Anagrams of frumentaceous
Word frumentaceous has
2261 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of frumentaceous.
- countersue
-
verb (used with object),
to bring a civil action against (one's complainant).
- nectareous
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adjective,
nectarous.
- cofeatures
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noun,
a movie that shares a bill with another movie.
- forenames
-
noun,
a name that precedes the family name or surname; first name.
- cofeature
-
noun,
a movie that shares a bill with another movie.
- fructosan
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noun,
any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- craftsmen
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noun,
a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- mesorecta
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noun,
the mesentery of the rectum.
- scot-free
-
adjective,
completely free from harm, restraint, punishment, or obligation:
- mouse-ear
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noun,
any of various plants having small, hairy leaves, as the hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella, or the forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris.
- castoreum
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noun,
castor1 (def 1).
- one-acter
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noun,
a short play consisting of one act.
- outrances
-
noun,
the utmost extremity.
- forcemeat
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noun,
a mixture of finely chopped and seasoned foods, usually containing egg white, meat or fish, etc., used as a stuffing or served alone.
- Freemason
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noun,
a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- cutaneous
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adjective,
of, relating to, or affecting the skin.
- Centaurus
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noun,
Astronomy. the Centaur, a southern constellation between Lupus and Vela, containing the triple-star system Alpha Centauri.
- rutaceous
-
adjective,
of or like rue.
- rufescent
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adjective,
somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- nectarous
-
adjective,
of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- on-stream
-
adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- courtesan
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noun,
a prostitute or paramour, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.
- carotenes
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- neuromast
-
noun,
a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- courantes
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noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- fourteens
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noun,
a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- mucronate
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adjective,
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- numerates
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- sea-front
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noun,
an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- raftsmen
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noun,
a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
- ancestor
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noun,
a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor.
- Monstera
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noun,
any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- forecast
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verb (used with object),
to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance:
- ferments
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noun,
Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- customer
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noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- routeman
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- construe
-
noun,
the act of construing.
- nacreous
-
adjective,
of or relating to nacre.
- numerous
-
adjective,
very many; being or existing in great quantity:
- routemen
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- numerate
-
adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- cerumens
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noun,
earwax.
- re-count
-
noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- surmount
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verb (used with object),
to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over:
- foremast
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noun,
the mast nearest the bow in all vessels having two or more masts.
- cernuous
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adjective,
drooping, as a flower; nodding.
- fenestra
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or perforation, as in a bone, especially between the middle and inner ear.
- fourteen
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noun,
a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- notecase
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noun,
billfold.
- Muenster
-
noun,
a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- romaunts
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- courants
-
noun,
courante.
- Cousteau
-
noun,
Jacques Yves [zhahk eev] /ʒɑk iv/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, French naval officer, author, and underseas explorer: developed the Aqua-Lung.
- counters
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noun,
a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
- counter-
-
- seamount
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noun,
a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- furcates
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adjective,
forked; branching.
- coutures
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noun,
the occupation of a couturier; dressmaking and designing.
- romances
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noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- trounces
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verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- cumarone
-
noun,
coumarone.
- foramens
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noun,
an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- costumer
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- cremates
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- confutes
-
verb (used with object),
to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove:
- mounters
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- resonate
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- Ansermet
-
noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- Turcoman
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noun,
Turkoman.
- courante
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noun,
a dance dating back to the 17th century and characterized by a running or gliding step.
- forename
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noun,
a name that precedes the family name or surname; first name.
- racemous
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adjective,
racemose.
- softener
-
noun,
Chemistry.
any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity.
water softener.
- fructose
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noun,
Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- outrance
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noun,
the utmost extremity.
- outraces
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verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- fearsome
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adjective,
causing fear:
- recusant
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noun,
a person who is recusant.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- outfaces
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verb (used with object),
to cause to submit by or as if by staring down; face or stare down.
- Cameroun
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noun,
Cameroon (def 1).
- Etruscan
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noun,
an inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
- Masorete
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noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- features
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noun,
a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic:
- formants
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noun,
Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
- acetones
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- Casement
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noun,
a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- factures
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noun,
the act, process, or manner of making anything; construction.
- carotene
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noun,
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A.
- formates
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noun,
a salt or ester of formic acid.
- fastener
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noun,
any of various devices for fastening.
- farceuse
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noun,
a woman skilled in farce.
- carneous
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adjective,
fleshlike; flesh-colored.
- neuromas
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noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- consumer
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noun,
a person or thing that consumes.
- centrums
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noun,
a center.
- racemose
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adjective,
Botany.
having the form of a raceme.
arranged in racemes.
- sauterne
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noun,
a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- centaurs
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- enforces
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verb (used with object),
to put or keep in force; compel obedience to:
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- to-name
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noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- refects
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verb (used with object),
to refresh, especially with food or drink.
- refutes
-
verb (used with object),
to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- conatus
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noun,
an effort or striving.
- cerates
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noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- nemato-
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- foremen
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noun,
a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- formate
-
noun,
a salt or ester of formic acid.
- furnace
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noun,
a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.
- carouse
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noun,
carousal.
- confers
-
verb (used with object),
to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc.:
- confuse
-
verb (used with object),
to perplex or bewilder:
- consume
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- confute
-
verb (used with object),
to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove:
- cerumen
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noun,
earwax.
- Fonseca
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noun,
Gulf of, a bay of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America, bordered by El Salvador on the W, Honduras on the NE, and Nicaragua on the S. About 700 sq. mi. (1800 sq. km).
- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- carnous
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adjective,
carnose.
- cerato-
-
- constr.
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- cermets
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noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- carnose
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adjective,
of or relating to flesh; fleshy.
- carnets
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noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- narcose
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adjective,
characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- censure
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noun,
strong or vehement expression of disapproval:
- centums
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noun,
one hundred.
- centaur
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- cenotes
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noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- furcate
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adjective,
forked; branching.
- cetanes
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noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- coarsen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become coarse.
- tonemes
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noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Cenaeum
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noun,
(in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- formant
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noun,
Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
- cements
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noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- Foreman
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noun,
a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- remount
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- coaster
-
noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- nectars
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noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- cereous
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adjective,
waxlike.
- centres
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noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- foramen
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noun,
an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- centro-
-
- comates
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- tenures
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- necrose
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verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- muscone
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noun,
an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 16 H 30 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- catouse
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noun,
New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- centrum
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noun,
a center.
- tenuous
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adjective,
thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- centare
-
noun,
centiare.
- remotes
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- couters
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noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- contra-
-
- feature
-
noun,
a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic:
- soutane
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noun,
a cassock.
- soutenu
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adjective,
performed in a carefully sustained manner.
- measure
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- sanctum
-
noun,
a sacred or holy place.
- saunter
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- menaces
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- stearo-
-
- Menorca
-
noun,
Minorca.
- Maureen
-
noun,
a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- stereo-
-
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- entero-
-
- enforce
-
verb (used with object),
to put or keep in force; compel obedience to:
- enfaces
-
verb (used with object),
to write, print, or stamp something on the face of (a note, draft, etc.).
- sterno-
-
- encrust
-
verb (used with or without object),
incrust.
- encores
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- sternum
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- estrone
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- matures
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- Mercast
-
noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- Sno-Cat
-
- far-out
-
adjective,
unconventional; offbeat; avant-garde.
- Faroese
-
noun,
Faeroese.
- Farnese
-
noun,
Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), Duke of Parma, 1545–92, Italian general, statesman, and diplomat.
- Marcuse
-
noun,
Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- farmout
-
noun,
an act or instance of farming out or leasing, as land for oil exploration.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- fantoms
-
noun,
an apparition or specter.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- sfumato
-
noun,
the subtle and minute gradation of tone and color used to blur or veil the contours of a form in painting.
- matrons
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noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- Fameuse
-
noun,
an American variety of red apple that ripens in early winter.
- facture
-
noun,
the act, process, or manner of making anything; construction.
- factors
-
noun,
one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation:
- manures
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- fatuous
-
adjective,
foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
- Eustace
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “steadfast.”.
- faucets
-
noun,
any device for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe or the like by opening or closing an orifice; tap; cock.
- Euratom
-
noun,
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
- Eumaeus
-
noun,
the faithful swineherd of Odysseus.
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- macrons
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- contras
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- courant
-
noun,
courante.
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- cratons
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- romaunt
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- Temenus
-
noun,
a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- Couture
-
noun,
the occupation of a couturier; dressmaking and designing.
- careens
-
noun,
a careening.
- couteau
-
noun,
a knife, especially a large double-edged one formerly carried as a weapon.
- Romance
-
noun,
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively):
- cremate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- costume
-
noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- tenaces
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- cornute
-
adjective,
cornuted.
- cornets
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- corneas
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- foments
-
verb (used with object),
to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of:
- tenrecs
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- Munster
-
noun,
muenster.
- contuse
-
verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- creates
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- Cremona
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- surname
-
noun,
the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- fencers
-
noun,
a person who practices the art of fencing with a sword, foil, etc.
- ecartes
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- run-out
-
noun,
the act of evading a jump or jumping outside of the limiting markers.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- surcoat
-
noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- surface
-
noun,
the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- fenster
-
noun,
an erosional break in an overthrust rock sheet, exposing the rocks that underlie the sheet.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- crenate
-
adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- ferment
-
noun,
Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- tanrecs
-
noun,
tenrec.
- monster
-
noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- curates
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cuneate
-
adjective,
having or being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- morceau
-
noun,
piece; morsel.
- festuca
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Festuca, chiefly characterized by tufted blades and spikelets, comprising the fescues.
- moreens
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- mounter
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- formats
-
noun,
the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves.
Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- coatees
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- Smeaton
-
noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- transf.
-
- turacos
-
noun,
touraco.
- frenate
-
adjective,
having a frenum or frenulum.
- Freeman
-
noun,
a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
- Freneau
-
noun,
Philip, 1752–1832, U.S. poet and editor.
- outruns
-
verb (used with object),
to run faster or farther than.
- ocreate
-
adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- raucous
-
adjective,
harsh; strident; grating:
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- Tourane
-
noun,
former name of Danang.
- scouter
-
noun,
a person who scouts.
- Cameron
-
noun,
Julia Margaret, 1815–79, English photographer, born in India.
- tureens
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- fraenum
-
noun,
frenum.
- turfman
-
noun,
a person who is extremely devoted to horse racing.
- Camoens
-
noun,
Luis Vaz de [loo-eesh vahzh duh] /luˈiʃ vɑʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.
- Franco-
-
- outface
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to submit by or as if by staring down; face or stare down.
- fractus
-
adjective,
containing small, individual elements that have a ragged appearance.
- turfmen
-
noun,
a person who is extremely devoted to horse racing.
- amounts
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- Fortune
-
noun,
position in life as determined by wealth:
- ausform
-
verb (used with object),
to subject (steel or other metals) to a hardening process that increases its strength and improves its wear properties.
- outrace
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- acumens
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- Fortuna
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of fortune, identified with the Greek goddess Tyche.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- recount
-
noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- austere
-
adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- octanes
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- amerces
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- aeneous
-
adjective,
bronze-colored:
- Austro-
-
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- outmans
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- auteurs
-
noun,
a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- nostrum
-
noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- arseno-
-
- Fremont
-
noun,
a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- acetous
-
adjective,
containing or producing acetic acid.
- functor
-
noun,
that which functions.
- funster
-
noun,
a person who creates or seeks fun, as a comedian or reveler.
- acerous
-
adjective,
acerose1 .
- Anterus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 235–236.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- antero-
-
- trounce
-
verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- Oceanus
-
noun,
a Titan who was the son of Uranus and Gaea, the consort of Tethys, and the father of the river gods and Oceanids.
- foumart
-
noun,
the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- neuters
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- neutro-
-
- scrotum
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- refaces
-
verb (used with object),
to renew, restore, or repair the face or surface of (buildings, stone, etc.).
- acerose
-
adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- recants
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- Tucuman
-
noun,
a city in NW Argentina.
- screeno
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- canters
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- frustum
-
noun,
the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
- uranous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent uranium.
- acetone
-
noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 3 H 6 O, usually derived by oxidation of isopropyl alcohol or by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates: used chiefly in paints and varnishes, as a general solvent, and in organic synthesis.
- racemes
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- toucans
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- neuroma
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- trumeau
-
noun,
a mirror having a painted or carved panel above or below the glass in the same frame.
- anurous
-
adjective,
having no tail.
- afreets
-
noun,
a powerful evil demon or monster.
- Fuertes
-
noun,
Louis Agassiz [ag-uh-see] /ˈæg ə si/ (Show IPA), 1874–1927, U.S. painter and naturalist.
- fumeuse
-
noun,
a chair of the 18th century, having a crest rail incorporating a place for pipes and tobacco.
- unseat
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- macro-
-
- unsure
-
adjective,
not certain or confident:
- frusta
-
noun,
the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- Seneca
-
noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- strafe
-
noun,
a strafing attack.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- runout
-
noun,
Machinery.
the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill.
Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- fencer
-
noun,
a person who practices the art of fencing with a sword, foil, etc.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- macons
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- fences
-
noun,
a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- metro-
-
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- femto-
-
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- Fermat
-
noun,
Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1601–65, French mathematician.
- Octans
-
noun,
the Octant, a southern constellation that contains the south celestial pole.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- uncase
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a case; remove the case from.
- cuesta
-
noun,
a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- tarso-
-
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- tauro-
-
- cteno-
-
- Taurus
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Bull, a zodiacal constellation between Gemini and Aries, containing the bright star Aldebaran.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- cumene
-
noun,
a colorless and toxic liquid, C 9 H 12 , soluble in alcohol: used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and acetone.
- scato-
-
- MOSFET
-
noun,
Electronics. metal oxide semiconducter field-effect transistor.
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- fetors
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- future
-
noun,
time that is to be or come hereafter.
- secure
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- fester
-
noun,
an ulcer; a rankling sore.
- francs
-
noun,
an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- unfact
-
noun,
a fabrication that is disseminated as fact.
- amount
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- rufous
-
adjective,
reddish; tinged with red; brownish red.
- suture
-
noun,
Surgery.
a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.
a particular method of doing this.
one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- unmeet
-
adjective,
not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- merous
-
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- anemo-
-
- Custer
-
noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- UNESCO
-
noun,
an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- octane
-
noun,
any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 18 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- Moneta
-
noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- curets
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- curate
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- ferous
-
- fescue
-
noun,
Also called fescue grass. any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns.
- cuneus
-
noun,
Anatomy. a wedge-shaped convolution on the medial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- enface
-
verb (used with object),
to write, print, or stamp something on the face of (a note, draft, etc.).
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- acetum
-
noun,
a preparation having vinegar or dilute acetic acid as the solvent.
- socman
-
noun,
sokeman.
- socmen
-
noun,
sokeman.
- fauces
-
noun,
Anatomy. the cavity at the back of the mouth, leading into the pharynx.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- masto-
-
- faucet
-
noun,
any device for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe or the like by opening or closing an orifice; tap; cock.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- manuf.
-
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- usenet
-
noun,
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
- soften
-
verb (used with object),
to make soft or softer.
- fresco
-
noun,
Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Compare fresco secco.
- frenum
-
noun,
a fold of membrane that checks or restrains the motion of a part, as the fold on the underside of the tongue.
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- somat-
-
- Faunus
-
noun,
an ancient Italian woodland deity, later identified with Pan.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- sarco-
-
- usance
-
noun,
Commerce. a length of time, exclusive of days of grace and varying in different places, allowed by custom or usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- outman
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- facers
-
noun,
a person or thing that faces.
- facete
-
adjective,
facetious.
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- fantom
-
noun,
an apparition or specter.
- U-turn
-
noun,
a U -shaped turn made by a vehicle so as to head in the opposite direction from its original course.
- Marcus
-
noun,
Saint. Also, Mark. died a.d. 336, pope 336.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- uterus
-
noun,
the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- utero-
-
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- fasten
-
verb (used with object),
to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- Saturn
-
noun,
an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- ounces
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- facets
-
noun,
one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- Snefru
-
noun,
flourished c2920 b.c, Egyptian ruler of the 4th dynasty.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- aceous
-
- famous
-
adjective,
having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated:
Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious.
Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- faeces
-
noun,
feces.
- Fresno
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- factum
-
noun,
a statement of the facts in a controversy or legal case.
- aceto-
-
- Factor
-
noun,
one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation:
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- mascon
-
noun,
a massive concentration of high-density material beneath the surface of the moon.
- soucar
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- acumen
-
noun,
keen insight; shrewdness:
- macron
-
noun,
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- urano-
-
- sacro-
-
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- enserf
-
verb (used with object),
to make a serf of; place in bondage.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Uranus
-
noun,
Astronomy. the planet seventh in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 32,600 miles (56,460 km), a mean distance from the sun of 1,784 million miles (2,871 million km), a period of revolution of 84.07 years, and 15 moons.
- afreet
-
noun,
a powerful evil demon or monster.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- raceme
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- encore
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- enter-
-
- AFSCME
-
- encase
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- MAeroE
-
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- enacts
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- afters
-
- uraeus
-
noun,
the sacred asp as represented upon the headdress of divinities and royal personages of ancient Egypt, usually directly over the forehead, as an emblem of supreme power.
- untrue
-
adjective,
not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard.
- senufo
-
noun,
a member of a group of indigenous people of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, known for their music and art.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- escent
-
- Escaut
-
noun,
French name of Scheldt.
- meacon
-
verb (used with object),
to give false signals to (electronic navigational equipment), as by means of a radio transmitter.
- eructs
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- saucer
-
noun,
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- stance
-
noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- acutes
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- sacrum
-
noun,
a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- freest
-
Idioms,
for free, Informal. without charge:
- menace
-
noun,
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- aeron.
-
- outrun
-
verb (used with object),
to run faster or farther than.
- steno-
-
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- neuro-
-
- France
-
noun,
Anatole [a-na-tawl] /a naˈtɔl/ (Show IPA), (Jacques Anatole Thibault) 1844–1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel Prize 1921.
- Cereus
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Cereus, of the cactus family, having large, usually white, funnel-shaped flowers.
- narco-
-
- cesura
-
noun,
caesura.
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- ceruse
-
noun,
a pigment composed of white lead.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- aureus
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Rome, from Caesar to Constantine I.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- aurous
-
adjective,
Chemistry. of or containing gold in the univalent state.
- aurums
-
noun,
gold. Symbol: Au.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- nasute
-
noun,
a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- Austen
-
noun,
Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- austr-
-
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- cerat-
-
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- Forest
-
noun,
a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- Forman
-
noun,
Milos [mee-lawsh] /ˈmi lɔʃ/ (Show IPA), (Jan Tomas Forman) born 1932, U.S. film director, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- auteur
-
noun,
a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- fortes
-
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.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- crofts
-
noun,
a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Foster
-
noun,
Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- forams
-
noun,
foraminifer.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- reseau
-
noun,
a network.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- rescue
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- Cetura
-
noun,
Keturah.
- furans
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- centr-
-
- Nautes
-
noun,
(in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- nemat-
-
- reface
-
verb (used with object),
to renew, restore, or repair the face or surface of (buildings, stone, etc.).
- Caruso
-
noun,
Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1921, Italian operatic tenor.
- format
-
noun,
the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves.
Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- carton
-
noun,
a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- refute
-
verb (used with object),
to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- refuse
-
noun,
something that is discarded as worthless or useless; rubbish; trash; garbage.
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- toucan
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- formee
-
adjective,
paty.
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- Carnot
-
noun,
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite [la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
- Cantor
-
noun,
the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- Cantos
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- cantus
-
noun,
cantus firmus.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Carmen
-
noun,
Ciudad del Carmen.
- refect
-
verb (used with object),
to refresh, especially with food or drink.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Canute
-
noun,
a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- formes
-
noun,
form (def 30).
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- rectos
-
- Autumn
-
noun,
the season between summer and winter; fall. In the Northern Hemisphere it is from the September equinox to the December solstice; in the Southern Hemisphere it is from the March equinox to the June solstice.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- trans.
-
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- funest
-
adjective,
boding or causing evil or death; fatal; disastrous.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- Fortas
-
noun,
Abe, 1910–1982, U.S. lawyer, government official, and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1965–69.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- rectum
-
noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- rectus
-
noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- cement
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- necro-
-
- recuse
-
verb (used with object),
to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- 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.
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- turco-
-
- fronts
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- turaco
-
noun,
touraco.
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- foeman
-
noun,
an enemy in war.
- foemen
-
noun,
an enemy in war.
- foetus
-
noun,
fetus.
- tenace
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- Coruna
-
noun,
La Coruña.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- mucors
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- mucosa
-
noun,
mucous membrane.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- Creuse
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2165 sq. mi. (5605 sq. km). Capital: Guéret.
- Creusa
-
noun,
the bride to be of Jason, slain by Medea.
- futons
-
noun,
a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, especially in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.
- Cretan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- Scutum
-
noun,
Zoology. scute (def 1).
- antrum
-
noun,
a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- frames
-
noun,
a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- Tuscan
-
noun,
the standard literary form of the Italian language.
- craton
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- crafts
-
noun,
an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill:
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Tumaco
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Colombia.
- Nueces
-
noun,
a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Muscat
-
noun,
a variety of grape having a pronounced sweet aroma and flavor, used for making wine and raisins.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- contr.
-
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- astron
-
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- conure
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed New World parrots, especially of the genus Aratinga, certain species of which are kept as pets.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- astro-
-
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- confer
-
verb (used with object),
to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc.:
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- mucous
-
adjective,
pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling mucus.
- foment
-
verb (used with object),
to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of:
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Truman
-
noun,
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- fumets
-
noun,
a stock made by simmering fish, chicken, game, etc., in water, wine, or in both, often boiled down to concentrate the flavor and used as a flavoring.
- Corfam
-
- fusuma
-
noun,
a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.
- arsen-
-
- fouter
-
noun,
something that has no value (used in expressions of contempt):
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- scat-
-
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scarf
-
noun,
a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- furan
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- 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.
- fumet
-
noun,
a stock made by simmering fish, chicken, game, etc., in water, wine, or in both, often boiled down to concentrate the flavor and used as a flavoring.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- sauce
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- fusee
-
noun,
a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- Fusan
-
noun,
Pusan.
- fucus
-
noun,
any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- Scot.
-
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Macon
-
noun,
Nathaniel, 1758–1837, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1801–07.
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- futon
-
noun,
a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, especially in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.
- fumes
-
noun,
Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature:
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- Cunas
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neur-
-
- neut.
-
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- reefs
-
noun,
a ridge of rocks or sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water.
- noct-
-
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- rect.
-
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- Musca
-
noun,
the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- 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.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- nears
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- naso-
-
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- Nauru
-
noun,
Republic of, an island republic in the Pacific, near the equator, W of the Gilbert Islands: administered by Australia before 1968. 8¼ sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- naut.
-
- Reaum
-
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- 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.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- oste-
-
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- often
-
adverb,
many times; frequently:
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- 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.
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- rafts
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- octa-
-
- octan
-
noun,
an octan fever.
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- meno-
-
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- mero-
-
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- meso-
-
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- meta-
-
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- 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.
- mast-
-
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- masc.
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matr-
-
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- McFee
-
noun,
William, 1881–1966, English writer.
- sarc-
-
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- MSEnt
-
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- MSFor
-
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- muco-
-
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- mucus
-
noun,
a viscous, slimy mixture of mucins, water, electrolytes, epithelial cells, and leukocytes that is secreted by glands lining the nasal, esophageal, and other body cavities and serves primarily to protect and lubricate surfaces.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- metr-
-
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Rufus
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “red-headed.”.
- MNurs
-
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- Mont.
-
- 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.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Frost
-
noun,
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- front
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- frons
-
noun,
the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- tufas
-
noun,
Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like.
Compare travertine.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- asco-
-
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- Croft
-
noun,
a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- craft
-
noun,
an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill:
- Tunas
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- astr.
-
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- cores
-
- Corfu
-
noun,
Ancient Corcyra. one of the Ionian Islands, off the NW coast of Greece. 229 sq. mi. (593 sq. km).
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- teno-
-
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- arcus
-
noun,
a dense, horizontal, roll-shaped cloud sometimes occurring at the lower front portion of a cumulonimbus.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- 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.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- turfs
-
noun,
a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- Camus
-
noun,
Albert [al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- ante-
-
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- tears
-
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- areo-
-
- Cumae
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- Armen
-
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- cont.
-
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- caus.
-
- cause
-
noun,
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- Cant.
-
- canto
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- 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.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- cent.
-
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- term.
-
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- tera-
-
- 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.
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- Comr.
-
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- conf.
-
- 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.
- Cons.
-
- Const
-
- atmo-
-
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- auto.
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- Aust.
-
- treas
-
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- cero-
-
- cert.
-
- 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.
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- Aurum
-
noun,
gold. Symbol: Au.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- Ceuta
-
noun,
a seaport and enclave of Spain in N Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- uncus
-
noun,
any hook-shaped or curved part of a body process, especially the hippocampal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain.
- Faust
-
noun,
Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–c1538, German magician, alchemist, and astrologer.
- farts
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- actos
-
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Fates
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- fatso
-
noun,
a fat person (used as a term of address).
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- fauns
-
noun,
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- Faure
-
noun,
Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- faros
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- Acton
-
noun,
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- sero-
-
- fears
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- Feast
-
noun,
any rich or abundant meal:
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- feces
-
noun,
waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement.
- acro-
-
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- fames
-
noun,
widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence:
- Sofer
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- sofar
-
noun,
a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- facer
-
noun,
a person or thing that faces.
- faces
-
noun,
the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- facet
-
noun,
one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- farms
-
noun,
a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- fanes
-
noun,
a temple.
- fanos
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- acute
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- farce
-
noun,
a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
- SNAFU
-
noun,
a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation:
Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up.
Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- fares
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- femes
-
noun,
a woman or wife.
- Eurus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the east wind.
- franc
-
noun,
an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- forms
-
- fort.
-
- 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.
- Forum
-
noun,
the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
- Fount
-
noun,
a spring of water; fountain.
- fours
-
noun,
a cardinal number, three plus one.
- Frame
-
noun,
a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- Frans
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- fores
-
noun,
the forepart of anything; front.
- scuta
-
noun,
plural of scutum.
- frats
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- scurf
-
noun,
the scales or small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- 30-30
-
- scrum
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- frees
-
Idioms,
for free, Informal. without charge:
- Freon
-
- frets
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- forme
-
noun,
form (def 30).
- fore-
-
- femur
-
noun,
Anatomy. a bone in the human leg extending from the pelvis to the knee, that is the longest, largest, and strongest in the body; thighbone.
- fetas
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- 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.
- acnes
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- fence
-
noun,
a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- feres
-
noun,
a companion; mate.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Festa
-
noun,
a feast, festival, or holiday.
- acet-
-
- fetes
-
noun,
a day of celebration; holiday:
- force
-
noun,
physical power or strength possessed by a living being:
- fetor
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- fetus
-
noun,
(used chiefly of viviparous mammals) the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.
- sect.
-
- foams
-
noun,
a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.:
- focus
-
noun,
a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity:
- fomes
-
noun,
any agent, as clothing or bedding, that is capable of absorbing and transmitting the infecting organism of a disease.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- foram
-
noun,
foraminifer.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- Amer.
-
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- AMORC
-
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- uran-
-
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- afros
-
noun,
a hair style originating with black persons, in which the hair is allowed to grow naturally and to acquire a bushy appearance.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- ento-
-
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- ster.
-
- stome
-
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- uncut
-
adjective,
not cut.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- aero-
-
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- softa
-
noun,
a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- 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.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- ecto-
-
- afore
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
before.
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- Euro-
-
- Sumac
-
noun,
any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Srta.
-
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- econ.
-
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Ecua.
-
- Afro-
-
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- USMC
-
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- UNEF
-
- USNA
-
- turf
-
noun,
a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- raft
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- ufos
-
noun,
any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin.
- USRC
-
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- USTC
-
- Tues
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- urus
-
noun,
the aurochs.
- tRNA
-
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- tron
-
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- RCAF
-
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- tref
-
adjective,
Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- Uru.
-
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- uro-
-
- Urfa
-
noun,
a city in SE Turkey, E of the Euphrates River: on the site of ancient Edessa.
- uret
-
- 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)
- tufa
-
noun,
Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like.
Compare travertine.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- USMA
-
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- out-
-
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- USCA
-
- USAR
-
- 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.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- USAF
-
noun,
the permanent or regular military air force of the United States, established in 1947 as a separate service under the authority of the Department of Defense: a branch of the U.S. Army before 1947. Abbreviation: USAF.
- Reef
-
noun,
a ridge of rocks or sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Ste.
-
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- 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.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Sra.
-
- SRAM
-
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Sam.
-
- safe
-
noun,
a steel or iron box or repository for money, jewels, papers, etc.
- sofa
-
noun,
a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rus.
-
- str.
-
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- sur-
-
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- scr.
-
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- sec.
-
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- scfm
-
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Sem.
-
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- 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.
- saur
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Sat.
-
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- ref.
-
- 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.
- Rom.
-
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- RNAS
-
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- 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.
- ter.
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- ten.
-
- tofu
-
noun,
a soft, bland, white cheeselike food, high in protein content, made from curdled soybean milk: used in Asian and vegetarian cookery.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- 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.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- reft
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- refs
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
referee.
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- 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.
- SURF
-
noun,
the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Tasm
-
- taur
-
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- RONA
-
- soft
-
noun,
something that is soft or yielding; the soft part.
- mes-
-
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- farm
-
noun,
a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Eur.
-
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- fam.
-
- fac.
-
- face
-
noun,
the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- FACS
-
- fact
-
noun,
something that actually exists; reality; truth:
- fane
-
noun,
a temple.
- Fano
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fare
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- Faro
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Fars
-
noun,
a province in SW Iran. 51,466 sq. mi. (133,297 sq. km).
- fart
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- FAST
-
noun,
a fastening for a door, window, or the like.
- fate
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- fats
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) cattle fattened and ready for market.
- Faun
-
noun,
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- Fear
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- feat
-
noun,
a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.:
- fec.
-
- fees
-
noun,
a charge or payment for professional services:
- feet
-
noun,
a plural of foot.
- fem.
-
- etc.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- Feme
-
noun,
a woman or wife.
- ence
-
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- eco-
-
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- ect-
-
- EEOC
-
- EFTA
-
- efts
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- enc.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- est.
-
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- eous
-
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- FEMA
-
noun,
Federal Emergency Management Agency: a federal agency that coordinates the response to disasters in the U.S.
- fems
-
noun,
a woman.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Mar.
-
- fut.
-
- 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.
- 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.
- Mac-
-
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Man.
-
- 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.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- fur.
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- meas
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- men-
-
- FUSE
-
noun,
a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
- funs
-
noun,
something that provides mirth or amusement:
- Fens
-
noun,
Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in E England, S of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.
- fora
-
noun,
a plural of forum.
- FERA
-
- fere
-
noun,
a companion; mate.
- 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.
- fest
-
noun,
an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination):
- feta
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- fete
-
noun,
a day of celebration; holiday:
- FMCS
-
- FNMA
-
- foam
-
noun,
a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.:
- Fons
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- font
-
noun,
a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.
- for.
-
- Four
-
noun,
a cardinal number, three plus one.
- fume
-
noun,
Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature:
- frae
-
preposition, adverb,
from.
- Fran
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- frat
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- Frau
-
noun,
a married woman; a wife.
- FRCS
-
- free
-
Idioms,
for free, Informal. without charge:
- fret
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- from
-
preposition,
(used to specify a starting point in spatial movement):
- Frs.
-
- frt.
-
- Frum
-
adjective,
Yiddish. religious; observant.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- atm.
-
- Arm.
-
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- asc-
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- ASME
-
- ASTM
-
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- ates
-
- 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
-
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- aur-
-
- Aus.
-
- aut-
-
- CAFE
-
noun,
a restaurant, often with an enclosed or outdoor section extending onto the sidewalk.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- AFSC
-
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- acr-
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Acus
-
noun,
Surgery. a needle, especially one used in a surgical operation.
- 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-
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- aet.
-
- afr-
-
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- amt.
-
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- amus
-
- ance
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ano-
-
- ant.
-
- ANTU
-
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- Can.
-
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Cor.
-
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- corf
-
noun,
Mining.
a small wagon for carrying coal, ore, etc.
a wicker basket formerly used for this purpose.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Cort
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- crat
-
- Cres
-
- Con.
-
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- ctr.
-
- cts.
-
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- Cuna
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- 1080
-
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- cur.
-
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- CanF
-
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- cat.
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- cen.
-
- cene
-
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Cerf
-
noun,
Bennett (Alfred) 1898–1971, U.S. book publisher, editor, and writer.
- CERN
-
- cet-
-
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Ceto
-
- Cmon
-
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- Com.
-
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- ment
-
- fame
-
noun,
widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence:
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- 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.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- mout
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- NCTE
-
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Ont.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mon.
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- mRNA
-
- MSAE
-
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- Oct.
-
- OEEC
-
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- 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.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- mun.
-
- MSCE
-
- muc-
-
- oafs
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- MSEE
-
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- msec
-
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- mus.
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- Nor.
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- met.
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- 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.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nom.
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MNAS
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- nos-
-
- neo-
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- 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.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- neem
-
- NEFS
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- 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.
- not-
-
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- OAS
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- OSF
-
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- OTC
-
- oaf
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- 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.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- CSA
-
- NOC
-
- CSF
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- NRC
-
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Co.
-
- TCA
-
- TCS
-
- 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.
- ca.
-
- CAF
-
- CTA
-
- CST
-
- cf.
-
- cr.
-
- OAU
-
- cs.
-
- tra
-
- CSR
-
- tr.
-
- ct.
-
- CSO
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CEA
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- OSA
-
- CMA
-
- CFA
-
- tfr
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- cfm
-
- CFO
-
- cfs
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- REA
-
- TMO
-
- CNM
-
- CNO
-
- CNS
-
- NSU
-
- NSC
-
- nr.
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- NSA
-
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- CEF
-
- NRA
-
- OFM
-
- 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.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- CEO
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- Oc.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- 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.
- RCT
-
- CRT
-
- CRS
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- NUM
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- RCA
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- RCN
-
- CFR
-
- Tu.
-
- OCR
-
- AMC
-
- AEC
-
- AEF
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ure
-
- AFC
-
- AFM
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- AFS
-
- AFT
-
adverb,
at, close to, or toward the stern or tail:
- ur-
-
- ae.
-
- AME
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- uns
-
- AMS
-
- UNO
-
- AMU
-
- ons
-
- Une
-
- ANC
-
- ONR
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- ANF
-
- Ar.
-
- UUM
-
- Utu
-
noun,
the Sumerian sun god: the counterpart of the Akkadian Shamash.
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- Am.
-
- ac-
-
- Af.
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- UTC
-
- an.
-
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- usu
-
- USR
-
- OTS
-
- USO
-
- AUC
-
- USN
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- USM
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- USC
-
- ote
-
- ACS
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ONF
-
- unc
-
- OCS
-
- at.
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- tue
-
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- ctf
-
- 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.
- TSE
-
- ASU
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- Om.
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- ATC
-
- oft
-
adverb,
often.
- OFr
-
- of-
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEM
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- Tro
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- trf
-
- RAF
-
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- ASM
-
- ase
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- UMT
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- UFO
-
noun,
any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin.
- UFC
-
- Ufa
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe.
- UCR
-
- UAM
-
- UAE
-
- USA
-
- UAR
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- RMA
-
- aor
-
- AOU
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- 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.
- ARF
-
interjection,
(used to imitate the bark of a dog).
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- ARS
-
- RCS
-
- Re.
-
- ARU
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- cte
-
- NES
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- 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).
- MST
-
- MSN
-
- MSF
-
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- MSE
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- FET
-
- MSA
-
- fm.
-
- FMC
-
- MTF
-
- MRE
-
- MRA
-
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- FOS
-
- FOT
-
- fou
-
adjective,
drunk.
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- Fra
-
noun,
a title of address for a friar or brother.
- Mt.
-
- mtn
-
- se-
-
- FAR
-
Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- fo.
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- RFC
-
- RFE
-
- SNU
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RMC
-
- ose
-
- Fan
-
noun,
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- FAO
-
- ROA
-
- Fee
-
noun,
a charge or payment for professional services:
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- MUF
-
- FAT
-
noun,
any of several white or yellowish greasy substances, forming the chief part of adipose tissue of animals and also occurring in plants, that when pure are colorless, odorless, and tasteless and are either solid or liquid esters of glycerol with fatty acids; fats are insoluble in water or cold alcohol but soluble in ether, chloroform, or benzene: used in the manufacture of soap, paints, and other protective coatings and in cooking.
- SMA
-
- sfm
-
- Sfc
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- FCA
-
- FCS
-
- MTS
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- MTO
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- FAS
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- MCR
-
- MNS
-
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- Mao
-
- MNE
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- MNA
-
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- 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.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- MFT
-
- Mcf
-
- SAR
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MFS
-
- MFR
-
- MFA
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- SAE
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- SRO
-
- So.
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- 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.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- SCM
-
- FRC
-
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- MOR
-
- FSA
-
- FSR
-
- ft.
-
- FTC
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- fun
-
noun,
something that provides mirth or amusement:
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- Rs.
-
- SCF
-
- sc.
-
- Mc-
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSC
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTF
-
- RTS
-
- SOF
-
- RNA
-
- RFA
-
- EEO
-
- ECA
-
- ECF
-
- ECM
-
- NEC
-
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- suf
-
- NEA
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- EEC
-
- ne-
-
- ec-
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- ef-
-
- eft
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- EMF
-
- EMR
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- en-
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- ene
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- NMU
-
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- NMR
-
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- NFS
-
- NFC
-
- 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:
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- eo-
-
- EOM
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
-
- EAM
-
- ean
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- nef
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- STM
-
- UUT
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- ESU
-
- ERT
-
- Sta
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- St.
-
- ESA
-
- ETO
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Esc
-
- Sr.
-
- ese
-
- EOE
-
- ESR
-
- 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.
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- NCO
-
- eu-
-
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- EOF
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- NSF
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- CE
-
- 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.
- MN
-
- S.
-
- ee
-
- CM
-
- RF
-
- SA
-
- AO
-
- FA
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- SM
-
- TC
-
- NM
-
- 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.
- CU
-
- MF
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- N.
-
- RO
-
- RC
-
- fn
-
- O.
-
- UC
-
- U.
-
- TN
-
- FC
-
- OA
-
- NF
-
- R.
-
- SU
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- NC
-
- SN
-
- M.
-
- FE
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- SF
-
- RN
-
- t.
-
- T1
-
- RU
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- TM
-