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- resolution
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noun,
a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.
Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- rule-joint
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noun,
(in carpentry and joinery) a joint between two hinged pieces, as between the center and end leaves of a table, consisting of a quarter round and fillet fitting against a cove and fillet.
- suppletion
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noun,
the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- propulsion
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noun,
the act or process of propelling.
- pourpoint
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noun,
a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.
- prelusion
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noun,
a prelude.
- eruptions
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noun,
an issuing forth suddenly and violently; outburst; outbreak.
- prolusion
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noun,
a preliminary written article.
- opportune
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adjective,
appropriate, favorable, or suitable:
- Tropeolin
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noun,
tropaeolin.
- unstopper
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verb (used with object),
to unstop.
- popliteus
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noun,
a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- Perotinus
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noun,
("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- repulsion
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noun,
the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- Petronius
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noun,
Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (Gaius Petronius Arbiter"Arbiter Elegantiae") died a.d. 66? Roman satirist.
- poultries
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noun,
domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- soleprint
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noun,
a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- jointures
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noun,
an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- sit-upon
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noun,
a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.
- propjets
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noun,
an airplane equipped with turboprops.
- opposite
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noun,
a person or thing that is opposite or contrary.
- tropines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- junipers
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noun,
any evergreen, coniferous shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus, especially J. communis, having cones that resemble dark-blue or blackish berries used in flavoring gin and in medicine as a diuretic.
- propones
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verb (used with object),
to suggest for consideration; propose.
- propolis
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noun,
a reddish resinous cement collected by bees from the buds of trees, used to stop up crevices in the hives, strengthen the cells, etc.
- tipplers
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noun,
a person who tipples intoxicating liquor.
- propines
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noun,
a present; gift.
- split-up
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noun,
a splitting or separating into two or more parts.
- prolines
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noun,
an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- eruption
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noun,
an issuing forth suddenly and violently; outburst; outbreak.
- turnsole
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noun,
any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- jointure
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noun,
an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jointers
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noun,
a person or thing that joints.
- line-out
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noun,
a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- pruinose
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adjective,
covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- open-pit
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adjective,
noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- retinols
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noun,
vitamin A.
- routines
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noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- Interpol
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noun,
an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- nitroso-
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- ripplets
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noun,
a small ripple.
- nol-pros
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verb (used with object),
to end by a nolle prosequi.
- tournois
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adjective,
(of coins) minted in Tours, France:
- outliers
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noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- slip-top
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noun,
the end of a slip stem on a spoon.
- solution
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noun,
the act of solving a problem, question, etc.:
- sorption
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noun,
the state or process of being sorbed.
- oilstone
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noun,
a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- purloins
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verb (used with object),
to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- splinter
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noun,
a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- Topelius
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noun,
Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- one-spot
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noun,
the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- Polonius
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noun,
the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Ternopol
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noun,
a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- Plotinus
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noun,
a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- Peronist
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noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- unpolite
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adjective,
impolite.
- Pliotron
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noun,
any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- positron
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noun,
an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- pleuston
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noun,
a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- 11-point
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- postpone
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verb (used with object),
to put off to a later time; defer:
- porpoise
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noun,
any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- Pointers
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- potlines
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noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- perilous
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adjective,
involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous:
- Populist
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noun,
a member of the People's party.
- outlines
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noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- soliton
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- piolets
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noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pintles
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noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- loiters
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- loopers
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noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- Soutine
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noun,
Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- spinule
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noun,
a small spine.
- spleno-
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- lippers
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noun,
a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- loppers
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noun,
a person or thing that lops.
- outline
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noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- pointel
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noun,
a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointer
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- routine
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noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- Pilsner
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noun,
a pale, light lager beer.
- pointes
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noun,
the tip of the toe.
- rutiles
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noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- luteins
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noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- lupines
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noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- slip-on
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noun,
something made this way, especially an article of clothing.
- sojourn
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noun,
a temporary stay:
- slipper
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noun,
any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc.
Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
- pinoles
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noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- lotions
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noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- lippens
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verb (used with object),
to trust (a person).
- soilure
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noun,
a stain.
- Lorient
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noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- snippet
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noun,
a small piece snipped off; a small bit, scrap, or fragment:
- linters
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noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- plutons
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noun,
any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- Justine
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noun,
a female given name: derived from Justin.
- joiners
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noun,
a person or thing that joins.
- jointer
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noun,
a person or thing that joints.
- piteous
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adjective,
evoking or deserving pity; pathetic:
- pistole
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- pleuro-
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- support
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noun,
the act or an instance of supporting.
- pleuron
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noun,
the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- superl.
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- juniper
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noun,
any evergreen, coniferous shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus, especially J. communis, having cones that resemble dark-blue or blackish berries used in flavoring gin and in medicine as a diuretic.
- Jupiter
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noun,
Also called Jove. the supreme deity of the ancient Romans: the god of the heavens and of weather.
Compare Zeus.
- stopple
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noun,
a stopper, especially for a bottle.
- stopper
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noun,
a person or thing that stops.
- jurisp.
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- stipule
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noun,
one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- plosion
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noun,
the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant.
Also called explosion.
Compare implosion (def 2).
- stipple
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noun,
the method of painting, engraving, etc., by stippling.
- sterno-
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- step-up
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noun,
an increase or rise in the rate or quantity of something.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- leprous
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adjective,
Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- leptons
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noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- spurtle
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noun,
a stick used to stir porridge.
- sporule
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noun,
a spore, especially a small one.
- sporont
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noun,
(in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- Ploesti
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noun,
a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- lineups
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noun,
a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
- Nilotes
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noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- spoiler
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noun,
a person or thing that spoils.
- neutro-
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- ripplet
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noun,
a small ripple.
- nippers
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noun,
a person or thing that nips.
- orioles
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noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- protein
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- operons
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- prostie
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noun,
a prostitute.
- pepinos
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noun,
a rounded, cone-shaped hill in a karstic area.
- portion
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noun,
a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it:
- penults
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noun,
the next to the last syllable in a word.
- pent-up
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adjective,
confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed:
- propose
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verb (used with object),
to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action:
- opulent
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adjective,
characterized by or exhibiting opulence:
- propone
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verb (used with object),
to suggest for consideration; propose.
- peloton
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noun,
an ornamental glass made in Bohemia in the late 19th century, usually having a striated overlay of glass filaments in a different color.
- pelorus
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noun,
a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- propjet
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noun,
an airplane equipped with turboprops.
- Proteus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- propine
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noun,
a present; gift.
- propels
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verb (used with object),
to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward:
- Orontes
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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.
- orpines
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noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- proline
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noun,
an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- posture
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noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- potions
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noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- projets
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noun,
a project.
- ostiole
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noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- potline
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noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- pouters
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noun,
a person who pouts.
- outsole
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noun,
the outer sole of a shoe.
- porions
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noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- oolites
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noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- nipples
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noun,
a protuberance of the mamma or breast where, in the female, the milk ducts discharge; teat.
- petrol.
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- pileups
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noun,
a massive collision of several or many moving vehicles.
- nitrous
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adjective,
pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- pileous
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adjective,
hairy or furry.
- outlier
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noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- ripples
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noun,
a small wave or undulation, as on water.
- riposte
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- riotous
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adjective,
(of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- petrous
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adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- retools
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verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- petrols
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noun,
British. gasoline.
- nostril
-
noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- retinol
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noun,
vitamin A.
- pontils
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noun,
punty.
- pterion
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noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- n-tuple
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noun,
a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- reposit
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verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- rejoins
-
verb (used with object),
to come again into the company of:
- purpose
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noun,
the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purples
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noun,
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- poplins
-
noun,
a finely corded fabric of cotton, rayon, silk, or wool, for dresses, draperies, etc.
- purloin
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verb (used with object),
to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purlins
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noun,
a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- purines
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noun,
a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- punties
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noun,
an iron rod used in glassmaking for handling the hot glass.
- punster
-
noun,
a person who makes puns frequently.
- onerous
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adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- Tiepolo
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noun,
Giovanni Battista [joh-vah-nee buh-tee-stuh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee baht-tee-stah] /dʒoʊˈvɑ ni bəˈti stə;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1696–1770, and his son, Giovanni Domenico [duh-men-i-koh;; Italian daw-me-nee-kaw] /dəˈmɛn ɪˌkoʊ;; Italian dɔˈmɛ ni kɔ/ (Show IPA) 1727–1804, Italian painters.
- pterous
-
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- slip-up
-
noun,
a mistake, blunder, or oversight:
- tone-up
-
noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- entoils
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- isotope
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noun,
any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- toppers
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noun,
a person or thing that tops.
- unloose
-
verb (used with object),
to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- utensil
-
noun,
any of the instruments or vessels commonly used in a kitchen, dairy, etc.:
- tippler
-
noun,
a person who tipples intoxicating liquor.
- tipples
-
noun,
intoxicating liquor.
- elusion
-
noun,
the act of eluding; evasion.
- inpours
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verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- torsion
-
noun,
the act of twisting.
- tupelos
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noun,
any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- uproots
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- erosion
-
noun,
the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
- upsilon
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- Troilus
-
noun,
a warrior son of Priam, mentioned by Homer and Vergil and later represented as the lover of Cressida.
- triunes
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- topline
-
adjective,
so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like:
- interj.
-
- triples
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noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- isotone
-
noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- tonsure
-
noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- enroots
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- unpiles
-
verb (used with object),
to disentangle or remove from a piled condition:
- estriol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- Epsilon
-
noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- troupes
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- topspin
-
noun,
a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate forward.
- tropous
-
- topsoil
-
noun,
the fertile, upper part of the soil.
- unroots
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- tropine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- topples
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to topple.
- injures
-
verb (used with object),
to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair:
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- unripe
-
adjective,
not ripe; immature; not fully developed:
- unrips
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- neuro-
-
- neurol
-
- Rustin
-
noun,
Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- posole
-
noun,
a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chili peppers, and coriander leaves: traditionally served at Christmas and often favored as a hangover remedy.
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- inter.
-
- nipple
-
noun,
a protuberance of the mamma or breast where, in the female, the milk ducts discharge; teat.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- potion
-
noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- Nistru
-
noun,
Romanian name of Dniester.
- nip-up
-
noun,
a calisthenic routine or gymnastic move of springing to one's feet from a supine position.
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- Nippur
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city in SE Iraq: partially excavated.
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- Epirus
-
noun,
an ancient district in NW Greece and S Albania.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- nipper
-
noun,
a person or thing that nips.
- 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.
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Peipus
-
noun,
a lake in the N Europe, on the border between Estonia and the W Russian Federation. 93 miles (150 km) long; 356 sq. mi. (920 sq. km).
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Pelion
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- Pelops
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.
- rustle
-
noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- Neo-Ju
-
adjective, noun,
neo-Confucian.
- porion
-
noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- sippet
-
noun,
a small bit; fragment.
- peplus
-
noun,
peplos.
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- sit-up
-
noun,
an exercise in which a person lies flat on the back, lifts the torso to a sitting position, and then lies flat again without changing the position of the legs: formerly done with the legs straight but now usually done with the knees bent.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- pepsin
-
noun,
an enzyme, produced in the stomach, that in the presence of hydrochloric acid splits proteins into proteoses and peptones.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- loupes
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- peplos
-
noun,
a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- Louise
-
noun,
Lake, a glacial lake in W Canada, in SW Alberta in the Canadian Rockies: resort. 5670 feet (1728 meters) above sea level.
- unstop
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- louies
-
noun,
looie.
- orison
-
noun,
a prayer.
- ensoul
-
verb (used with object),
to endow with a soul.
- sloper
-
noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- Perlis
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- lotion
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- sipper
-
noun,
a person who sips.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- rutile
-
noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- lustre
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- pensil
-
noun,
pencel.
- rutins
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- penult
-
noun,
the next to the last syllable in a word.
- lutose
-
adjective,
covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- septi-
-
- luteo-
-
- lutein
-
noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- luster
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- unstep
-
verb (used with object),
to lift from its step, as a mast.
- intro.
-
- lupine
-
noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- pepino
-
noun,
a rounded, cone-shaped hill in a karstic area.
- set-up
-
noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- lunies
-
noun,
a lunatic.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- silure
-
plural noun,
a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
- unpile
-
verb (used with object),
to disentangle or remove from a piled condition:
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- proles
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- Tupelo
-
noun,
any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- prunes
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- oolite
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- erupts
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- ptero-
-
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- puisne
-
noun,
an associate judge as distinguished from a chief justice.
- Triune
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- Proton
-
noun,
a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- one-up
-
adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- pulpit
-
noun,
a platform or raised structure in a church, from which the sermon is delivered or the service is conducted.
- projet
-
noun,
a project.
- triple
-
noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- purine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- Pripet
-
noun,
a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- proto-
-
- purlin
-
noun,
a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- tropo-
-
- Oriole
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- troppo
-
adverb,
too much; excessively.
- option
-
noun,
the power or right of choosing.
- propel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward:
- 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.
- oppose
-
verb (used with object),
to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- orlops
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- pronto
-
adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- operon
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- nitro-
-
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- retool
-
verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- poults
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- Ujpest
-
noun,
a suburb of Budapest, in N Hungary.
- Ulster
-
noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- insoul
-
verb (used with object),
ensoul.
- tousle
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- ripple
-
noun,
a small wave or undulation, as on water.
- Toulon
-
noun,
a seaport in SE France: naval base.
- Torino
-
noun,
Turin.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- unites
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- potpie
-
noun,
a deep-dish pie containing meat, chicken, or the like, often combined with vegetables and topped with a pastry crust.
- Potosi
-
noun,
a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- instr.
-
- insult
-
noun,
an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- osteo-
-
- purple
-
noun,
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- rejoin
-
verb (used with object),
to come again into the company of:
- result
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- injure
-
verb (used with object),
to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair:
- turnip
-
noun,
the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- inpour
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- Turpin
-
noun,
Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- eroto-
-
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- stipel
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- pintle
-
noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- stolon
-
noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- justle
-
verb (used with or without object),
jostle.
- pinups
-
noun,
a large photograph, as of a sexually attractive person, suitable for pinning on a wall.
- Justin
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “just.”.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- jurist
-
noun,
a person versed in the law, as a judge, lawyer, or scholar.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- juries
-
- jurels
-
noun,
any of several carangid food fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, found in warm seas.
- piolet
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- upspin
-
noun,
a sudden, upward, spiraling movement, trend, etc.:
- Pinole
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- spruit
-
noun,
(in southern Africa) a small stream.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- letups
-
noun,
cessation; pause; relief.
- pilots
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprout
-
noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- pilous
-
adjective,
pilose.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- Pilsen
-
noun,
German name of Plzeň.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- isopor
-
noun,
an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting points of equal annual change in the declination, inclination, or other components of the earth's magnetic field.
- Lepton
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- poplin
-
noun,
a finely corded fabric of cotton, rayon, silk, or wool, for dresses, draperies, etc.
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- steno-
-
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- jupons
-
noun,
a close-fitting tunic, usually padded and bearing heraldic arms, worn over armor.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- poison
-
noun,
a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- Jolson
-
noun,
Al (Asa Yoelson) 1886–1950, U.S. singer and entertainer, born in Russia.
- sutler
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- Joliet
-
noun,
Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1645–1700, French explorer of the Mississippi, born in Canada.
- utero-
-
- pleur-
-
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- tipple
-
noun,
intoxicating liquor.
- tipper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tips:
- Jesuit
-
noun,
a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- Joplin
-
noun,
Scott, 1868–1917, U.S. ragtime pianist and composer.
- Joiner
-
noun,
a person or thing that joins.
- pistol
-
noun,
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tenuis
-
noun,
an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- pleio-
-
- tie-up
-
noun,
a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
- Piutes
-
noun,
Paiute.
- Sutlej
-
noun,
a river in S Asia, flowing W and SW from SW Tibet through NW India into the Indus River in Pakistan. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- Supple
-
adjective,
bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible:
- juntos
-
noun,
a self-appointed committee, especially with political aims; cabal.
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- pluton
-
noun,
any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- Junior
-
noun,
a person who is younger than another.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- Juliet
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- pipers
-
noun,
a person who plays on a pipe.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- juleps
-
noun,
mint julep.
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- pipets
-
noun, verb (used with object),
pipette.
- supper
-
noun,
the evening meal, often the principal meal of the day.
- urino-
-
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- sunlit
-
adjective,
lighted by the sun.
- joules
-
noun,
the standard unit of work or energy in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force: equivalent to 10 7 ergs and one watt-second. Abbreviation: J, j.
- super-
-
- Superi
-
plural noun,
(in ancient Rome) the gods.
- supine
-
noun,
(in Latin) a noun form derived from verbs, appearing only in the accusative and the dative-ablative, as dictū in mirābile dictū, “wonderful to say.”.
- jostle
-
noun,
a shock, push, bump, or brush against someone or something.
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- lepto-
-
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- souple
-
noun,
silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- petro-
-
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- uppers
-
noun,
the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
- Lieut.
-
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- uproot
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- spinel
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- polite
-
adjective,
showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil:
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- looies
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- solion
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- pooris
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- lopper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lops.
- lopers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- pontil
-
noun,
punty.
- topple
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to topple.
- solute
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- loosen
-
verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- Topper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tops.
- Pontus
-
noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- looper
-
noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- polit.
-
- uprise
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- splen-
-
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- splore
-
noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- splint
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- spline
-
noun,
a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- polers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- Iseult
-
noun,
Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance.
the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- spoilt
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- lipper
-
noun,
a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- Lipton
-
noun,
Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- lippen
-
verb (used with object),
to trust (a person).
- lineup
-
noun,
a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
- pileus
-
noun,
Mycology. the horizontal portion of a mushroom, bearing gills, tubes, etc., on its underside; a cap.
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- sporo-
-
- polios
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- pileup
-
noun,
a massive collision of several or many moving vehicles.
- Poitou
-
noun,
a region and former province in W France.
- spiro-
-
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Poole
-
noun,
a port in Dorset, in S England.
- poult
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- pleon
-
noun,
the abdomen of a crustacean.
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- utile
-
adjective,
useful.
- plier
-
noun,
pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- unrip
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- popes
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- poori
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- pools
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- pleo-
-
- pron.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- post-
-
- until
-
conjunction,
up to the time that or when; till:
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Poler
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- poops
-
noun,
a superstructure at the stern of a vessel.
- prop.
-
- plio-
-
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- Tupis
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- pret.
-
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- polio
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poet.
-
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- poilu
-
noun,
a French common soldier.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- Pres.
-
- preps
-
noun,
preparatory school.
- prep.
-
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- upper
-
noun,
the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- ulent
-
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- Unit.
-
- polos
-
noun,
a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- Prole
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- plops
-
noun,
a plopping sound or fall.
- Port.
-
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- Pluto
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- prius
-
noun,
a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- Uriel
-
noun,
one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- plur.
-
- upset
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- spool
-
noun,
any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- spor-
-
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- tono-
-
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- sluit
-
noun,
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- slurp
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Solon
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- topo-
-
- spelt
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- sloop
-
noun,
a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails.
Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- Supt.
-
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stupe
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- supp.
-
- Suppe
-
noun,
Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1819–95, Austrian composer.
- telo-
-
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tious
-
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- 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.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- step-
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- ster.
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- Piute
-
noun,
Paiute.
- tulip
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Tulipa, of the lily family, cultivated in many varieties, and having lance-shaped leaves and large, showy, usually erect, cup-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- reni-
-
- 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.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- repps
-
noun,
rep1 .
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- rept.
-
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- resp.
-
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- 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.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- purls
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- puris
-
noun,
poori.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- 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.
- tules
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- props
-
noun,
proper or due respect or recognition; credit:
- pros.
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Prot.
-
- trop-
-
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- Prus.
-
- pules
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pulis
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- pulps
-
noun,
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulse
-
noun,
the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- punts
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- pupil
-
noun,
a person, usually young, who is learning under the close supervision of a teacher at school, a private tutor, or the like; student.
- Pupin
-
noun,
Michael Idvorsky [id-vawr-skee] /ɪdˈvɔr ski/ (Show IPA), 1858–1935, U.S. inventor, physicist, and author, born in Hungary.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- setup
-
noun,
organization; arrangement.
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- 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.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- Sept.
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sero-
-
- seti-
-
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Sino-
-
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sirup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- sito-
-
- slept
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- 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.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- 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.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- 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.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- 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.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- inst.
-
- intr.
-
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Lepus
-
noun,
the Hare, a small southern constellation south of Orion.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- nolos
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- oste-
-
- ento-
-
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Olson
-
noun,
Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- looie
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- nurls
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- noto-
-
- LOOPS
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- jutes
-
noun,
a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants, Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius, of the linden family.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- insol
-
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- 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.
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- loons
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- insp.
-
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- jupon
-
noun,
a close-fitting tunic, usually padded and bearing heraldic arms, worn over armor.
- Epist
-
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Louie
-
noun,
looie.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Linus
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 76? pope 67?–76?.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Epis.
-
- lipo-
-
- Lippe
-
noun,
a former state in NW Germany: now part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- noso-
-
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- onto-
-
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- OPers
-
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- Orlon
-
- letup
-
noun,
cessation; pause; relief.
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- orlop
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- loups
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- Orion
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- loupe
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- opto-
-
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- jurel
-
noun,
any of several carangid food fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, found in warm seas.
- pelts
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- junto
-
noun,
a self-appointed committee, especially with political aims; cabal.
- Pinel
-
noun,
Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- neur-
-
- joint
-
noun,
the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
- neut.
-
- joist
-
noun,
any of a number of small, parallel beams of timber, steel, reinforced concrete, etc., for supporting floors, ceilings, or the like.
- pinup
-
noun,
a large photograph, as of a sexually attractive person, suitable for pinning on a wall.
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- joles
-
noun,
jowl2 .
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- pilus
-
noun,
a hair or hairlike structure.
- pilot
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- pilon
-
noun,
something extra; lagniappe.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- input
-
noun,
something that is put in.
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- pious
-
adjective,
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- ileo-
-
- 30-30
-
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- jilts
-
noun,
a woman who jilts a lover.
- loper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Jeris
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Geraldine.
- Euro-
-
- ileus
-
noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- pipet
-
noun, verb (used with object),
pipette.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- pipes
-
noun,
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- Piper
-
noun,
a person who plays on a pipe.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Junot
-
noun,
Andoche [ahn-dawsh] /ɑ̃ˈdɔʃ/ (Show IPA), (Duc d'Abrantès) 1771–1813, French marshal.
- epulo
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a member of a body of priests who performed sacred rites during sacrificial banquets in honor of the gods.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- peril
-
noun,
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger:
- pert.
-
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- nitr-
-
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- julep
-
noun,
mint julep.
- Jules
-
noun,
a male given name, French form of Julius.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- peri-
-
- Julie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Julia.
- lunts
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- oleo-
-
- pepos
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of plants of the gourd family, having a fleshy, many-seeded interior and a hard or firm rind, as the gourd, melon, and cucumber.
- insep
-
- Pepin
-
noun,
("Pepin the Short") died a.d. 768, king of the Franks 751–768 (father of Charlemagne).
- lunes
-
noun,
Archaic. fits of madness.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- Joule
-
noun,
the standard unit of work or energy in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force: equivalent to 10 7 ergs and one watt-second. Abbreviation: J, j.
- Josep
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Joseph.
- petr-
-
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Josie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Josephine.
- Josue
-
noun,
Joshua (defs 1, 2).
- 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.
- Jotun
-
noun,
any of a race of giants frequently in conflict with the gods.
- petri
-
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- jolts
-
noun,
a jolting shock, movement, or blow:
- jour.
-
- Luton
-
noun,
a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- journ
-
- joust
-
noun,
a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- Jones
-
noun,
heroin.
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- Sol.
-
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- 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.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- tri-
-
- Lupe
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- sepn
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Lunt
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- neo-
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- 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.
-
- 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.
- ins.
-
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- loun
-
noun,
loon2 .
- Loup
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- intl
-
- Lune
-
noun,
anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- int.
-
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- June
-
noun,
the sixth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Jun.
- supr
-
- jots
-
noun,
the least part of something; a little bit:
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- itol
-
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Jul.
-
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- Tojo
-
noun,
Hideki [hee-de-kee] /ˈhi dɛˌki/ (Show IPA), 1884–1948, Japanese general: executed for war crimes.
- Jun.
-
- str.
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Juno
-
noun,
the ancient Roman queen of heaven, a daughter of Saturn and the wife and sister of Jupiter: the protector of women and marriage.
Compare Hera.
- Just
-
Idioms,
just so, neat and tidy; carefully arranged:
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Jute
-
noun,
a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants, Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius, of the linden family.
- juts
-
noun,
something that juts out; a projecting or protruding point.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- iso-
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- sur-
-
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- 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.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- jilt
-
noun,
a woman who jilts a lover.
- tion
-
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- jins
-
noun,
jinn.
- Jesu
-
noun,
Jesus.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- jest
-
noun,
a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- Jeri
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Geraldine.
- Jer.
-
- jeon
-
noun,
chon (def 2).
- Jens
-
noun,
a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole.
- ter.
-
- jolt
-
noun,
a jolting shock, movement, or blow:
- TEPP
-
noun,
a colorless to amber, hygroscopic, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 P 2 O 7 , used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Joel
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the postexilic period.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Joes
-
noun,
beloved one; darling; sweetheart.
- ten.
-
- jole
-
noun,
jowl2 .
- tel-
-
- Tejo
-
noun,
Tagus.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Jolo
-
noun,
an island in the SW Philippines: the main island of the Sulu Archipelago. 345 sq. mi. (894 sq. km).
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- litu
-
noun,
a plural of litas.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- ious
-
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- Loon
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- loop
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- 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.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- Soni
-
- 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.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- 1080
-
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- soln
-
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- lit.
-
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- spp.
-
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Ste.
-
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- top-
-
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lieu
-
noun,
place; stead.
- lin.
-
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- lip-
-
- Ire.
-
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Pool
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pule
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- Pet.
-
- uni-
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- pts.
-
- 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.
- Ont.
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- ulto
-
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- epit
-
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- 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.
- prs.
-
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- epi-
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPer
-
- puli
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- Pulj
-
noun,
Pula.
- opp.
-
- ole-
-
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Peul
-
noun,
Fulani.
- purs
-
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Polo
-
noun,
a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- purl
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- pulp
-
noun,
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- puls
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- eous
-
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- perp
-
noun,
the perpetrator of a crime.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enl.
-
- PERL
-
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- out-
-
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- per.
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pot.
-
- peps
-
noun,
lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
- pepo
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of plants of the gourd family, having a fleshy, many-seeded interior and a hard or firm rind, as the gourd, melon, and cucumber.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- uret
-
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pelt
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- Pen.
-
- PPLO
-
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- oro-
-
- Poop
-
noun,
a superstructure at the stern of a vessel.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- pro-
-
- pre-
-
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- prin
-
- Ens.
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- oto-
-
- pop-
-
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Pope
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Pers
-
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- plus
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- 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.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- Tupi
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- rit.
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- ile-
-
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- 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.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- tron
-
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- rpt.
-
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- USPO
-
- pips
-
noun,
one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
- Eur.
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- plop
-
noun,
a plopping sound or fall.
- plot
-
noun,
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:
- pipe
-
noun,
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- nolo
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- repp
-
noun,
rep1 .
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- nurl
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repl
-
- Rep.
-
- 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.
- est.
-
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- rel.
-
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- pil-
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- esp.
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- eso-
-
- Pol.
-
- tule
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- uro-
-
- nos-
-
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- Nor.
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Rijn
-
noun,
the Rhine.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- 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.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- 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.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- not-
-
- Tues
-
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- eo-
-
- EIS
-
- uti
-
- IUS
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- eir
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- USR
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- USP
-
- tlo
-
- Jen
-
noun,
a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole.
- tlr
-
- USO
-
- USN
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- EPT
-
- ite
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- TSP
-
- 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.
- Tu.
-
- tue
-
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- ETO
-
- ESU
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- ior
-
- ESR
-
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- ESL
-
- ERT
-
- trp
-
- ETR
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ITU
-
- il-
-
- Ijo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of the Niger delta in southern Nigeria.
- Tro
-
- ier
-
- io-
-
- ILO
-
- ILP
-
- ILS
-
- ETS
-
- in.
-
- ine
-
- eu-
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPI
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- IOT
-
- 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.
- Isl
-
- up-
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- UPI
-
- ise
-
- en-
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ur-
-
- ure
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- IRS
-
- uns
-
- ERP
-
- ipr
-
- UIT
-
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- IOU
-
- ult
-
- Une
-
- IPO
-
- IPS
-
- IRO
-
- EPS
-
- UNO
-
- unp
-
- Ir.
-
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- IRL
-
- JET
-
noun,
a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc.
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- Jeu
-
noun,
a game.
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- NSU
-
- NUL
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- op.
-
- OEO
-
- RPS
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Re.
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Npt
-
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- OJT
-
- PUP
-
noun,
a young dog; puppy.
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- ONR
-
- Pul
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- ons
-
- nr.
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- RPO
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- NES
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- Rs.
-
- 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:
- NPR
-
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ROP
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- NOP
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- 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.
- PTP
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- ne-
-
- PIO
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- PEP
-
noun,
lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
- POR
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- pp.
-
- PIP
-
noun,
one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
- plu
-
noun,
plew.
- PLR
-
- PLO
-
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- pli
-
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- pl.
-
- Pr.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- PSE
-
- ose
-
- oo-
-
- 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.
- oon
-
- prp
-
- OOT
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- OSO
-
- PPE
-
- OSP
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- PPT
-
- PPS
-
- ppr
-
- ppl
-
- PPI
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- 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.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- Jr.
-
- 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.
- LON
-
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- jot
-
noun,
the least part of something; a little bit:
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Jos
-
noun,
a city in central Nigeria.
- SNU
-
- jut
-
noun,
something that juts out; a projecting or protruding point.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- SPR
-
- SLR
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- STP
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- STL
-
- Lt.
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- STI
-
- St.
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lep
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- spt
-
- Les
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- Jon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- SLP
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- 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).
- Jno
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- NUT
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noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- JIT
-
- Joe
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noun,
jo.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SEI
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noun,
sei whale.
- se-
-
- SRO
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
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- jin
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noun,
jinn.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- jnt
-
- jus
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noun,
a right.
- SIP
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noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LSI
-
- LPN
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- LST
-
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- SLE
-
- ltr
-
- Ju
-
noun,
Confucian (def 2).
- SU
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- TL
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- Jl
-
- T1
-
- JP
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- 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.
- t.
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Je
-
- J.
-
- PI
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- TN
-
- JO
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noun,
beloved one; darling; sweetheart.
- EI
-
- SL
-
- L.
-
- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- LR
-
- RJ
-
- RO
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- NL
-
- TP
-
- O.
-
- RP
-
- N.
-
- NI
-
- NJ
-
- NP
-
- Ij
-
noun,
an inland arm of the Ijsselmeer in the Netherlands: Amsterdam located on its S side.
- RU
-
- S.
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- ln
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- L1
-
- L2
-
- le
-
- PU
-
- SJ
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- SN
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- ol
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- UL
-
- IP
-
- UI
-
- U.
-
- R.
-
- RI
-
- RN
-
- i.
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