Anagrams of exterminatory
Word exterminatory has
1093 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of exterminatory.
- terminatory
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adjective,
pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
- nitrometer
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noun,
an apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds in a substance or mixture.
- terminator
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noun,
a person or thing that terminates.
- marionette
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noun,
a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- ratiometer
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noun,
(in three-color photography) a device for determining the exposure factors of the filters to be used.
- extremity
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noun,
the extreme or terminal point, limit, or part of something.
- Marinette
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noun,
a city in NE Wisconsin.
- termitary
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noun,
termitarium.
- reiterant
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adjective,
reiterating or repeating, especially to an intensified degree:
- orientate
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verb (used with or without object),
orient (defs 4–12).
- maternity
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noun,
the state of being a mother; motherhood.
- taximeter
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noun,
a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
- Monterrey
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Nuevo León, in NE Mexico: battle 1846.
- Rotameter
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noun,
an instrument for measuring the rate of flow of a liquid, consisting of a tapered vertical tube in which a small float is forced upward until its weight balances the fluid force.
- terminate
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verb (used with object),
to bring to an end; put an end to:
- exertion
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noun,
vigorous action or effort:
- entirety
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noun,
the state of being entire; completeness:
- arterio-
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- minatory
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adjective,
menacing; threatening.
- enormity
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noun,
outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness:
- interrex
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noun,
a person holding supreme authority in a state during an interregnum.
- tetramer
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noun,
a molecule composed of four identical, simpler molecules.
- re-treat
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verb (used with or without object),
to treat again.
- Monterey
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noun,
a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- Romanite
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noun,
a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- Mariette
-
noun,
Auguste Édouard [oh-gyst ey-dwar] /oʊˈgüst eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, French Egyptologist.
- Tertiary
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noun,
(initial capital letter) Geology. the Tertiary Period or System.
- Monteria
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noun,
a city in N Colombia.
- monetary
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adjective,
of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- antimere
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- anterior
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adjective,
situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
- exterior
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noun,
the outer surface or part; outside.
- martinet
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noun,
a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- oximetry
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noun,
the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- reorient
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adjective,
Rare. rising anew.
- retainer
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noun,
a person or thing that retains.
- oximeter
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noun,
an instrument for measuring the oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin in a sample of blood.
- temerity
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noun,
reckless boldness; rashness.
- one-time
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adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- remitter
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noun,
Law.
the principle or operation by which a person who enters on an estate by a defective title, and who previously had an earlier and more valid title to it, is adjudged to hold it by the earlier and more valid one.
the act of remitting a case to another court for decision.
- trimeter
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noun,
a verse of three measures or feet.
- retirant
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noun,
retiree.
- tyramine
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noun,
an amine, C 8 H 11 NO, abundant in ripe cheese as a breakdown product of tyrosine by removal of the carboxyl group (COOH).
- tentoria
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noun,
Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- attorney
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noun,
a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- Maronite
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noun,
a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- tenorite
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noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- entreaty
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noun,
earnest request or petition; supplication.
- eternity
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noun,
infinite time; duration without beginning or end.
- examine
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verb (used with object),
to inspect or scrutinize carefully:
- 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.
- taximen
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noun,
a taxi driver.
- Aretino
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noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- Ternate
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noun,
an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
- moraine
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noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- arenite
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noun,
psammite.
- extrema
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noun,
Mathematics. plural of extremum.
- teatime
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noun,
the time at which tea is served or taken, usually in the late afternoon.
- anxiety
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noun,
distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune:
- oratrix
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noun,
a woman who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence.
- emitter
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noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- tertian
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noun,
Pathology. a tertian fever.
- armoire
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noun,
a large wardrobe or movable cupboard, with doors and shelves.
- Emerita
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noun,
a woman with such status.
- nemato-
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- tartine
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noun,
a fancy French open-faced sandwich topped with spreadable ingredients.
- terrine
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noun,
a casserole dish made of pottery.
- emirate
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- termite
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- intreat
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verb (used with or without object),
entreat.
- terrane
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noun,
any rock formation or series of formations or the area in which a particular formation or group of rocks is predominant.
- arteri-
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- terrain
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noun,
a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.
- nitrate
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noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- axoneme
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noun,
the shaft within a flagellum or cilium, containing twenty microtubules arranged as nine doublets and two singlets.
- ternary
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noun,
a group of three.
- ratteen
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noun,
ratiné.
- Eritrea
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noun,
a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: Italian colony 1890–1941; province of Ethiopia 1962–93; independent since 1993. 47,076 sq. mi. (121,927 sq. km). Capital: Asmara.
- antero-
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- tranter
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noun,
a peddler, hawker, or carrier using a horse and cart.
- torment
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noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- torrent
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noun,
a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
- entero-
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- amenity
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noun,
an agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility:
- toxemia
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noun,
blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
- metayer
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noun,
a person who works the land using tools, seed, etc., furnished by the landlord and who receives a share of the harvest in compensation.
- trainee
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noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- Trainer
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noun,
a person or thing that trains.
- Mariner
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noun,
a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor.
- traitor
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noun,
a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
- entreat
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verb (used with object),
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
- Amyntor
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noun,
a king of Ormenium who refused to give his daughter Astydamia to Hercules and who was slain by Hercules.
- etamine
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noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- martnet
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noun,
an arrangement of lines formerly used for gathering up a leech of a sail.
- trinary
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adjective,
consisting of three parts, or proceeding by three; ternary.
- retiary
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adjective,
using a net or any entangling device.
- trireme
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noun,
a galley with three rows or tiers of oars on each side, one above another, used chiefly as a warship.
- Menotti
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noun,
Gian Carlo [jahn kahr-loh;; Italian jahn kahr-law] /dʒɑn ˈkɑr loʊ;; Italian dʒɑn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–2007, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Tritoma
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Kniphofia, of the lily family, native to Africa, especially K. uvaria, having long, dense clusters of tubular red or yellow flowers.
- tritone
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- matinee
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noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- Meitner
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noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- rentier
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noun,
a person who has a fixed income, as from lands or bonds.
- Torenia
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noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- retrain
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verb (used with object),
to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.
- minaret
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noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- miterer
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noun,
a machine or tool for making miters.
- iterant
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adjective,
characterized by repetition; repeating.
- anomite
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noun,
a variety of mica, similar to biotite but differing in optical orientation.
- iterate
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verb (used with object),
to utter again or repeatedly.
- anytime
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adverb,
at any time; regardless of hour, date, etc.; whenever.
- anymore
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adverb,
any longer.
- moneyer
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noun,
Archaic. a person employed in the authorized coining of money.
- Romaine
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noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- reentry
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noun,
an act of reentering.
- amniote
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noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- Ettarre
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noun,
the vain and heartless lady beloved by Sir Pelleas.
- Reymont
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noun,
Władysław Stanisław [vwah-dee-swahf stah-nee-swahf] /vwɑˈdi swɑf stɑˈni swɑf/ (Show IPA), ("Ladislas Regmont") 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1924.
- raiment
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noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- Amorite
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noun,
a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
- tomenta
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noun,
pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- Mayotte
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noun,
one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- Minette
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noun,
a syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
- to-name
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noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- retreat
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noun,
the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- ratine
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noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- extro-
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- examen
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noun,
an examination, as of conscience.
- remote
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remora
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noun,
any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.
- ration
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noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ratite
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noun,
a bird having a ratite breastbone.
- ratton
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noun,
a rat.
- extra-
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- remain
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noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- reamer
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noun,
any of various rotary tools, with helical or straight flutes, for finishing or enlarging holes drilled in metal.
- extant
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adjective,
in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost:
- ratter
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noun,
a person, animal, or thing that catches rats, as a terrier or a cat.
- extort
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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.
- extine
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noun,
exine.
- extern
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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.
- Reiner
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noun,
Fritz, 1888–1963, Hungarian conductor in the U.S.
- exonym
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noun,
a name used by foreigners for a place, as Florence for Firenze.
- extent
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noun,
the space or degree to which a thing extends; length, area, volume, or scope:
- etymon
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noun,
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ (e) rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
- mortar
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noun,
a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
- rarity
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noun,
something rare, unusual, or uncommon:
- marine
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noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Moerae
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plural noun,
the Fates.
- mitten
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noun,
a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.
- MAeroE
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- Mainer
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- myria-
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- mayten
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noun,
a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- Mettie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- metro-
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- metier
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- meteor
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noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- metate
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noun,
a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- Marino
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noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- yttria
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noun,
a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.
- Marion
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noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- Merton
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noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Marron
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noun,
a large European chestnut, especially as used in cookery: candied or preserved in syrup.
- Marten
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noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- Martyr
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noun,
a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- Merino
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- Mentor
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noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- matri-
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- matrix
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noun,
something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops:
- matron
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noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- matter
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noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- Maxine
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noun,
a female given name.
- moiety
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noun,
a half.
- Monera
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noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- iatro-
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- notary
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noun,
notary public.
- yatter
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noun,
chatter; idle talk.
- ornery
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adjective,
ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper:
- ornate
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adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- roemer
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noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- Yentai
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noun,
Wade-Giles. Yantai.
- Orient
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- yeoman
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noun,
a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- yeomen
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noun,
a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- omenta
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noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- notate
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verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- imaret
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noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- norite
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- Moneta
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noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- inmate
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noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- nitro-
-
- inter.
-
- Renoir
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noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- intro.
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- nitery
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noun,
a nightclub.
- Niamey
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noun,
a port in and the capital of Niger, in the SW part, on the Niger River.
- nemat-
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- natter
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noun,
a conversation; chat.
- Mornay
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noun,
Also called Duplessis-Mornay. Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), Seigneur du Plessis-Marly [se-nyœr dy ple-see-mar-lee] /sɛˈnyœr dü plɛ si marˈli/ (Show IPA), ("Pope of the Huguenots") 1549–1623, French statesman and Protestant leader.
- Moreen
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- intra-
-
- errant
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adjective,
deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.
- Ermine
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noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- termor
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noun,
a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- tinter
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- tetra-
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- tetany
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noun,
a state marked by severe, intermittent tonic contractions and muscular pain, due to abnormal calcium metabolism.
- armory
-
noun,
a storage place for weapons and other war equipment.
- aroint
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verb (imperative),
begone:
- terret
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noun,
one of the round loops or rings on the saddle of a harness, through which the driving reins pass.
- artery
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noun,
Anatomy. a blood vessel that conveys blood from the heart to any part of the body.
- termer
-
noun,
a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination):
- tyrant
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noun,
a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
- terat-
-
- attire
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noun,
clothes or apparel, especially rich or splendid garments.
- attorn
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- tentie
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adjective,
tenty.
- tenter
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- tenaim
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noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- teamer
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noun,
a teamster.
- Antrim
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noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- taxeme
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noun,
a feature of the arrangement of elements in a construction, as selection, order, phonetic modification, or modulation.
- treaty
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noun,
a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
- Triton
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noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- aeron.
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- trimer
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noun,
a molecule composed of three identical, simpler molecules.
- triene
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Trento
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noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- tremor
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noun,
involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- Tyrian
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adjective,
of or relating to ancient Tyre or its people.
- Torrey
-
noun,
John, 1796–1873, U.S. botanist and chemist.
- amino-
-
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- toe-in
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noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- anemo-
-
- titmen
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noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- titman
-
noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- Tyrone
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noun,
a former administrative county in W Northern Ireland: replaced by several new districts 1973.
- eatery
-
noun,
a restaurant or other commercial establishment serving food.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- rotter
-
noun,
a thoroughly bad, worthless, or objectionable person.
- Romany
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noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- retina
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noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- Romney
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noun,
one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- retain
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verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- retire
-
noun,
a place of withdrawal; retreat:
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- entity
-
noun,
something that has a real existence; thing:
- retort
-
noun,
a severe, incisive, or witty reply, especially one that counters a first speaker's statement, argument, etc.
- renter
-
noun,
a person or organization that holds, or has the use of, property by payment of rent.
- Rotary
-
noun,
a rotary device or machine.
- rotate
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- enter-
-
- enmity
-
noun,
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
- rotten
-
adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- retro-
-
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- Ritter
-
noun,
a knight.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- minty
-
adjective,
having the flavor or aroma of mint.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- tonia
-
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- tomia
-
noun,
the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- Myrna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- myxo-
-
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- money
-
noun,
any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- moity
-
adjective,
full of moits.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- mixer
-
noun,
a person or thing that mixes.
- Myron
-
noun,
chrism.
- mitty
-
noun,
Walter Mitty.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- remex
-
noun,
one of the flight feathers of the wing.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- metr-
-
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- Xenia
-
noun,
the influence or effect of pollen on a structure other than the embryo, as the seed or fruit.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- meno-
-
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- 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.
- 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.
- xeno-
-
- tryma
-
noun,
a nut having an outer shell that becomes tough and dry and eventually splits open, as in the walnut and hickory.
- xero-
-
- meiny
-
noun,
Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
- Meyer
-
noun,
Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- Xnty.
-
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- meaty
-
adjective,
of or like meat.
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- X-ray
-
noun,
Physics.
Often, x-rays. a form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to light but of shorter wavelength and capable of penetrating solids and of ionizing gases.
such radiation having wavelengths in the range of approximately 0.1–10 nm.
- reni-
-
- Trier
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- metry
-
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- toti-
-
- toxin
-
noun,
any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight, and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc., and such plant and animal toxins as ricin and snake venom.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- trait
-
noun,
a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature:
- meta-
-
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- remix
-
noun,
a remixed recording.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- Merry
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- mero-
-
- Meany
-
noun,
a small-minded, petty, or malicious person:
- Tyree
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, near Ronne Ice Shelf. About 16,290 feet (4965 meters).
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- rearm
-
verb (used with object),
to arm again.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Taney
-
noun,
Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- ormer
-
noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- Oriya
-
noun,
an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- teno-
-
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- rater
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- tenty
-
adjective,
watchful; attentive.
- taint
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- tera-
-
- teeny
-
adjective,
tiny.
- 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.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- tarty
-
adjective,
tart; somewhat sour.
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- taxon
-
noun,
a taxonomic category, as a species or genus.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- oxeye
-
noun,
any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- rayon
-
noun,
a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- rainy
-
adjective,
characterized by rain:
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- oxter
-
noun,
the armpit.
- teary
-
adjective,
of or like tears.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- oxime
-
noun,
any of a group of compounds containing the group >C=NOH, produced by the condensation of ketones or aldehydes with hydroxylamine.
- omni-
-
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- ratty
-
adjective,
full of rats.
- Natty
-
adjective,
neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce:
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- moxie
-
noun,
vigor; verve; pep.
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- Terry
-
noun,
the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- Moray
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- Tyner
-
noun,
McCoy (Sulaimon Saud) born 1938, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- tarry
-
noun,
a stay; sojourn.
- Mont.
-
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- nitty
-
adjective,
full of nits.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- term.
-
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- terr.
-
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- nitr-
-
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- Terri
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Xtian
-
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Amity
-
noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- Amory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Mayer
-
noun,
Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- iatry
-
- ation
-
- atmo-
-
- Mayon
-
noun,
an active volcano in the Philippines, on SE Luzon Island. 7926 feet (2415 meters).
- Mayor
-
noun,
the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- atomy
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- ento-
-
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Yetta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- amin-
-
- erron
-
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- atony
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- atory
-
- entry
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- 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.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- irony
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- Armen
-
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- areo-
-
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- armor
-
noun,
any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- Ixora
-
noun,
any of numerous tropical shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ixora, of the madder family, having glossy leaves and clusters of showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- anti-
-
- ante-
-
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Iran.
-
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- Emory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- enemy
-
noun,
a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
- anim.
-
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- Amer.
-
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- yearn
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- Emery
-
noun,
a granular mineral substance consisting typically of corundum mixed with magnetite or hematite, used powdered, crushed, or consolidated for grinding and polishing.
- marry
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of surprise, astonishment, etc.)
- aero-
-
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- Yemen
-
noun,
Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- aeri-
-
- matey
-
noun,
comrade; chum; buddy.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matr-
-
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Matt.
-
- matte
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- Matty
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- yamen
-
noun,
(in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- 30-30
-
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- maror
-
noun,
a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
- yenta
-
noun,
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- atty.
-
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- atto-
-
- eyrir
-
noun,
an aluminum bronze coin of Iceland, the 100th part of a króna.
- exeat
-
noun,
permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
- exert
-
verb (used with object),
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action:
- exine
-
noun,
the outer coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- axiom
-
noun,
a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
- axion
-
noun,
a hypothetical particle having no charge, zero spin, and small mass: postulated in some forms of quantum chromodynamics.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- axmen
-
noun,
a person who wields an ax.
- eyrie
-
noun,
aerie.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- intr.
-
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- eyne
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- eyot
-
noun,
ait.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- 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.
- Eyre
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- RONA
-
- emia
-
- EMet
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- eyra
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- 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.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Rory
-
noun,
a male given name.
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- exor
-
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- ette
-
- exa-
-
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- exam
-
noun,
an examination, as in school.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- exit
-
noun,
a way or passage out:
- exo-
-
- Exon
-
noun,
(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
- exr.
-
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- ext.
-
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Yami
-
noun,
a member of an Indonesian people of Hungtow Island, off the southeastern coast of Taiwan.
- oxy-
-
- oxen
-
noun,
a plural of ox.
- yare
-
adjective,
quick; agile; lively.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- etym
-
- Rom.
-
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- 1080
-
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rit.
-
- ryot
-
noun,
a peasant.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rimy
-
adjective,
covered with rime.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Ryan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Enyo
-
noun,
an ancient Greek war goddess.
- eyen
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- 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.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Tray
-
noun,
a flat, shallow container or receptacle made of wood, metal, etc., usually with slightly raised edges, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles of food, glass, china, etc.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- tox.
-
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- 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.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Torr
-
noun,
a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- 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.
- Tory
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Airy
-
adjective,
open to a free current of fresh air; breezy:
- Tony
-
noun,
one of a group of awards made annually by the American Theatre Wing, a professional school for the performing arts, for achievements in theatrical production and performance.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Amoy
-
noun,
Xiamen.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- tomy
-
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- amt.
-
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- ayre
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Xian
-
noun,
hsien.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- tron
-
- Troy
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- tRNA
-
- trix
-
- 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-
-
- aery
-
noun,
aerie.
- trit
-
- aet.
-
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Ayer
-
noun,
Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- ayin
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- tri-
-
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- AIME
-
- Ayme
-
noun,
Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, French novelist and short-story writer.
- Trey
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- 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.
- Aire
-
- toey
-
adjective,
touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- tax-
-
- 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.
- Arty
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- att.
-
- atm.
-
- 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.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- 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.
- ator
-
- atry
-
adjective,
lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- attn
-
- ter.
-
- axon
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body.
- arr.
-
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ten.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- taxy
-
- taxi
-
noun,
a taxicab.
- eery
-
adjective,
eerie.
- art.
-
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Tit.
-
- Tyne
-
noun,
tine.
- Tyrr
-
noun,
Tyr.
- Tyro
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- ano-
-
- ant.
-
- Tyre
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tion
-
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Tiny
-
adjective,
very small; minute; wee.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tyee
-
noun,
chinook salmon.
- text
-
noun,
the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
- Tex.
-
- Arm.
-
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- army
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- yarn
-
noun,
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- year
-
noun,
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year)
Compare common year, leap year.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Ymir
-
noun,
the earliest being and the progenitor of the giants, killed by Odin and his brothers. From his flesh the earth was made, from his blood the waters, and from his skull the heavens.
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- mixt
-
noun,
an act or instance of mixing.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nor.
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- nomy
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nom.
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- inae
-
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- not-
-
- Nary
-
adjective,
not any; no; never a:
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Myra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Lycia.
- Man.
-
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- MINX
-
noun,
a pert, impudent, or flirtatious girl.
- Iyar
-
noun,
the eighth month of the Jewish calendar.
- myo-
-
- oary
-
adjective,
oarlike.
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- miry
-
adjective,
of the nature of mire; swampy:
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- Mayo
-
noun,
mayonnaise.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- NTIA
-
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- yoni
-
noun,
(in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti.
Compare lingam (def 2).
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Ire.
-
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- moxa
-
noun,
a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- neem
-
- mRNA
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- 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.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- 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.
- Mon.
-
- NIRA
-
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- int.
-
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- mony
-
adjective, noun,
many.
- nyet
-
adverb, noun,
no1 .
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- NEXT
-
Idioms,
get next to (someone), Informal. to get into the favor or good graces of; become a good friend of.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Nexo
-
noun,
Martin Andersen [mahr-ten-ah-nuh r-suh n] /ˈmɑr tɛnˈɑ nər sən/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, Danish novelist.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- yirr
-
noun,
a growl or snarl, as of a dog.
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Onyx
-
noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of chalcedony having straight parallel bands of alternating colors.
Compare Mexican onyx.
- Ont.
-
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- Manx
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the inhabitants of the Isle of Man.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Mary
-
noun,
Also called Virgin Mary. the mother of Jesus.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Oryx
-
noun,
a large African antelope, Oryx gazella, grayish with black markings and having long, nearly straight horns: an endangered species.
- yean
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- met.
-
- Marx
-
noun,
Karl (Heinrich) [kahrl hahyn-rik;; German kahrl hahyn-rikh] /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
- yeti
-
noun,
Abominable Snowman.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- ment
-
- men-
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- max.
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- MAXI
-
noun,
maxiskirt.
- onym
-
- Mar.
-
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- yett
-
noun,
gate.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Myna
-
noun,
any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- min.
-
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- IRO
-
- ae.
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- TIA
-
- Tro
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- MOR
-
- Ar.
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MTI
-
- Xty
-
- Xt.
-
- Amy
-
noun,
a vial of amyl nitrate.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- XOR
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either but not both of its operands are positive.
- Nay
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- MTO
-
- mtn
-
- Mt.
-
- TTY
-
- Xn.
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- MRI
-
- at.
-
- MRE
-
- MRA
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- Am.
-
- an.
-
- tr.
-
- xat
-
noun,
a carved totem pole of various North American Indian peoples.
- ite
-
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- MIE
-
- Any
-
Idioms,
any which way, in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly:
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- MEX
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- mi.
-
- MNA
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- TMO
-
- Ayn
-
noun,
ʿain.
- my-
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- TNT
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Ayr
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Scotland.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- TOY
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- mix
-
noun,
an act or instance of mixing.
- MNE
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ary
-
adjective,
any; anyone.
- ity
-
- ITA
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MIT
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- tra
-
- aye
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- aor
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- AME
-
- 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.
- Tyr
-
noun,
the god of strife.
- May
-
noun,
a maiden.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- Me.
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mao
-
- MOI
-
- Mo.
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- Ir.
-
- ote
-
- ax.
-
- OIr
-
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ery
-
- 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.
- OIt
-
- Yin
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- Om.
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- ERT
-
- ety
-
- ETO
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- OEM
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ETR
-
- ene
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- in.
-
- ROA
-
- RNR
-
- RNA
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- nr.
-
- 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.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- rya
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- REX
-
noun,
king.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ROI
-
- RMA
-
- Yam
-
noun,
the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- yea
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- Ray
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Re.
-
- io-
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- Yao
-
noun,
Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun) was a paragon of good government.
- yar
-
adjective,
yare (defs 1, 2).
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ot-
-
- ox-
-
- Ia.
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Ex.
-
- ONI
-
- REA
-
- rax
-
verb (used with object),
to elongate; stretch.
- ONR
-
- yet
-
Idioms,
as yet. as1 (def 31).
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- yer
-
- ier
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ory
-
- Yeo
-
- 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.
- Yen
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- NRA
-
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- 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.
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- yon
-
pronoun,
that or those yonder.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- eir
-
- Nye
-
noun,
Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
- NYA
-
- eye
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- 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:
- EEO
-
- ior
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Ney
-
noun,
Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- 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.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- ean
-
- OTA
-
- ea.
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- NEA
-
- EOM
-
- eo-
-
- ne-
-
- IOT
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- NIA
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- rte
-
- en-
-
- EMT
-
- EMR
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- NMR
-
- NMI
-
- Nyx
-
noun,
an ancient Greek goddess personifying night.
- nix
-
noun,
nothing.
- ine
-
- rt.
-
- EAM
-
- Tay
-
noun,
a river flowing through central Scotland into the Firth of Tay. 118 miles (190 km) long.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- EI
-
- RN
-
- MX
-
- AO
-
- RI
-
- N.
-
- TT
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- TX
-
- R.
-
- Xe
-
- MN
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- NI
-
- xi
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ξ, ξ).
- NY
-
- ee
-
- 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.
- XO
-
- ye
-
pronoun,
Archaic, except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose Literary, or British Dialect.
(used nominatively as the plural of thou especially in rhetorical, didactic, or poetic contexts, in addressing a group of persons or things):
(used nominatively for the second person singular, especially in polite address):
(used objectively in the second person singular or plural):
- xr
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TM
-
- RO
-
- RX
-
- T1
-
- ty
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- TN
-
- ry
-
- M.
-
- ey
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- OA
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- t.
-
- O.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- NM
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- i.
-
- yr
-
- Y.
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- YT
-
- Yi
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- YA
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.