Medusa
-
noun,
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- medius
-
noun,
the middle finger.
- Medit.
-
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- Medina
-
noun,
the old Arab quarter of a North African city.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- medias
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- maunds
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India and other parts of Asia, varying greatly according to locality: in India, from about 25 to 82.286 pounds (11 to 37.4 kilograms) (the latter being the government maund).
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- maiden
-
noun,
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
- mantic
-
adjective,
of or relating to divination.
- Marcie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marcia.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- mantis
-
noun,
any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- mantid
-
noun,
mantis.
- manioc
-
noun,
cassava.
- Marcus
-
noun,
Saint. Also, Mark. died a.d. 336, pope 336.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- Osmund
-
noun,
any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- Ostend
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Belgium.
- ostium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- matri-
-
- matins
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- masto-
-
- Mastic
-
noun,
Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- mascon
-
noun,
a massive concentration of high-density material beneath the surface of the moon.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- 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;
- Marius
-
noun,
Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Marion
-
noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- Marino
-
noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Citrus
-
noun,
any small tree or spiny shrub of the genus Citrus, of the rue family, including the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, citron, kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental.
- antrum
-
noun,
a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Coruna
-
noun,
La Coruña.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- corned
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- undies
-
plural noun,
women's or children's underwear.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Antrim
-
noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- ardent
-
adjective,
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- demean
-
noun,
Archaic. demeanor.
- dement
-
verb (used with object),
to make mad or insane.
- caries
-
noun,
decay, as of bone or of plant tissue.
- Carmen
-
noun,
Ciudad del Carmen.
- corium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- corita
-
noun,
a boat resembling a large, woven basket, used by Indians of the southwestern U.S.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- undoes
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- demits
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- Undset
-
noun,
Sigrid [sig-rid;; Norwegian si-gri] /ˈsɪg rɪd;; Norwegian ˈsɪ grɪ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1949, Norwegian novelist: Nobel prize 1928.
- UNESCO
-
noun,
an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- Arendt
-
noun,
Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.
- anodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- decare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- dautie
-
noun,
a darling.
- Cantor
-
noun,
the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
- 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.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- Deacon
-
noun,
(in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- Cantos
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- cantus
-
noun,
cantus firmus.
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- Canute
-
noun,
a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- decane
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon, C 10 H 22 , of the methane series, occurring in several isomeric forms.
- decani
-
adjective,
of or relating to the epistle or liturgical south side of a church (opposed to cantoris).
- decant
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- deceit
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- cardi-
-
- decent
-
adjective,
conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- decern
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- decime
-
noun,
a former copper or bronze coin of France issued from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, the 10th part of a franc, equal in value to 10 centimes.
- Decius
-
noun,
(Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius) a.d. c201–251, emperor of Rome 249–251.
- Cardin
-
noun,
Pierre, born 1922, French fashion designer.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- under-
-
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- demote
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- daunts
-
verb (used with object),
to overcome with fear; intimidate:
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- contd.
-
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desman
-
noun,
either of two aquatic, insectivorous mammals, Myogale moschata, of southeastern Russia, or M. pyrenaica, of the Pyrenees, related to shrews.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- detain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- detour
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- deuces
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- Deurne
-
noun,
a former city in N Belgium, now part of Antwerp.
- deuto-
-
- deuton
-
noun,
deuteron.
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- Conrad
-
noun,
Charles, Jr ("Pete") 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.
- Conium
-
noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- 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.
- United
-
adjective,
made into or caused to act as a single entity:
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- unites
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- amused
-
adjective,
pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted.
- diatom
-
noun,
any of numerous microscopic, unicellular, marine or freshwater algae of the phylum Chrysophyta, having cell walls containing silica.
- dicast
-
noun,
(in ancient Athens) a citizen eligible to sit as a judge.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- unmade
-
adjective,
not made.
- unmeet
-
adjective,
not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- amount
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- dicots
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- unread
-
adjective,
not read, as a letter or newspaper.
- 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.
- Andric
-
noun,
Ivo [ee-vaw] /ˈi vɔ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1975, Yugoslavian poet, novelist, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1961.
- Carnot
-
noun,
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite [la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
- toucan
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- aniso-
-
- demure
-
adjective,
characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- demurs
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- cordis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the heart.
- animus
-
noun,
strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- denims
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- denom.
-
- denote
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- Uniate
-
noun,
a member of an Eastern church that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledges the Roman pope as supreme in matters of faith, but maintains its own liturgy, discipline, and rite.
- conure
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed New World parrots, especially of the genus Aratinga, certain species of which are kept as pets.
- dermo-
-
- anemo-
-
- dentes
-
noun,
plural of dens.
- denti-
-
- anemic
-
adjective,
Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- contr.
-
- Andrus
-
noun,
Andron.
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- andro-
-
- dermas
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- dermic
-
adjective,
dermal.
- cteno-
-
- Cousin
-
noun,
Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- carton
-
noun,
a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
- cursed
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- atrium
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- 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.
- atonic
-
noun,
Grammar. an unaccented word, syllable, or sound.
- curets
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- crudes
-
noun,
crude oil.
- curios
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curite
-
noun,
a radioactive uranium mineral, Pb 2 U 5 O 17 ·4H 2 O, with adamantine luster, occurring as reddish-brown to deep-yellow needle-shaped crystals, formed by alteration of uraninite.
- tundra
-
noun,
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- atomic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs:
- Curtin
-
noun,
John, 1885–1945, Australian statesman: prime minister 1941–45.
- curate
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- Curtis
-
noun,
Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- Custer
-
noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- cairds
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Cairns
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Australia.
- Tunica
-
noun,
a tunic.
- cut-in
-
noun,
Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
- astron
-
- astro-
-
- cadres
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- Crista
-
noun,
a crest or ridge.
- cuesta
-
noun,
a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- truism
-
noun,
a self-evident, obvious truth.
- Truman
-
noun,
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- autism
-
noun,
Psychiatry. a pervasive developmental disorder of children, characterized by impaired communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- austr-
-
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- cueist
-
noun,
a billiard player.
- Austin
-
noun,
Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- Austen
-
noun,
Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- cadets
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- aurist
-
noun,
a physician specializing in the treatment of ear diseases; otologist.
- cumene
-
noun,
a colorless and toxic liquid, C 9 H 12 , soluble in alcohol: used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and acetone.
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- auntie
-
noun,
Informal. aunt.
- Tumaco
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Colombia.
- 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.
- audits
-
noun,
an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- cumins
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- audios
-
noun,
Television.
the audio elements of television (distinguished from video).
the circuits in a receiver for reproducing sound.
the audio part of a television broadcast.
- Audion
-
noun,
an early type of triode.
- audio-
-
- 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.
- cruise
-
noun,
the act of cruising.
- Cadmus
-
noun,
Paul, 1904–1999, U.S. painter and etcher.
- Astrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from Scandinavian, meaning “divine strength.”.
- Crinum
-
noun,
any of the tropical and subtropical bulbous plants constituting the genus Crinum, of the amaryllis family, usually having umbels of large, showy flowers.
- Timaru
-
noun,
a seaport on the E coast of South Island, in S New Zealand.
- Danite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Dan.
- 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-
-
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Candor
-
noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- craton
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- damson
-
noun,
Also called damson plum. the small, dark-blue or purple fruit of a plum, Prunus insititia, of the rose family, introduced into Europe from Asia Minor.
- Timour
-
noun,
Tamerlane.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- dancer
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- dances
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- around
-
Idioms,
been around, having had much worldly experience:
- danios
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Triune
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- darics
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- uncase
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a case; remove the case from.
- canids
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- dastur
-
noun,
a Parsee chief priest.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- datums
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- Damien
-
noun,
Father (Jo·seph de Veu·ster) [French zhaw-zef--duh-vœ-ster] /French ʒɔˈzɛf də vœˈstɛr/ (Show IPA), 1840–89, Belgian Roman Catholic missionary to the lepers of Molokai.
- 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.
- tirade
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- turaco
-
noun,
touraco.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Crimea
-
noun,
the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- turco-
-
- Camden
-
noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Creuse
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2165 sq. mi. (5605 sq. km). Capital: Guéret.
- Creusa
-
noun,
the bride to be of Jason, slain by Medea.
- cretin
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- dacoit
-
noun,
(in India and Burma) a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.
- Dacron
-
- Cretan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- daemon
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
a god.
a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- camion
-
noun,
a strongly built cart or wagon for transporting heavy loads; dray.
- Tuscan
-
noun,
the standard literary form of the Italian language.
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- camise
-
noun,
a lightweight, loose-fitting shirt or smock with long sleeves.
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- daimen
-
adjective,
rare; occasional.
- daimon
-
noun,
daemon.
- ascend
-
verb (used with object),
to go or move upward upon or along; climb; mount:
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- credit
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- dictum
-
noun,
an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.
- Citron
-
noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- dorsi-
-
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- cement
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- dorsum
-
noun,
the back, as of the body.
- triads
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- adroit
-
adjective,
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- adreno
-
- adren-
-
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- Cnidus
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Caria: the Athenians defeated the Spartans in a naval battle near here 394 b.c.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- tauro-
-
- 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.
- Adonic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Adonic verse or line.
- douane
-
noun,
a custom house; customs.
- admits
-
verb (used with object),
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- admire
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- doumas
-
noun,
duma.
- trans.
-
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- Admete
-
noun,
a daughter of Eurystheus for whom Hercules took the golden girdle of Ares from Hippolyte.
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- cnemis
-
noun,
the tibia or shin.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- coatis
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- ureide
-
noun,
an acyl urea.
- uremia
-
noun,
a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- donate
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- tedium
-
noun,
the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- uremic
-
adjective,
pertaining to uremia.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- 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.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- aeron.
-
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- donuts
-
noun,
doughnut.
- cedarn
-
adjective,
resembling or made of cedar.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- uretic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or occurring in the urine.
- Cedars
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- coated
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- Dorati
-
noun,
Antal [ahn-tahl;; Hungarian on-tol] /ˈɑn tɑl;; Hungarian ˈɒn tɒl/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Hungarian conductor, in the U.S.
- Dorcas
-
noun,
a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for the poor. Acts 9:36–41.
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- Aeneid
-
noun,
a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- aecium
-
noun,
the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- douras
-
noun,
durra.
- douser
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- cesium
-
noun,
a rare, highly reactive, soft, metallic element of the alkali metal group, used chiefly in photoelectric cells. Symbol: Cs; atomic weight: 132.905; atomic number: 55; specific gravity: 1.9 at 20°C; melts at 28.5°C.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- usance
-
noun,
Commerce. a length of time, exclusive of days of grace and varying in different places, allowed by custom or usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- acmite
-
noun,
a rare pyroxene mineral, sodium-ferric iron silicate, NaFe(Si 2 O 6), found in feldspathoid rocks.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- acious
-
- acinus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate, baccate fruit, as the blackberry.
- acetum
-
noun,
a preparation having vinegar or dilute acetic acid as the solvent.
- cesura
-
noun,
caesura.
- aceto-
-
- Cereus
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Cereus, of the cactus family, having large, usually white, funnel-shaped flowers.
- Duarte
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- acetin
-
noun,
a colorless, thick, hygroscopic liquid, C 5 H 10 O 4 : used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
- cerias
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- cerat-
-
- aceous
-
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- usenet
-
noun,
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
- ducats
-
noun,
any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, especially that first issued in Venice in 1284.
Compare sequin (def 2).
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- cerium
-
noun,
a steel-gray, ductile metallic element of the rare-earth group found only in combination. Symbol: Ce; atomic weight: 140.12; atomic number: 58.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- ductor
-
noun,
the roller that conveys ink in a press from the ink reservoir to the distributor.
- trends
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- utero-
-
- ceruse
-
noun,
a pigment composed of white lead.
- Uticas
-
noun,
an ancient city on the N coast of Africa, NW of Carthage.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- Taoism
-
noun,
the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- douter
-
noun,
an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- urino-
-
- centi-
-
- Dracut
-
noun,
a city in NE Massachusetts.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- cinema
-
noun,
Chiefly British. motion picture.
- drains
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- centr-
-
- adient
-
adjective,
tending to move toward a stimulus.
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- adeno-
-
- tarso-
-
- adeems
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- cinder
-
noun,
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- acutes
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- Dreams
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- acumen
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- dreamt
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- ciders
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- Actium
-
noun,
a promontory in NW ancient Greece: Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian and Agrippa in a naval battle near here in 31 b.c.
- triacs
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- action
-
noun,
the process or state of acting or of being active:
- actins
-
noun,
a globulin that is present in muscle plasma and that in connection with myosin plays an important role in muscle contraction.
- actin-
-
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Cetura
-
noun,
Keturah.
- aidmen
-
noun,
a military medical corpsman trained to provide initial emergency treatment.
- dormin
-
noun,
abscisic acid.
- Domnus
-
noun,
Donus.
- coitus
-
noun,
sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- amides
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- amicus
-
noun,
a philanthropist.
- amices
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- direct
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- disarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- disco-
-
- diseur
-
noun,
a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- amends
-
noun,
reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- distr.
-
- tender
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- diuron
-
noun,
a white crystalline substance, C 9 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a weed-killer.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- tenaim
-
noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- tenace
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- untrod
-
adjective,
not trod; not traversed:
- amido-
-
- amidst
-
preposition,
amid.
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- amnios
-
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- unsaid
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of unsay.
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- tenuis
-
noun,
an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.
- amino-
-
- Caruso
-
noun,
Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1921, Italian operatic tenor.
- dinars
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- unseat
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- casein
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a protein precipitated from milk, as by rennet, and forming the basis of cheese and certain plastics.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- casino
-
noun,
a building or large room used for meetings, entertainment, dancing, etc., especially such a place equipped with gambling devices, gambling tables, etc.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- Comdt.
-
- Comdr.
-
- Dnestr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dniester.
- cadent
-
adjective,
having cadence.
- uranic
-
adjective,
of or containing uranium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- urano-
-
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- cation
-
noun,
a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- docent
-
noun,
privatdocent.
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- DOMAIN
-
noun,
a field of action, thought, influence, etc.:
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- uredia
-
noun,
uredinium.
- domine
-
noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- coedit
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- caids
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- 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.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- scat-
-
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- 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.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- triac
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- scudo
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
- monad
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- cause
-
noun,
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:
- cairn
-
noun,
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- scrum
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- caine
-
noun,
(Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- Caird
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- cains
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- munic
-
- naso-
-
- scuta
-
noun,
plural of scutum.
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- nears
-
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scend
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- MSEnt
-
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- Cadet
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- cero-
-
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- sanit
-
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- cards
-
noun,
a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder:
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- naut.
-
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- cadis
-
noun,
qadi.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- Scot.
-
- sarc-
-
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- Saudi
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia.
- Card.
-
- caus.
-
- canto
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- Mound
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Camus
-
noun,
Albert [al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- sauce
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- muted
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- cent.
-
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- Carin
-
noun,
a female given name.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- mudra
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- canid
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- Cant.
-
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Mont.
-
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- music
-
noun,
an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Triad
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- Caius
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 296, pope 283–296.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- 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.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- mucid
-
adjective,
moldy; musty.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- Scand
-
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- muco-
-
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- monic
-
adjective,
(of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- camis
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- 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.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- mucin
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Musca
-
noun,
the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- monde
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- Munda
-
noun,
a small family of languages spoken in east-central India.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- Cades
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- uran-
-
- AMEDS
-
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- Amend
-
verb (used with object),
to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- Amer.
-
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- amid-
-
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- aero-
-
- 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).
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Uredo
-
noun,
a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
- 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.
- Radom
-
noun,
a city in E Poland.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- AMICE
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- AMORC
-
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- ordn.
-
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- 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.
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- 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).
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- andr-
-
- 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.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- amin-
-
- amide
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- Ouida
-
noun,
pen name of Louise de la Ramée.
- 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.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- oste-
-
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- aeri-
-
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Ursid
-
noun,
any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- acrid
-
adjective,
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- acro-
-
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Actis
-
noun,
a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- Acton
-
noun,
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- actos
-
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- rect.
-
- Urmia
-
noun,
Lake, a salt lake in NW Iran. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- 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
-
- Utica
-
noun,
an ancient city on the N coast of Africa, NW of Carthage.
- utend
-
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- acnes
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- 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.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- acet-
-
- 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.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- acids
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- acute
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- adeem
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- adsum
-
interjection,
I am present.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- adunc
-
adjective,
curved inward; hooked.
- adust
-
adjective,
dried or darkened as by heat.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- Recit
-
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- aden-
-
- Reaum
-
- adieu
-
noun,
the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- 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.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- adits
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- retd.
-
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- admen
-
noun,
Also called advertising man. one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements.
- admin
-
noun,
administration; administrative work.
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- admit
-
verb (used with object),
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- 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.
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- nomad
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- turds
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- nodus
-
noun,
a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- noct-
-
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- astr.
-
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- runic
-
adjective,
consisting of or set down in runes:
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- 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.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- Udine
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy.
- Rundi
-
noun,
a member of a people constituting virtually the entire population of Burundi.
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- asco-
-
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- runed
-
adjective,
having runes inscribed:
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- nitr-
-
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Tudor
-
noun,
Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- neur-
-
- Audie
-
noun,
a female or male given name.
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- audit
-
noun,
an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- tumid
-
adjective,
swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Auric
-
adjective,
of or containing gold in the trivalent state.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- Aust.
-
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- auto.
-
- tsadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Auden
-
noun,
W(ystan) H(ugh) [wis-tuh n] /ˈwɪs tən/ (Show IPA), 1907–73, English poet in the U.S.
- neut.
-
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- saice
-
noun,
syce.
- tunic
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a coat worn as part of a military or other uniform.
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Sadoc
-
noun,
Zadok.
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- Tunas
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- nidus
-
noun,
a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- ation
-
- atmo-
-
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- nicad
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- 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.
- oidea
-
- antic
-
noun,
Usually, antics.
a playful trick or prank; caper.
a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- odium
-
noun,
intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- 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.
- odeum
-
noun,
a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- arcus
-
noun,
a dense, horizontal, roll-shaped cloud sometimes occurring at the lower front portion of a cumulonimbus.
- 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.
- anti-
-
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- octan
-
noun,
an octan fever.
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- Unit.
-
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- onium
-
- anim.
-
- anis-
-
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- omni-
-
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- ante-
-
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- areo-
-
- Unami
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- nurds
-
noun,
nerd.
- UNCIO
-
- armed
-
noun,
Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- Armen
-
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- uncia
-
noun,
a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- Nurmi
-
noun,
Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- Arndt
-
noun,
Ernst Moritz [ernst moh-rits] /ɛrnst ˈmoʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1769–1860, German poet and historian.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- nudie
-
noun,
a film, performance, or magazine featuring nude performers or photographs.
- nudi-
-
- nudes
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- nuci-
-
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- octad
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- octa-
-
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Arius
-
noun,
died a.d. 336, Christian priest at Alexandria: founder of Arianism.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- arium
-
- 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.
- round
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- ASDIC
-
noun,
sonar.
- MNurs
-
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- intr.
-
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- Dante
-
noun,
(Dante Alighieri) 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- daric
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- inst.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- 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:
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- suede
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- edict
-
noun,
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- Sudra
-
noun,
Shudra.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- dames
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- damns
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- Damon
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dance
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- edit.
-
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- datum
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- incr.
-
- educ.
-
- incor
-
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- incur
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- incas
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- tears
-
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- 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.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- deci-
-
- incus
-
noun,
Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals.
Compare malleus, stapes.
- daunt
-
verb (used with object),
to overcome with fear; intimidate:
- Sudan
-
noun,
a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Indus
-
noun,
a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1900 miles (3060 km) long.
- 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.
- Edman
-
noun,
Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- dauts
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- indue
-
verb (used with object),
endue.
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- 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.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- deca-
-
- decan
-
noun,
any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Indo-
-
- edema
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- cutin
-
noun,
a transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- drams
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- cutis
-
noun,
the true skin, consisting of the dermis and the epidermis.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Sino-
-
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- cutie
-
noun,
Informal. a charmingly attractive or cute person, especially a girl or a young woman (often used as a form of address):
- douse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- Curia
-
noun,
one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
- Curie
-
noun,
a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 10 10 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226. Abbreviation: Ci.
- curio
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- madre
-
noun,
mother1 .
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- Dream
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- Macon
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Iran.
-
- 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.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Douai
-
noun,
a city in N France, SE of Calais.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Ecua.
-
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- reni-
-
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- daces
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- econ.
-
- Sumac
-
noun,
any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- tious
-
- doura
-
noun,
durra.
- 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.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- ectad
-
adverb,
outward.
- isnad
-
noun,
the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- ecto-
-
- douma
-
noun,
duma.
- douce
-
adjective,
sedate; modest; quiet.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- sito-
-
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- educe
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- tera-
-
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- Eridu
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city near the Euphrates in S Iraq: center for the worship of Ea; partially excavated.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- 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.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- dicot
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- 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.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- dict.
-
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- ster.
-
- dicta
-
noun,
a plural of dictum.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- disc.
-
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- endue
-
verb (used with object),
to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
- dist.
-
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- 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).
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- endo-
-
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- stome
-
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- dints
-
noun,
force; power:
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- ento-
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- teno-
-
- Dirac
-
noun,
Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- educt
-
noun,
something educed; eduction.
- Donus
-
noun,
died a.d. 678, pope 676–678.
- demi-
-
- SOUND
-
noun,
the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- Emden
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Germany.
- emend
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- donut
-
noun,
doughnut.
- IATSE
-
- demit
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- demo-
-
- Demon
-
noun,
an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- donec
-
conjunction,
(in prescriptions) until.
- Srta.
-
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- 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.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- Doric
-
noun,
a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- ideo-
-
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- ictus
-
noun,
Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- icons
-
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- demur
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- Donau
-
noun,
German name of Danube.
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- 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 .
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- derm-
-
- derma
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- desc.
-
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- deuce
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- Deut.
-
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- diam.
-
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- stand
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- Euro-
-
- staid
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- term.
-
- denim
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- etude
-
noun,
a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- dent.
-
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Medon
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- dunts
-
noun,
a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- cores
-
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- menad
-
noun,
maenad.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- treas
-
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- Mende
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- mends
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- Cons.
-
- Cimon
-
noun,
507–499 b.c, Athenian military leader, naval commander, and statesman (son of Miltiades).
- ducat
-
noun,
any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, especially that first issued in Venice in 1284.
Compare sequin (def 2).
- Conde
-
noun,
Louis II de Bourbon [lwee,, duh boor-bawn] /lwi,, də burˈbɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Prince de (Duc d'Enghien"the Great Condé") 1621–86, French general.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- semi-
-
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- Const
-
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- cont.
-
- sect.
-
- meno-
-
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- Media
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- Medea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children.
- 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.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Medan
-
noun,
a city in NE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- Ciano
-
noun,
Count Galeazzo [gah-le-aht-tsaw] /ˌgɑ lɛˈɑt tsɔ/ (Show IPA), (Ciano di Cortellazzo) 1903–44, Italian Fascist statesman: minister of foreign affairs 1936–43.
- Duran
-
noun,
Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- Medoc
-
noun,
a wine-growing region in Gironde, in SW France.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- ducts
-
noun,
any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- 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.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Duane
-
noun,
a male given name.
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- misc.
-
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- Medic
-
noun,
a member of a military medical corps; corpsman.
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- micas
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- MIDAS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- coati
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- micra
-
noun,
a plural of micron.
- codas
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- Sedum
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- 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.
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- duces
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- minds
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- duets
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Cmdr.
-
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- dunce
-
noun,
a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt.
- MINCE
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- cnida
-
noun,
a nematocyst.
- codes
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- mero-
-
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- Comr.
-
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- cine-
-
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- metr-
-
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- meso-
-
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- meta-
-
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- 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.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- duros
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- 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.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- tomia
-
noun,
the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- Durst
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- sero-
-
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- tonia
-
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- Duroc
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- Cunas
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- Duero
-
noun,
Spanish name of Douro.
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- Mande
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Maidu
-
noun,
a member of a tribe of North American Indians of northeastern California.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- maids
-
noun,
a female servant.
- cert.
-
- curds
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- duits
-
noun,
doit (def 1).
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- Cumae
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.
- 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.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- manic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or affected by mania.
- 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.
- seti-
-
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- cumin
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- cruds
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- crude
-
noun,
crude oil.
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- mauds
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- dures
-
verb (used with or without object),
endure.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- matr-
-
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- maund
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India and other parts of Asia, varying greatly according to locality: in India, from about 25 to 82.286 pounds (11 to 37.4 kilograms) (the latter being the government maund).
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- Meads
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- Meade
-
noun,
George Gordon, 1815–72, Union general in the American Civil War.
- Ceuta
-
noun,
a seaport and enclave of Spain in N Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- duras
-
noun,
dura mater.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Druse
-
noun,
an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- masc.
-
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- durns
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- miso-
-
- Dumas
-
noun,
Alexandre [a-lek-sahn-druh] /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə/ (Show IPA), ("Dumas père") 1802–70, and his son, Alexandre, (“Dumas fils”), 1824–95, French dramatists and novelists.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- crit.
-
- mast-
-
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- Seric
-
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- crim.
-
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- Crius
-
noun,
a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- ten.
-
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- 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.
- urds
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- 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.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- str.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- USAR
-
- 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.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- TDRS
-
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- sumi
-
noun,
black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.
- taur
-
- USDA
-
- uro-
-
- Tasm
-
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- sur-
-
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- USCA
-
- uric
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- USTC
-
- USRC
-
- USNA
-
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- USMC
-
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- USMA
-
- USIA
-
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- stud
-
noun,
a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- 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.
- uret
-
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- surd
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- 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.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- uria
-
- used
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Rida
-
- tude
-
noun,
an arrogant attitude.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- TODS
-
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- Tues
-
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tron
-
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Sam.
-
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- Sat.
-
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- std.
-
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- 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.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- 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).
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- 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.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- trid
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Sem.
-
- scr.
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- sci.
-
- 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.
- SCUD
-
noun,
the act of scudding.
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- tri-
-
- sec.
-
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- 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.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- 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.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- tRNA
-
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Saud
-
noun,
(Saud ibn Abdul-Aziz), 1901?–69, king of Saudi Arabia 1953–64 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- saur
-
- 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.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- SCAD
-
noun,
any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- tion
-
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- uni-
-
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- Ste.
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Rom.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- SRAM
-
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- Sra.
-
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- RONA
-
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- 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.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- undo
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- 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.
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- ter.
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- RNAS
-
- 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.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- turd
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Rumi
-
noun,
Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- udos
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- Rus.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Soni
-
- 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.
- 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.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- 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.
- 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.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- Rude
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1784–1855, French sculptor.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- cis-
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- cit.
-
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- iso-
-
- Cmon
-
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- 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.
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Ire.
-
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- 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.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- ious
-
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- cene
-
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Mac-
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- CERN
-
- cir.
-
- cet-
-
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- med.
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Ceto
-
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- cide
-
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- mads
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- IMCO
-
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- Idun
-
noun,
a goddess, keeper of the apples of youth and wife of Bragi; abducted by the giant Thjazi, from whom she was rescued.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- 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).
- Cor.
-
- idae
-
- Cort
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- Ice.
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- ICAO
-
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Com.
-
- 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 = .
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- comd
-
- iod-
-
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- 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.
- Cond
-
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Con.
-
- IndE
-
- Inca
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- Inc.
-
- inae
-
- made
-
noun,
the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- cen.
-
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- midn
-
- Mid.
-
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- mica
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Mic.
-
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- Can.
-
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- met.
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- mes-
-
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- ment
-
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- MNAS
-
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- Cami
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mis-
-
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- min.
-
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- Mind
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- Mend
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- MAEd
-
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Mar.
-
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- Maud
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Man.
-
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- maid
-
noun,
a female servant.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Maui
-
noun,
an island in central Hawaii. 728 sq. mi. (1886 sq. km).
- men-
-
- meas
-
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- Mead
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- cat.
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- mdse
-
- mdnt
-
- MDES
-
- Cdr.
-
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- caid
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- Duce
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- Duit
-
noun,
doit (def 1).
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- duet
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- dues
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- duct
-
noun,
any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- ducs
-
noun,
duke.
- Dem.
-
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- Den.
-
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- der.
-
- drum
-
noun,
a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Duma
-
noun,
(in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
- Duna
-
noun,
Hungarian name of the Danube.
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Dust
-
noun,
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- 1080
-
- daut
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- 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.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Dec.
-
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- Duse
-
noun,
Eleonora [el-ee-uh-nawr-uh;; Italian e-le-aw-naw-rah] /ˌɛl i əˈnɔr ə;; Italian ˌɛ lɛ ɔˈnɔ rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, Italian actress.
- dune
-
noun,
a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
- duro
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- durn
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- dure
-
adjective,
hard; severe.
- dura
-
noun,
dura mater.
- duos
-
noun,
Music. duet.
- duo-
-
- dunt
-
noun,
a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- Duns
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- 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.
- Dino
-
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- Din.
-
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- dioc
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- DMSO
-
- dir.
-
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dis-
-
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- DRAM
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- dour
-
adjective,
sullen; gloomy:
- Deus
-
noun,
God. Abbreviation: D.
- dia-
-
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- dim.
-
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dat.
-
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- crat
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Cuda
-
noun,
a barracuda.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- 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).
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- cuds
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- eous
-
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ens.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- cts.
-
- ctr.
-
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Ind.
-
- Cres
-
- crud
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Eur.
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Esd.
-
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- etc.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- eso-
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- Cuna
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- end-
-
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- eco-
-
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- Edam
-
noun,
a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- Dame
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- damn
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- ect-
-
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Danu
-
noun,
the mother of the Tuatha De Danann: identified with the Welsh Don.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- ence
-
- emia
-
- enc.
-
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- cur.
-
- curd
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- EMet
-
- Dom.
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- EEOC
-
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- EDTA
-
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Cain
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Oct.
-
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- OCDM
-
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- amt.
-
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- amus
-
- 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.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- 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).
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- amic
-
adjective,
of or relating to an amide or amine.
- 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.
- amdt
-
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- OEEC
-
- OECD
-
- Odus
-
- ance
-
- ands
-
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- nom.
-
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nor.
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nos-
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Arm.
-
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- ARIS
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- nurd
-
noun,
nerd.
- ANSI
-
- ant.
-
- ANTU
-
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- nude
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- NTIA
-
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- 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.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- not-
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- art.
-
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- 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).
- acid
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- RADM
-
- rad.
-
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Acis
-
noun,
the lover of Galatea, killed by Polyphemus out of jealousy.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- 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.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- 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.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- RdAc
-
- rcd.
-
- acr-
-
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Aire
-
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- AIME
-
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- ord.
-
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- 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.
- AInd
-
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Ont.
-
- Ainu
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal population of northernmost Japan, having lighter skin and hairier bodies than other Japanese.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Acus
-
noun,
Surgery. a needle, especially one used in a surgical operation.
- Adm.
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- out-
-
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- adit
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- ouds
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- OSRD
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- 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.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- aer-
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- aet.
-
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- ano-
-
- 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.
- NASD
-
- ASTM
-
- MScD
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- Aus.
-
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- MSAE
-
- aut-
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NCTE
-
- NDAC
-
- mRNA
-
- Aude
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2449 sq. mi. (6345 sq. km). Capital: Carcassonne.
- ASME
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- mout
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MSCE
-
- aur-
-
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- mus.
-
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- muc-
-
- muds
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- Muir
-
noun,
Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- mun.
-
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- ator
-
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- MSIE
-
- msec
-
- MusD
-
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- MSEE
-
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- atic
-
- ates
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- atm.
-
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- aud.
-
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- 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.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- mod.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mon.
-
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- neo-
-
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- NIRA
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- 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.
- asc-
-
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- neem
-
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- cads
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- asci
-
noun,
plural of ascus.
- cadi
-
noun,
qadi.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- TIA
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- TID
-
- ae.
-
- cs.
-
- de-
-
- AEC
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- uti
-
- Am.
-
- AIC
-
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- ac-
-
- CAD
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DCS
-
- DEA
-
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- ct.
-
- ad-
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- 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.
- ACS
-
- Co.
-
- 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.
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- USC
-
- ca.
-
- TSI
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- USM
-
- di.
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- DET
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- AUC
-
- USN
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ADC
-
- cr.
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- TSE
-
- tue
-
- UTC
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Ar.
-
- Tro
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- USR
-
- USO
-
- an.
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- Tu.
-
- tr.
-
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- CIM
-
- CIE
-
- Une
-
- CRS
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- CRT
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- CAI
-
- AOU
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- CSA
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- CSO
-
- CSR
-
- CST
-
- CIA
-
- ANC
-
- ASI
-
- aor
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- cte
-
- UAM
-
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- tra
-
- ARS
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- UIT
-
- unc
-
- ARU
-
- udo
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- UDC
-
- UCR
-
- UAE
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- CNS
-
- CNO
-
- CNM
-
- CMD
-
- CMA
-
- USA
-
- UAR
-
- 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.
- ard
-
- ase
-
- CTA
-
- AMU
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- DSM
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- 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.
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- CED
-
- DCM
-
- do.
-
- DOA
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- UMT
-
- DSC
-
- DSO
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- CDT
-
- DAE
-
- Urd
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- Dam
-
noun,
a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
- ure
-
- 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.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- DAR
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- ATC
-
- TMO
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- ast
-
- ASM
-
- AMS
-
- 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.
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- cud
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- UNO
-
- CEO
-
- ASR
-
- uns
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ur-
-
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- Cui
-
noun,
César [French sey-zar] /French seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), Antonovich [Russian uhn-taw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ʌnˈtɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1918, Russian composer.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- AME
-
- AMC
-
- ASU
-
- at.
-
- CEA
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- 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.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- NEC
-
- NEA
-
- ne-
-
- NDE
-
- SAR
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- NAD
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- NCO
-
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- sc.
-
- mud
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- MTS
-
- MTO
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NES
-
- MTI
-
- SRO
-
- nr.
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- NOC
-
- sd.
-
- So.
-
- NMU
-
- 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:
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- NMR
-
- NMI
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- SAE
-
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- NIA
-
- mtn
-
- Mt.
-
- NRC
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- MNE
-
- MNA
-
- MIT
-
- DIU
-
noun,
part of the union territory of Daman and Diu (Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1961–87) in W India: a former Portuguese colony, comprising a small island and seaport at the extremity of Kathiawar peninsula.
- SED
-
- MIE
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- mi.
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MDT
-
- 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).
- MCR
-
- MCI
-
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- MNS
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- MST
-
- MRA
-
- ScD
-
- MSN
-
- MSI
-
- MSE
-
- MSD
-
- SCM
-
- MSA
-
- MRI
-
- MRE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MOR
-
- MOI
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- SDA
-
- SDI
-
- SDR
-
- se-
-
- NRA
-
- NSA
-
- Mao
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RCS
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Rd.
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- oud
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- OTS
-
- RMC
-
- RMA
-
- RNA
-
- rnd
-
- ROA
-
- ote
-
- OTA
-
- ot-
-
- ose
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Re.
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- RCT
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- 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.
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- REA
-
- RDS
-
- RDC
-
- RDA
-
- RCN
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- 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.
- RCA
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- dau
-
noun,
dhow.
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- NSC
-
- Oc.
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- OAU
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OAS
-
- 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.
- OTC
-
- OSD
-
- OSA
-
- OED
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- OCR
-
- NUM
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- NSU
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- OCD
-
- OCS
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Om.
-
- ROI
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ons
-
- ONR
-
- ONI
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- OIt
-
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- OIr
-
- oid
-
- oic
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEM
-
- ODT
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- en-
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOE
-
- ene
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- EMT
-
- TCA
-
- Dou
-
noun,
Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EMR
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EIS
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- eir
-
- Dr.
-
- EEO
-
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- STM
-
- STI
-
- DRE
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- Dun
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- ESU
-
- ESR
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ese
-
- Esc
-
- ESA
-
- 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.
- TCS
-
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EEC
-
- DSA
-
- Sta
-
- EOM
-
- EAM
-
- ead
-
- ea.
-
- ETD
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Du.
-
- Duc
-
noun,
duke.
- eo-
-
- 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.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- due
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- DUI
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- ean
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- DSR
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- DST
-
- EDT
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- EDC
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ed.
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- ECM
-
- ECA
-
- ec-
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- eu-
-
- ETO
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- DMA
-
- ist
-
- ISR
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- SMA
-
- ise
-
- SMD
-
- ISA
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- DMS
-
- IRS
-
- IRO
-
- DMT
-
- IRC
-
- Ir.
-
- St.
-
- IOT
-
- ITA
-
- ITC
-
- ior
-
- Mo.
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- MAD
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MSC
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- ite
-
- Me.
-
- Md.
-
- Mc-
-
- IUS
-
- ium
-
- IUD
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- 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.
- IOU
-
- SNU
-
- io-
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- IAS
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- Ia.
-
- ITU
-
- DNR
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Sr.
-
- id.
-
- ics
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Doi
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- 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).
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- DNA
-
- imu
-
noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- 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 = .
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- IOC
-
- ine
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- in.
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- 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.
- ide
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ier
-
- RC
-
- 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.
- RI
-
- 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.
- RN
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- AO
-
- TC
-
- DM
-
- 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.
- DN
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- R.
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- RO
-
- ND
-
- UI
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- NM
-
- Ud
-
- UC
-
- U.
-
- i.
-
- ic
-
- NI
-
- NC
-
- CU
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- SN
-
- CE
-
- CM
-
- 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.
- MN
-
- M.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- SM
-
- SA
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- OA
-
- 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.).
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- TD
-
- t.
-
- SU
-
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- S.
-
- 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.
- D.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- O.
-
- TM
-
- TN
-
- RU
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).