Anagrams of expectorants
Word expectorants has
1676 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of expectorants.
- expectorant
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adjective,
promoting the discharge of phlegm or other fluid from the respiratory tract.
- respectant
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adjective,
aspectant.
- top-secret
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adjective,
bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
- Xenocrates
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noun,
396–314 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- patentors
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noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- entrepots
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noun,
a warehouse.
- one-acter
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noun,
a short play consisting of one act.
- Patterson
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noun,
Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- apocenter
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noun,
the point in the orbit of a heavenly body farthest from a primary other than the earth or the sun.
- Pentecost
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noun,
a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles; Whitsunday.
- Esperanto
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noun,
an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish physician and philologist, and intended for international use. It is based on word roots common to the major European languages.
- personate
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adjective,
Botany.
(of a bilabiate corolla) masklike.
having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the gap between the lips, as in the snapdragon.
- caponette
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noun,
a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- poetaster
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noun,
an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- operettas
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noun,
a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- Spectator
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noun,
a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- portances
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noun,
bearing; behavior.
- sea-otter
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noun,
a marine otter, Enhydra lutris, of the shores of the northern Pacific, with a very valuable fur: now greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
- carotenes
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- ten-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- trecento
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noun,
the 14th century, with reference to Italy, and especially to its art or literature.
- Personae
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noun,
a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- exocarps
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noun,
epicarp.
- percents
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- stonecat
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noun,
a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- pectates
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noun,
a salt or ester of pectic acid.
- strepto-
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- crosette
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noun,
crossette.
- carotene
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- ratteens
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noun,
ratiné.
- resonate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- patterns
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noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- transept
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noun,
any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- transect
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verb (used with object),
to cut across; dissect transversely.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- Paterson
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noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- entrepot
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noun,
a warehouse.
- extensor
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noun,
a muscle that serves to extend or straighten a part of the body.
- patentor
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noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- entreats
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verb (used with object),
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
- operants
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- operates
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verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- operetta
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noun,
a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- extracts
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noun,
something extracted.
- excerpts
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noun,
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
- cortexes
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney.
the cerebral cortex.
- capstone
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noun,
a finishing stone of a structure.
- protects
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verb (used with object),
to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- excerpta
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plural noun,
short selections or pieces of writing, especially summary statements or parts of a longer work.
- protease
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noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- prostate
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noun,
prostate gland.
- spectro-
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- pronates
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- pretexta
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noun,
praetexta.
- Prescott
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noun,
Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
- precents
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- acetones
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- contrast
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noun,
the act of contrasting; the state of being contrasted.
- potences
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noun,
potency.
- spectate
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verb (used without object),
to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- Peterson
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noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- portents
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- notecase
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noun,
billfold.
- ancestor
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noun,
a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor.
- portance
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noun,
bearing; behavior.
- contrate
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adjective,
(of a gear) having teeth at right angles to the plane of rotation.
- entreat
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verb (used with object),
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
- excerpt
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noun,
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
- exocarp
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noun,
epicarp.
- excreta
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noun,
excreted matter, as urine, feces, or sweat.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- excepts
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verb (used with object),
to exclude; leave out:
- sterno-
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- steato-
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- Stentor
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- Esparto
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noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- estreat
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noun,
a true copy or extract of an original writing or record, as of a fine.
- expanse
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noun,
an uninterrupted space or area; a wide extent of anything:
- Steptoe
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noun,
an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- stereo-
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- strato-
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- stearo-
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- pastern
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noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- entraps
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- coarsen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become coarse.
- context
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noun,
the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
- contest
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noun,
a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- constr.
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- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- 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.
- coatees
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noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- coaster
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noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- 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.
- contras
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- tenters
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- cerato-
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- 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.
- centro-
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- 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.
- centare
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noun,
centiare.
- cenotes
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noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- contra-
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- copters
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noun,
helicopter.
- entero-
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- scepter
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- encores
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- tanrecs
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noun,
tenrec.
- ecartes
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noun,
a card game for two players.
- Eastern
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adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- tapster
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noun,
a bartender.
- earnest
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- tarpons
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noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- crepons
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noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- 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.
- crenate
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adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- expects
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Idioms,
be expecting, to be pregnant:
- cratons
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noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- teapots
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noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- cotters
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noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- costate
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adjective,
Anatomy. having ribs.
- cornets
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noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- corneas
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noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- creates
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- sextern
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noun,
six gathered sheets folded in two for binding together.
- experts
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noun,
a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority:
- roseate
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adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- precent
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- precast
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adjective,
(of a building or section) cast before being transported to the site of installation:
- prances
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noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- potence
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noun,
potency.
- poteens
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- portent
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- Rosetta
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noun,
a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- Rosette
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noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- rotates
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adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- persona
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noun,
a person.
- percent
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- pentose
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noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- 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.
- pectose
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noun,
protopectin.
- present
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noun,
the present time.
- pretest
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- pectate
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noun,
a salt or ester of pectic acid.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- recepts
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noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- recants
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verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- rattons
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noun,
a rat.
- ratteen
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noun,
ratiné.
- reopens
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- repeats
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noun,
the act of repeating.
- repents
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adjective,
creeping.
- reptant
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adjective,
repent2 .
- pretext
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noun,
something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse:
- respect
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noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- restate
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verb (used with object),
to state again or in a new way.
- protest
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noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- protect
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verb (used with object),
to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protean
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adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- prosect
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verb (used with object),
to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- pronate
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- 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.
- pectase
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noun,
an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- exports
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verb (used with object),
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
- spectra
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noun,
a plural of spectrum.
- Ternate
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noun,
an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
- Sno-Cat
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- notates
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verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- spatter
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noun,
the act or the sound of spattering:
- nectars
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noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- necrose
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verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- specter
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noun,
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- spectre
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noun,
specter.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- natters
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noun,
a conversation; chat.
- Spencer
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noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- narcose
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adjective,
characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- extract
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noun,
something extracted.
- extorts
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verb (used with object),
Law.
to wrest or wring (money, information, etc.) from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like.
to take illegally by reason of one's office.
- externs
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noun,
a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
- Sextant
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noun,
an astronomical instrument used to determine latitude and longitude at sea by measuring angular distances, especially the altitudes of sun, moon, and stars.
- ocreate
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adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- Pearson
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noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- oxcarts
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noun,
an ox-drawn cart.
- patters
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noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- pattern
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noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- pattens
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noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- patents
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noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- partons
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noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- scatter
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noun,
the act of scattering.
- sceptre
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- screeno
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noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- octanes
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noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- seaport
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noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- operate
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verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- operant
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- openers
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- senator
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noun,
a member of a senate.
- septate
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adjective,
divided by a septum or septa.
- octants
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noun,
the eighth part of a circle.
- tercets
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noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- 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.
- antero-
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- acetone
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- careens
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noun,
a careening.
- treason
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noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- canters
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noun,
an easy gallop.
- carnose
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adjective,
of or relating to flesh; fleshy.
- treetop
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noun,
the top or uppermost branches of a tree.
- carnets
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noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- capotes
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noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- carpets
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noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- toecaps
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noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- transp.
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- 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.
- trepans
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noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- toaster
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noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- attorns
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verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- arenose
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adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- arseno-
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- acerose
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adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- capette
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noun,
caponette.
- Anteros
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- encase
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verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- parens
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plural noun,
parentheses:
- encore
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- rotate
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adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- parson
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noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- Pesaro
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noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- sacro-
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- Parent
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noun,
a father or a mother.
- enates
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noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Nestor
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noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- enacts
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verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- scato-
-
- epacts
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noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- rottes
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noun,
rote2 .
- Enesco
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noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- 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:
- rotten
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adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- 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.
- caners
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noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- Peters
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noun,
penis.
- entrap
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- 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.
- pester
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- torpex
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- Pareto
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noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- tanrec
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noun,
tenrec.
- 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.
- Street
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- petro-
-
- enrapt
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adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- Petros
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noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- peseta
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- enter-
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- Canter
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noun,
an easy gallop.
- prance
-
noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- aeron.
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- tarso-
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- cteno-
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- potent
-
noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- Potter
-
noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- taster
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- taters
-
noun,
potato.
- notate
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- tetras
-
noun,
any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums.
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- Cretan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- praxes
-
noun,
practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- crepon
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- crepes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- Poncas
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- ponces
-
noun,
a pimp.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- panto-
-
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Cantor
-
noun,
the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- Trento
-
noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- Cantos
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- pacers
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- tarots
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- aspect
-
noun,
appearance to the eye or mind; look:
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- expert
-
noun,
a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority:
- Ateste
-
noun,
ancient name of Este.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- expect
-
Idioms,
be expecting, to be pregnant:
- Patton
-
noun,
Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- Paxton
-
noun,
Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- export
-
verb (used with object),
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- peaces
-
noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- exerts
-
verb (used with object),
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action:
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- patent
-
noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- narco-
-
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- stance
-
noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- peasen
-
noun,
a plural of pease.
- extern
-
noun,
a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
- extro-
-
- extras
-
noun,
something extra or additional:
- astro-
-
- extra-
-
- astron
-
- extort
-
verb (used with object),
Law.
to wrest or wring (money, information, etc.) from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like.
to take illegally by reason of one's office.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- extent
-
noun,
the space or degree to which a thing extends; length, area, volume, or scope:
- patter
-
noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- trans.
-
- extant
-
adjective,
in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost:
- Patten
-
noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- exsert
-
adjective,
thrust out; exserted.
- exsect
-
verb (used with object),
to cut out.
- stacte
-
noun,
one of the sweet spices used in the holy incense of the ancient Hebrews. Ex. 30:34.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- expose
-
noun,
a public exposure or revelation, as of something discreditable:
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- penta-
-
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- escent
-
- escarp
-
noun,
Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
- escape
-
noun,
an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- toecap
-
noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- necro-
-
- storax
-
noun,
a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- capers
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- treats
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- except
-
Idioms,
except for, if it were not for:
- 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.
- exacts
-
adjective,
strictly accurate or correct:
- 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.
- stater
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- stator
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- attorn
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- apexes
-
noun,
the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- steno-
-
- estate
-
noun,
a piece of landed property, especially one of large extent with an elaborate house on it:
- etapes
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- sarco-
-
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Spence
-
noun,
a pantry.
- natter
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- sapro-
-
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- oxters
-
noun,
the armpit.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- arsen-
-
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- tenter
-
noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- 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.
- cerat-
-
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- terat-
-
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- ratton
-
noun,
a rat.
- 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.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- contr.
-
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- Octans
-
noun,
the Octant, a southern constellation that contains the south celestial pole.
- octant
-
noun,
the eighth part of a circle.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- octets
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- coapts
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Carnot
-
noun,
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite [la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- Casper
-
noun,
a city in central Wyoming.
- 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.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- recaps
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recept
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- 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.
- cartop
-
adjective,
of a size and shape suitable for carrying on the top of an automobile.
- carton
-
noun,
a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- 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.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- centr-
-
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- 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.
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- 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.
- Carpet
-
noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- carpos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek goddess of summer fruit, considered by Athenians as one of the Horae.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- tercet
-
noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- carpo-
-
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- rectos
-
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Caxton
-
noun,
William, 1422?–91, English printer, translator, and author: established first printing press in England 1476.
- Catton
-
noun,
(Charles) Bruce, 1899–1978, U.S. journalist and historian.
- captor
-
noun,
a person who has captured a person or thing.
- 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.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- scrape
-
noun,
an act or instance of scraping.
- sexpot
-
noun,
a sexually attractive person.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- Capone
-
noun,
Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- ottars
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- ptero-
-
- Cotter
-
noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- capons
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- cortex
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney.
the cerebral cortex.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- cottas
-
noun,
a surplice.
- pretax
-
adjective, adverb,
prior to the payment of taxes:
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- crapes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- teapot
-
noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- craton
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Sexton
-
noun,
an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
- sextet
-
noun,
any group or set of six.
- sextan
-
noun,
a sextan fever.
- tetra-
-
- oxcart
-
noun,
an ox-drawn cart.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- octane
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- 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.
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- copras
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- Capote
-
noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- copens
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- copter
-
noun,
helicopter.
- tenets
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- aceto-
-
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- scrap
-
noun,
a small piece or portion; fragment:
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- part.
-
- Scot.
-
- oxter
-
noun,
the armpit.
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- Scott
-
noun,
Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- pacer
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- scopa
-
noun,
pollen brush.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- 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.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- pant-
-
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- scat-
-
- sect.
-
- exeat
-
noun,
permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- 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.
- areo-
-
- oste-
-
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- Tract
-
noun,
an expanse or area of land, water, etc.; region; stretch.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- OPers
-
- paces
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scarp
-
noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- scape
-
noun,
Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Pasco
-
noun,
a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- scatt
-
noun,
scat5 .
- carps
-
noun,
a peevish complaint.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- actos
-
- Prot.
-
- acro-
-
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- pros.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- pron.
-
- proc.
-
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- rexes
-
noun,
king.
- Acton
-
noun,
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- pret.
-
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- 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.
-
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- Pratt
-
noun,
Edwin John, 1883–1964, Canadian poet.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- trop-
-
- acpt.
-
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- 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.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- 30-30
-
- recap
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- rcpt.
-
- xero-
-
- Xeres
-
noun,
former name of Jerez.
- xeno-
-
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- rept.
-
- prox.
-
- 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.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- resp.
-
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- acet-
-
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- 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.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- patr-
-
- treas
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- 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):
- sarc-
-
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- Apoc.
-
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- Peace
-
noun,
the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- Saxon
-
noun,
a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- aero-
-
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- prae-
-
- poxes
-
noun,
a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- post-
-
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- Port.
-
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- ante-
-
- petr-
-
- pert.
-
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- peta-
-
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- Ponca
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- poet.
-
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- recpt
-
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- canto
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- econ.
-
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- tarts
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- 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.
- Capet
-
noun,
Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- 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.
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- taxes
-
noun,
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- caper
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- taxon
-
noun,
a taxonomic category, as a species or genus.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- ecto-
-
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- 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.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- ESPEC
-
- ster.
-
- 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 .
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- tacts
-
noun,
a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- Cant.
-
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- tacet
-
verb (imperative),
be silent (directing an instrument or voice not to play or sing).
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- ento-
-
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- epact
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- Texas
-
noun,
a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- crape
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- tears
-
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- cert.
-
- tera-
-
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- cero-
-
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- 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.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- coapt
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- Carex
-
noun,
any sedge of the genus Carex.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- 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: ¢.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- cent.
-
- carp-
-
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- corp.
-
- corpn
-
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- capot
-
noun,
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- tecta
-
noun,
a rooflike structure.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- cotta
-
noun,
a surplice.
- Capon
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- coxes
-
noun,
coxswain.
- capos
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- cores
-
- Cons.
-
- teno-
-
- Const
-
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- cont.
-
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- Capt.
-
- caps.
-
- Copan
-
noun,
Santa Rosa de Copán.
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- copr-
-
- copra
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- step-
-
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- 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.
- space
-
noun,
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- span-
-
- noct-
-
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- 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.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- spec.
-
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- nears
-
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- 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.
- Naxos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- naso-
-
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- spor-
-
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- Sept.
-
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- octet
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- octan
-
noun,
an octan fever.
- octa-
-
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- sero-
-
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- asco-
-
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- exons
-
noun,
(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- atto-
-
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Srta.
-
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- astr.
-
- rect.
-
- exec.
-
- execs
-
noun,
an executive, especially in business.
- exert
-
verb (used with object),
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action:
- stat.
-
- start
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- exact
-
adjective,
strictly accurate or correct:
- expos
-
noun,
a world's fair or international exposition:
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Sat.
-
- sex-
-
- sext
-
noun,
the fourth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the sixth hour of the day taken as noon.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- scr.
-
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- 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.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- text
-
noun,
the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- Ste.
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- 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.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- sec.
-
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- 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.
- sepn
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ter.
-
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- 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.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- str.
-
- Rep.
-
- top-
-
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- Xosa
-
noun,
Xhosa.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- tact
-
noun,
a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- tax-
-
- RONA
-
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Sra.
-
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- 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.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- 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.
- ten.
-
- rpt.
-
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- ctr.
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- tox.
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- Tex.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- tRNA
-
- 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.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- 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.
- tron
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- SPCA
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- RNAS
-
- Saxe
-
noun,
Comte Hermann Maurice de [er-man maw-rees duh] /ɛrˈman mɔˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1696–1750, French military leader: marshal of France 1744.
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- Sax.
-
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- 1080
-
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- eso-
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- etc.
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- ette
-
- exa-
-
- Exc.
-
- exes
-
noun,
the letter X, x.
- exo-
-
- Exon
-
noun,
(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
- exor
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- EXPO
-
noun,
a world's fair or international exposition:
- ect-
-
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- 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.
- 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.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- eco-
-
- EEOC
-
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- enc.
-
- ence
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- exp.
-
- exr.
-
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- OAPC
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Oct.
-
- nos-
-
- OEEC
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- Ont.
-
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- ext.
-
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NCTE
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Nor.
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- neo-
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- 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.
- Nexo
-
noun,
Martin Andersen [mahr-ten-ah-nuh r-suh n] /ˈmɑr tɛnˈɑ nər sən/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, Danish novelist.
- NEXT
-
Idioms,
get next to (someone), Informal. to get into the favor or good graces of; become a good friend of.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- cts.
-
- Cres
-
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- asc-
-
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- att.
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- ates
-
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- ator
-
- attn
-
- axes
-
noun,
plural of axis1 .
- 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.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- Can.
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- 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.
- acr-
-
- 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.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- aer-
-
- aet.
-
- 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.
- ance
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ano-
-
- ant.
-
- 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.
- apex
-
noun,
the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- apo-
-
- Apr.
-
- axon
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Cor.
-
- Ceto
-
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- coax
-
noun,
coaxial cable.
- Con.
-
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Cort
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- coxa
-
noun,
Anatomy.
innominate bone.
the joint of the hip.
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- crat
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- cet-
-
- cap.
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- 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.
- capo
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- 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:
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- cat.
-
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- CERN
-
- Catt
-
noun,
Carrie Chapman Lane, 1859–1947, U.S. leader in women's suffrage movements.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- cen.
-
- cene
-
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- 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.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- expt
-
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- per.
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- PACE
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- pts.
-
- prec
-
- pre-
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- PACT
-
noun,
an agreement, covenant, or compact:
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- Pers
-
- pot.
-
- oxes
-
noun,
the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
- pct.
-
- pos.
-
- oxen
-
noun,
a plural of ox.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pacs
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- Pan.
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- 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.
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- pat.
-
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- 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.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- psec
-
- pro-
-
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- PSAT
-
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Pen.
-
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- par.
-
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Pet.
-
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- pnea
-
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- 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.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- pnxt
-
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- prs.
-
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- 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.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- Rs.
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TCS
-
- TCA
-
- RNA
-
- ROA
-
- RSA
-
- POR
-
- RSE
-
- CRP
-
- CRS
-
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- CNO
-
- CRT
-
- REX
-
noun,
king.
- RPO
-
- POA
-
- CPS
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- CEO
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- POC
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- CEA
-
- PRC
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ROP
-
- PRA
-
- pox
-
noun,
a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- CNS
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- Cox
-
noun,
coxswain.
- CPA
-
- CPO
-
- CPR
-
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- ca.
-
- PSA
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- AEC
-
- Tro
-
- RCA
-
- rax
-
verb (used with object),
to elongate; stretch.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ANC
-
- 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.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- RCN
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- aor
-
- APC
-
- 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.
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- APS
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ae.
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- apx
-
- TTS
-
- XOR
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either but not both of its operands are positive.
- Xn.
-
- ap-
-
- ac-
-
- an.
-
- Ar.
-
- xat
-
noun,
a carved totem pole of various North American Indian peoples.
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- ACS
-
- TSP
-
- TSE
-
- trp
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- ACP
-
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- 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.
- PSC
-
- ATC
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- ATP
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- PSE
-
- ax.
-
- CSO
-
- PTT
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- Co.
-
- cp.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- cr.
-
- cs.
-
- TNT
-
- ct.
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- at.
-
- RPS
-
- RCP
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- 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.
- Re.
-
- RCS
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ast
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ase
-
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- CSA
-
- Xt.
-
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- NOC
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- NOP
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- sox
-
noun,
a plural of sock1 .
- pc.
-
- Pa.
-
- 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:
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- SCP
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- ox-
-
- OTS
-
- ote
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Npt
-
- ne-
-
- Sr.
-
- spt
-
- NCO
-
- SPR
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- CSR
-
- NEA
-
- NES
-
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- NEC
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- PTO
-
- pt.
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- Ps.
-
- NPR
-
- nr.
-
- St.
-
- OPA
-
- 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).
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ose
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONR
-
- 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.
- ons
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OCS
-
- NRA
-
- OAP
-
- NRC
-
- NSA
-
- NSC
-
- Oc.
-
- op.
-
- OSA
-
- OTC
-
- OTA
-
- OCR
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- ot-
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OSP
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- se-
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Sta
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Sp.
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- SRO
-
- EEC
-
- EEO
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- en-
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ECA
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- SAE
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- ec-
-
- EPA
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- CST
-
- CTA
-
- cte
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- rt.
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- eo-
-
- ea.
-
- So.
-
- ean
-
- 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.
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Ep.
-
- ene
-
- Ex.
-
- PCS
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- ETO
-
- PAX
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. kiss of peace.
- EPS
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- ESR
-
- SAR
-
- ese
-
- Esc
-
- ESA
-
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERP
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- EPT
-
- STP
-
- sc.
-
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- XO
-
- xr
-
- AO
-
- NP
-
- XP
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- 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.
- N.
-
- Xe
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- xc
-
- TN
-
- CE
-
- TT
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- NC
-
- TC
-
- TX
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TP
-
- SA
-
- RP
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- 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.
- RN
-
- t.
-
- T1
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- RC
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- RX
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- PX
-
plural,
post exchange.
- SN
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OA
-
- RO
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- S.
-
- ee
-