Anagrams of fosterling
Word fosterling has
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that can be made by using the letters of fosterling.
- florigens
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noun,
a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- frosting
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noun,
a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- Negritos
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noun,
a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.
- ringlets
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noun,
a curled lock of hair.
- retinols
-
noun,
vitamin A.
- flingers
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noun,
a person or thing that flings.
- genitors
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noun,
a parent, especially a father.
- Sterling
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noun,
British currency.
- feltings
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noun,
felted material, either woven or felt fabric.
- trefoils
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noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
- florigen
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noun,
a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- genitor
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noun,
a parent, especially a father.
- genito-
-
- rigolet
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noun,
a small stream; rivulet.
- sterno-
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- stinger
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noun,
a person or thing that stings.
- felting
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noun,
felted material, either woven or felt fabric.
- florins
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noun,
a cupronickel coin of Great Britain, formerly equal to two shillings or the tenth part of a pound and retained in circulation equal to 10 new pence after decimalization in 1971: first issued in 1849 as a silver coin.
- florist
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noun,
a retailer of flowers, ornamental plants, etc.
- ringlet
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noun,
a curled lock of hair.
- sorting
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noun,
the process by which sedimentary particles become separated according to some particular characteristic, as size or shape.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- estriol
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- girl-os
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noun,
a girl or young woman.
- glisten
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noun,
a glistening; sparkle.
- glister
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noun,
glitter; sparkle.
- glories
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noun,
very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown:
- ergotin
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noun,
any of various extracts of ergot used in medicine.
- lentigo
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noun,
a freckle or other pigmented spot.
- lifters
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noun,
a person or thing that lifts.
- retinol
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noun,
vitamin A.
- Forseti
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noun,
the god of justice, the son of Balder and Nanna.
- florets
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noun,
a small flower.
- re-sign
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verb (used with or without object),
to sign again.
- tiglons
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noun,
the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
- Lofting
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noun,
Hugh, 1886–1947, U.S. author of books for children, born in England.
- foreign
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adjective,
of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native:
- linters
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noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- 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.
- flinger
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noun,
a person or thing that flings.
- forgets
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Idioms,
forget oneself, to say or do something improper or unbefitting one's rank, position, or character.
- forints
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noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- loiters
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- onliest
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Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- forties
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noun,
a cardinal number, ten times four.
- lingoes
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noun,
the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
- lingers
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time, life, etc.) in a leisurely or a tedious manner (usually followed by away or out):
- longies
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noun,
long underwear, especially for winter use.
- fingers
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noun,
any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- resting
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noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tingles
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noun,
a tingling sensation.
- fringes
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noun,
a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
- Lorient
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noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- frontis
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noun,
the front wall of a cancha or jai alai court.
Compare rebote (def 1).
- goiters
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noun,
an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- Negrito
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noun,
a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.
- trifles
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noun,
an article or thing of very little value.
- Slinger
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noun,
a person or thing that slings.
- ignores
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verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- gristle
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noun,
cartilage, especially in meats.
- trigons
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noun,
a triangle.
- eloigns
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verb (used with object),
to remove to a distance, especially to take beyond the jurisdiction of a law court.
- snifter
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noun,
Also called inhaler. a pear-shaped glass, narrowing at the top to intensify the aroma of brandy, liqueur, etc.
- singlet
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noun,
a sleeveless athletic jersey, especially a loose-fitting top worn by runners, joggers, etc.
- trigone
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noun,
Also, trigonum. Anatomy.
a triangular part or area.
the area on the floor of the urinary bladder between the opening of the urethra in front and the two ureters at the sides.
- norites
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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.
- tringle
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noun,
a narrow, straight molding, as a fillet.
- Goneril
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noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.
- olefins
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noun,
any member of the alkene series.
- Nilotes
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noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- signore
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noun,
a conventional Italian title of respect for a man, usually used separately; signor.
- nostril
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noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- entoils
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- trefoil
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noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
- inorg.
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- fortis
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noun,
a fortis consonant.
- insole
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noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- single
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noun,
one person or thing; a single one.
- TEFLON
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adjective,
characterized by imperviousness to blame or criticism:
- Reston
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noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Foster
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noun,
Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- sinter
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- linger
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time, life, etc.) in a leisurely or a tedious manner (usually followed by away or out):
- lingoe
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noun,
a metal weight attached to the cords of a Jacquard harness, for lowering the warp threads after they have been raised and for keeping the harness cords taut.
- telson
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noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- ingots
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noun,
a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
- INGRES
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noun,
Jean Auguste Dominique [zhahn oh-gyst daw-mee-neek] /ʒɑ̃ oʊˈgüst dɔ miˈnik/ (Show IPA), 1780–1867, French painter.
- insert
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Fresno
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noun,
a city in central California.
- liners
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noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- fortes
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noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- soigne
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adjective,
carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
- resoil
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verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- tensor
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tiglon
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noun,
the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
- silent
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noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- litres
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noun,
liter.
- fogies
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noun,
an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded by old):
- liters
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noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- Lister
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noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- listen
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- resign
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verb (used with object),
to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
- Signor
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noun,
a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
- Silone
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noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- lionet
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noun,
a young or small lion.
- ignore
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verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- infest
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verb (used with object),
to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do:
- signet
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noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- signer
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noun,
a person who signs.
- linter
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noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- Forest
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noun,
a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- forges
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noun,
a special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping.
- ingest
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verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- Ingles
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noun,
a fire burning in a hearth.
- Singer
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noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- forget
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Idioms,
forget oneself, to say or do something improper or unbefitting one's rank, position, or character.
- forint
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noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- ligno-
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- instr.
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- fringe
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noun,
a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
- sortie
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noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- grilse
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noun,
a young Atlantic salmon as it returns from the sea to fresh water for the first time.
- steno-
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- grifts
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noun,
(sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- stego-
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- irones
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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.
- Gilson
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noun,
Étienne Henry [ey-tyen ahn-ree] /eɪˈtyɛn ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1884–1978, French historian.
- Senior
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noun,
a person who is older than another.
- gonifs
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noun,
ganef.
- Lenoir
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noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- goners
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noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- girl-o
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noun,
a girl or young woman.
- intros
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noun,
an introduction.
- legits
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noun,
the legitimate theater or stage.
- legist
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noun,
an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- legion
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noun,
a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers.
- soling
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noun,
pitching.
- glints
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noun,
a tiny, quick flash of light.
- soften
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verb (used with object),
to make soft or softer.
- Solent
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noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- itself
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pronoun,
a reflexive form of it1 :
- gofers
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noun,
an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
- goiter
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noun,
an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- set-in
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adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- sterol
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noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- lignes
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noun,
(in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- stolen
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noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Strong
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Idioms,
come on strong, Slang. to behave in an aggressive, ardent, or flamboyant manner:
- string
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noun,
a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- Strine
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noun,
Australian English.
- softie
-
noun,
softy.
- strife
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noun,
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism:
- ligers
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noun,
the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- fronts
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noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- sifter
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noun,
a person or thing that sifts.
- lifter
-
noun,
a person or thing that lifts.
- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- groins
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noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- lifers
-
noun,
a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- stingo
-
noun,
strong beer.
- inter.
-
- genit.
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- inters
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verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- Grison
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noun,
a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.
- intro.
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- rifles
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noun,
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- stifle
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noun,
(in a horse or other quadruped) the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding anatomically to the human knee.
- griots
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noun,
a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- logins
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noun,
the act of logging in to a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
- infers
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- Florin
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noun,
a cupronickel coin of Great Britain, formerly equal to two shillings or the tenth part of a pound and retained in circulation equal to 10 new pence after decimalization in 1971: first issued in 1849 as a silver coin.
- orgies
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noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- refits
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noun,
an act of refitting.
- trifle
-
noun,
an article or thing of very little value.
- nitres
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noun,
niter.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- nitro-
-
- losing
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noun,
losings, losses.
- oleins
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noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- regift
-
noun,
an unwanted gift that is given away.
- fetors
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- Loring
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- trigon
-
noun,
a triangle.
- eloign
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verb (used with object),
to remove to a distance, especially to take beyond the jurisdiction of a law court.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- filets
-
noun,
fillet (defs 1, 10).
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- filose
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adjective,
threadlike.
- olefin
-
noun,
any member of the alkene series.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- triens
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noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- filter
-
noun,
any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- oriels
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noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- ergots
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noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- flori-
-
- Origen
-
noun,
(Origenes Admantius) a.d. 185?–254? Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.
- etrogs
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- Negros
-
noun,
an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- feigns
-
verb (used with object),
to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of:
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- feints
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- felons
-
noun,
Law. a person who has committed a felony.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- fliers
-
noun,
something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- flints
-
noun,
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- region
-
noun,
an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
- flirts
-
noun,
Also, flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
- flites
-
noun,
a dispute or wrangle; scolding.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- reigns
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- flongs
-
noun,
the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
- Flores
-
noun,
flower (def 11).
- 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.
- floret
-
noun,
a small flower.
- trigos
-
noun,
wheat; field of wheat.
- egoist
-
noun,
a self-centered or selfish person (opposed to altruist).
- tinges
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- finlet
-
noun,
a small, detached ray of a fin in certain fishes, as mackerels.
- finger
-
noun,
any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- longi-
-
- finest
-
noun,
the police:
- longes
-
noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- tingle
-
noun,
a tingling sensation.
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- elfins
-
noun,
an elf.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- ogles
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- insol
-
- Nigel
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Neil.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- infos
-
noun,
information.
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- often
-
adverb,
many times; frequently:
- olig-
-
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- OFris
-
noun,
the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- inst.
-
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- serif
-
noun,
a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- intr.
-
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nitr-
-
- ingot
-
noun,
a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- seti-
-
- sero-
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Ingle
-
noun,
a fire burning in a hearth.
- 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.
- 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.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- self-
-
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Oreg.
-
- Longs
-
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- longe
-
noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- lingo
-
noun,
the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
- ling.
-
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- ligne
-
noun,
(in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- lign-
-
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- liger
-
noun,
the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- lifts
-
noun,
the act of lifting, raising, or rising:
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- lings
-
noun,
an elongated, marine, gadid food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and northern Europe.
- Regt.
-
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- reni-
-
- relig
-
- 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.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- loges
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- reifs
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- login
-
noun,
the act of logging in to a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- logis
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Roget
-
noun,
Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- orig.
-
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- legit
-
noun,
the legitimate theater or stage.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- Legis
-
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- lefts
-
noun,
the left side or something that is on the left side.
- Rolfe
-
noun,
John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rings
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- refl.
-
- rifts
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- lifer
-
noun,
a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- refit
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rifle
-
noun,
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- oste-
-
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- Rigel
-
noun,
a first-magnitude star in the constellation Orion.
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- grief
-
noun,
keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- infer
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- flirt
-
noun,
Also, flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
- foils
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tiger
-
noun,
a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several subspecies from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some subspecies thought to be extinct.
- flor.
-
- flong
-
noun,
the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
- flogs
-
verb (used with object),
to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- Tigre
-
noun,
a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- flits
-
noun,
a light, swift movement; flutter.
- flite
-
noun,
a dispute or wrangle; scolding.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- Flint
-
noun,
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- foins
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- fling
-
noun,
an act of flinging.
- flies
-
noun,
a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
- flier
-
noun,
something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- first
-
noun,
the person or thing that is first in time, order, rank, etc.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- firns
-
noun,
névé.
- fires
-
- tinge
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- finos
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- fines
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- 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.
- Foist
-
verb (used with object),
to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon):
- tings
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- telo-
-
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Frost
-
noun,
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- front
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frons
-
noun,
the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- Frits
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- frise
-
noun,
a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- Fris.
-
- frigs
-
noun,
refrigerator.
- Fries
-
noun,
plural of fry1 .
- frets
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- Freon
-
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- teno-
-
- forte
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- fort.
-
- Forli
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, SE of Bologna.
- forge
-
noun,
a special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping.
- fores
-
noun,
the forepart of anything; front.
- forel
-
noun,
a slipcase for a book.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- folie
-
noun,
madness; insanity.
- Finer
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- filos
-
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- ento-
-
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- engr.
-
- trig.
-
- trigo
-
noun,
wheat; field of wheat.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- ergo-
-
- Elgon
-
noun,
an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the boundary between Uganda and Kenya. 14,176 feet (4321 meters).
- Elgin
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois.
- elfin
-
noun,
an elf.
- trigs
-
noun,
trigonometry.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- trogs
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- 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.
- 30-30
-
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- ergot
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- filet
-
noun,
fillet (defs 1, 10).
- feist
-
noun,
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- fetor
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- feti-
-
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- TOEFL
-
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- felts
-
noun,
a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- felon
-
noun,
Law. a person who has committed a felony.
- Felis
-
noun,
a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- feint
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- 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.
- feign
-
verb (used with object),
to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of:
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- etrog
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tongs
-
noun,
any of various implements consisting of two arms hinged, pivoted, or otherwise fastened together, for seizing, holding, or lifting something (usually used with pair of).
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- 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.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- fore-
-
- golfs
-
noun,
a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- gilts
-
noun,
the thin layer of gold or other material applied in gilding.
- sito-
-
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- Sligo
-
noun,
a county in Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 694 sq. mi. (1795 sq. km).
- grots
-
noun,
a grotto.
- Grote
-
noun,
George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- Sofer
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- Grofe
-
noun,
Ferde [fur-dee] /ˈfɜr di/ (Show IPA), (Ferdinand Rudolf von Grofé) 1892–1972, U.S. composer.
- girns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- giros
-
noun,
autogiro.
- girts
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- grist
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- griot
-
noun,
a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- glint
-
noun,
a tiny, quick flash of light.
- grins
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- grift
-
noun,
(sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- gofer
-
noun,
an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- gonif
-
noun,
ganef.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- groin
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- gelts
-
noun,
money.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- ileo-
-
- sing.
-
- Giles
-
noun,
Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- Genl.
-
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- stge.
-
- geol.
-
- Sino-
-
- sting
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- gifts
-
noun,
something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- ster.
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- trog
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- serf
-
noun,
a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- tong
-
noun,
tongs.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- ogle
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- tron
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ole-
-
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Sig.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- tri-
-
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- tref
-
adjective,
Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- sift
-
verb (used with object),
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- slog
-
noun,
a long, tiring walk or march.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Ont.
-
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- org.
-
- 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.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- stlg
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- rel.
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rit.
-
- 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.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ter.
-
- Ste.
-
- 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.
- rift
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- 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.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- rife
-
adjective,
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use:
- str.
-
- rifs
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- tel-
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- ten.
-
- stg.
-
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- ref.
-
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Seif
-
noun,
a long narrow sand dune parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Reg.
-
- reft
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- refs
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
referee.
- soft
-
noun,
something that is soft or yielding; the soft part.
- togs
-
noun,
a coat.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tion
-
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Soni
-
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- 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.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- reif
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- Rolf
-
noun,
Also called Rolf the Ganger [gang-er] /ˈgæŋ ər/ (Show IPA). Rollo (def 1).
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- Sol.
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- soln
-
- Ting
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- 1080
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- gro.
-
- Grit
-
noun,
abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- gres
-
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- gon-
-
- golf
-
noun,
a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Glen
-
noun,
a small, narrow, secluded valley.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- grot
-
noun,
a grotto.
- girt
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- girl
-
noun,
a female child, from birth to full growth.
- Gino
-
noun,
a male given name.
- gilt
-
noun,
the thin layer of gold or other material applied in gilding.
- gils
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- gift
-
noun,
something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- ign.
-
- geo-
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Leif
-
noun,
a male given name.
- legs
-
noun,
either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- LEGO
-
noun,
one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- leg.
-
- left
-
noun,
the left side or something that is on the left side.
- itol
-
- iso-
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- 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.
- Ire.
-
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- 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.
- intl
-
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- info
-
noun,
information.
- infl
-
- Inf.
-
- Ger.
-
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- fils
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the 100th part of a dinar.
- file
-
noun,
a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
- fig.
-
- fest
-
noun,
an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination):
- Fern
-
noun,
any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- Fens
-
noun,
Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in E England, S of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.
- Felt
-
noun,
a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- est.
-
- eso-
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Fin.
-
- ergs
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ens.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enl.
-
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Eng.
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- efts
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- filt
-
- FINE
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- Frei
-
noun,
Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- Gen.
-
- gelt
-
noun,
money.
- frt.
-
- FRSL
-
- Frs.
-
- FROG
-
noun,
any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- frit
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- frig
-
noun,
refrigerator.
- Fri.
-
- FRGS
-
- fret
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- for.
-
- Fino
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- font
-
noun,
a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.
- Fons
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- Fong
-
noun,
Hiram L(eong) [lee-awng,, -ong] /liˈɔŋ,, -ˈɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1907–2004, U.S. lawyer and senator from Hawaii 1959–77.
- fol.
-
- foin
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- foil
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- flog
-
verb (used with object),
to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- floe
-
noun,
Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flit
-
noun,
a light, swift movement; flutter.
- FITS
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- fist
-
noun,
the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm.
- firs
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- firn
-
noun,
névé.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- ile-
-
- Lofn
-
noun,
a goddess who aids those having trouble winning the affections of their beloveds.
- 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.
- neo-
-
- lin.
-
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nor.
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- 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.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Logi
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- loge
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- log-
-
- LOFT
-
noun,
a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- nos-
-
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- NEFS
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- lit.
-
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- Lief
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- Life
-
noun,
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- LIFO
-
noun,
last-in, first-out (def 1).
- lift
-
noun,
the act of lifting, raising, or rising:
- not-
-
- 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.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- NFL
-
- ons
-
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- ONR
-
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- NFS
-
- fog
-
noun,
a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility.
Compare ice fog, mist, smog.
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- TGN
-
- tfr
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- FOS
-
- gi.
-
- ote
-
- Ges
-
- ot-
-
- STI
-
- ose
-
- NSF
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Gel
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- STL
-
- ft.
-
- FOT
-
- FSR
-
- ne-
-
- nef
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- Frl
-
- NES
-
- FRG
-
- 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:
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- Flo
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Florence.
- OLG
-
- Fl.
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- tr.
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOF
-
- trf
-
- oft
-
adverb,
often.
- OFr
-
- of-
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- en-
-
- OSF
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ELF
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, especially from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- eft
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- efl
-
- Tro
-
- ef-
-
- eo-
-
- Eg.
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- ESL
-
- ESR
-
- ONI
-
- FET
-
- FIT
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- 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.
- ONF
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- FIR
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- FIO
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- ltr
-
- NLF
-
- fil
-
noun,
fils.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- fie
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.)
- fgn
-
- tlo
-
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- tlr
-
- Tng
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- tog
-
noun,
a coat.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- OIt
-
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fo.
-
- 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.
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- OIr
-
- ETO
-
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- GIF
-
noun,
a set of standards and file format for storage of digital color images and short animations.
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- IOT
-
- ISR
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Isl
-
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- ise
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- IRS
-
- IRO
-
- IRL
-
- 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).
- Ir.
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- SRO
-
- ior
-
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- 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 = .
- lg.
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Sgt
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ing
-
- LNG
-
- ine
-
- in.
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- se-
-
- So.
-
- ILO
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Les
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- RIF
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Lif
-
- RFI
-
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- RFE
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- ROG
-
- RTS
-
- ROI
-
- 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.
- Lt.
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ite
-
- ist
-
- Rs.
-
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTF
-
- ILS
-
- IOF
-
- nr.
-
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- gre
-
- Gr.
-
- got
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- SOF
-
- LON
-
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- il-
-
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- gl.
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- SLR
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- LSI
-
- LST
-
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- Re.
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Gil
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- Sr.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- St.
-
- OTS
-
- grf
-
- 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.
- GSR
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Ife
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- gt.
-
- SLE
-
- GTO
-
- io-
-
- ier
-
- GTS
-
- IFS
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- NI
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- R.
-
- ln
-
- IF
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- RF
-
- RO
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- rg
-
- O.
-
- OG
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- RN
-
- NG
-
- NF
-
- N.
-
- IG
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- EI
-
- fn
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- LF
-
- RI
-
- L.
-
- le
-
- SL
-
- SN
-
- ol
-
- TL
-
- fg
-
- FE
-
- FI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
- f.
-
noun,
(Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- T1
-
- TG
-
- t.
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- i.
-
- L2
-
- S.
-
- GN
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- NL
-
- SF
-
- 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.
- LR
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TN
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- G.
-
- L1
-
- SG
-