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- escarpment
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noun,
Geology. a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust.
Compare scarp (def 1).
- sarcenets
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- passement
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noun,
a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- steersman
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noun,
a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
- pectases
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noun,
an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- prenames
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noun,
given name.
- cremates
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- seamster
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noun,
a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.
- precasts
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adjective,
(of a building or section) cast before being transported to the site of installation:
- cerastes
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noun,
any of several small vipers of the genus Cerastes, including the horned viper, that have a sideways looping motion like that of a sidewinder and inhabit deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia.
- spearmen
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noun,
a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- Peterman
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noun,
a safecracker.
- presents
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noun,
the present time.
- spacemen
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noun,
an astronaut.
- masseter
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noun,
a short, thick, masticatory muscle, the action of which assists in closing the jaws by raising the mandible or lower jaw.
- smartens
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Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- Massenet
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noun,
Jules Émile Frédéric [zhyl ey-meel frey-dey-reek] /ʒül eɪˈmil freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1842–1912, French composer.
- Ansermet
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noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- permeant
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adjective,
permeating; pervading.
- Casement
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noun,
a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- percents
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- respects
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noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- precents
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- spectres
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noun,
specter.
- pressmen
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noun,
a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- pasterns
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noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- earnests
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- scampers
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noun,
a scampering; a quick run.
- sceptres
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- stampers
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noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- steamers
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noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- sarsenet
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noun,
sarcenet.
- spencers
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noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- Pressman
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noun,
a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- temperas
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noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- Martens
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noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- sateens
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noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- nectars
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noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- carnets
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noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- scamper
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noun,
a scampering; a quick run.
- teasers
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noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- senecas
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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.
- sensate
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adjective,
perceiving or perceived through the senses.
- Mercast
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noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- careens
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noun,
a careening.
- menaces
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noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- scepter
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- Screens
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noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- secrets
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noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- sceptre
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- secerns
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verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- tanrecs
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noun,
tenrec.
- canters
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noun,
an easy gallop.
- secants
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noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- scrapes
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noun,
an act or instance of scraping.
- seaters
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noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- seances
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noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- tampers
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noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- campers
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noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- carpets
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noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- screams
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noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- serapes
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noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- Spenser
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noun,
Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.
- cermets
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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.
- ecartes
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noun,
a card game for two players.
- Spencer
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noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- spences
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noun,
a pantry.
- cetanes
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noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- easters
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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.
- Eastern
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adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- steamer
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noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- spectra
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noun,
a plural of spectrum.
- earnest
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- stamper
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noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- stances
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noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- creases
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noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- creates
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- cresset
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noun,
a metal cup or basket often mounted on a pole or suspended from above, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin, etc., burned as a light or beacon.
- crenate
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adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- spectre
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noun,
specter.
- EMPRESS
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noun,
a female ruler of an empire.
- Tampere
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noun,
a city in SW Finland.
- cements
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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.
- Serpens
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noun,
the Serpent, a constellation consisting of two separate parts, the head (Serpens Caput) and the tail (Serpens Cauda) with Ophiuchus in between.
- caserns
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noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- smarten
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Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- asperse
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verb (used with object),
to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- escarps
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noun,
Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
- escapes
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noun,
an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
- streams
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noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- cerates
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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.
- censers
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noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- centare
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noun,
centiare.
- entraps
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- centres
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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.
- encases
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verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- encamps
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verb (used with object),
to make into a camp.
- specter
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noun,
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- casters
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noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- tapemen
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noun,
a person who holds and positions a tape in taking measurements.
- cremate
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- precess
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verb (used without object),
to undergo precession (def 2).
- arpents
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noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- tempers
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noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- recepts
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noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- respect
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noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- transp.
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- resents
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- actress
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noun,
a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
- presets
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noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- resects
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verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- present
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noun,
the present time.
- pectase
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noun,
an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- tenaces
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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.
- prename
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noun,
given name.
- precent
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- recasts
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noun,
a recasting.
- tessera
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noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- tenrecs
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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.
- precast
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adjective,
(of a building or section) cast before being transported to the site of installation:
- pectens
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noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- reseats
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verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- Penates
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plural noun,
gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.
- repents
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adjective,
creeping.
- prances
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noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- amerces
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verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- repeats
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noun,
the act of repeating.
- percent
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- pesetas
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noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- amperes
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noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- pesters
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- tempera
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noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- peteman
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noun,
peterman.
- Rameses
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noun,
Ramses (def 1).
- parsecs
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noun,
a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- trepans
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noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- pasters
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noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- ascents
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noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- recants
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verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- pastern
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noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- racemes
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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.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- prance
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noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- enrapt
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adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- crests
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noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- speans
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verb (used with object),
to wean.
- enter-
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- enters
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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:
- Cretan
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- entrap
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- prases
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noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- paster
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noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- crepes
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noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- ramets
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noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Ramses
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noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- cremes
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noun,
cream.
- escarp
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noun,
Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
- Peters
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noun,
penis.
- escape
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noun,
an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
- spares
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noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- Petras
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noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- reests
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verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- sparse
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adjective,
thinly scattered or distributed:
- erects
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adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- Remsen
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noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- erases
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verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- epacts
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noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- remans
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verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- stapes
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noun,
the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear.
Also called stirrup.
Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- encamp
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verb (used with object),
to make into a camp.
- encase
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verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- stamen
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noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- Easter
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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.
- Recent
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noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- sperms
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noun,
semen.
- recept
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noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- recast
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noun,
a recasting.
- recaps
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noun,
a recapped tire.
- recess
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noun,
temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- Spener
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noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- prests
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noun,
a loan.
- recant
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verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- sprats
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noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- ecarte
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noun,
a card game for two players.
- Spence
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noun,
a pantry.
- stanes
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noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- rentes
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noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- speers
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noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- re-act
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verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- preset
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noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- Stamps
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noun,
a postage stamp.
- stance
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noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- preens
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noun,
a pin or brooch.
- C-star
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noun,
carbon star.
- raceme
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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.
- enacts
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verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- enates
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noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Spears
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noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- sperm-
-
- prates
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noun,
act of prating.
- ecrase
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adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- parsec
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noun,
a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- escent
-
- screen
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noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scents
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noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- pastes
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noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- patens
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noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- paters
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noun,
British Informal. father.
- scrams
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noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- scrape
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noun,
an act or instance of scraping.
- scream
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noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- screes
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noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- scenas
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noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- seamen
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noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- resets
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noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- seance
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noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- peaces
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noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- seater
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noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- secant
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noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- peasen
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noun,
a plural of pease.
- nacres
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noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Nasser
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noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- resent
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- sarsen
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noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- parens
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plural noun,
parentheses:
- pacers
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noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- Santee
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noun,
a city in SW California.
- Parsee
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noun,
an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parses
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- retems
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noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- sarees
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noun,
sari.
- Passer
-
noun,
a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- scarts
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verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- sateen
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noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- scamps
-
noun,
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- nemat-
-
- scants
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- nectar
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noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- scapes
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noun,
Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scares
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noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- scarps
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noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- meters
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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.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- spaces
-
noun,
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- perses
-
noun,
a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- penta-
-
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- repass
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pass back or again.
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- manses
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- peseta
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- etapes
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- esters
-
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 .
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- seracs
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- pecans
-
noun,
a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- messan
-
noun,
a lap dog; small pet dog.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- menses
-
noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- mensas
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- pecten
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- menace
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- semens
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- 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.
- 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.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- sesame
-
noun,
a tropical, herbaceous plant, Sesamum indicum, whose small oval seeds are edible and yield an oil.
- sneers
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- 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.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- censes
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- Ampere
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- AmerSp
-
- ceases
-
noun,
cessation:
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- 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.
- centr-
-
- arsen-
-
- 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.
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- sterns
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- cerat-
-
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- 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.
- streps
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- 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.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- temper
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- carses
-
noun,
bottom land.
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- Carpet
-
noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- tamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- Casper
-
noun,
a city in central Wyoming.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- 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.
- 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.
- caress
-
noun,
an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- castes
-
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.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- aspect
-
noun,
appearance to the eye or mind; look:
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Carmen
-
noun,
Ciudad del Carmen.
- aspens
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Aspers
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- steres
-
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- trans.
-
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- steeps
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- tramps
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- crapes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- camper
-
noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- capers
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- cestas
-
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.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- creeps
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- 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.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- part.
-
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- scats
-
noun,
scat singing.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- temp.
-
- pass.
-
- scrap
-
noun,
a small piece or portion; fragment:
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Tempe
-
noun,
Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- pases
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Passe
-
noun,
the numbers 19 through 36 in roulette.
- scarp
-
noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- astr.
-
- assn.
-
- 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.
- tears
-
- sates
-
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.
- SCAMP
-
noun,
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- asst.
-
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- scape
-
noun,
Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- nests
-
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.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- scams
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- scans
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- samps
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- scat-
-
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- pant-
-
- paces
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- nears
-
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- pacer
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Sans.
-
- sarc-
-
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- pret.
-
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Press
-
noun,
an act of pressing; pressure.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- Pres.
-
- tramp
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- prem.
-
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- rect.
-
- recpt
-
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- acpt.
-
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- rasps
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- 30-30
-
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- rcpt.
-
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- 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)
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- recap
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- acet-
-
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- treas
-
- 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.
- Amer.
-
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- pene-
-
- Pence
-
noun,
a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination):
- rept.
-
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- apses
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- 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.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- pecan
-
noun,
a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- Armen
-
- tera-
-
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Peace
-
noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- resp.
-
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- patr-
-
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- prae-
-
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petr-
-
- 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.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- peta-
-
- pests
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- 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.
- 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.
- term.
-
- pert.
-
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- spaes
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- ESPEC
-
- space
-
noun,
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- span-
-
- snaps
-
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- 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.
- SPARS
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- spasm
-
noun,
Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- spats
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- 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 .
- epact
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Sept.
-
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- septs
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- 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.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- 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.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- cent.
-
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- crass
-
adjective,
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid:
- cramp
-
noun,
Often, cramps.
a sudden, involuntary, spasmodic contraction of a muscle or group of muscles, especially of the extremities, sometimes with severe pain.
a piercing pain in the abdomen.
an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruation or of labor.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- Srta.
-
- crape
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- stamp
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- craps
-
noun,
a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- cress
-
noun,
any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- 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: ¢.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- spec.
-
- specs
-
noun,
Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- cert.
-
- ster.
-
- 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.
- step-
-
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- carps
-
noun,
a peevish complaint.
- cases
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- metr-
-
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Cant.
-
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- seats
-
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.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- 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.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- MPers
-
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- sect.
-
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- caps.
-
- capes
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- Capet
-
noun,
Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- mesas
-
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.
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- caper
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- seeps
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- meta-
-
- masc.
-
- Capt.
-
- 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.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- matr-
-
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- tamps
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- mast-
-
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- camps
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- carp-
-
- MSEnt
-
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- 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.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- scr.
-
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- 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.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- tRNA
-
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- SRAM
-
- 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.
- Ste.
-
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- 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)
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- 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.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Tasm
-
- sec.
-
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Sra.
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- sers
-
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).
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- SMTP
-
- Sam.
-
- SMSA
-
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Sacs
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- rpt.
-
- tamp
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- RNAS
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- ten.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- 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.
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sepn
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- 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.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Sat.
-
- str.
-
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- SPCA
-
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- 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.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- spas
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- 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.
- SASE
-
- ter.
-
- 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.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Rep.
-
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Sem.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- 1080
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- MSAE
-
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- mRNA
-
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Cass
-
noun,
Lewis, 1782–1866, U.S. statesman.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- cat.
-
- MNAS
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- met.
-
- MSCP
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- 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.
- MEPA
-
- ment
-
- men-
-
- 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.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- MSCE
-
- Cape
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- meas
-
- ates
-
- ASSR
-
- ASTM
-
- 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.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- atm.
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- neem
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- NCTE
-
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- cap.
-
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- 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.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- CAMP
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- 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.
- Can.
-
- MSTS
-
- MSSc
-
- MSPE
-
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- MSEE
-
- msec
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- asps
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- crat
-
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Cres
-
- esp.
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- ctr.
-
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- cts.
-
- Ens.
-
- ence
-
- enc.
-
- Emp.
-
- EMet
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- ect-
-
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- etc.
-
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- 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.
- cen.
-
- cene
-
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- 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.
-
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- 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.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Man.
-
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- CERN
-
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- 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.
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- cet-
-
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- per.
-
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- pct.
-
- amp.
-
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- Pen.
-
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- pat.
-
- RCMP
-
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- acr-
-
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- amt.
-
- ance
-
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- 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.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- ant.
-
- pts.
-
- psec
-
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- aet.
-
- PSAT
-
- aer-
-
- prs.
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prec
-
- pre-
-
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- pnea
-
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pers
-
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- 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.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Pan.
-
- pam.
-
- PACT
-
noun,
an agreement, covenant, or compact:
- Arm.
-
- pacs
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- PACE
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- asc-
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- ASME
-
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- par.
-
- Apr.
-
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- 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.
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- ss.
-
- Sta
-
- SRS
-
- CPS
-
- ae.
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
-
- ACP
-
- TSE
-
- AEC
-
- Sr.
-
- TSP
-
- spt
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- 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.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- SPS
-
- CTA
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- SSA
-
- SSC
-
- SSR
-
- CSR
-
- CSA
-
- an.
-
- ac-
-
- CRT
-
- SSN
-
- SSM
-
- SSE
-
- ap-
-
- Ar.
-
- CST
-
- trp
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- SST
-
- St.
-
- ACS
-
- CRS
-
- Am.
-
- CRP
-
- cte
-
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- CPR
-
- TCA
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- 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.
- 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.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ct.
-
- cs.
-
- cr.
-
- cp.
-
- ca.
-
- EAM
-
- ATP
-
- TCS
-
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- 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.
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- ATC
-
- ase
-
- at.
-
- ast
-
- ASM
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ASR
-
- APS
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- CPM
-
- STP
-
- CPA
-
- CNS
-
- CNM
-
- CMA
-
- AMC
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPM
-
- AME
-
- STM
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- ASN
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- CEA
-
- AMS
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- ANC
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- APC
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ETR
-
- ean
-
- pt.
-
- pc.
-
- pm.
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- SAR
-
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- NSC
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- SAE
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- Sp.
-
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSS
-
- Pa.
-
- NSA
-
- RSA
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- 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.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- NEC
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NRC
-
- NES
-
- 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:
- NMR
-
- NPR
-
- sc.
-
- Npt
-
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- SCP
-
- RCN
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- RCP
-
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- RCS
-
- RCA
-
- PSS
-
- Re.
-
- RMA
-
- 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.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RPS
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PSE
-
- RPM
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- RNA
-
- RMC
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- 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.
- PCM
-
- PCS
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- PSC
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PMT
-
- PRA
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- PRC
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- PSA
-
- SCM
-
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- MTS
-
- ETS
-
- ESA
-
- Esc
-
- ese
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- ESR
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- SMS
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- SMA
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Mc-
-
- Me.
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- MTP
-
- MSC
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- 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).
- ERT
-
- ERP
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- EMR
-
- SPR
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- ec-
-
- ECA
-
- ECM
-
- EEC
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EMT
-
- en-
-
- ene
-
- Ep.
-
- EPA
-
- EPS
-
- EPT
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MSA
-
- MNS
-
- MPA
-
- 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.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- MRP
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- MNA
-
- se-
-
- SCS
-
- MSE
-
- MSN
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- mtn
-
- MNE
-
- MPE
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- MEP
-
- MCP
-
- MCR
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- 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.
- TSS
-
- TN
-
- CM
-
- S.
-
- SA
-
- SM
-
- MN
-
- CE
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- NP
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RN
-
- NC
-
- 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.
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- SN
-
- TC
-
- RC
-
- TP
-
- M.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- RP
-
- T1
-
- NM
-
- t.
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- MP
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- TM
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- R.
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .