Anagrams of magistracies
Word magistracies has
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- armistices
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noun,
a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce:
- sagacities
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noun,
acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- marcasite
-
noun,
Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- ceramists
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noun,
a person who makes ceramics.
- Artemisia
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noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Artemisia, having aromatic foliage and small disk flowers, including the sagebrush, wormwood, and mugwort.
- Caesarism
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noun,
absolute government; imperialism.
- ameristic
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adjective,
not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- staircase
-
noun,
a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
- armistice
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noun,
a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce:
- scimitars
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noun,
a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- amirates
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noun,
emirate.
- meristic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- Semitics
-
noun,
the study of Semitic languages, literature, etc.
- grimaces
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noun,
a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- mastigia
-
noun,
an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- ragtimes
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noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- massacre
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noun,
the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- simitars
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noun,
scimitar.
- eristics
-
noun,
a person who engages in disputation; controversialist.
- seriatim
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adverb, adjective,
in a series; one after another.
- cartages
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noun,
the act or cost of carting.
- gematria
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noun,
a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- Armitage
-
noun,
Kenneth, 1916–2002, English sculptor.
- agrestic
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adjective,
rural; rustic.
- tear-gas
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noun,
a gas that makes the eyes smart and water, thus producing a temporary blindness, used in modern warfare, to quell riots, etc.
- airtimes
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noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- smarties
-
noun,
a smart aleck.
- ceramist
-
noun,
a person who makes ceramics.
- Tiresias
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noun,
a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- Gaiseric
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noun,
Genseric.
- asterism
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noun,
Astronomy.
a group of stars.
a constellation.
- sterigma
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noun,
a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- migrates
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verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- Castries
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noun,
a port in and the capital of the state of St. Lucia, on the NW coast.
- atresias
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noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- Triassic
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noun,
Also, Trias [trahy-uh s] /ˈtraɪ əs/ (Show IPA). the Triassic Period or System.
- maitrise
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noun,
mastery; skill.
- scimitar
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noun,
a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- sea-star
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noun,
starfish.
- matrices
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noun,
something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops:
- aseismic
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adjective,
free from earthquakes.
- gisarmes
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noun,
guisarme.
- Ramsgate
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noun,
a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- miscites
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verb (used with or without object),
to misquote.
- cartage
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noun,
the act or cost of carting.
- gastric
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adjective,
pertaining to the stomach.
- stagers
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noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- amritas
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noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- amities
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noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- America
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noun,
United States.
- Cassite
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noun,
Kassite.
- stearic
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adjective,
of or relating to suet or fat.
- Caserta
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noun,
a city in S Italy, near Naples.
- Matisse
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noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- Stagira
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noun,
an ancient town in NE Greece, in Macedonia on the E Chalcidice peninsula: birthplace of Aristotle.
- mastics
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noun,
Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- amirate
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noun,
emirate.
- caritas
-
noun,
charity.
- Astaire
-
noun,
Fred, 1899–1987, U.S. dancer and actor.
- amtracs
-
noun,
amphibian (def 4).
- samites
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noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- Margate
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noun,
a red-mouthed grunt, Haemulon album, inhabiting Atlantic waters from Florida to Brazil, valued as a food fish.
- assegai
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noun,
the slender javelin or spear of the Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa.
- screams
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noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- atresia
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noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- Seagirt
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noun,
surrounded by the sea.
- Asiatic
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noun,
an Asian person.
- Maritsa
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noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- gaiters
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noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- sarcasm
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noun,
harsh or bitter derision or irony.
- seismic
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adjective,
pertaining to, of the nature of, or caused by an earthquake or vibration of the earth, whether due to natural or artificial causes.
- sematic
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adjective,
serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- ascites
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noun,
accumulation of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity; dropsy of the peritoneum.
- Ascaris
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noun,
any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
- gasters
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- Semitic
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noun,
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- Mai-Tai
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noun,
a cocktail of rum, curaçao, lemon and pineapple juice, grenadine, and orgeat syrup, poured over crushed ice.
- Artigas
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noun,
José Gervasio [haw-se her-vah-syaw] /hɔˈsɛ hɛrˈvɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1764–1850, Uruguayan soldier and patriot.
- Artesia
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noun,
a city in S California.
- ARTEMIS
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noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- caesars
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noun,
Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (or Caius) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Julius, c100–44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.
- Setaria
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noun,
any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- sigmate
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adjective,
having the form of the Greek sigma or the letter S.
- camises
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noun,
a lightweight, loose-fitting shirt or smock with long sleeves.
- eristic
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noun,
a person who engages in disputation; controversialist.
- simitar
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noun,
scimitar.
- massage
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noun,
the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- recasts
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noun,
a recasting.
- casitas
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noun,
a small crude dwelling forming part of a shantytown inhabited by Mexican laborers in the southwestern U.S.
- casters
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noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- tarmacs
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noun,
(lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.
- miscite
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verb (used with or without object),
to misquote.
- Grecism
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noun,
the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- Raamses
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noun,
a city that was built for the Pharaoh by the Israelites and from which the Exodus began. Ex. 1:11.
- tragics
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noun,
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.:
- ageisms
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noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- Megaris
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noun,
a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- gisarme
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noun,
guisarme.
- misters
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noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- grimace
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noun,
a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- Craigie
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noun,
Sir William (Alexander) 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer and philologist.
- imarets
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noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- actress
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noun,
a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
- tarsias
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noun,
intarsia.
- agarics
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noun,
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
- ragtime
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noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- Mercast
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noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- tigress
-
noun,
a female tiger.
- racists
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noun,
a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- cimaise
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noun,
cymaise.
- racisms
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noun,
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- merisis
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noun,
growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- Gratiae
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plural noun,
grace (def 12).
- iatrics
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- miscast
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verb (used with object),
to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor):
- mirages
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noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- airtime
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noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- stigmas
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noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- migrate
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verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- tsarism
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noun,
czarism.
- stimies
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noun,
stymie.
- gracias
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interjection,
thank you.
- matrass
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noun,
a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- triages
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noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- tamaris
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noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- crates
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noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- cagers
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- Mercia
-
noun,
an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- mitres
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noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Marist
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noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- cities
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noun,
a large or important town.
- sarges
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noun,
sergeant.
- crests
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noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Caesar
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noun,
Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (or Caius) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Julius, c100–44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.
- miters
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noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- crisis
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noun,
a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
- scarts
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verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- Mister
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noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- scares
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noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- merits
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noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- samite
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noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Crimea
-
noun,
the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- Crista
-
noun,
a crest or ridge.
- mirage
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- Margie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- creams
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noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- satire
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noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- crasis
-
noun,
composition; constitution; makeup.
- metric
-
noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- misers
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- racist
-
noun,
a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racism
-
noun,
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- remiss
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adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- Megara
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noun,
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- cerias
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- Mastic
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noun,
Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- cartes
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noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- cerat-
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- recti-
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- re-act
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verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- carses
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noun,
bottom land.
- caters
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verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matri-
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- casita
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noun,
a small crude dwelling forming part of a shantytown inhabited by Mexican laborers in the southwestern U.S.
- reatas
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noun,
riata.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- Cassia
-
noun,
Also called cassia bark, Chinese cinnamon. a variety of cinnamon derived from the cassia-bark tree.
- Cassie
-
noun,
huisache.
- castes
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- ramate
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adjective,
having branches; branching out or off.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- masais
-
noun,
a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- ericas
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- saigas
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- saices
-
noun,
syce.
- camass
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Camassia, of the lily family, especially C. quamash, of western North America, having long clusters of blue to white flowers and edible bulbs.
- camera
-
noun,
a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- camise
-
noun,
a lightweight, loose-fitting shirt or smock with long sleeves.
- Raetic
-
noun,
an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- carats
-
noun,
a unit of weight in gemstones, 200 milligrams (about 3 grains of troy or avoirdupois weight). Abbreviation: c., ct.
- cestas
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- riatas
-
noun,
a lariat.
- gramas
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- megass
-
noun,
bagasse.
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- caries
-
noun,
decay, as of bone or of plant tissue.
- raises
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Ramage
-
noun,
a descent group composed of individuals descended from one ancestor through any combination of male and female links.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- caress
-
noun,
an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- gaiter
-
noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- Strega
-
- ageism
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- images
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- agists
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- Gemara
-
noun,
the section of the Talmud consisting essentially of commentary on the Mishnah.
- tamari
-
noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- irises
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- agric.
-
- taigas
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- Isaacs
-
noun,
Sir Isaac Alfred, 1855–1948, Australian jurist: governor general of Australia 1931–36.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- agates
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- stimes
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- stigma
-
noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- stages
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- amices
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- amigas
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Stacia
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Tarmac
-
noun,
(lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.
- tarsia
-
noun,
intarsia.
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- Graiae
-
plural noun,
Graeae.
- Graces
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- Grasse
-
noun,
François Joseph Paul [frahn-swa zhaw-zef pawl] /frɑ̃ˈswa ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Grasse-Tilly) 1722–1788, French admiral.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- triage
-
noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- triacs
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- gratis
-
adverb,
without charge or payment; free:
- Greats
-
- tragic
-
noun,
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.:
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- acmite
-
noun,
a rare pyroxene mineral, sodium-ferric iron silicate, NaFe(Si 2 O 6), found in feldspathoid rocks.
- tirage
-
noun,
the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
- agaric
-
noun,
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Tigris
-
noun,
a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150 miles (1850 km) long.
- Grimes
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- tiaras
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- grists
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- iatric
-
adjective,
of or relating to a physician or medicine; medical.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- gestic
-
adjective,
pertaining to bodily motions, especially in dancing.
- Icaria
-
noun,
Also, Ikaria. a Greek island in the Aegean Sea: a part of the Southern Sporades group. 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km).
- a-game
-
noun,
a person’s best effort, abilities, or achievement:
- agamic
-
adjective,
Biology.
asexual.
occurring without sexual union; germinating without impregnation; not gamic.
- Tassie
-
noun,
tass.
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- Itasca
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Minnesota: one of the sources of the Mississippi River.
- gamet-
-
- Arista
-
noun,
Botany. a bristlelike appendage of the spikelets of grains or grasses; an awn.
- arecas
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- asemia
-
noun,
inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.
- Marcia
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “warlike.”.
- simars
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Garcia
-
noun,
Jerome John ("Jerry") 1942–95, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
- sigmas
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- arises
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- scrims
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- siesta
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- magics
-
noun,
the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring:
- Maisie
-
noun,
a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- Amrita
-
noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- serais
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- maists
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- seracs
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- marais
-
noun,
a swamp or bayou.
- scries
-
verb (used without object),
to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- maigre
-
adjective,
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- sitars
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Sister
-
noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- Marcie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marcia.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- scrams
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- gastr-
-
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- scrags
-
noun,
a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- amtrac
-
noun,
amphibian (def 4).
- Sisera
-
noun,
the commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin: killed by Jael. Judges 4:17–22.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- Gasser
-
noun,
Slang. something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- grist
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- micas
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- grime
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- mesas
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- GRASS
-
noun,
any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains.
Compare grass family.
- Marga
-
noun,
any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- maras
-
noun,
a city in S Turkey, NE of Adana.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- Miass
-
noun,
a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Marat
-
noun,
Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1743–93, French politician and journalist: leader in the French Revolution; assassinated by Charlotte Corday d'Armont.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- meta-
-
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- metr-
-
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- Maria
-
noun,
calaba.
- grice
-
noun,
a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Marta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- MAgEc
-
- iasis
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- maars
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- magic
-
noun,
the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring:
- istic
-
- marg.
-
- matr-
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- Massa
-
noun,
marse.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- mast-
-
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Maera
-
noun,
Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- Isiac
-
adjective,
of or relating to Isis or the worship of Isis.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- Masai
-
noun,
a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- IATSE
-
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- Meigs
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Meigs.
- image
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- Isaac
-
noun,
a son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob. Gen. 21:1–4.
- masc.
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- imit.
-
- mega-
-
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- micra
-
noun,
a plural of micron.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- taiga
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- stge.
-
- ster.
-
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- Srta.
-
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Tamar
-
noun,
the daughter of David and half-sister of Absalom. II Sam. 13.
- Sices
-
noun,
syce.
- semi-
-
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- Seric
-
- seti-
-
- Sigma
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- simas
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- 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.
- siris
-
noun,
lebbek (def 1).
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Taira
-
noun,
a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- Tamas
-
noun,
See under guna.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- triac
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- trama
-
noun,
a specialized hyphal tissue constituting the internal structure of mushroom gills, pore tubes, or spines.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- treas
-
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- trig.
-
- triga
-
noun,
a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- trigs
-
noun,
trigonometry.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- tears
-
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- Tarai
-
noun,
Terai.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- tera-
-
- Tigre
-
noun,
a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- term.
-
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- tiara
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tiger
-
noun,
a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several subspecies from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some subspecies thought to be extinct.
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- sect.
-
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- reata
-
noun,
riata.
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- Recit
-
- rect.
-
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- Regt.
-
- raias
-
noun,
rayah.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- misc.
-
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Miss.
-
- Missa
-
noun,
Mass.
- Mists
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- ragas
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Msgr.
-
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- scat-
-
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- satis
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- scags
-
noun,
heroin.
- scams
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- scats
-
noun,
scat singing.
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scrag
-
noun,
a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- saris
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- riata
-
noun,
a lariat.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- sagas
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- sages
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- saice
-
noun,
syce.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Samar
-
noun,
an island in the E central Philippines. 5309 sq. mi. (13,750 sq. km).
- Samas
-
noun,
the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- sarc-
-
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- saiga
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- grama
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- AMICE
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- Arcas
-
noun,
a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.
- Caras
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- carat
-
noun,
a unit of weight in gemstones, 200 milligrams (about 3 grains of troy or avoirdupois weight). Abbreviation: c., ct.
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- amiss
-
Idioms,
take amiss, to be offended at or resentful of (something not meant to cause offense or resentment); misunderstand:
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Caria
-
noun,
an ancient district in SW Asia Minor.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- amiga
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- crit.
-
- gasts
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- gram.
-
- cress
-
noun,
any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- amass
-
verb (used with object),
to gather for oneself; collect as one's own:
- amate
-
verb (used with object),
to dismay; daunt.
- Amati
-
noun,
Nicolò [nee-kaw-law] /ˌni kɔˈlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1684, Italian violinmaker, one of a famous family of 16th- and 17th-century violinmakers: teacher of Antonio Stradivari.
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- crim.
-
- Amer.
-
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- Areca
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- asst.
-
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- Assam
-
noun,
a state in NE India. 30,285 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Capital: Dispur.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- assai
-
noun,
any of several slender Brazilian palms of the genus Euterpe, especially E. edulis, a species bearing a purple fruit from which a beverage is made by infusion.
- atria
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- asgmt
-
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- ASCII
-
noun,
a standard code, consisting of 128 7-bit combinations, for characters stored in a computer or to be transmitted between computers.
- cager
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- arias
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- gamic
-
adjective,
sexual (def 3).
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- Arica
-
noun,
a seaport in N Chile.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- gaits
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- Gaeta
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- camis
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- arsis
-
noun,
Music. the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
Compare thesis (def 4).
- cages
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- crass
-
adjective,
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid:
- astr.
-
- Craig
-
noun,
Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
- aemia
-
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Ceara
-
noun,
Fortaleza.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- gests
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- acet-
-
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- aeri-
-
- gists
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- gitim
-
noun,
a plural of get.
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- girts
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- aecia
-
noun,
the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- cert.
-
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- Actis
-
noun,
a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- actg.
-
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- acari
-
noun,
plural of acarus.
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- cases
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- agist
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- cigar
-
noun,
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
- agmas
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- Grace
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- casas
-
noun,
Bartolomé de las [bahr-taw-law-me th e lahs] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ðɛ lɑs/ (Show IPA), Las Casas, Bartolomé de.
- Agram
-
noun,
German name of Zagreb.
- cists
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- 30-30
-
- Agate
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- cata-
-
- agars
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- Rama
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) any of the three avatars of Vishnu: Balarama, Parashurama, or Ramachandra.
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- Sam.
-
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- SAMA
-
noun,
the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- atm.
-
- Sais
-
noun,
an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- atar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- cet-
-
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- Cage
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- Sat.
-
- scag
-
noun,
heroin.
- ates
-
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- atic
-
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- 1080
-
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- SASE
-
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- CIGS
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- 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.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- cat.
-
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Cass
-
noun,
Lewis, 1782–1866, U.S. statesman.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Reg.
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Casa
-
noun,
a house.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Rigi
-
noun,
a mountain in central Switzerland, near the Lake of Lucerne. 5906 feet (1800 meters).
- sags
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- Cami
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- SAGA
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- Sacs
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rit.
-
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Cara
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- RIIA
-
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- asci
-
noun,
plural of ascus.
- ASTM
-
- str.
-
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Tara
-
noun,
a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- agit
-
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- AGMA
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- agr.
-
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- agst
-
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- AIME
-
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Aire
-
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- AISI
-
- stg.
-
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- amas
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Ste.
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- tri-
-
- acea
-
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Acis
-
noun,
the lover of Galatea, killed by Polyphemus out of jealousy.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- acr-
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Acta
-
plural noun,
official records, as of acts, deeds, proceedings, transactions, or the like.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- agas
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- 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.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- aer-
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- ter.
-
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- aet.
-
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Tasm
-
- amic
-
adjective,
of or relating to an amide or amine.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- sec.
-
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- art.
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Asat
-
noun,
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
Compare sat2 (def 1).
- asc-
-
- Sem.
-
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- Asia
-
noun,
a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. About 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- asis
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- ASME
-
- SCSI
-
noun,
a standard for computer interface ports featuring faster data transmission and greater flexibility than normal ports.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- ASSR
-
- scr.
-
- sci.
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- SRAM
-
- Sra.
-
- SMSA
-
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- amt.
-
- Aram
-
noun,
Biblical name of ancient Syria.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- arca
-
noun,
a chest for valuables, used in medieval Spain and Italy.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Arg.
-
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- ARIS
-
- Sig.
-
- Arm.
-
- sics
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- cir.
-
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- Ice.
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- masa
-
noun,
flour or dough made of dried, ground corn, used especially for tortillas.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- Ger.
-
- ESIS
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- cts.
-
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- Ire.
-
- ctr.
-
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- est.
-
- etc.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- migs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- IAEA
-
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- IATA
-
- mica
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- Mic.
-
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- emia
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- meas
-
- ect-
-
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- EGmc
-
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- met.
-
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- ergs
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- mes-
-
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- itis
-
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- mtge
-
- mtg.
-
- gait
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- MSTS
-
- gres
-
- MSSc
-
- MSIE
-
- Mara
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of death, sometimes seen as one aspect of a god whose other aspect is Kama, or erotic desire.
- Grim
-
adjective,
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
- MSgt
-
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- Mar.
-
- MSCE
-
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- mag.
-
- cis-
-
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- gras
-
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- Magi
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- gata
-
noun,
the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum.
- Gama
-
noun,
Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- Maia
-
noun,
the eldest of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes by Zeus.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- Gmat
-
- msec
-
- girt
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- MSAE
-
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Cres
-
- crat
-
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- maar
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- Maas
-
noun,
Dutch name of the Meuse.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Crag
-
noun,
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.
- Maat
-
noun,
the goddess personifying law and righteousness.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- cit.
-
- Mac-
-
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Grit
-
noun,
abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- MSC
-
- SSI
-
- ite
-
- ss.
-
- SSR
-
- MAA
-
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- St.
-
- SSM
-
- SMA
-
- AMC
-
- AME
-
- SMS
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- ITC
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Sr.
-
- Sta
-
- SSA
-
- SSC
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- SSE
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- SRS
-
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- SST
-
- AMS
-
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- Me.
-
- Mc-
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- ITA
-
- AEA
-
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- ACS
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- GSA
-
- GSC
-
- GSR
-
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- ae.
-
- AEC
-
- tra
-
- gt.
-
- GTC
-
- GTS
-
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- ics
-
- TIA
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- tr.
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- IAS
-
- AIA
-
- 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.
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- Gr.
-
- Am.
-
- GMT
-
- ac-
-
- ag-
-
- AMA
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- Ar.
-
- GMC
-
- AAE
-
- AAM
-
- Aar
-
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- gre
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- Ia.
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- STM
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Agt
-
- AIC
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ise
-
- GCR
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- ISR
-
- GCI
-
- ist
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- STI
-
- GCE
-
- GCA
-
- GCT
-
- ISA
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- ier
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Ges
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TCS
-
- TCA
-
- IGM
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- AGC
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Ir.
-
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- IRC
-
- AGM
-
- IRS
-
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- ETS
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- CTA
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- ctg
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- cte
-
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- MIE
-
- MGT
-
- Mig
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- CST
-
- CSR
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- 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.
- CSA
-
- mi.
-
- MGr
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- SAA
-
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- ea.
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Eg.
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- SAE
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- RTS
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSS
-
- RSE
-
- RSA
-
- Rs.
-
- RMC
-
- CRT
-
- CRS
-
- EAA
-
- CIA
-
- MTS
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- CGI
-
- RCS
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- CGM
-
- CGS
-
- Re.
-
- Mt.
-
- CIE
-
- cig
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- RMA
-
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- CIM
-
- MTI
-
- MST
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- MIT
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- CMA
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- MSA
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- MSE
-
- CEA
-
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- RCA
-
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- MSI
-
- CAI
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- EAM
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ASM
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- EMT
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- SCS
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- ASR
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- EMR
-
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- SCM
-
- ast
-
- eir
-
- ASI
-
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MCI
-
- ARS
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- gi.
-
- GCM
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- Sgt
-
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Ga.
-
- ESA
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- ETR
-
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- 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).
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESR
-
- ase
-
- Esc
-
- mcg
-
- EIS
-
- TSS
-
- ECM
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- CAA
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- ct.
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- eat
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noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- SAR
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- cs.
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- MCR
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- CMG
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- ec-
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- ECA
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- ca.
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- ATS
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noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ECG
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- cr.
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- ATA
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- Meg
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noun,
a megabyte.
- MEC
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noun,
a pimp; mack.
- sc.
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- ATC
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- MEA
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noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- at.
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- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
- AA
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noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- T1
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- AI
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noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- EI
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- RI
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- G.
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- A.
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noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- GM
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- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- rg
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- IT
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noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- TG
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RC
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- i.
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- MG
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- TC
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- TM
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- CE
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- IG
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- CM
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- ic
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- SM
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- t.
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- S.
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- SA
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- SG
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- R.
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- M.
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- GC
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