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- good-natured
-
adjective,
having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable:
- gastronomes
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noun,
a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
- dry-as-dust
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adjective,
dull and boring:
- gastrostomy
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noun,
the construction of an artificial opening from the stomach through the abdominal wall, permitting intake of food or drainage of gastric contents.
- monoestrous
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adjective,
monestrous.
- rodomontade
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noun,
vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
- gastronome
-
noun,
a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
- deodorants
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noun,
an agent for destroying odors.
- gastrotomy
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noun,
the operation of cutting into the stomach.
- groundmass
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noun,
the crystalline, granular, or glassy base or matrix of a porphyritic or other igneous rock, in which the more prominent crystals are embedded.
- anoestrous
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adjective,
anestrous.
- treasonous
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adjective,
treasonable.
- gastronomy
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noun,
the art or science of good eating.
- detonators
-
noun,
a device, as a percussion cap, used to make another substance explode.
- assortment
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noun,
the act of assorting; distribution; classification.
- transmutes
-
- monestrous
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adjective,
of or relating to a mammal that has one estrus period per breeding season, as the dog.
- understood
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of understand.
- staterooms
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noun,
a private room or compartment on a ship, train, etc.
- doomsayer
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noun,
a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- germanous
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adjective,
containing bivalent germanium.
- mastodons
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noun,
a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- gasometry
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noun,
the measurement of gases.
- astronomy
-
noun,
the science that deals with the material universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- on-stream
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adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- doorstone
-
noun,
a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- doorstead
-
noun,
the structure of a doorway.
- astrodome
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noun,
a transparent dome on top of the fuselage of an aircraft, through which observations are made for celestial navigation.
- outermost
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adjective,
farthest out; remotest from the interior or center:
- doomsdays
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noun,
the day of the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
- undermost
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adjective, adverb,
lowest, as in position, status, or the like.
- doomsters
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noun,
a doomsayer.
- gustatory
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adjective,
of or relating to taste or tasting.
- sturgeons
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noun,
any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- estragons
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noun,
tarragon.
- oysterman
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noun,
a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- stomatous
-
adjective,
stomatal.
- dangerous
-
adjective,
full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- anterooms
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noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- duodenary
-
adjective,
duodecimal.
- autosomes
-
noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- Mongooses
-
noun,
a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- stateroom
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noun,
a private room or compartment on a ship, train, etc.
- ostensory
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noun,
monstrance.
- aneurysms
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noun,
a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- osteotomy
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noun,
the dividing of a bone, or the excision of part of it.
- sternmost
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adjective,
farthest aft.
- Androgeus
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noun,
a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- sea-trout
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noun,
any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.
- seamounts
-
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.
- autodynes
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noun,
a type of heterodyne circuit containing a vacuum tube or transistor that acts simultaneously as a detector and oscillator.
- angstroms
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noun,
a unit of length, equal to one tenth of a millimicron, or one ten millionth of a millimeter, primarily used to express electromagnetic wavelengths. Symbol: Å; Abbreviation: A.
- dragonets
-
noun,
any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- road-test
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noun,
a check of an automobile's performance in actual operation on the road.
- mudstones
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noun,
a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- monstrous
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adverb,
extremely; exceedingly; very.
- monastery
-
noun,
a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- dos-a-dos
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noun,
do-si-do.
- anoestrus
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noun,
anestrus.
- standouts
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noun,
something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others:
- mustanger
-
noun,
a person who engages in mustanging.
- Masterson
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noun,
William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- tornadoes
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noun,
a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris.
Compare waterspout (def 3).
- gyrostats
-
- assurgent
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adjective,
curving upward, as leaves; ascendant.
- toadstone
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noun,
any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
- anestrous
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adjective,
not showing estrus.
- mesotrons
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noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- stegodons
-
noun,
any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- deodorant
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noun,
an agent for destroying odors.
- sostenuto
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noun,
a movement or passage played in this manner.
- underdogs
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noun,
a person who is expected to lose in a contest or conflict.
- dermatous
-
- sandstorm
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noun,
a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- tautomers
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noun,
a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- outstands
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verb (used with object),
to stay or remain beyond:
- guardsmen
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noun,
a person who acts as a guard.
- detonator
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noun,
a device, as a percussion cap, used to make another substance explode.
- neuromast
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noun,
a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- do-gooder
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noun,
a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer.
- outstares
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verb (used with object),
to outdo in staring; stare down.
- neurotomy
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noun,
the cutting of a nerve, as to relieve neuralgia.
- tetragons
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noun,
a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
- Rundstedt
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noun,
Karl Rudolf Gerd von [kahrl roo-dawlf gerd fuh n] /kɑrl ˈru dɔlf gɛrd fən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1953, German field marshal.
- outtrades
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verb (used with object),
to outdo in trading; get the better of in a trade.
- transudes
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verb (used without object),
to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- nystagmus
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noun,
a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- gourmands
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noun,
a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- meandrous
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adjective,
meandering; winding; rambling.
- tournedos
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noun,
small slices of fillet of beef, round and thick, served with a variety of sauces and garnished.
- tutorages
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noun,
the office, authority, or care of a tutor.
- nut-grass
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noun,
either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- Tyndareus
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noun,
the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- outsmarts
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Idioms,
outsmart oneself, to defeat oneself unintentionally by overly elaborate intrigue, scheming, or the like:
- so-and-so
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noun,
someone or something not definitely named:
- goosander
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noun,
a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- outranges
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verb (used with object),
to have a longer or greater range than.
- tautonyms
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noun,
a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- argentous
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adjective,
containing univalent silver, as argentous chloride, AgCl.
- argentums
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noun,
silver. Symbol: Ag.
- domesdays
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noun,
doomsday.
- stegosaur
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noun,
a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- youngster
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noun,
a child.
- dragonet
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noun,
any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- outrages
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noun,
an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
- mutagens
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noun,
a substance or preparation capable of inducing mutation.
- outmodes
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verb (used with object),
to cause (something) to go out of style or become obsolete.
- attorney
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noun,
a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- margents
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noun,
margin.
- gadroons
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noun,
Architecture. an elaborately carved or indented convex molding.
- osteomas
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noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- outrange
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verb (used with object),
to have a longer or greater range than.
- outtrade
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verb (used with object),
to outdo in trading; get the better of in a trade.
- torments
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noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- dragomen
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noun,
(in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
- arsenous
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adjective,
containing arsenic in the trivalent state, as arsenous chloride, AsCl 3 .
- dragnets
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noun,
a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
- sonorous
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adjective,
giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place:
- assorted
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adjective,
consisting of different or various kinds; miscellaneous:
- statured
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adjective,
of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination):
- dragoons
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noun,
(especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
- tutorage
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noun,
the office, authority, or care of a tutor.
- Asmodeus
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noun,
an evil spirit.
- outsmart
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Idioms,
outsmart oneself, to defeat oneself unintentionally by overly elaborate intrigue, scheming, or the like:
- outdoors
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noun,
(used with a singular verb) the world outside of or away from houses; open air:
- tutoyers
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verb (used with object),
to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.
- outsoars
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verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- outdates
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verb (used with object),
to put out of date; make antiquated or obsolete:
- outdated
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adjective,
no longer in use or fashionable; out-of-date; outmoded; antiquated.
- outdares
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verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- outstays
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verb (used with object),
to stay longer than.
- outserts
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noun,
an additional folded signature or sheet into which another is bound.
- outstare
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verb (used with object),
to outdo in staring; stare down.
- statures
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noun,
the height of a human or animal body.
- tornados
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noun,
a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris.
Compare waterspout (def 3).
- tutoress
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noun,
a woman who is a tutor.
- Ouessant
-
noun,
French name of Ushant.
- outstand
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verb (used with object),
to stay or remain beyond:
- stranded
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noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- astounds
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adjective,
Archaic. astonished; astounded.
- mounters
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- Ottomans
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noun,
a Turk.
- outmoded
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adjective,
gone out of style; no longer fashionable:
- oreodont
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noun,
any of various extinct North American artiodactyls of the families Merycoidodontidae or Agriochoeridae, widespread from the late Eocene through early Miocene epochs.
- ossature
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noun,
the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
- snot-rag
-
noun,
a handkerchief.
- nutmeats
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noun,
the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- strumose
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adjective,
having a struma or strumae.
- demounts
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verb (used with object),
to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- dog-star
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noun,
the bright star Sirius, in Canis Major.
- dogtrots
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noun,
a gentle trot, like that of a dog.
- Domesday
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noun,
doomsday.
- oddments
-
noun,
an odd article, bit, remnant, or the like.
- sounders
-
noun,
a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
- soutanes
-
noun,
a cassock.
- magneto-
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- donatory
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noun,
a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- odonates
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noun,
any of numerous large predatory aquatic insects of the order Odonata, occurring worldwide and characterized by two pairs of membranous wings.
- odorants
-
noun,
an odorous substance or product.
- magnetos
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noun,
a small electric generator with an armature that rotates in a magnetic field provided by permanent magnets, as a generator supplying ignition current for certain types of internal combustion engines or a hand-operated generator for telephone signaling.
- youngest
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noun,
a person who is the least old of a group, as the youngest member of a family:
- dog-rose
-
noun,
an Old World wild rose, Rosa canina, having pink or white flowers.
- nugatory
-
adjective,
of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- oestrous
-
adjective,
estrous.
- nostrums
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noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- tautomer
-
noun,
a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- transoms
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noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- transude
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verb (used without object),
to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- sonogram
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noun,
the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- songster
-
noun,
a person who sings; a singer.
- nosegays
-
noun,
a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy.
- destroys
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- negatory
-
adjective,
marked by negation; denying; negative.
- maestoso
-
adjective, adverb,
with majesty; stately (used as a musical direction).
- maestros
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- treasons
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- tautonym
-
noun,
a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- dermato-
-
- tourneys
-
noun,
a tournament.
- dog-days
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plural noun,
the sultry part of the summer, supposed to occur during the period that Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun: now often reckoned from July 3 to August 11.
- youngers
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noun,
the junior of two persons in age (often used with a possessive pronoun):
- garottes
-
noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- augments
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noun,
Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.
- autonomy
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noun,
independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions:
- trudgens
-
noun,
a stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used.
- mayoress
-
noun,
a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- syndrome
-
noun,
Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- mudstone
-
noun,
a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- autotomy
-
noun,
Zoology.
separation of a body part.
self-amputation of a damaged or trapped appendage.
- autosome
-
noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- torsades
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- organums
-
noun,
an organon.
- autodyne
-
noun,
a type of heterodyne circuit containing a vacuum tube or transistor that acts simultaneously as a detector and oscillator.
- stardoms
-
noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- stardust
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.
- tearooms
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- tear-out
-
adjective,
designed to be easily torn out, as from bound matter:
- stratums
-
noun,
a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another:
- tsardoms
-
noun,
czardom.
- munsters
-
noun,
muenster.
- Dortmund
-
noun,
a city in W Germany.
- sturgeon
-
noun,
any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- geronto-
-
- Doomsday
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noun,
the day of the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
- dasyures
-
noun,
any of several nocturnal, carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus and related genera, of Australia, Tasmania, and nearby islands, typically having a reddish or olive-brown coat marked with white spots.
- doomster
-
noun,
a doomsayer.
- germano-
-
- doormats
-
noun,
a mat, usually placed before a door or other entrance, for people arriving to wipe their shoes on before entering.
- danseurs
-
noun,
a male ballet dancer.
- sudatory
-
noun,
sudatorium.
- smatters
-
noun,
slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- sunrooms
-
noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- Dordogne
-
noun,
a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- smartens
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- mustards
-
noun,
a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- dormouse
-
noun,
any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- mustangs
-
noun,
a small, hardy horse of the American plains, descended from Spanish stock.
- oreganos
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, Origanum vulgare, of the mint family, having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- standout
-
noun,
something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others:
- gun-room
-
noun,
a room in which guns are kept.
- neuromas
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- Stegodon
-
noun,
any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- tomatoes
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- Goodyear
-
noun,
Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- stomates
-
noun,
stoma (def 1).
- untreads
-
verb (used with object),
to go back through in the same steps.
- unsteady
-
adjective,
not steady or firm; unstable; shaky:
- unstates
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to deprive (a person) of office or rank.
- moderato
-
adjective,
moderate; in moderate time.
- eastmost
-
adjective,
easternmost.
- mastodon
-
noun,
a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- sternums
-
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.
- Gondomar
-
noun,
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña [dye-gaw sahr-myen-taw th e ah-koo-nyah] /ˈdyɛ gɔ sɑrˈmyɛn tɔ ðɛ ɑˈku nyɑ/ (Show IPA), Count of, 1567–1626, Spanish diplomat.
- amoretto
-
noun,
a little cupid.
- Grottoes
-
noun,
a cave or cavern.
- saunters
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- re-sound
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sound again.
- toasters
-
noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- seamount
-
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.
- remounts
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- monetary
-
adjective,
of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- mongoose
-
noun,
a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- durmasts
-
noun,
a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- sea-room
-
noun,
unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- anestrus
-
noun,
(of a female mammal) the interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of heat or rut.
- stoutens
-
verb (used with object),
to make stout.
- aneurysm
-
noun,
a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- redounds
-
verb (used without object),
to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
- Angstrom
-
noun,
a unit of length, equal to one tenth of a millimicron, or one ten millionth of a millimeter, primarily used to express electromagnetic wavelengths. Symbol: Å; Abbreviation: A.
- Monstera
-
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.
- duramens
-
noun,
heartwood.
- duotones
-
noun,
a picture in two tones or colors.
- stomato-
-
- estragon
-
noun,
tarragon.
- montages
-
noun,
the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition.
Compare collage (def 1).
- megarons
-
noun,
a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
- gourmand
-
noun,
a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmets
-
noun,
a connoisseur of fine food and drink; epicure.
- Gourmont
-
noun,
Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- tetragon
-
noun,
a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
- entrusts
-
verb (used with object),
to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust:
- graduses
-
noun,
a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- maunders
-
verb (used without object),
to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
- gossamer
-
noun,
a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- Gossaert
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- medusans
-
noun,
a medusa or jellyfish.
- routeman
-
noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- gormands
-
noun,
gourmand.
- enormous
-
adjective,
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense:
- megadont
-
adjective,
macrodont.
- rotundas
-
noun,
a round building, especially one with a dome.
- romaunts
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- megatons
-
noun,
one million tons.
- endogamy
-
noun,
marriage within a specific tribe or similar social unit.
Compare exogamy (def 1).
- aeronomy
-
noun,
the study of chemical and physical phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
- mattress
-
noun,
a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as or on a bed, consisting of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework of metal springs.
- Rosemont
-
noun,
a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- agendums
-
noun,
an agenda.
- merogony
-
noun,
the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.
- Rosamund
-
noun,
a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- Matteson
-
noun,
a town in NE Illinois.
- rootages
-
noun,
the act of taking root.
- Tyrtaeus
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet.
- mesodont
-
adjective,
having medium-sized teeth.
- mesotron
-
noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- goodness
-
noun,
the state or quality of being good.
- anteroom
-
noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- madrones
-
noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- godsends
-
noun,
an unexpected thing or event that is particularly welcome and timely, as if sent by God.
- godroons
-
noun,
gadroon.
- moonsets
-
noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- Montrose
-
noun,
James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- monteros
-
noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- mordents
-
noun,
a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
- rattoons
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- tenotomy
-
noun,
the cutting of a tendon.
- Tarentum
-
noun,
ancient name of Taranto.
- guerdons
-
noun,
a reward, recompense, or requital.
- dudgeons
-
noun,
a feeling of offense or resentment; anger:
- tonsures
-
noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- stentors
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- mordants
-
noun,
a substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, especially a metallic compound, as an oxide or hydroxide, that combines with the organic dye and forms an insoluble colored compound or lake in the fiber.
- moorages
-
noun,
a place for mooring.
- argument
-
noun,
an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation:
- underdog
-
noun,
a person who is expected to lose in a contest or conflict.
- argentum
-
noun,
silver. Symbol: Ag.
- argento-
-
- Montague
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo.
Compare Capulet.
- drudges
-
noun,
a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- dogtrot
-
noun,
a gentle trot, like that of a dog.
- endmost
-
adjective,
farthest; most distant; last:
- mordent
-
noun,
a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
- stoners
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- gasters
-
- matures
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- Tourane
-
noun,
former name of Danang.
- natured
-
adjective,
having a temperament of a particular kind (usually used in combination):
- mordant
-
noun,
a substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, especially a metallic compound, as an oxide or hydroxide, that combines with the organic dye and forms an insoluble colored compound or lake in the fiber.
- magnet-
-
- streamy
-
adjective,
abounding in streams or watercourses:
- Mattoon
-
noun,
a city in E Illinois.
- Mendota
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- natters
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- gastro-
-
- tornado
-
noun,
a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris.
Compare waterspout (def 3).
- mostest
-
adjective, noun,
most.
- tongues
-
noun,
Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- stagers
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- dromond
-
noun,
a large, fast-sailing ship of the Middle Ages.
- motored
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- garotte
-
noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- mutates
-
verb (used with object),
to change; alter.
- dromous
-
- mutters
-
noun,
the act or utterance of a person who mutters.
- muttons
-
noun,
the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
- Edmonds
-
noun,
a town in NW Washington.
- gaseous
-
adjective,
existing in the state of a gas; not solid or liquid.
- Edmunda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- toaster
-
noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- stomous
-
- soutane
-
noun,
a cassock.
- magnets
-
noun,
a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- matrons
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- gayness
-
noun,
homosexuality.
- soutter
-
noun,
souter.
- souters
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- Donatus
-
noun,
early-4th-century bishop of Casae Nigrae in northern Africa: leader of a heretical Christian group.
Compare Donatist.
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- dugento
-
noun,
duecento.
- drongos
-
noun,
any passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, the several species usually having black plumage and long, forked tails.
- donates
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- matters
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- Gadsden
-
noun,
James, 1788–1858, U.S. railroad promoter and diplomat.
- stounds
-
noun,
Archaic. a short time; short while.
- megaton
-
noun,
one million tons.
- stooges
-
noun,
an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
- margent
-
noun,
margin.
- dodgers
-
noun,
a person who dodges.
- dodgery
-
noun,
the use of a dodge or dodges; trickery; duplicity.
- entrust
-
verb (used with object),
to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust:
- gadroon
-
noun,
Architecture. an elaborately carved or indented convex molding.
- dodgems
-
noun,
an attraction at amusement parks, carnivals, or the like, consisting of small electrically powered automobiles that the patrons drive, trying to bump other cars while avoiding being bumped by them.
- steato-
-
- testudo
-
noun,
(among the ancient Romans) a movable shelter with a strong and usually fireproof arched roof, used for protection of soldiers in siege operations.
- neutro-
-
- Marengo
-
noun,
a village in Piedmont, in NW Italy: Napoleon defeated the Austrians 1800.
- tetrads
-
noun,
a group of four.
- morgens
-
noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- Dodgson
-
noun,
Charles Lutwidge [luht-wij] /ˈlʌt wɪdʒ/ (Show IPA), ("Lewis Carroll") 1832–98, English mathematician and writer of books for children.
- storeys
-
noun,
story2 .
- Erasmus
-
noun,
Desiderius [des-i-deer-ee-uh s] /ˌdɛs ɪˈdɪər i əs/ (Show IPA), 1466?–1536, Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.
- sooners
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- touters
-
noun,
a tout.
- Erastus
-
noun,
Thomas [tom-uh s;; German toh-mahs] /ˈtɒm əs;; German ˈtoʊ mɑs/ (Show IPA), 1524–83, Swiss-German theologian.
- no-good
-
noun,
a person or thing that is worthless or undependable.
- tautogs
-
noun,
a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- tragedy
-
noun,
a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster:
- too-too
-
adverb,
in an excessively and tastelessly affected manner.
- noyades
-
noun,
destruction or execution by drowning, especially as practiced at Nantes, France, in 1793–94, during the Reign of Terror.
- neuroma
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- stearo-
-
- tonsure
-
noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- megaron
-
noun,
a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
- do-good
-
adjective,
of or befitting a do-gooder.
- enduros
-
noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- teutons
-
noun,
a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- sounder
-
noun,
a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
- testons
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- dog-ear
-
noun,
(in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- tourney
-
noun,
a tournament.
- dogdoms
-
noun,
the category of all dogs.
- engrams
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- engross
-
verb (used with object),
to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb:
- dudgeon
-
noun,
a feeling of offense or resentment; anger:
- entomo-
-
- nemato-
-
- storage
-
noun,
the act of storing; state or fact of being stored:
- maroons
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- Medusas
-
noun,
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- enroots
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- tonuses
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- medusan
-
noun,
a medusa or jellyfish.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- nestors
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- maunder
-
verb (used without object),
to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
- stemson
-
noun,
a curved timber in a wooden bow, scarfed at its lower end to the keelson.
- garotes
-
noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- 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.
- douanes
-
noun,
a custom house; customs.
- staters
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- dousers
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- durmast
-
noun,
a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- ganders
-
noun,
the male of the goose.
Compare goose (def 2).
- manroot
-
noun,
man-of-the-earth.
- mongoes
-
noun,
mungo.
- starets
-
noun,
a religious teacher or counselor.
- mongers
-
noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- Dunmore
-
noun,
John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732–1809, Scottish colonial governor in America.
- mounter
-
noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- Mayotte
-
noun,
one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- Toronto
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ontario, in SE Canada, on Lake Ontario.
- torsade
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- mudders
-
noun,
a racehorse able to perform well on a wet, muddy track.
- tearoom
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- tomenta
-
noun,
pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- dusters
-
noun,
a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- masonry
-
noun,
the craft or occupation of a mason.
- torment
-
noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- Dustman
-
noun,
a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- dustmen
-
noun,
a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- stardom
-
noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- dustoor
-
noun,
dastur.
- stators
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- tensors
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- stouten
-
verb (used with object),
to make stout.
- montage
-
noun,
the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition.
Compare collage (def 1).
- dratted
-
adjective,
damned; confounded (used as a mild oath):
- strato-
-
- Montagu
-
noun,
Ashley (Montague Francis Ashley Montagu) 1905–1999, U.S. anthropologist and writer, born in England.
- duotone
-
noun,
a picture in two tones or colors.
- moutons
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- to-name
-
noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- Drayton
-
noun,
Michael, 1563–1631, English poet.
- gutters
-
noun,
a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- draymen
-
noun,
a person who drives a dray.
- duramen
-
noun,
heartwood.
- mangoes
-
noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- stature
-
noun,
the height of a human or animal body.
- martnet
-
noun,
an arrangement of lines formerly used for gathering up a leech of a sail.
- Durango
-
noun,
a state in N Mexico. 47,691 sq. mi. (123,520 sq. km).
- Dragoon
-
noun,
(especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
- strange
-
adverb,
in a strange manner.
- Durante
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jimmy") 1893–1980, U.S. comedian.
- Duranty
-
noun,
Walter, 1884–1957, English journalist and author in the U.S.
- gameto-
-
- statued
-
adjective,
having or ornamented with statues:
- 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.
- stratum
-
noun,
a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another:
- montero
-
noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- dragnet
-
noun,
a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
- dotards
-
noun,
a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person.
- Stentor
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- stomate
-
noun,
stoma (def 1).
- gourdes
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
- Garnett
-
noun,
a machine used in garnetting.
- Tortuga
-
noun,
an island off the N coast of and belonging to Haiti: formerly a pirate stronghold. 23 miles (37 km) long; 70 sq. mi. (180 sq. km).
- Modesto
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- musters
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- Modesty
-
noun,
the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
- dorados
-
noun,
dolphin (def 2).
- magueys
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Agave, of the agave family, especially the cantala, A. cantala.
- mutagen
-
noun,
a substance or preparation capable of inducing mutation.
- moorage
-
noun,
a place for mooring.
- mottoes
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- moderns
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- manures
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- Stetson
-
- estuary
-
noun,
that part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river's current meets the sea's tide.
- drogues
-
noun,
a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- stodges
-
noun,
food that is particularly filling.
- doormen
-
noun,
the door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and may perform minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- estrous
-
adjective,
pertaining to or involving the estrus.
- doormat
-
noun,
a mat, usually placed before a door or other entrance, for people arriving to wipe their shoes on before entering.
- doorman
-
noun,
the door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and may perform minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- estrays
-
noun,
a person or animal that has strayed.
- mousers
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mutants
-
noun,
a new type of organism produced as the result of mutation.
- stomat-
-
- doryman
-
noun,
a person who uses a dory, especially a person who engages in fishing, lobstering, etc.
- dorymen
-
noun,
a person who uses a dory, especially a person who engages in fishing, lobstering, etc.
- dotages
-
noun,
a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
- sterno-
-
- masseur
-
noun,
a man who provides massage as a profession or occupation.
- gardens
-
noun,
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- stratus
-
noun,
a cloud of a class characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at a lower altitude than altostratus, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- toyotas
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in Japan.
- Munster
-
noun,
muenster.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- dosages
-
noun,
the administration of medicine in doses.
- garment
-
noun,
any article of clothing:
- etymons
-
noun,
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ (e) rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
- monades
-
noun,
plural of monas.
- murgeon
-
noun,
a grimace; a wry face.
- Mogador
-
noun,
former name of Essaouira.
- mastery
-
noun,
command or grasp, as of a subject:
- 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.
- mounted
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- garnets
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- moonset
-
noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- morgues
-
noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- mustang
-
noun,
a small, hardy horse of the American plains, descended from Spanish stock.
- togated
-
adjective,
characteristic of peace; peaceful:
- strands
-
noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- mustard
-
noun,
a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- dormant
-
adjective,
lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:
- stamnos
-
noun,
a storage jar having an oval body tapering at the base and two horizontal handles set on the shoulder.
- demount
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- tetanus
-
noun,
Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and lower jaw.
Compare lockjaw.
- goddamn
-
noun,
the utterance of “goddamn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- argents
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- randoms
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- surgeon
-
noun,
a physician who specializes in surgery.
- goddess
-
noun,
a female god or deity.
- Semangs
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- ramsons
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- guarded
-
noun,
a person or group of persons that guards, protects, or keeps a protective or restraining watch.
- God-man
-
noun,
Jesus Christ.
- arguses
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
- guerdon
-
noun,
a reward, recompense, or requital.
- Raymond
-
noun,
Henry Jarvis [jahr-vis] /ˈdʒɑr vɪs/ (Show IPA), 1820–69, U.S. publicist: founder of The New York Times.
- ragouts
-
noun,
French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- unarmed
-
adjective,
without weapons or armor.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- radomes
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- underdo
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do less or in a lesser fashion than is usual or requisite.
- godroon
-
noun,
gadroon.
- arouses
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- readout
-
noun,
Computers. the output of information from a computer in readable form.
Compare printout.
- reasons
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- tantrum
-
noun,
a violent demonstration of rage or frustration; a sudden burst of ill temper.
- undress
-
noun,
dress of a style designed to be worn on other than highly formal or ceremonial occasions; informal dress as opposed to full dress.
- godsons
-
noun,
a male godchild.
- antero-
-
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- Anterus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 235–236.
- 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.
- ransoms
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- godsent
-
adjective,
sent by God or as if by God:
- rattoon
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- rattons
-
noun,
a rat.
- ratoons
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- godsend
-
noun,
an unexpected thing or event that is particularly welcome and timely, as if sent by God.
- undergo
-
verb (used with object),
to be subjected to; experience; pass through:
- Seymour
-
noun,
Jane, c1510–37, third wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Edward VI.
- senoras
-
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.
- sunroom
-
noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- red-dog
-
noun,
a gambling game played by two to ten persons with a pack of 52 cards, in which players bet in turn that their hands contain a card of the same suit as the top card of the stock and of higher rank.
- outages
-
noun,
an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- outdoor
-
adjective,
Also, outdoors. characteristic of, located, occurring, or belonging outdoors:
- asunder
-
adverb, adjective,
into separate parts; in or into pieces:
- outdoes
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in execution or performance:
- outdate
-
verb (used with object),
to put out of date; make antiquated or obsolete:
- tundras
-
noun,
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- outdare
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- gustoes
-
noun,
hearty or keen enjoyment, as in eating or drinking, or in action or speech in general:
Synonyms: enthusiasm, delight, relish, zest, spirit, fervor.
- astound
-
adjective,
Archaic. astonished; astounded.
- ousters
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- Ouranos
-
noun,
Uranus (def 2).
- Ottoman
-
noun,
a Turk.
- attends
-
verb (used with object),
to be present at:
- sundogs
-
noun,
parhelion.
- Otranto
-
noun,
Strait of, a strait between SE Italy and Albania, connecting the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. 44 miles (71 km) wide.
- Targums
-
noun,
a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.
- outgoes
-
noun,
the act or process of going out:
- sun-god
-
noun,
the sun considered or personified as a deity.
- sensory
-
adjective,
of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- outsert
-
noun,
an additional folded signature or sheet into which another is bound.
- arseno-
-
- gurneys
-
noun,
a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.
- outstay
-
verb (used with object),
to stay longer than.
- tutoyer
-
verb (used with object),
to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.
- tutenag
-
noun,
a nickel silver containing about 45 percent copper, with varying proportions of nickel and zinc and often smaller amounts of other metals.
- outsoar
-
verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- outsets
-
noun,
the beginning or start:
- targets
-
noun,
an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- outmans
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- gaudery
-
noun,
ostentatious show.
- outrang
-
verb,
simple past tense of outring.
- assumed
-
adjective,
adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned:
- outrage
-
noun,
an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
- assured
-
noun,
Insurance.
the beneficiary under a policy.
the person whose life or property is covered by a policy.
- outmost
-
adjective,
farthest out; outermost.
- outmode
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (something) to go out of style or become obsolete.
- anymore
-
adverb,
any longer.
- anguses
-
noun,
Formerly Forfar. a historic county in E Scotland.
- Tuesday
-
noun,
the third day of the week, following Monday.
- agentry
-
noun,
the profession, business, or activities of an agent:
- Rostand
-
noun,
Edmond [ed-mawn] /ɛdˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1868–1918, French dramatist and poet.
- aerugos
-
noun,
verdigris.
- Suttner
-
noun,
Bertha von [bur-thuh von;; German ber-tuh fuh n] /ˈbɜr θə vɒn;; German ˈbɛr tə fən/ (Show IPA), 1843–1914, Austrian writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1905.
- Rosetta
-
noun,
a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- agendum
-
noun,
an agenda.
- tandems
-
noun,
a vehicle, as a truck, tractor, or trailer, in which a pair or pairs of axles are arranged in tandem.
- rootage
-
noun,
the act of taking root.
- rotguts
-
noun,
cheap and inferior liquor.
- gooneys
-
noun,
Slang. goon (def 2a).
- Sargent
-
noun,
Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts) 1895–1967, English conductor.
- tandoor
-
noun,
a cylindrical clay oven, fired to a high heat by wood or charcoal, in which foods, especially meats, are cooked and bread is baked.
- rondeau
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
- aground
-
adverb, adjective,
on or into the ground; in a stranded condition or state:
- romaunt
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- rotates
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- sangers
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- goodmen
-
noun,
the master of a household; husband.
- address
-
noun,
a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons:
- saddens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become sad.
- utmosts
-
noun,
Also, uttermost. the greatest degree or amount:
- gourmet
-
noun,
a connoisseur of fine food and drink; epicure.
- Sagunto
-
noun,
a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.
- gossoon
-
noun,
a boy; lad.
- Samoyed
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people dwelling in W Siberia and the far NE parts of European Russia.
- Samoset
-
noun,
died 1653? North American Indian leader: aided Pilgrims during early years in New England.
- gosmore
-
noun,
cat's-ear.
- rotunda
-
noun,
a round building, especially one with a dome.
- Sanders
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- Grayson
-
noun,
David, pen name of Ray Stannard Baker.
- Gramont
-
noun,
Philibert [fee-lee-ber] /fi liˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Comte de, 1621–1707, French courtier, soldier, and adventurer.
- Admetus
-
noun,
a Thessalian king, one of the Argonauts and husband of Alcestis.
- gormand
-
noun,
gourmand.
- adornos
-
noun,
relief ornament applied to a piece.
- rounded
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- romanos
-
- Goodman
-
noun,
the master of a household; husband.
- Redmond
-
noun,
John Edward, 1856–1918, Irish political leader.
- remands
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- grouses
-
noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- resound
-
verb (used with object),
to reecho (a sound).
- unready
-
adjective,
not ready; not made ready:
- remudas
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- remount
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- androus
-
- Surtsey
-
noun,
an island S of and belonging to Iceland: formed by an undersea volcano 1963. About one mile (1.5 km) in diameter; about 500 feet (150 meters) high.
- unrests
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- unmoors
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- Reynosa
-
noun,
a city in N Tamaulipas, in E Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- Reynaud
-
noun,
Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1878–1966, French statesman: premier 1940.
- Reymont
-
noun,
Władysław Stanisław [vwah-dee-swahf stah-nee-swahf] /vwɑˈdi swɑf stɑˈni swɑf/ (Show IPA), ("Ladislas Regmont") 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1924.
- redouts
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- redound
-
verb (used without object),
to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
- Redmund
-
- seadogs
-
noun,
fogbow.
- sea-dog
-
noun,
a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
- sarongs
-
noun,
a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- roadeos
-
noun,
a competition, usually held annually, for professional truck drivers testing driving skill.
- untread
-
verb (used with object),
to go back through in the same steps.
- groynes
-
noun,
groin (def 4).
- rodents
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- unstate
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to deprive (a person) of office or rank.
- Amyntor
-
noun,
a king of Ormenium who refused to give his daughter Astydamia to Hercules and who was slain by Hercules.
- amnesty
-
noun,
a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- unseats
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- amongst
-
preposition,
among.
- unroots
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- unseams
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- amoroso
-
noun,
a medium dry sherry of Spain.
- amorous
-
adjective,
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love:
- saugers
-
noun,
a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- amounts
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- saunter
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- Grounds
-
noun,
the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land:
- attorns
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- outsang
-
verb,
simple past tense of outsing.
- setouts
-
noun,
preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
- tasters
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- oestrus
-
noun,
estrus.
- Younger
-
noun,
the junior of two persons in age (often used with a possessive pronoun):
- Gentoos
-
noun,
a Hindu.
- attunes
-
verb (used with object),
to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust:
- odorous
-
adjective,
odoriferous.
- odorant
-
noun,
an odorous substance or product.
- odonto-
-
- ogdoads
-
noun,
the number eight.
- odonate
-
noun,
any of numerous large predatory aquatic insects of the order Odonata, occurring worldwide and characterized by two pairs of membranous wings.
- student
-
noun,
a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil:
- odds-on
-
adjective,
being the one more or most likely to win, succeed, attain, or achieve something:
- oddment
-
noun,
an odd article, bit, remnant, or the like.
- degauss
-
verb (used with object),
to demagnetize (a ship's hull, electrical equipment, etc.) by means of electric coils.
- degusts
-
verb (used with object),
to taste or savor carefully or appreciatively.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- stunted
-
noun,
a stop or hindrance in growth or development.
- yogurts
-
noun,
a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- soddens
-
noun,
the act of seething.
- onstage
-
adverb,
on or onto the stage (opposed to offstage): .
- suddens
-
noun,
Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
- danders
-
noun,
loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat or feathers of various animals, often causing allergic reactions in susceptible persons.
- smatter
-
noun,
slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- yes-man
-
noun,
a person who, regardless of actual attitude, always expresses agreement with his or her supervisor, superior, etc.; sycophant.
- Smeaton
-
noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- danseur
-
noun,
a male ballet dancer.
- smoodge
-
verb (used without object),
to curry favor; seek unwarranted recognition.
- dasyure
-
noun,
any of several nocturnal, carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus and related genera, of Australia, Tasmania, and nearby islands, typically having a reddish or olive-brown coat marked with white spots.
- onerous
-
adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- smudges
-
noun,
a dirty mark or smear.
- trogons
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored birds of the family Trogonidae, especially of the genus Trogon, of tropical and subtropical regions of the New World.
- onagers
-
noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- Germany
-
noun,
a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 137,852 sq. mi. (357,039 sq. km). Capital: Berlin.
- Sturges
-
noun,
Preston, 1898–1959, U.S. playwright and screenwriter.
- trodden
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- strunts
-
noun,
the fleshy part or stump of a tail, especially of a horse's tail.
- demands
-
noun,
the act of demanding.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- gauntry
-
noun,
gantry.
- destroy
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- Maderno
-
noun,
Carlo [kahr-law] /ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1556–1629, Italian architect.
- detours
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- tautens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become taut.
- nostrum
-
noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- nosegay
-
noun,
a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy.
- desmans
-
noun,
either of two aquatic, insectivorous mammals, Myogale moschata, of southeastern Russia, or M. pyrenaica, of the Pyrenees, related to shrews.
- dynamo-
-
- dynamos
-
noun,
an electric generator, especially for direct current.
- madness
-
noun,
the state of being mad; insanity.
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- noodges
-
noun,
a person who nudges; pest.
- dynodes
-
noun,
an electrode for the emission of secondary electrons in a vacuum tube.
- madrone
-
noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- Desmond
-
noun,
a male given name.
- notates
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- nutters
-
noun,
a person who gathers nuts.
- strouds
-
noun,
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- demono-
-
- nutmegs
-
noun,
the hard, aromatic seed of the fruit of an East Indian tree, Myristica fragrans, used in grated form as a spice.
- nutmeat
-
noun,
the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- nutates
-
verb (used without object),
to undergo or show nutation.
- strumas
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- dendro-
-
- dentary
-
noun,
one of a pair of membrane bones that in lower vertebrates form the distal part of the lower jaws and in mammals comprise the mandible.
- maddest
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- somato-
-
- someday
-
adverb,
at an indefinite future time.
- deodars
-
noun,
a large Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara, yielding a durable wood.
- maddens
-
verb (used with object),
to anger or infuriate:
- nougats
-
noun,
a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.
- dermat-
-
- madders
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Rubia, especially the climbing R. tinctorum, of Europe, having open clusters of small, yellowish flowers.
Compare madder family.
- damsons
-
noun,
Also called damson plum. the small, dark-blue or purple fruit of a plum, Prunus insititia, of the rose family, introduced into Europe from Asia Minor.
- tryouts
-
noun,
a trial or test to ascertain fitness for some purpose.
- gerunds
-
noun,
(in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”.
See also gerundive (def 1).
- osmunds
-
noun,
any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- organo-
-
- organum
-
noun,
an organon.
- augment
-
noun,
Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.
- yatters
-
noun,
chatter; idle talk.
- orgasms
-
noun,
the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orotund
-
adjective,
(of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
- orgeats
-
noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- trudgen
-
noun,
a stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used.
- trudges
-
noun,
a laborious or tiring walk; tramp.
- Ormandy
-
noun,
Eugene, 1899–1985, U.S. conductor and violinist, born in Hungary.
- organdy
-
noun,
a fine, thin cotton fabric usually having a durable crisp finish, white, dyed, or printed: used for blouses, dresses, curtains, trimmings, etc.
- yardmen
-
noun,
a sailor assigned to the yards of a vessel.
- Yaounde
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Cameroon, in the SW part.
- trussed
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- orogeny
-
noun,
the process of mountain making or upheaval.
- sundaes
-
noun,
ice cream served with syrup poured over it, and often other toppings, as whipped cream, chopped nuts, or fruit.
- Orontes
-
noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- Symonds
-
noun,
John Addington [ad-ing-tuh n] /ˈæd ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, English poet, essayist, and critic.
- Austro-
-
- autonym
-
noun,
a person's own name.
Compare pseudonym.
- augends
-
noun,
a number to which another is added in forming a sum.
Compare addend (def 2).
- tsardom
-
noun,
czardom.
- gymnast
-
noun,
a person trained and skilled in gymnastics.
- gyrates
-
adjective,
Zoology. having convolutions.
- sunders
-
verb (used with object),
to separate; part; divide; sever.
- osteoma
-
noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- oregano
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, Origanum vulgare, of the mint family, having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- daysmen
-
noun,
an umpire; mediator.
- sugared
-
noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- ossuary
-
noun,
a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
- get-out
-
noun,
Commerce. the break-even point.
- Sutter
-
noun,
John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- Greats
-
- Stroud
-
noun,
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- matter
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- mangos
-
noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- Strong
-
Idioms,
come on strong, Slang. to behave in an aggressive, ardent, or flamboyant manner:
- grades
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- matted
-
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.
- madder
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Rubia, especially the climbing R. tinctorum, of Europe, having open clusters of small, yellowish flowers.
Compare madder family.
- Matsys
-
noun,
Quentin, Massys, Quentin.
- Tagore
-
noun,
Sir Rabindranath [ruh-been-druh-naht] /rəˈbin drəˌnɑt/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, Indian poet: Nobel prize 1913.
- maundy
-
noun,
the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
- madres
-
noun,
mother1 .
- maduro
-
adjective,
strong and darkly colored.
- mattes
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- sundog
-
noun,
parhelion.
- Madden
-
verb (used with object),
to anger or infuriate:
- sundae
-
noun,
ice cream served with syrup poured over it, and often other toppings, as whipped cream, chopped nuts, or fruit.
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- Gretna
-
noun,
a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- groans
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- maunds
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India and other parts of Asia, varying greatly according to locality: in India, from about 25 to 82.286 pounds (11 to 37.4 kilograms) (the latter being the government maund).
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- sutras
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- Tadmor
-
noun,
Biblical name of Palmyra.
- greasy
-
adjective,
smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
- yagers
-
noun,
jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- grand-
-
- Guston
-
noun,
Philip, 1912–80, U.S. abstract expressionist painter, born in Canada.
- gutser
-
noun,
a person who eats too much and greedily.
- Grande
-
noun,
Rio. Rio Grande.
- grands
-
noun,
grand piano.
- grano-
-
- Strega
-
- Grants
-
noun,
a town in W New Mexico.
- Madero
-
noun,
Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- granum
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a grain.
- Sutton
-
noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- gutter
-
noun,
a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- sunder
-
verb (used with object),
to separate; part; divide; sever.
- yamens
-
noun,
(in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Grasse
-
noun,
François Joseph Paul [frahn-swa zhaw-zef pawl] /frɑ̃ˈswa ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Grasse-Tilly) 1722–1788, French admiral.
- mayten
-
noun,
a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- grassy
-
adjective,
covered with grass.
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- maugre
-
preposition,
in spite of; notwithstanding.
- Sunday
-
noun,
the first day of the week, observed as the Sabbath by most Christian sects.
- mangey
-
adjective,
mangy.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- gradus
-
noun,
a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- manger
-
noun,
a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
- sundry
-
Idioms,
all and sundry, everybody, collectively and individually:
- manges
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- Groote
-
noun,
Gerhard [Dutch khey-rahrt;; English gair-hahrt] /Dutch ˈxeɪ rɑrt;; English ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Gerardus Magnus) 1340–84, Dutch religious reformer, educator, and author: founder of the order of Brethren of the Common Life.
- groats
-
noun,
hulled grain, as wheat or oats, broken into fragments.
- sturts
-
noun,
violent quarreling.
- magots
-
noun,
Barbary ape.
- Gurney
-
noun,
a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.
- grumes
-
noun,
blood when viscous.
- Grundy
-
noun,
Felix, 1777–1840, American politician: senator 1829–38, 1839–40; attorney general 1838–39.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- Straus
-
noun,
Isidor, 1845–1912, U.S. retail merchant and politician, born in Bavaria: congressman 1894–95 (brother of Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus).
- maguey
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Agave, of the agave family, especially the cantala, A. cantala.
- sturdy
-
noun,
gid.
- Gunter
-
noun,
a jib-headed sail fastened to a vertical spar that is attached to a short mast, usually by two rings, in such a way that the spar can slide up the mast to spread the sail.
- grunts
-
noun,
a sound of grunting.
- yonder
-
adverb,
at, in, or to that place specified or more or less distant; over there.
- yogurt
-
noun,
a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- sunset
-
noun,
the setting or descent of the sun below the horizon in the evening.
- Margot
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- mayest
-
verb,
2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- yearns
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- surety
-
noun,
security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
- stouts
-
noun,
a dark, sweet brew made of roasted malt and having a higher percentage of hops than porter.
- yeoman
-
noun,
a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- sudser
-
noun,
a soap opera.
- surges
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- guanos
-
noun,
a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- sugars
-
noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sudden
-
noun,
Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
- Guards
-
noun,
a person or group of persons that guards, protects, or keeps a protective or restraining watch.
- sugary
-
adjective,
of, containing, or resembling sugar.
- guyots
-
noun,
a flat-topped seamount, found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean.
- maroon
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- Yaunde
-
noun,
Yaoundé.
- youngs
-
noun,
those who have youth; young persons collectively:
- strays
-
noun,
a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
- Grodno
-
noun,
a city in W Byelorussia (Belarus), on the Niemen River: formerly in Poland.
- strung
-
noun,
a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- groyne
-
noun,
groin (def 4).
- mateys
-
noun,
comrade; chum; buddy.
- grooms
-
noun,
a bridegroom.
- stours
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- manses
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- yentas
-
noun,
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- Groton
-
noun,
a city in SE Connecticut.
- grotty
-
adjective,
seedy; wretched; dirty.
- grotto
-
noun,
a cave or cavern.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- masto-
-
- strums
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- gusset
-
noun,
a small, triangular piece of material inserted into a shirt, shoe, etc., to improve the fit or for reinforcement.
Compare godet (def 1), gore3 (def 1).
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Sunray
-
noun,
a ray of sunlight; sunbeam.
- grouts
-
noun,
a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- yatter
-
noun,
chatter; idle talk.
- grouty
-
adjective,
sulky; surly; bad-tempered.
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- Strand
-
noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- Stuart
-
noun,
a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- ground
-
noun,
the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land:
- struts
-
noun,
the act of strutting.
- Massey
-
noun,
Vincent, 1887–1967, Canadian statesman: governor general 1952–59.
- grouse
-
noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- strunt
-
noun,
the fleshy part or stump of a tail, especially of a horse's tail.
- stroys
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy.
- setout
-
noun,
preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
- stound
-
noun,
Archaic. a short time; short while.
- ottars
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- outage
-
noun,
an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- 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.
- serosa
-
noun,
Embryology, Zoology.
the chorion.
a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.
- serous
-
adjective,
resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- outman
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- ostomy
-
noun,
any of various surgical procedures, as a colostomy, in which an artificial opening is made so as to permit the drainage of waste products either into an appropriate organ or to the outside of the body.
- osteo-
-
- Ostend
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Belgium.
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- Osorno
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- Osmund
-
noun,
any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- outgas
-
verb (used with object),
to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- Osgood
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ragmen
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- Ramsey
-
noun,
Arthur Michael (Baron Ramsey of Canterbury) 1904–1988, English clergyman and scholar: archbishop of Canterbury 1961–74.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- rayons
-
noun,
a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- senary
-
adjective,
of or relating to the number six.
- ragout
-
noun,
French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- radons
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- outsat
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of outsit.
- radome
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- 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.
- senors
-
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.
- sensor
-
noun,
a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- sensum
-
noun,
sense datum (def 1).
- sentry
-
noun,
a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- outset
-
noun,
the beginning or start:
- osmose
-
noun,
osmosis.
- Symons
-
noun,
Arthur, 1865–1945, English poet and critic, born in Wales.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- oyster
-
noun,
any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- smudge
-
noun,
a dirty mark or smear.
- onager
-
noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- smudgy
-
adjective,
marked with smudges; smeared; smeary.
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- smutty
-
adjective,
soiled with smut; grimy.
- omegas
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- Snyder
-
noun,
Gary, born 1930, U.S. poet and essayist.
- Smyrna
-
noun,
former name of Izmir.
- ogress
-
noun,
a female monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- ogdoad
-
noun,
the number eight.
- Ogaden
-
noun,
an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- snoods
-
noun,
the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
- snoose
-
noun,
finely powdered tobacco; snuff.
- snooty
-
adjective,
snobbish.
- snoots
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- onuses
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- Osages
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- Oregon
-
noun,
a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem.
Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).
- orogen
-
noun,
an extensive belt of rocks deformed by orogeny, associated in places with plutonic and metamorphic rocks.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- syngas
-
noun,
synthetic natural gas.
See under synthetic fuel.
- orgeat
-
noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- orgasm
-
noun,
the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- synods
-
noun,
an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- smeary
-
adjective,
showing smears; smeared.
- system
-
noun,
an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole:
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- orangs
-
noun,
orangutan.
- orangy
-
adjective,
resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color:
- Orange
-
noun,
a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- smarty
-
noun,
a smart aleck.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- Semang
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- snores
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Sansom
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samson.
- 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.
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- rotund
-
adjective,
round in shape; rounded:
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- rotten
-
adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- rotgut
-
noun,
cheap and inferior liquor.
- rotate
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- Santos
-
noun,
a seaport in S Brazil: world's largest coffee-exporting port.
- rounds
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- rosets
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- Sardou
-
noun,
Victorien [veek-taw-ryen] /vik tɔˈryɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1831–1908, French dramatist.
- rooted
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- roosts
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rooses
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- sarges
-
noun,
sergeant.
- rouges
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- rouses
-
noun,
a rousing.
- sargos
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- Russo-
-
- russet
-
noun,
yellowish brown, light brown, or reddish brown.
- Sayers
-
noun,
Dorothy L(eigh) 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
- sayest
-
verb,
2nd person singular of say1 .
- say-so
-
noun,
one's personal statement or assertion.
- Rumsey
-
noun,
James, 1743–92, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- rugose
-
adjective,
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- rousts
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- rugate
-
adjective,
wrinkle; rugose.
- Samson
-
noun,
a judge of Israel famous for his great strength. Judges 13–16.
- Samsun
-
noun,
a city in N Turkey, in Asia.
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- rondos
-
noun,
a work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, having one principal subject that is stated at least three times in the same key and to which return is made after the introduction of each subordinate theme.
- Romney
-
noun,
one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- random
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- sedans
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- remuda
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remand
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- Season
-
noun,
one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- redout
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Seddon
-
noun,
Richard John, 1845–1906, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister 1893–1906.
- seadog
-
noun,
fogbow.
- sedums
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- ratton
-
noun,
a rat.
- ratoon
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- Segura
-
noun,
Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- ranged
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- sautes
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Rodman
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Romany
-
noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- sarods
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- sarong
-
noun,
a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- sarsen
-
noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- Rodney
-
noun,
George Brydges [brij-iz] /ˈbrɪdʒ ɪz/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1718–92, British admiral.
- rodmen
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- rodeos
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- sauger
-
noun,
a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- rodent
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- roasts
-
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.
- Saseno
-
noun,
an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- roadeo
-
noun,
a competition, usually held annually, for professional truck drivers testing driving skill.
- satyrs
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- 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.
- odours
-
noun,
odor.
- Odetta
-
noun,
(Odetta Holmes) 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
- storms
-
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.
- morass
-
noun,
a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- stego-
-
- Mornay
-
noun,
Also called Duplessis-Mornay. Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), Seigneur du Plessis-Marly [se-nyœr dy ple-see-mar-lee] /sɛˈnyœr dü plɛ si marˈli/ (Show IPA), ("Pope of the Huguenots") 1549–1623, French statesman and Protestant leader.
- morgue
-
noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- Morgen
-
noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- Morgan
-
noun,
one of a breed of light carriage and saddle horses descended from the stallion Justin Morgan.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- morays
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- steno-
-
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- mooned
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- Monroe
-
noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- monody
-
noun,
a Greek ode sung by a single voice, as in a tragedy; lament.
- mongos
-
noun,
mungo.
- monger
-
noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- morons
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- Morton
-
noun,
Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Morton) 1885–1941, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
- 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.
- Mounds
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- mousse
-
noun,
Cookery.
a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold:
an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish:
- mouses
-
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.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mousey
-
adjective,
mousy.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- Mounty
-
noun,
Mountie.
- mottos
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- moseys
-
verb (used without object),
to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- mottes
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- Steady
-
noun,
Informal. a person of the opposite sex whom one dates exclusively; sweetheart; boyfriend or girlfriend.
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- motets
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- steads
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- steamy
-
adjective,
consisting of or resembling steam.
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- 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.
- moneys
-
noun,
any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- Mouton
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- stooge
-
noun,
an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
- stoney
-
adjective,
stony.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- merous
-
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mensas
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- menads
-
noun,
maenad.
- mesons
-
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.
- Menado
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- megass
-
noun,
bagasse.
- Medusa
-
noun,
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- Storey
-
noun,
story2 .
- stores
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Stormy
-
adjective,
affected, characterized by, or subject to storms; tempestuous:
- stoned
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- messan
-
noun,
a lap dog; small pet dog.
- mondos
-
noun,
a question to a student for which an immediate answer is demanded, the spontaneity of which is often illuminating.
- Modern
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- mondes
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- Monday
-
noun,
the second day of the week, following Sunday.
- monads
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- sterns
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- mogote
-
noun,
a residual hillock of limestone, honeycombed with cavities.
- Modred
-
noun,
the nephew and treacherous killer of Arthur.
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- Modena
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, NW of Bologna.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- stoats
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- stodge
-
noun,
food that is particularly filling.
- stodgy
-
adjective,
heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring:
- stomas
-
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.
- Metsys
-
noun,
Quentin [Flemish kven-tin;; English kwen-tn] /Flemish ˈkvɛn tɪn;; English ˈkwɛn tn/ (Show IPA), Massys, Quentin.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- status
-
noun,
the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.
- statue
-
noun,
a three-dimensional work of art, as a representational or abstract form, carved in stone or wood, molded in a plastic material, cast in bronze, or the like.
- Odessa
-
noun,
a seaport in S Ukraine, on the Black Sea.
- Sonora
-
noun,
a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- sondes
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Nordau
-
noun,
Max Simon [mahks zee-mawn] /mɑks ˈzi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1849–1923, Hungarian author, physician, and leader in the Zionist movement.
- nooses
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- noodge
-
noun,
a person who nudges; pest.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- Sonoma
-
noun,
a town in W California: center of wine-producing region.
- nomads
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- notate
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- noyade
-
noun,
destruction or execution by drowning, especially as practiced at Nantes, France, in 1793–94, during the Reign of Terror.
- Sontag
-
noun,
Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- nodose
-
adjective,
having nodes.
- sadden
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become sad.
- neuro-
-
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- notary
-
noun,
notary public.
- sonars
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- nutmeg
-
noun,
the hard, aromatic seed of the fruit of an East Indian tree, Myristica fragrans, used in grated form as a spice.
- snorts
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snotty
-
adjective,
Vulgar. of or relating to snot.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Soares
-
noun,
Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- sodden
-
noun,
the act of seething.
- sodomy
-
noun,
anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- Nutter
-
noun,
a person who gathers nuts.
- nutate
-
verb (used without object),
to undergo or show nutation.
- nougat
-
noun,
a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.
- sodoms
-
noun,
an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- nurses
-
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.
- nudges
-
noun,
a slight or gentle push or jog, especially with the elbow.
- somat-
-
- Somers
-
- Somnus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- sorgos
-
noun,
any of several varieties of sorghum grown chiefly for the sweet juice yielded by the stems, used in making sugar and syrup and also for fodder.
- Neruda
-
noun,
Pablo [pah-vlaw;; English pah-bloh] /ˈpɑ vlɔ;; English ˈpɑ bloʊ/ (Show IPA), (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) 1904–73, Chilean poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1971.
- stator
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- Munsey
-
noun,
Frank Andrew, 1854–1925, U.S. publisher.
- mutant
-
noun,
a new type of organism produced as the result of mutation.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- Musset
-
noun,
(Louis Charles) Alfred de [lwee sharl al-fred duh] /lwi ʃarl alˈfrɛd də/ (Show IPA), 1810–57, French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
- stands
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- Murage
-
noun,
a toll or tax for the repair or construction of the walls or fortifications of a town.
- stanes
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- mutter
-
noun,
the act or utterance of a person who mutters.
- mungos
-
noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- mudras
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- mudder
-
noun,
a racehorse able to perform well on a wet, muddy track.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- starts
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- stated
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- stater
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- mutate
-
verb (used with object),
to change; alter.
- mutton
-
noun,
the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
- Nemrod
-
noun,
Nimrod (def 1).
- nasute
-
noun,
a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- nemat-
-
- Negros
-
noun,
an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- sotted
-
adjective,
drunken; besotted.
- sounds
-
noun,
the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- Nautes
-
noun,
(in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- natter
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- Nasser
-
noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- Muttra
-
noun,
former name of Mathura.
- soused
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- stades
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- staged
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- stagey
-
adjective,
stagy.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- stages
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- gourds
-
noun,
the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally.
Compare gourd family.
- utters
-
adjective,
complete; total; absolute:
- gourde
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
- dotted
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- donuts
-
noun,
doughnut.
- Dorado
-
noun,
dolphin (def 2).
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- dorsad
-
adverb,
toward the back or dorsum; dorsally.
- Dorsey
-
noun,
Tommy, 1905–56, U.S. jazz trombonist and bandleader.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- dorso-
-
- dorsum
-
noun,
the back, as of the body.
- dosage
-
noun,
the administration of medicine in doses.
- torsos
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- dosser
-
noun,
a basket for carrying objects on the back; pannier.
- torses
-
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.
- dotage
-
noun,
a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
- dotard
-
noun,
a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person.
- douane
-
noun,
a custom house; customs.
- dongas
-
noun,
(in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- doumas
-
noun,
duma.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- douras
-
noun,
durra.
- douser
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- douses
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- douter
-
noun,
an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- Dragon
-
noun,
a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dreads
-
noun,
terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
- dreamy
-
adjective,
of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- Dreams
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamt
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dressy
-
adjective,
appropriate to somewhat formal occasions:
- dryads
-
noun,
a deity or nymph of the woods.
- Dryden
-
noun,
John, 1631–1700, English poet, dramatist, and critic.
- donors
-
noun,
a person who gives or donates.
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- dromos
-
noun,
Archaeology. a passageway into an ancient subterranean tomb.
- Dnestr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dniester.
- dermas
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- dermo-
-
- desman
-
noun,
either of two aquatic, insectivorous mammals, Myogale moschata, of southeastern Russia, or M. pyrenaica, of the Pyrenees, related to shrews.
- Dessau
-
noun,
a city in NE central Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the capital of Anhalt.
- detour
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- deuto-
-
- deuton
-
noun,
deuteron.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- dynast
-
noun,
a ruler or potentate, especially a hereditary ruler.
- dynode
-
noun,
an electrode for the emission of secondary electrons in a vacuum tube.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- trans.
-
- tragus
-
noun,
a fleshy prominence at the front of the external opening of the ear.
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- Donets
-
noun,
a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- touter
-
noun,
a tout.
- Dodgem
-
noun,
an attraction at amusement parks, carnivals, or the like, consisting of small electrically powered automobiles that the patrons drive, trying to bump other cars while avoiding being bumped by them.
- dodger
-
noun,
a person who dodges.
- dodges
-
noun,
a quick, evasive movement, as a sudden jump away to avoid a blow or the like.
- dodoes
-
noun,
any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- Dodoma
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tanzania, in the central part.
- Dodona
-
noun,
an ancient town in NW Greece, in Epirus: the site of a famous oracle of Zeus.
- touses
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- dogdom
-
noun,
the category of all dogs.
- dogeys
-
noun,
dogie.
- doyens
-
noun,
the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- Domett
-
noun,
Alfred, 1811–87, British government official and poet: prime minister of New Zealand 1862.
- Domnus
-
noun,
Donus.
- donate
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- drogue
-
noun,
a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- drongo
-
noun,
any passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, the several species usually having black plumage and long, forked tails.
- denom.
-
- tergum
-
noun,
the dorsal surface of a body segment of an arthropod.
- Tetuan
-
noun,
a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean: former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco.
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- tetras
-
noun,
any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums.
- tetrad
-
noun,
a group of four.
- ergots
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- tetra-
-
- tetany
-
noun,
a state marked by severe, intermittent tonic contractions and muscular pain, due to abnormal calcium metabolism.
- eroto-
-
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- Esdras
-
noun,
either of the first two books of the Apocrypha, I Esdras or II Esdras.
- Esmond
-
noun,
a male given name.
- esrogs
-
noun,
etrog.
- estray
-
noun,
a person or animal that has strayed.
- estrus
-
noun,
Also, estrum [es-truh m] /ˈɛs trəm/ (Show IPA), oestrus. the period of heat or rut; the period of maximum sexual receptivity of the female.
- terat-
-
- engram
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- etymon
-
noun,
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ (e) rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
- tenuto
-
adjective,
Music. (of a note, chord, or rest) held to the full time value.
- etrogs
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Eudora
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- gamet-
-
- gamous
-
- gamuts
-
noun,
the entire scale or range:
- Gander
-
noun,
the male of the goose.
Compare goose (def 2).
- gantry
-
noun,
a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- Garden
-
noun,
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- Garnet
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- garote
-
noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- Teuton
-
noun,
a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- enduro
-
noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- drossy
-
adjective,
containing dross.
- Duryea
-
noun,
Charles Edgar, 1861–1938, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of automobiles and automotive devices.
- drudge
-
noun,
a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- tootsy
-
noun,
a foot.
- Duarte
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- Tongue
-
noun,
Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- Dumyat
-
noun,
Arabic name of Damietta.
- Dumont
-
noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- Tongas
-
noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used in India.
- Dundas
-
noun,
a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Hamilton.
- dunder
-
noun,
the thick lees from boiled sugar-cane juice used in the distillation of rum.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- duomos
-
noun,
cathedral, especially in Italy.
- Durand
-
noun,
Asher Brown, 1796–1886, U.S. engraver and landscape painter of the Hudson River School.
- Durant
-
noun,
Ariel, 1898–1981, U.S. author and historian (wife of Will).
- duress
-
noun,
compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- durned
-
adjective, adverb,
darned.
- Tydeus
-
noun,
the father of Diomedes: one of the Seven Against Thebes.
- toasts
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- tyrant
-
noun,
a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
- Tyrone
-
noun,
a former administrative county in W Northern Ireland: replaced by several new districts 1973.
- Tyumen
-
noun,
a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- Edmond
-
noun,
a town in central Oklahoma.
- toasty
-
adjective,
comfortably or cozily warm.
- todays
-
noun,
this present day:
- Duster
-
noun,
a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- to-dos
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- togate
-
adjective,
dressed in a toga.
- togues
-
noun,
lake trout.
- Toyota
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in Japan.
- tomato
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- deodar
-
noun,
a large Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara, yielding a durable wood.
- treaty
-
noun,
a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
- gassed
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- anuses
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- Andrus
-
noun,
Andron.
- unread
-
adjective,
not read, as a letter or newspaper.
- anemo-
-
- anergy
-
noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- unmoor
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- unmade
-
adjective,
not made.
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- angsts
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- uneasy
-
adjective,
not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- Undset
-
noun,
Sigrid [sig-rid;; Norwegian si-gri] /ˈsɪg rɪd;; Norwegian ˈsɪ grɪ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1949, Norwegian novelist: Nobel prize 1928.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antrum
-
noun,
a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- undoes
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- ardent
-
adjective,
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:
- Andres
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Arendt
-
noun,
Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.
- Argent
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- under-
-
- argons
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- argosy
-
noun,
a large merchant ship, especially one with a rich cargo.
- argots
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- argues
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- undead
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) undead beings collectively (usually preceded by the).
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- ugsome
-
adjective,
horrid; loathsome.
- around
-
Idioms,
been around, having had much worldly experience:
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- udders
-
noun,
a mamma or mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows.
- andro-
-
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- arsons
-
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.
- aerugo
-
noun,
verdigris.
- utmost
-
noun,
Also, uttermost. the greatest degree or amount:
- Utgard
-
noun,
a home of the Jotuns, outside Midgard and Asgard: probably synonymous with Jotunheim.
- utero-
-
- usneas
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- adders
-
noun,
the common European viper, Vipera berus.
- adeno-
-
- adytum
-
noun,
(in ancient worship) a sacred place that the public was forbidden to enter; an inner shrine.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorno
-
noun,
relief ornament applied to a piece.
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- adren-
-
- adreno
-
- usages
-
noun,
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
- aeron.
-
- urgent
-
adjective,
compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing:
- amused
-
adjective,
pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted.
- agouty
-
noun,
agouti.
- agron.
-
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- urases
-
noun,
urease.
- urano-
-
- untrod
-
adjective,
not trod; not traversed:
- amends
-
noun,
reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- unseat
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- amount
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- unsays
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- arsen-
-
- tutors
-
noun,
a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- dendra
-
noun,
a plural of dendron.
- trysts
-
noun,
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- Dayton
-
noun,
Jonathan, 1760–1824, U.S. politician, Speaker of the House 1795–99.
- 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.
- damned
-
noun,
the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damson
-
noun,
Also called damson plum. the small, dark-blue or purple fruit of a plum, Prunus insititia, of the rose family, introduced into Europe from Asia Minor.
- dander
-
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- danged
-
adjective, adverb,
damned (used euphemistically).
- danger
-
noun,
liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
- Troyon
-
noun,
Constant [kawn-stahn] /kɔ̃ˈstɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1813–65, French painter.
- Troyes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Aube, in NE France, on the Seine: truce treaty in Hundred Year's War.
- trogon
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored birds of the family Trogonidae, especially of the genus Trogon, of tropical and subtropical regions of the New World.
- darned
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- dastur
-
noun,
a Parsee chief priest.
- datums
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- Daudet
-
noun,
Alphonse [al-fawns] /alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1840–97, French novelist and short-story writer.
- dagoes
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- daunts
-
verb (used with object),
to overcome with fear; intimidate:
- tryout
-
noun,
a trial or test to ascertain fitness for some purpose.
- tressy
-
adjective,
resembling or having tresses.
- Trento
-
noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- dedans
-
noun,
a netted winning opening of rectangular shape at the service side of the court.
Compare grille (def 5), winning gallery.
- trends
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- degums
-
verb (used with object),
to free from gum.
- degust
-
verb (used with object),
to taste or savor carefully or appreciatively.
- trendy
-
noun,
a trendy person, place, object, or idea.
- demand
-
noun,
the act of demanding.
- demurs
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- treats
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- denary
-
adjective,
containing ten; tenfold.
- dendr-
-
- 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.
- daemon
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
a god.
a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
- Turgot
-
noun,
Anne Robert Jacques [an raw-ber zhahk] /ˈan rɔˈbɛr ˈʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1727–81, French statesman, financier, and economist.
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- Assyr.
-
- assort
-
verb (used with object),
to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assume
-
verb (used with object),
to take for granted or without proof:
Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- assure
-
verb (used with object),
to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to:
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- tungos
-
noun,
rat-kangaroo.
- astro-
-
- astron
-
- astute
-
adjective,
of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious:
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- tundra
-
noun,
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- trouts
-
noun,
any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon.
Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- dadoes
-
noun,
Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
- truant
-
noun,
a student who stays away from school without permission.
- trudge
-
noun,
a laborious or tiring walk; tramp.
- Truman
-
noun,
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- trusty
-
adjective,
able to be trusted or relied on; trustworthy; reliable.
- austr-
-
- Austen
-
noun,
Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.
- attorn
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- trusts
-
noun,
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- augend
-
noun,
a number to which another is added in forming a sum.
Compare addend (def 2).
- Tsonga
-
noun,
a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa.
- Tuareg
-
noun,
a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
- Audrey
-
noun,
a female given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “strength.”.
- attune
-
verb (used with object),
to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust:
- gasmen
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- attend
-
verb (used with object),
to be present at:
- Gasser
-
noun,
Slang. something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
- gossan
-
noun,
a rust-colored deposit of mineral matter at the outcrop of a vein or orebody containing iron-bearing materials.
- gerous
-
- gyrate
-
adjective,
Zoology. having convolutions.
- taster
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- goners
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- taunts
-
noun,
an insulting gibe or sarcasm; scornful reproach or challenge.
- Godden
-
noun,
(Margaret) Rumer [roo-mer] /ˈru mər/ (Show IPA), 1907–1998, English novelist and writer of children's books.
- genous
-
- gnatty
-
adjective,
infested with gnats.
- tauro-
-
- German
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Germany.
- gators
-
noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- Godard
-
noun,
Benjamin Louis Paul [bahn-zha-man lwee pawl] /bɑ̃ ʒaˈmɛ̃ lwi pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1849–95, French violinist and composer.
- tauted
-
adjective,
(especially of wood or hair) tangled or matted together.
- tauten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become taut.
- Gondar
-
noun,
a city in NW Ethiopia, N of Lake Tana: a former capital.
- gyrons
-
noun,
a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- tarso-
-
- gyrose
-
adjective,
marked with wavy lines.
- tautog
-
noun,
a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- target
-
noun,
an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tandem
-
noun,
a vehicle, as a truck, tractor, or trailer, in which a pair or pairs of axles are arranged in tandem.
- tauto-
-
- Tarsus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
- genoas
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- Targum
-
noun,
a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.
- gorses
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- Gorton
-
noun,
John Grey, 1911–2002, Australian political leader: prime minister 1968–71.
- goonda
-
noun,
a rogue or hoodlum.
- tasset
-
noun,
either of two pieces of plate armor hanging from the fauld to protect the upper parts of the thighs.
- tangos
-
noun,
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.
- Gaston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Gentry
-
noun,
wellborn and well-bred people.
- gerund
-
noun,
(in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”.
See also gerundive (def 1).
- Tanguy
-
noun,
Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- gooney
-
noun,
Slang. goon (def 2a).
- gotten
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- gemots
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- Gounod
-
noun,
Charles François [chahrlz fran-swah;; French sharl frahn-swa] /tʃɑrlz frænˈswɑ;; French ʃarl frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1818–93, French composer.
- gynous
-
- gooses
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- gymno-
-
- gastr-
-
- Gentoo
-
noun,
a Hindu.
- gnomes
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- taters
-
noun,
potato.
- tastes
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- gonads
-
noun,
a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- godson
-
noun,
a male godchild.
- tarots
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- Gordon
-
noun,
Charles George ("Chinese Gordon"; "Gordon Pasha") 1833–85, British general: administrator in China and Egypt.
- darns
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- ordn.
-
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- synod
-
noun,
an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- syst.
-
- Guat.
-
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- Gudea
-
noun,
flourished c2250 b.c, Sumerian ruler.
- ordos
-
noun,
a desert plateau in the S Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in N China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- Dagon
-
noun,
a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.
- 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.
- Oreg.
-
- dagos
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- trogs
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- dames
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- gudes
-
noun,
God.
- Trout
-
noun,
any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon.
Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- Guyon
-
noun,
Madame (Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Matte) 1648–1717, French writer.
- onto-
-
- suras
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- troys
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- smogs
-
noun,
smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- Guest
-
noun,
a person who spends some time at another person's home in some social activity, as a visit, dinner, or party.
- Dandy
-
noun,
a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop.
- Dante
-
noun,
(Dante Alighieri) 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
- guess
-
noun,
an opinion that one reaches or to which one commits oneself on the basis of probability alone or in the absence of any evidence whatever.
- Damon
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Onega
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- Orang
-
noun,
orangutan.
- guyot
-
noun,
a flat-topped seamount, found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean.
- damns
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- goads
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- 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.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- dangs
-
verb (used with object), adjective, noun,
damn (used euphemistically).
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- Trust
-
noun,
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- guars
-
noun,
a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- surgy
-
adjective,
billowy; surging or swelling.
- Tudor
-
noun,
Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- Godey
-
noun,
Louis Antoine [an-twahn] /ˈæn twɑn/ (Show IPA), 1804–78, U.S. publisher: founded the first women's magazine in the U.S. 1830.
- godet
-
noun,
a triangular piece of fabric, often rounded at the top, inserted in a garment to give fullness.
Compare gore3 (def 1), gusset (def 1).
- atto-
-
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- atty.
-
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- ottos
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- atory
-
- surge
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- sero-
-
- atony
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- ousts
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- atomy
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- 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.
- atmo-
-
- grunt
-
noun,
a sound of grunting.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- outdo
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in execution or performance:
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tungo
-
noun,
rat-kangaroo.
- Auden
-
noun,
W(ystan) H(ugh) [wis-tuh n] /ˈwɪs tən/ (Show IPA), 1907–73, English poet in the U.S.
- surg.
-
- tardy
-
adjective,
late; behind time; not on time:
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- dados
-
noun,
Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- guard
-
noun,
a person or group of persons that guards, protects, or keeps a protective or restraining watch.
- Synge
-
noun,
John Millington [mil-ing-tuh n] /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
- Trudy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- trugs
-
noun,
a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- guar.
-
- truss
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- Oromo
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic, pastoral people of Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Orono
-
noun,
a town in S Maine.
- Autry
-
noun,
Gene, 1907–1998, U.S. actor and singer.
- auto.
-
- synd.
-
- oste-
-
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- ORuss
-
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- guans
-
noun,
a large game bird of the curassow family, common in dense woodlands of Central and South America, somewhat resembling a turkey.
- guano
-
noun,
a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- osmo-
-
- Aust.
-
- surds
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- aunty
-
noun,
auntie.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- setts
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- auger
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a bit, as for a brace.
a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- derm-
-
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- gyres
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- magot
-
noun,
Barbary ape.
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- noto-
-
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- gyro-
-
- gutta
-
noun,
a drop, or something resembling one.
- derma
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- noso-
-
- gutsy
-
adjective,
having a great deal of courage or nerve:
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- dent.
-
- somas
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- nudes
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- nudge
-
noun,
a slight or gentle push or jog, especially with the elbow.
- gyron
-
noun,
a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- nugae
-
plural noun,
trifles.
- Denys
-
noun,
Saint, Denîs, Saint.
- nurds
-
noun,
nerd.
- 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.
- gyros
-
noun,
gyrocompass.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- gusto
-
noun,
hearty or keen enjoyment, as in eating or drinking, or in action or speech in general:
Synonyms: enthusiasm, delight, relish, zest, spirit, fervor.
- Deut.
-
- treas
-
- demur
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- gyno-
-
- touts
-
noun,
a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
- sooey
-
interjection,
(a shout used in calling pigs.)
- no-go
-
adjective,
inoperative; canceled:
- 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.
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Noyes
-
noun,
Alfred, 1880–1958, English poet.
- sonsy
-
adjective,
strong and healthy; robust.
- nomad
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- yamen
-
noun,
(in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- nomo-
-
- dynes
-
noun,
the standard centimeter-gram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram. Abbreviation: dyn.
- noses
-
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.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- Yager
-
noun,
jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- Sonya
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Dyaus
-
noun,
the Vedic god of the sky.
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- 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.
- sones
-
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.
- dyads
-
noun,
a group of two; couple; pair.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- nosey
-
adjective,
nosy.
- Gusty
-
adjective,
blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- Smuts
-
noun,
Jan Christiaan [Dutch yahn kris-tee-ahn] /Dutch yɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1870–1950, South African statesman and general: prime minister 1919–24, 1939–48.
- ogams
-
noun,
ogham.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tryma
-
noun,
a nut having an outer shell that becomes tough and dry and eventually splits open, as in the walnut and hickory.
- odour
-
noun,
odor.
- D-day
-
noun,
Military. the day, usually unspecified, set for the beginning of a planned attack.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- dauts
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- tryst
-
noun,
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- daunt
-
verb (used with object),
to overcome with fear; intimidate:
- gunda
-
noun,
goonda.
- Gunas
-
noun,
(in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- gnome
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- snood
-
noun,
the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
- Ogden
-
noun,
Charles Kay, 1889–1957, British psychologist and linguist, inventor of Basic English.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- datum
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- snogs
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- snyes
-
noun,
a backwater.
- oyers
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- dates
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- dated
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- snags
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- omega
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- darts
-
- deads
-
noun,
the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.:
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- nutsy
-
adjective,
nutty (defs 3, 4).
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- Demon
-
noun,
an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
- demo-
-
- nutty
-
adjective,
abounding in or producing nuts.
- Sodom
-
noun,
an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- Soddy
-
noun,
Also, soddie. Western U.S. sod house.
- gyrus
-
noun,
a convolution, especially of the brain.
- treys
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- sodas
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- soars
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- G-man
-
noun,
an agent for the FBI.
- Gussy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Augusta.
- snugs
-
noun,
British. a small, secluded room in a tavern, as for private parties.
- odeum
-
noun,
a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- degum
-
verb (used with object),
to free from gum.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Degas
-
noun,
Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- Deary
-
noun,
darling.
- Tansy
-
noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- assn.
-
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- Roget
-
noun,
Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.
- rogue
-
noun,
a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- uran-
-
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- agues
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- gram.
-
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- agro-
-
- sargo
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- Uredo
-
noun,
a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
- ayous
-
noun,
the wood of the obeche.
- rondo
-
noun,
a work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, having one principal subject that is stated at least three times in the same key and to which return is made after the introduction of each subordinate theme.
- grays
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- agony
-
noun,
extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- agone
-
adverb, adjective,
ago.
- roods
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- roomy
-
noun,
roomie.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- 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.
- sards
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- rooty
-
noun,
bread.
- Saros
-
noun,
the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- agent
-
noun,
a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
- 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.
- retd.
-
- unsay
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- saury
-
noun,
a sharp-snouted fish, Scomberesox saurus, inhabiting temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Grant
-
noun,
something granted, as a privilege or right, a sum of money, or a tract of land:
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Gorey
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- rynds
-
noun,
rind2 .
- ryots
-
noun,
a peasant.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- Amory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- satyr
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- among
-
preposition,
in, into, or through the midst of; in association or connection with; surrounded by:
- Ayres
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- Amer.
-
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- 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.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- rodeo
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- Amend
-
verb (used with object),
to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
- AMEDS
-
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- utend
-
- Sands
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- gouty
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of gout.
- Sandy
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Tagus
-
noun,
a river in SW Europe, flowing W through central Spain and Portugal to the Atlantic at Lisbon. 566 miles (910 km) long.
- aden-
-
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- Ruddy
-
adverb,
British Slang. damned:
- rudds
-
noun,
a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
- SAMOS
-
noun,
a Greek island in the E Aegean. 194 sq. mi. (502 sq. km).
- gotta
-
- Rugen
-
noun,
an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).
- adder
-
noun,
the common European viper, Vipera berus.
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- runed
-
adjective,
having runes inscribed:
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- 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.
- Gouda
-
noun,
a city in the W Netherlands, NE of Rotterdam.
- runty
-
adjective,
stunted; dwarfish:
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Goudy
-
noun,
Frederic William, 1865–1947, U.S. designer of printing types.
- Russ.
-
abbreviation,
Russia.
- 30-30
-
- sagos
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- Rusty
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Utter
-
adjective,
complete; total; absolute:
- rusts
-
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.
- rutty
-
adjective,
full of or abounding in ruts, as a road.
- sages
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- admen
-
noun,
Also called advertising man. one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- urges
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Gosse
-
noun,
Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- 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.
- aero-
-
- usage
-
noun,
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
- Sans.
-
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- grads
-
noun,
a graduate.
- 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.
- Sango
-
noun,
a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- adust
-
adjective,
dried or darkened as by heat.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- adsum
-
interjection,
I am present.
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- 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.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rouge
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- grade
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- round
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- Taegu
-
noun,
a city in SE South Korea: commercial center.
- gotra
-
noun,
a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- gouts
-
noun,
an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- Gordy
-
noun,
Berry, Jr, born 1929, U.S. music and record producer: founder of Motown records.
- grume
-
noun,
blood when viscous.
- 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.
- unary
-
adjective,
pertaining to a function whose domain is a given set and whose range is contained in that set.
- 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.
- sends
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Arndt
-
noun,
Ernst Moritz [ernst moh-rits] /ɛrnst ˈmoʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1769–1860, German poet and historian.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Armen
-
- rayed
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- armed
-
noun,
Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- rayon
-
noun,
a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- Gross
-
noun,
a group of 12 dozen, or 144, things. Abbreviation: gro.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Susan
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- Grote
-
noun,
George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- Argus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
- tangy
-
adjective,
having a tang.
- argue
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- Groot
-
noun,
Huig [Dutch hoikh] /Dutch hɔɪx/ (Show IPA), de [duh] /də/ (Show IPA), or van [vahn] /vɑn/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- argot
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- gonys
-
noun,
the ridge along the tip of the lower mandible of a bird's bill at the junction of the two joined halves, especially prominent in gulls.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- Argos
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis: a powerful rival of Sparta, Athens, and Corinth.
- groom
-
noun,
a bridegroom.
- Randy
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- argon
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- groma
-
noun,
an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- Radom
-
noun,
a city in E Poland.
- areo-
-
- tangs
-
- outgo
-
noun,
the act or process of going out:
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Grues
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- Goyen
-
noun,
(Charles) William, 1915–83, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- Assur
-
noun,
the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.
- asst.
-
- grout
-
noun,
a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- yangs
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- Gomer
-
noun,
an undesirable hospital patient.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- gonad
-
noun,
a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- turds
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- tutor
-
noun,
a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- Asyut
-
noun,
a city in central Egypt, on the Nile.
- asgmt
-
- artsy
-
adjective,
arty.
- udder
-
noun,
a mamma or mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows.
- 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.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- tango
-
noun,
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- grots
-
noun,
a grotto.
- gono-
-
- rangy
-
adjective,
(of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- goons
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- angst
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- angry
-
adjective,
feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
- angor
-
noun,
extreme distress or mental anguish, usually of physical origin.
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- 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.
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- greys
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- Regt.
-
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- goony
-
noun,
Slang. goon (def 2a).
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Angus
-
noun,
Formerly Forfar. a historic county in E Scotland.
- goose
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- goosy
-
adjective,
like a goose; foolish or giddy.
- andry
-
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- andr-
-
- Andes
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- 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.
- seamy
-
adjective,
unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable:
- GRASS
-
noun,
any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains.
Compare grass family.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- redds
-
noun,
the spawning area or nest of trout or salmon.
- Taney
-
noun,
Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- goods
-
noun,
profit or advantage; worth; benefit:
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- 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.
- segos
-
noun,
sego lily.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- Goody
-
noun,
Usually, goodies. something especially attractive or pleasing, especially cake, cookies, or candy.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- ratty
-
adjective,
full of rats.
- groat
-
noun,
a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- antsy
-
adjective,
unable to sit or stand still; fidgety:
- groan
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- Sedum
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- sedgy
-
adjective,
abounding, covered, or bordered with sedge.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Ready
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- ante-
-
- 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)
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- Reaum
-
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- gooey
-
adjective,
like or covered with goo; sticky; viscid.
- nodus
-
noun,
a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
- gutty
-
adjective,
Informal. showing spirit; plucky; gutsy:
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Yumas
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
- Myrna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Myron
-
noun,
chrism.
- 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.
- stogy
-
noun,
a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
- Toddy
-
noun,
a drink made of alcoholic liquor and hot water, sweetened and sometimes spiced with cloves.
- to-do
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- Yuman
-
noun,
a family of languages including the language shared by the Yuma and Mohave Indians and several other languages of the lower valley of the Colorado River.
- MNurs
-
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- stge.
-
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Eddas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- togas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- mogos
-
noun,
a stone hatchet used by the Aborigines.
- togue
-
noun,
lake trout.
- monad
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- Yugo.
-
- toyon
-
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- yugas
-
noun,
an age of time.
- monde
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- mondo
-
noun,
a question to a student for which an immediate answer is demanded, the spontaneity of which is often illuminating.
- mynas
-
noun,
any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- today
-
noun,
this present day:
- dusts
-
noun,
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- stony
-
adjective,
full of or abounding in stones or rock:
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- Emory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- mero-
-
- eyras
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- tyres
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- tyros
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- Tyson
-
noun,
Michael Gerald ("Mike"; "Iron Mike") born 1966, U.S. boxer.
- mesas
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- meso-
-
- egads
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- 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.
- tasty
-
adjective,
good-tasting; savory:
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Genoa
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- toady
-
noun,
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- messy
-
adjective,
characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- meta-
-
- 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.
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- metr-
-
- metry
-
- strut
-
noun,
the act of strutting.
- Edman
-
noun,
Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- yurts
-
noun,
a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol and Turkic peoples of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or skins.
- stomy
-
- stome
-
- EDGAR
-
noun,
an award given annually in various categories of mystery writing.
- money
-
noun,
any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- Dusty
-
adjective,
filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- dudes
-
noun,
a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
- yours
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- Tonga
-
noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used in India.
- stunt
-
noun,
a stop or hindrance in growth or development.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Dumas
-
noun,
Alexandre [a-lek-sahn-druh] /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə/ (Show IPA), ("Dumas père") 1802–70, and his son, Alexandre, (“Dumas fils”), 1824–95, French dramatists and novelists.
- Moray
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- tongs
-
noun,
any of various implements consisting of two arms hinged, pivoted, or otherwise fastened together, for seizing, holding, or lifting something (usually used with pair of).
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- duets
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- tono-
-
- Duero
-
noun,
Spanish name of Douro.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Duane
-
noun,
a male given name.
- duads
-
noun,
a group of two; couple; pair.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- toots
-
noun,
an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- Druse
-
noun,
an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral.
- drung
-
noun,
drang.
- stuns
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- moony
-
adjective,
dreamy, listless, or silly.
- yuans
-
noun,
Also called yuan dollar. a copper coin of the Republic of China, equal to 100 cents; dollar.
- ster.
-
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- Durst
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- duros
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- Monge
-
noun,
Gaspard [gas-par] /gasˈpar/ (Show IPA), Comte de Péluse [pey-lyz] /peɪˈlüz/ (Show IPA), 1746–1818, French mathematician.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- durns
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- Mongo
-
noun,
mungo.
- study
-
noun,
application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection:
- Durga
-
noun,
the sometimes malignant goddess of war: an aspect of Devi.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- mono-
-
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- dures
-
verb (used with or without object),
endure.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- duras
-
noun,
dura mater.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- stums
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- Mont.
-
- Duran
-
noun,
Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- tondo
-
noun,
a round painting or relief.
- stung
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- duomo
-
noun,
cathedral, especially in Italy.
- 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.
- noddy
-
noun,
any of several dark-bodied terns of the genera Anous and Micranous found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid.
- dunts
-
noun,
a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- youse
-
pronoun,
you (usually used in addressing two or more people).
- dungs
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals; manure.
- Moody
-
noun,
Dwight Lyman [lahy-muh n] /ˈlaɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1837–99, U.S. evangelist.
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- tynes
-
noun,
tine.
- meno-
-
- mosey
-
verb (used without object),
to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- eury-
-
- mardy
-
noun,
a grumpy mood; a sulk:
- marg.
-
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- stray
-
noun,
a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
- Marys
-
noun,
Also called Virgin Mary. the mother of Jesus.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- Euro-
-
- gator
-
noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- Teddy
-
noun,
Often, teddies. a woman's one-piece undergarment combining a chemise and underpants, sometimes having a snap crotch.
- stroy
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Gatun
-
noun,
a town in the N Canal Zone of Panama.
- etrog
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- 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.
- tenty
-
adjective,
watchful; attentive.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- massy
-
adjective,
massive.
- mast-
-
- gaudy
-
noun,
a festival or celebration, especially an annual college feast.
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- gamey
-
adjective,
gamy.
- gauds
-
noun,
a showy ornament or trinket.
- Mande
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.
- gassy
-
adjective,
full of or containing gas.
- Magus
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- Mayer
-
noun,
Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- teary
-
adjective,
of or like tears.
- Mayon
-
noun,
an active volcano in the Philippines, on SE Luzon Island. 7926 feet (2415 meters).
- Mayor
-
noun,
the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- MAgEd
-
- mayos
-
noun,
mayonnaise.
- Gaons
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- mayst
-
verb,
2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- gasts
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- tears
-
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- mange
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- GATED
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gamut
-
noun,
the entire scale or range:
- mangy
-
adjective,
having, caused by, or like the mange.
- Mango
-
noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- gamo-
-
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- 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.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- tera-
-
- term.
-
- stood
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Meads
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- ergo-
-
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- Meany
-
noun,
a small-minded, petty, or malicious person:
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- taunt
-
noun,
an insulting gibe or sarcasm; scornful reproach or challenge.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- meaty
-
adjective,
of or like meat.
- entry
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- Medan
-
noun,
a city in NE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- Medon
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.
- ento-
-
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- 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.
- Tatum
-
noun,
Art, 1910–56, U.S. jazz pianist.
- mega-
-
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Megan
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Teut.
-
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- engr.
-
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- menad
-
noun,
maenad.
- endo-
-
- gemot
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Tyner
-
noun,
McCoy (Sulaimon Saud) born 1938, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- mends
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- Story
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- ergot
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- 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.
- Stout
-
noun,
a dark, sweet brew made of roasted malt and having a higher percentage of hops than porter.
- 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.
- matey
-
noun,
comrade; chum; buddy.
- madre
-
noun,
mother1 .
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- gaums
-
verb (used with object),
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up):
- matr-
-
- essay
-
noun,
a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- Matt.
-
- matte
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- Madge
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- Gaunt
-
noun,
John of, John of Gaunt.
- M-day
-
noun,
mobilization day: a day assumed by the Department of Defense as the first day of mobilization, used by the military for planning purposes.
- Matty
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Esdud
-
noun,
Ashdod.
- gaurs
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- matts
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Matthew.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- mauds
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- testy
-
adjective,
irritably impatient; touchy.
- Gauss
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic induction, equal to the magnetic induction of a magnetic field in which one abcoulomb of charge, moving with a component of velocity perpendicular to the field and equal to one centimeter per second, is acted on by a force of one dyne; 1 maxwell per square centimeter or 10− 4 weber per square meter. Symbol: G.
- maund
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India and other parts of Asia, varying greatly according to locality: in India, from about 25 to 82.286 pounds (11 to 37.4 kilograms) (the latter being the government maund).
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- 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.
- Maury
-
noun,
Matthew Fontaine [fon-teyn,, fon-teyn] /fɒnˈteɪn,, ˈfɒn teɪn/ (Show IPA), 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- drays
-
noun,
a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- 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.
- Mungo
-
noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- sudds
-
noun,
(in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- mungs
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- dogey
-
noun,
dogie.
- tarty
-
adjective,
tart; somewhat sour.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- yenta
-
noun,
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- Sudra
-
noun,
Shudra.
- doses
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- Neddy
-
noun,
British Informal. donkey.
- Getty
-
noun,
J(ean) Paul, 1892–1976, U.S. oil magnate and art collector.
- Nedda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- SOUND
-
noun,
the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- nears
-
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- 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.
- doges
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dorty
-
adjective,
sullen; sulky.
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- munge
-
verb (used with or without object),
to manipulate (raw data), especially to convert (data) from one format to another:
- Negus
-
noun,
a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- stand
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- mudra
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- 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.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- douma
-
noun,
duma.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- nerdy
-
adjective,
Slang. of or like a nerd.
- Tartu
-
noun,
a city in SE Estonia.
- Dotty
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
- 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.
- muddy
-
adjective,
abounding in or covered with mud.
- so-so
-
adverb,
in an indifferent or passable manner; indifferently; tolerably.
- stang
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- tarts
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Munda
-
noun,
a small family of languages spoken in east-central India.
- gesso
-
noun,
gypsum or plaster of Paris prepared with glue for use as a surface for painting.
- dogma
-
noun,
an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church. Synonyms: doctrine, teachings, set of beliefs, philosophy.
- start
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- Sugar
-
noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- donut
-
noun,
doughnut.
- Donus
-
noun,
died a.d. 678, pope 676–678.
- Sousa
-
noun,
John Philip, 1854–1932, U.S. band conductor and composer.
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- mutts
-
noun,
a dog, especially a mongrel.
- donor
-
noun,
a person who gives or donates.
- nasty
-
noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- dongs
-
noun,
a deep sound like that of a large bell.
- suets
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- donga
-
noun,
(in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- gourd
-
noun,
the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally.
Compare gourd family.
- yeans
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- naso-
-
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- gests
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- Srta.
-
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Donau
-
noun,
German name of Danube.
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- stagy
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or suggestive of the stage.
- doyen
-
noun,
the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- musts
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- Yeats
-
noun,
William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- mussy
-
adjective,
untidy, messy, or rumpled.
- yeast
-
noun,
any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- sudsy
-
adjective,
consisting of, containing, or producing foamy lather.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- yearn
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- musty
-
noun,
(formerly) a kind of snuff having a musty flavor.
- naut.
-
- sours
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- 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.
- domed
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- Natty
-
adjective,
neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce:
- dooms
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- stays
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- yauds
-
noun,
a mare, especially an old, worn-out one.
- muted
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- dodos
-
noun,
any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- sorus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- doura
-
noun,
durra.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- dryad
-
noun,
a deity or nymph of the woods.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- dress
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dregs
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- yores
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- soras
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- 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.
- sumos
-
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.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- yogas
-
noun,
a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- dross
-
noun,
waste matter; refuse.
- genus
-
noun,
Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- mousy
-
adjective,
resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- Neuss
-
noun,
a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- dread
-
noun,
terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
- geom.
-
- MOTOS
-
- geod.
-
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- motto
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- sords
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- stat.
-
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- Dryas
-
noun,
any creeping plant belonging to the genus Dryas, of the rose family, having solitary white or yellow flowers, comprising the mountain avens.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Dodge
-
noun,
a quick, evasive movement, as a sudden jump away to avoid a blow or the like.
- Mound
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- neut.
-
- Sturt
-
noun,
violent quarreling.
- Dream
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dodgy
-
adjective,
inclined to dodge.
- drags
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- Msgr.
-
- mossy
-
adjective,
overgrown with or abounding in moss:
- Yetta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Young
-
noun,
those who have youth; young persons collectively:
- MSEnt
-
- yetts
-
noun,
gate.
- Sudan
-
noun,
a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- mosso
-
adjective,
rapid; fast.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- stats
-
noun,
Also, 'stat. thermostat.
- Drago
-
noun,
Luis María [loo-is muh-ree-uh;; Spanish loo-ees mah-ree-ah] /ˈlu ɪs məˈri ə;; Spanish luˈis mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1921, Argentine jurist and statesman.
- douse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- Douro
-
noun,
a river in SW Europe, flowing W from N Spain through N Portugal to the Atlantic. About 475 miles (765 km) long.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- sooty
-
adjective,
covered, blackened, or smirched with soot.
- geums
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- drams
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- soots
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- Soong
-
noun,
Charles Jones, 1866–1918, Chinese merchant (father of Ai-ling, Ch'ing-ling, Mei-ling, and Tse-ven Soong).
- soony
-
adjective,
sentimental; emotional.
- drang
-
noun,
a narrow lane or alleyway.
- sorgo
-
noun,
any of several varieties of sorghum grown chiefly for the sweet juice yielded by the stems, used in making sugar and syrup and also for fodder.
- neur-
-
- germy
-
adjective,
full of germs.
- Tray
-
noun,
a flat, shallow container or receptacle made of wood, metal, etc., usually with slightly raised edges, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles of food, glass, china, etc.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- TDRS
-
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- urds
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- soys
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- sags
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- 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.
- Sung
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, a.d. 960–1279, characterized by a high level of achievement in painting, ceramics, and philosophy: overthrown by the Mongols.
- 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.
- says
-
noun,
what a person says or has to say.
- urge
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- std.
-
- str.
-
- USAR
-
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- USDA
-
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- used
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Sumy
-
noun,
a city in NE Ukraine, NW of Kharkov.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- 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.
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ten.
-
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- 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.
- tout
-
noun,
a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- Urey
-
noun,
Harold Clayton [kleyt-n] /ˈkleɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1893–1981, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1934.
- 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.
- ter.
-
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- uret
-
- Urga
-
noun,
former name of Ulan Bator.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Sam.
-
- USSR
-
noun,
a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- USGA
-
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- urgy
-
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- uro-
-
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- USNA
-
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- USMA
-
- TSgt
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Trey
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- turd
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Tasm
-
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- tuts
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tut.”.
- Syr.
-
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- tomy
-
- udos
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- 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.
- Susa
-
noun,
a ruined city in W Iran: the capital of ancient Elam; palaces of Darius and Artaxerxes I; stele containing the Code of Hammurabi discovered here.
- tron
-
- toys
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- sudd
-
noun,
(in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
- togs
-
noun,
a coat.
- Togo
-
noun,
Heihachiro [hey-hah-chee-raw] /ˈheɪ hɑˈtʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), Marquis, 1847–1934, Japanese admiral.
- stud
-
noun,
a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- toga
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- smog
-
noun,
smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- toey
-
adjective,
touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Sem.
-
- surd
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- tude
-
noun,
an arrogant attitude.
- Tues
-
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- sgd.
-
- tugs
-
noun,
an act or instance of tugging; pull; haul.
- sym.
-
- toot
-
noun,
an act or sound of tooting.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- Tony
-
noun,
one of a group of awards made annually by the American Theatre Wing, a professional school for the performing arts, for achievements in theatrical production and performance.
- 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.
- syn-
-
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- 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.
- Tory
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- tong
-
noun,
tongs.
- syne
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
since.
- Ste.
-
- trug
-
noun,
a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Todt
-
noun,
Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1891–1942, German military engineer.
- TODS
-
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- stay
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Tyne
-
noun,
tine.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- saur
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Saud
-
noun,
(Saud ibn Abdul-Aziz), 1901?–69, king of Saudi Arabia 1953–64 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).
- Tyre
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- 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.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- 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.
-
- snug
-
noun,
British. a small, secluded room in a tavern, as for private parties.
- SASE
-
- taur
-
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- SRAM
-
- Sra.
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- stg.
-
- smug
-
adjective,
contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Styr
-
noun,
a river in NW Ukraine, flowing N to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- SMSA
-
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- Troy
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- tody
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- undy
-
plural noun,
women's or children's underwear.
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- undo
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- sur-
-
- Todd
-
noun,
Alexander Robertus [roh-bur-tuh s] /roʊˈbɜr təs/ (Show IPA), (Baron of Trumpington) 1907–97, Scottish chemist: Nobel prize 1957.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- Tyro
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- trog
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- ungt
-
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- snye
-
noun,
a backwater.
- toad
-
noun,
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
Compare frog1 (def 1).
- tRNA
-
- suds
-
noun,
soapy water.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- 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.
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- 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.
- gtd.
-
- Man.
-
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Mary
-
noun,
Also called Virgin Mary. the mother of Jesus.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Mar.
-
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- 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.
- Mays
-
noun,
Willie (Howard) born 1931, U.S. baseball player.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- Mayo
-
noun,
mayonnaise.
- DMDT
-
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- mag.
-
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- MAEd
-
- mads
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- dys-
-
- MADD
-
noun,
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- ment
-
- Meng
-
- Mend
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- men-
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meas
-
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Mead
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- Dyna
-
- dyne
-
noun,
the standard centimeter-gram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram. Abbreviation: dyn.
- mdse
-
- mdnt
-
- MDES
-
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- Maud
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- made
-
noun,
the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- DMSO
-
- 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.
- doom
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- yett
-
noun,
gate.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Dong
-
noun,
a deep sound like that of a large bell.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- yens
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- Yedo
-
noun,
a former name of Tokyo.
- yods
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- yeas
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- year
-
noun,
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year)
Compare common year, leap year.
- yean
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- Doon
-
noun,
a river in SW Scotland, flowing NW from Ayr County to the Firth of Clyde. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
- door
-
noun,
a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- yaud
-
noun,
a mare, especially an old, worn-out one.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- Yoga
-
noun,
a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- 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.
- Yuan
-
noun,
Also called yuan dollar. a copper coin of the Republic of China, equal to 100 cents; dollar.
- 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.
- med.
-
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- Yurt
-
noun,
a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol and Turkic peoples of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or skins.
- dodo
-
noun,
any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- Yuma
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
- Yuga
-
noun,
an age of time.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- dogy
-
noun,
dogie.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- Yser
-
noun,
a river flowing from N France through NW Belgium into the North Sea: battles 1914–18. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- yrs.
-
- yous
-
noun,
plural of you.
- your
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- Doge
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- yond
-
adverb, adjective,
yonder.
- dyes
-
noun,
a coloring material or matter.
- mes-
-
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- mRNA
-
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- MSTS
-
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- MSgt
-
- daut
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- MSAE
-
- eyot
-
noun,
ait.
- dead
-
noun,
the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.:
- mtge
-
- mout
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- mtg.
-
- dat.
-
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- mus.
-
- mutt
-
noun,
a dog, especially a mongrel.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- muss
-
noun,
a state of disorder or untidiness.
- 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.
- MusD
-
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- DASD
-
noun,
an external storage device, as a magnetic disk storage unit, in which the access mechanism and storage medium can be positioned directly at the addresses sought to read or write specific data items.
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Dard
-
noun,
Also, Dardic. a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir, northern Pakistan, and eastern Afghanistan, and including Kashmiri.
- MUNG
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- mun.
-
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- muds
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- darg
-
noun,
Scot. and North England. a day's work.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- 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.
- der.
-
- 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.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Demy
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- Den.
-
- Mngr
-
- Deny
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- MNAS
-
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- Myra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Lycia.
- myo-
-
- Myna
-
noun,
any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- Deus
-
noun,
God. Abbreviation: D.
- dyad
-
noun,
a group of two; couple; pair.
- Dyer
-
noun,
John, 1700–58, British poet.
- met.
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- Dem.
-
- deys
-
noun,
the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- mood
-
noun,
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:
- deg.
-
- mony
-
adjective, noun,
many.
- mod.
-
- mong
-
noun,
mongrel, especially a mongrel dog.
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mon.
-
- mogs
-
noun,
moggy.
- mogo
-
noun,
a stone hatchet used by the Aborigines.
- degu
-
noun,
a rat-sized New World burrowing rodent, Octodon degus, having long, smooth fur and a black-tipped, tufted tail.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- Dory
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- yarn
-
noun,
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- Dang
-
verb (used with object), adjective, noun,
damn (used euphemistically).
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- gaur
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- gaum
-
verb (used with object),
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up):
- Gaud
-
noun,
a showy ornament or trinket.
- GATT
-
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- Gary
-
noun,
Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- Dust
-
noun,
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Gard
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- Gaon
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- Gand
-
noun,
French name of Ghent.
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- gamy
-
adjective,
having the tangy flavor or odor of game:
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- duty
-
noun,
something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- gds.
-
- gads
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- Gerd
-
noun,
the daughter of a giant and the consort of Frey, who wooed her through his servant Skirnir.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- Ger.
-
- geo-
-
- genu
-
noun,
the knee.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- Gen.
-
- dure
-
adjective,
hard; severe.
- durn
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- geds
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- duro
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- Duse
-
noun,
Eleonora [el-ee-uh-nawr-uh;; Italian e-le-aw-naw-rah] /ˌɛl i əˈnɔr ə;; Italian ˌɛ lɛ ɔˈnɔ rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, Italian actress.
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- Gays
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. a homosexual person, especially a male.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- dura
-
noun,
dura mater.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ergs
-
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- eous
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ens.
-
- Enyo
-
noun,
an ancient Greek war goddess.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Eng.
-
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- end-
-
- EDTA
-
- egad
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- eyas
-
noun,
a nestling, usually a hawk.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- 1080
-
- etym
-
- 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.
- easy
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- Eur.
-
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- edgy
-
adjective,
nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- Edam
-
noun,
a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- est.
-
- Edda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Eddy
-
noun,
a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- eso-
-
- Esd.
-
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- eddo
-
noun,
the edible root of the taro or of any of several related plants.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- yare
-
adjective,
quick; agile; lively.
- drum
-
noun,
a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- dreg
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- drys
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Drug
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
- Grus
-
noun,
the Crane, a southern constellation between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
- grum
-
adjective,
grim; glum; surly.
- grue
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- grot
-
noun,
a grotto.
- guan
-
noun,
a large game bird of the curassow family, common in dense woodlands of Central and South America, somewhat resembling a turkey.
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- gro.
-
- gres
-
- Grey
-
noun,
Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764–1845, British statesman: prime minister 1830–34.
- gras
-
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Gray
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- duad
-
noun,
a group of two; couple; pair.
- Guam
-
noun,
an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña.
Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
- Gude
-
noun,
God.
- gout
-
noun,
an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Yard
-
noun,
a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- Doss
-
noun,
a place to sleep, especially in a cheap lodging house.
- Yang
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- yams
-
noun,
the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Doty
-
adjective,
(of wood) decayed.
- DRAM
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- guts
-
noun,
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.
Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- Doug
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Douglas.
- gust
-
noun,
a sudden, strong blast of wind.
- dour
-
adjective,
sullen; gloomy:
- guna
-
noun,
(in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- drag
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- Dray
-
noun,
a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
- Guys
-
noun,
Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
- grad
-
noun,
a graduate.
- dude
-
noun,
a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
- duos
-
noun,
Music. duet.
- gyre
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- dung
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals; manure.
- GNMA
-
- gnat
-
noun,
any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- Duns
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- dunt
-
noun,
a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- Gmat
-
- gyr-
-
- goad
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- Gyor
-
noun,
a city in NW Hungary.
- gyne
-
- gyn-
-
- gyms
-
noun,
a gymnasium.
- duo-
-
- Geum
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- dune
-
noun,
a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- duds
-
noun,
a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- gory
-
adjective,
covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- dues
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- duet
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- goos
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- goon
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- Good
-
noun,
profit or advantage; worth; benefit:
- gony
-
- Gond
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal people of Dravidian stock, in central India and the Deccan.
- Goat
-
noun,
any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- gon-
-
- goys
-
noun,
a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
- Goya
-
noun,
Francisco de [fran-sis-koh duh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw de,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ də;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ dɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) 1746–1828, Spanish painter.
- dugs
-
noun,
the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Duma
-
noun,
(in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
- Duna
-
noun,
Hungarian name of the Danube.
- Danu
-
noun,
the mother of the Tuatha De Danann: identified with the Welsh Don.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- 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
-
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- Andy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Andrew.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- out-
-
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ands
-
- ouds
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Otto
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- oto-
-
- amt.
-
- rad.
-
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- ayre
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- amdt
-
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- RADM
-
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Amoy
-
noun,
Xiamen.
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- ano-
-
- OSRD
-
- 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)
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Oona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- Arm.
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Ont.
-
- army
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arg.
-
- onym
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Omoo
-
noun,
a novel (1847) by Herman Melville.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- oory
-
adjective,
ourie.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- orgy
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- ant.
-
- ANTU
-
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- oro-
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- org.
-
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- ordo
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
- ord.
-
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- Redd
-
noun,
the spawning area or nest of trout or salmon.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- 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.
- aer-
-
- Rosy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- aery
-
noun,
aerie.
- 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.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- rood
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- 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.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- 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.
- AMDG
-
- 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.
-
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- rung
-
noun,
one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- Adm.
-
- ruga
-
noun,
Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- addn
-
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- Rudy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Rudolf.
- adds
-
noun,
Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- Rude
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1784–1855, French sculptor.
- Rudd
-
noun,
a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
- RONA
-
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- 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.
- Ayer
-
noun,
Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ayes
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- agst
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Ayme
-
noun,
Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, French novelist and short-story writer.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- regd
-
- Reg.
-
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- ague
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- agr.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- Rom.
-
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- aet.
-
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- aged
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the):
- RNAS
-
- Ryan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Ryun
-
noun,
James Ronald ("Jim") born 1947, U.S. distance runner; congressman 1996–2007.
- ryot
-
noun,
a peasant.
- rynd
-
noun,
rind2 .
- ryes
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- Agon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- ryas
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- 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.
- eyra
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- attn
-
- Nary
-
adjective,
not any; no; never a:
- Aus.
-
- 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.
- nosy
-
adjective,
unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- atry
-
adjective,
lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- NASD
-
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- ator
-
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- 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.
- 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.
- aut-
-
- 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:
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- nude
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- nurd
-
noun,
nerd.
- atm.
-
- att.
-
- nays
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- nos-
-
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- ASTM
-
- NYSE
-
- Aug.
-
- Auge
-
noun,
a daughter of King Aleus who became a priestess of Athena. After being raped by Hercules she bore a son, Telephus.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- 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.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- 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.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- Aude
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2449 sq. mi. (6345 sq. km). Capital: Carcassonne.
- nyet
-
adverb, noun,
no1 .
- Nysa
-
noun,
the mountain where Zeus sent the infant Dionysus to protect him from the vindictive wrath of Hera.
- aud.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- aur-
-
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- Attu
-
noun,
the westernmost of the Aleutian Islands: Japanese occupation 1942–43.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- nom.
-
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nomy
-
- 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.
- Nor.
-
- DEng
-
- ates
-
- neo-
-
- Arty
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- dado
-
noun,
Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
- asgd
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Odds
-
noun,
the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else:
- Dago
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- odor
-
noun,
the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell:
- dags
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- Odus
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- ogam
-
noun,
ogham.
- Dame
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- Ogma
-
noun,
a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- art.
-
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- damn
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- ASME
-
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- oary
-
adjective,
oarlike.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- Dom.
-
- ASSR
-
- Nagy
-
noun,
Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- Ar.
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- DDS
-
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- DEA
-
- an.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- de-
-
- eo-
-
- Dam
-
noun,
a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
- EOM
-
- ae.
-
- Tng
-
- TNT
-
- TSE
-
- 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.
- 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.
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Am.
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- ad-
-
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- ag-
-
- TMO
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Eg.
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- TOY
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- EDT
-
- DAD
-
noun,
father.
- EDD
-
- ead
-
- do.
-
- DOA
-
- dau
-
noun,
dhow.
- dd.
-
- tog
-
noun,
a coat.
- USO
-
- DSO
-
- Tro
-
- EAM
-
- ean
-
- USN
-
- 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.
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- ea.
-
- DSM
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ETD
-
- DAY
-
noun,
the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset:
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- ed.
-
- DAR
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- DDR
-
- DDT
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- Dag
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- USM
-
- USR
-
- DAE
-
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- DOD
-
- AGM
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ase
-
- AOU
-
- DMD
-
- aor
-
- ASM
-
- DMA
-
- 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.
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- Tut
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tut.”.
- ard
-
- Dou
-
noun,
Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- Une
-
- ASR
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ung
-
- Dr.
-
- Any
-
Idioms,
any which way, in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly:
- ANG
-
- ast
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- ARU
-
- UNO
-
- DMT
-
- DNR
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- tr.
-
- udo
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- tra
-
- DNA
-
- UMT
-
- dog
-
noun,
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- UAM
-
- DMS
-
- ary
-
adjective,
any; anyone.
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- UAE
-
- USS
-
- USA
-
- UAR
-
- 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.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ASU
-
- 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.
- aye
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- Ayr
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Scotland.
- ur-
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- ARS
-
- Ayn
-
noun,
ʿain.
- Dey
-
noun,
the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
- tug
-
noun,
an act or instance of tugging; pull; haul.
- tue
-
- Urd
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- ays
-
- Agt
-
- ure
-
- Tu.
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- TTS
-
- DEd
-
- TTY
-
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- TSS
-
- Dun
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- AME
-
- DRE
-
- DSS
-
- DRG
-
- Dry
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- at.
-
- dyn
-
- AMU
-
- uns
-
- DSA
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- DSR
-
- DST
-
- dug
-
noun,
the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.
- dtd
-
- Du.
-
- AMS
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- Dud
-
noun,
a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
- dye
-
noun,
a coloring material or matter.
- due
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- Amy
-
noun,
a vial of amyl nitrate.
- DET
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- NMR
-
- EMR
-
- rya
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- NEA
-
- ne-
-
- NDE
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- Sr.
-
- Nay
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- SRS
-
- ss.
-
- SSA
-
- SSD
-
- SSE
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- Ney
-
noun,
Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- SSN
-
- SDA
-
- NRA
-
- nr.
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- NMU
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SRO
-
- Nye
-
noun,
Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
- NYA
-
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- 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:
- NES
-
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- SSM
-
- SSR
-
- NSU
-
- MRA
-
- MSN
-
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- MSE
-
- MSD
-
- MSA
-
- MRE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- Mt.
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MOR
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MOG
-
noun,
moggy.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- sty
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- MST
-
- mtn
-
- SST
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- St.
-
- Sta
-
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NAD
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- RNA
-
- MTO
-
- rnd
-
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- 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.
- mug
-
noun,
a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- mud
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- ROA
-
- MTS
-
- NSA
-
- SDR
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ory
-
- OSS
-
- Sgt
-
- REA
-
- OSO
-
- ose
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- OTA
-
- SMA
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- OOT
-
- SMD
-
- oon
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- oo-
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- ONR
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Ray
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RMA
-
- Re.
-
- 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.
- OTS
-
- RDA
-
- Rd.
-
- 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).
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- oud
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- RDS
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- ons
-
- SMS
-
- NUM
-
- OSD
-
- SNU
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OAS
-
- 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.
- OAO
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- OSA
-
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- 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.
- OED
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- SDS
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- soy
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- OAU
-
- ODD
-
noun,
something that is odd.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- SED
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- 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.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- Om.
-
- Oys
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- Oyo
-
noun,
a city in W Nigeria.
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- OGO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEO
-
- OEM
-
- ODT
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- STM
-
- 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.
- MNS
-
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- GNU
-
noun,
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
- GMT
-
- gym
-
noun,
a gymnasium.
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Ges
-
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- God
-
noun,
the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- gey
-
adverb,
Scot. considerably; very.
- Ged
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- GDR
-
- Gde
-
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- TDD
-
- 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.
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- rug
-
noun,
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design.
Compare carpet.
- MNE
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- goy
-
noun,
a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
- Gr.
-
- Tay
-
noun,
a river flowing through central Scotland into the Firth of Tay. 118 miles (190 km) long.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- got
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- goo
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- TDY
-
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- Sus
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ESA
-
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- ery
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ESR
-
- TGN
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- en-
-
- 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.
- EMT
-
- Tyr
-
noun,
the god of strife.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- SAE
-
- Gad
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- 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.
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- Gay
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. a homosexual person, especially a male.
- sd.
-
- ESU
-
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Ga.
-
- eu-
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- ETO
-
- ety
-
- gre
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- GSA
-
- Rs.
-
- SAR
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Mo.
-
- Me.
-
- Md.
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- MAD
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- yum
-
interjection,
yum-yum.
- RSA
-
- YTD
-
- RSE
-
- you
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- yon
-
pronoun,
that or those yonder.
- GSR
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- rt.
-
- ROG
-
- MNA
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- my-
-
- MGT
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- MGr
-
- mgd
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- May
-
noun,
a maiden.
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MDT
-
- 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.
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Mao
-
- RSS
-
- yod
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- yet
-
Idioms,
as yet. as1 (def 31).
- GTT
-
- Gum
-
noun,
any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water.
- Gun
-
noun,
a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- Gur
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- GUS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- Gut
-
noun,
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.
Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- yad
-
noun,
a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.
- Yam
-
noun,
the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- yes
-
noun,
an affirmative reply.
- 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.
- Yao
-
noun,
Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun) was a paragon of good government.
- yar
-
adjective,
yare (defs 1, 2).
- GTS
-
- yas
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- GTO
-
- 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:
- gt.
-
- yer
-
- Yeo
-
- Yen
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- yea
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- SUG
-
- rte
-
- yds
-
- So.
-
- RTS
-
- Guy
-
noun,
Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
- rg
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- AO
-
- 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.
- ry
-
- RU
-
- 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.
- SM
-
- SG
-
- RO
-
- S.
-
- SA
-
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- NY
-
- RN
-
- T1
-
- YU
-
noun,
a legendary Chinese emperor who drained the land and made the mountains.
- yr
-
- SU
-
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- ye
-
pronoun,
Archaic, except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose Literary, or British Dialect.
(used nominatively as the plural of thou especially in rhetorical, didactic, or poetic contexts, in addressing a group of persons or things):
(used nominatively for the second person singular, especially in polite address):
(used objectively in the second person singular or plural):
- yd
-
noun,
a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
- YA
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- YT
-
- Y.
-
- t.
-
- TG
-
- TD
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- GN
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- GD
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- GU
-
- GM
-
- G.
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- ty
-
- TN
-
- TM
-
- M.
-
- DN
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- R.
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- sy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
- SN
-
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- Ud
-
- U.
-
- OA
-
- OG
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- O.
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- DM
-
- NM
-
- TT
-
- D.
-
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- ey
-
- NG
-
- ND
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- MN
-
- DG
-
- MG
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going: