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- rift-sawed
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adjective,
(of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- frontwards
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adverb,
in a direction toward the front.
- dawsonite
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noun,
an orthorhombic mineral, hydrous sodium aluminum carbonate, NaAlCO 3 (OH) 2 , with a vitreous luster, occurring as white blade-shaped crystals: mined as an ore of aluminum.
- sea-front
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noun,
an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- frontward
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adverb,
in a direction toward the front.
- snowdrift
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noun,
a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- infrareds
-
noun,
the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- ordinates
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noun,
Mathematics. (in plane Cartesian coordinates) the y-coordinate of a point: its distance from the x-axis measured parallel to the y-axis.
- forewarns
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verb (used with object),
to warn in advance.
- downstair
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noun,
(used with a singular verb) the lower floor or floors of a building:
- serranoid
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noun,
a serranoid fish.
- sternward
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adverb,
toward the stern; astern.
- serration
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noun,
serrated condition or form.
- teardowns
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noun,
a taking apart; disassembly.
- ironwares
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noun,
articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- afterword
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noun,
a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement.
- re-strain
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verb (used with or without object),
to strain again.
- fine-draw
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verb (used with object),
Sewing. to sew together so finely that the joining is not noticeable.
- Waterford
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noun,
a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- drifters
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noun,
a person or thing that drifts.
- finestra
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noun,
an aperture, especially a ventilator in the wall of a tomb.
- serranid
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noun,
any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- teardown
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noun,
a taking apart; disassembly.
- Rotifera
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noun,
the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- transfer
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noun,
a means or system of transferring.
- Rodentia
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noun,
the order comprising the rodents.
- infrared
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noun,
the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- refrains
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noun,
a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
- notaries
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noun,
notary public.
- tawdries
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noun,
cheap, gaudy apparel.
- anterior
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adjective,
situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
- senorita
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sandwort
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noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- strained
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noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- asteroid
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noun,
Also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter.
- rotifers
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noun,
any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
- fratries
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noun,
frater2 .
- strainer
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noun,
a person or thing that strains.
- Fredonia
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noun,
a town in W New York.
- arterio-
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- forwards
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adverb,
forward.
- rotaries
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noun,
a rotary device or machine.
- forswear
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verb (used with object),
to reject or renounce under oath:
- sedation
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noun,
the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- deration
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verb (used with object),
to discontinue the rationing of (something).
- detrains
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verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- forewarn
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verb (used with object),
to warn in advance.
- ordinate
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noun,
Mathematics. (in plane Cartesian coordinates) the y-coordinate of a point: its distance from the x-axis measured parallel to the y-axis.
- foresaid
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adjective,
aforementioned; aforesaid.
- antrorse
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adjective,
bent or directed forward or upward.
- indrafts
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noun,
an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- interwar
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adjective,
occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- redrafts
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noun,
a second draft or drawing.
- trainers
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noun,
a person or thing that trains.
- aneroids
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noun,
aneroid barometer.
- astonied
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adjective,
dazed; bewildered; filled with consternation.
- Stanford
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noun,
(Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- fanworts
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noun,
any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- introrse
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adjective,
turned or facing inward, as anthers that open toward the gynoecium.
- farinose
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adjective,
yielding farina.
- intrados
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noun,
the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- roadster
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noun,
an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- sit-down
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noun,
Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like:
- software
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noun,
Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them.
Compare hardware (def 5).
- tie-down
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noun,
a device for tying something down.
- trade-in
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noun,
goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase:
- ironware
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noun,
articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- frontier
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noun,
the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- retrains
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verb (used with object),
to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.
- tinwares
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noun,
articles made of tin plate.
- restrain
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verb (used with object),
to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress:
- warison
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noun,
a bugle call to assault.
- Sanford
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noun,
Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 16,208 feet (4,940 meters).
- forties
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noun,
a cardinal number, ten times four.
- defiant
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adjective,
characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging:
- defrost
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verb (used with object),
to remove the frost or ice from:
- warders
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noun,
a person who guards something, as a doorkeeper or caretaker.
- wardens
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noun,
a person charged with the care or custody of persons, animals, or things; keeper.
- indraft
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noun,
an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- tinware
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noun,
articles made of tin plate.
- detains
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verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- Forster
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noun,
E(dward) M(organ) 1879–1970, English novelist.
- destain
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verb (used with object),
to remove stain (from a specimen) to enhance visibility and contrast of parts.
- Forseti
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noun,
the god of justice, the son of Balder and Nanna.
- detrain
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verb (used without object),
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- fanwort
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noun,
any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- sardine
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noun,
the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- Forrest
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noun,
Edwin, 1806–72, U.S. actor.
- forints
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noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- wanders
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noun,
Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- stearin
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- sainted
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noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Warrens
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noun,
a place where rabbits breed or abound.
- raiders
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noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- ironers
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noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- astride
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preposition,
with a leg on each side of; straddling:
- astroid
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noun,
a hypocycloid with four cusps.
- terrain
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noun,
a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.
- randies
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noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- Randers
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noun,
a seaport in E Jutland, in Denmark.
- atonies
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noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- Weirton
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noun,
a city in N West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- weirdos
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noun,
an odd, eccentric, or unconventional person.
- rowdies
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noun,
a rough, disorderly person.
- Isadore
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noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- rafters
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noun,
any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
- FORTRAN
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noun,
a high-level programming language used mainly for solving problems in science and engineering.
- Watford
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noun,
a city in Hertfordshire, SE England, N of London.
- tinders
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noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- farrows
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noun,
a litter of pigs.
- indorse
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verb (used with object),
endorse.
- darners
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noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- sadiron
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noun,
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Older Use. a flatiron that is pointed at both ends and has a detachable handle.
- darters
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noun,
a person or thing that darts or moves swiftly.
- forwent
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verb,
simple past tense of forgo.
- fedoras
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noun,
a soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise.
- diaster
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noun,
the stage in mitosis at which the chromosomes, after their division and separation, are grouped near the poles of the spindle.
- Forward
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noun,
Sports.
a player stationed in advance of others on a team.
Football. a lineman.
Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- starred
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noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Trainer
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noun,
a person or thing that trains.
- waisted
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adjective,
having a waist of a specified kind (usually used in combination):
- towards
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adjective,
about to come soon; imminent.
- Steward
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noun,
a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- dowries
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noun,
Also, dower. the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage.
- Serrano
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noun,
a small, green or reddish, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.
- 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.
- inwards
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noun,
the inward or internal part; the inside.
- torsade
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noun,
a twisted cord.
- inroads
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noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- snifter
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noun,
Also called inhaler. a pear-shaped glass, narrowing at the top to intensify the aroma of brandy, liqueur, etc.
- drawers
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noun,
a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- erasion
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noun,
the act of erasing.
- side-on
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adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- sidero-
-
- downers
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noun,
Informal.
a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate.
a depressing experience, person, or situation.
- drifter
-
noun,
a person or thing that drifts.
- triodes
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noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- insofar
-
adverb,
to such an extent (usually followed by as):
- Drosera
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noun,
any of several insectivorous plants of the genus Drosera, having leaves covered with sticky hairs, comprising the sundews.
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- instead
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Idioms,
instead of, in place of; in lieu of:
- Nidaros
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noun,
former name of Trondheim.
- treason
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noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- transfd
-
- transf.
-
- finders
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noun,
a person or thing that finds.
- traders
-
noun,
a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
- Torrens
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noun,
Lake, a salt lake in Australia, in E South Australia. 130 miles (210 km) long; 2400 sq. mi. (6220 sq. km); 25 feet (8 meters) below sea level.
- snorter
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noun,
a person or thing that snorts.
- fanwise
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adverb,
spread out like an open fan:
- Seaford
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noun,
a city on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- fantods
-
noun,
Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the):
- dineros
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- soredia
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- ordains
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verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- stearo-
-
- fade-in
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noun,
Movies, Television. a gradual increase in the visibility of a scene.
- storied
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- errands
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- disrate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- onwards
-
adverb,
toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- oneidas
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- toadies
-
noun,
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- tawnies
-
noun,
a shade of brown tinged with yellow; dull yellowish brown.
- infares
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- twofers
-
noun,
a card or ticket entitling the holder to purchase two tickets to a theatrical performance at a reduced price.
- tarries
-
noun,
a stay; sojourn.
- donates
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- Narrows
-
noun,
a narrow part, place, or thing.
- Estonia
-
noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- sterno-
-
- tarsier
-
noun,
a small, arboreal, nocturnal primate of the genus Tarsius, of Indonesia and the Philippines, having a long thin tail, very large immobile eyes, and prominent pads on the fingers and toes: all populations are dwindling.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- steroid
-
noun,
any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- iodates
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- tirades
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- waiters
-
noun,
a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- retards
-
noun,
a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.
- Winters
-
noun,
Yvor [ahy-vawr] /ˈaɪ vɔr/ (Show IPA), 1900–68, U.S. poet and critic.
- aristo-
-
- Rostand
-
noun,
Edmond [ed-mawn] /ɛdˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1868–1918, French dramatist and poet.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- stridor
-
noun,
a harsh, grating, or creaking sound.
- Winfred
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “peaceful friend.”.
- Windsor
-
noun,
(since 1917) a member of the present British royal family.
Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- roaster
-
noun,
a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
- rewinds
-
noun,
an act or instance of rewinding.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- red-wat
-
adjective,
stained with blood; bloody.
- fronter
-
noun,
a person who belongs to a group or organization, especially a political one, that is or is presumed to be a cover or disguise for another activity:
- redfins
-
noun,
any of various small freshwater minnows with red fins, especially a shiner, Notropis umbratilis, of streams in central North America.
- redraft
-
noun,
a second draft or drawing.
- worsted
-
noun,
firmly twisted yarn or thread spun from combed, stapled wool fibers of the same length, for weaving, knitting, etc.
Compare woolen.
- retrain
-
verb (used with object),
to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.
- antero-
-
- rewards
-
noun,
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- re-sort
-
verb (used with object),
to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- arteri-
-
- rewords
-
verb (used with object),
to put into other words:
- frontad
-
adverb,
toward the front.
- redowas
-
noun,
a Bohemian dance in two forms, one resembling the waltz or the mazurka, the other resembling the polka.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- Ronsard
-
noun,
Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1524–85, French poet.
- refrain
-
noun,
a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
- froward
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- Andrews
-
noun,
Charles McLean [muh-kleyn] /məˈkleɪn/ (Show IPA), 1863–1943, U.S. historian and author.
- fraters
-
noun,
a brother, as in a religious or fraternal order; comrade.
- roister
-
verb (used without object),
to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rotifer
-
noun,
any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- frontis
-
noun,
the front wall of a cancha or jai alai court.
Compare rebote (def 1).
- frosted
-
noun,
a thick beverage, usually made with milk, flavoring syrup, and ice cream whipped together.
- winders
-
noun,
a person or thing that winds.
- worried
-
noun,
a worried condition or feeling; uneasiness or anxiety.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- wonders
-
noun,
something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration:
- arseno-
-
- rodents
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- worries
-
noun,
a worried condition or feeling; uneasiness or anxiety.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- nitro-
-
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- inter.
-
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- resort
-
noun,
a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- trader
-
noun,
a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
- intoed
-
adjective,
having inwardly turned toes.
- afrits
-
noun,
afreet.
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Edwina
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Edwin.
- afters
-
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- tranfd
-
- trans.
-
- finder
-
noun,
a person or thing that finds.
- editor
-
noun,
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- wonted
-
noun,
custom; habit; practice:
- finest
-
noun,
the police:
- sirdar
-
noun,
(in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan) a military chief or leader.
- Seward
-
noun,
William Henry, 1801–72, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1861–69.
- rodent
-
noun,
a rodent mammal.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Renard
-
noun,
Reynard.
- Wister
-
noun,
Owen, 1860–1938, U.S. novelist.
- fiords
-
noun,
fjord.
- nowise
-
adverb,
noway.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- drawer
-
noun,
a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- Renoir
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- drains
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- drafts
-
noun,
a drawing, sketch, or design.
- Andres
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Andrew
-
noun,
one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. Mark 3:18; John 1:40–42.
- dowser
-
noun,
Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- andro-
-
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- drifts
-
noun,
a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- fronds
-
noun,
an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- treasr
-
- triers
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- trends
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- instr.
-
- sifter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sifts.
- triads
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- Sierra
-
noun,
a chain of hills or mountains, the peaks of which suggest the teeth of a saw.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Wonder
-
noun,
something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration:
- dwarfs
-
noun,
a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Norris
-
noun,
Charles Gilman, 1881–1945, U.S. novelist and editor.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- drowse
-
noun,
a sleepy condition; state of being half-asleep.
- drowns
-
Verb phrases,
drown in,
to be overwhelmed by:
to be covered with or enveloped in:
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- fiesta
-
noun,
any festival or festive celebration.
- Newari
-
noun,
a Sino-Tibetan language, the language of the Newar.
- towser
-
noun,
a big dog.
- rewind
-
noun,
an act or instance of rewinding.
- fantod
-
noun,
Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the):
- iowans
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Iowa.
- rewins
-
verb (used with object),
to win back or again.
- Fenrir
-
noun,
a wolflike monster, a son of Loki and Angerboda, chained by Gleipnir but destined to be released at Ragnarok to eat Odin and to be killed by Vidar.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- tirade
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- faints
-
noun,
the impure spirit produced in the first and last stages of the distillation of whiskey.
- Adonis
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- adient
-
adjective,
tending to move toward a stimulus.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- nadirs
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- faders
-
noun,
a person or thing that fades.
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- ferias
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- reword
-
verb (used with object),
to put into other words:
- adeno-
-
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- writer
-
noun,
a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
- Terris
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- frowns
-
noun,
a frowning look; scowl.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- terras
-
noun,
earth; land.
- riders
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- writes
-
Verb phrases,
write down,
to set down in writing; record; note.
to direct one's writing to a less intelligent reader or audience:
- fasten
-
verb (used with object),
to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- tinder
-
noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- Fedora
-
noun,
a soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise.
- rident
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Farrow
-
noun,
a litter of pigs.
- isodef
-
noun,
uniform deficiency, especially a line connecting points of equal deviation from a mean, as on a chart or graph.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- wriest
-
adjective,
superlative of wry.
- feints
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- steno-
-
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- fiends
-
noun,
Satan; the devil.
- retard
-
noun,
a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.
- fronts
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- inward
-
noun,
the inward or internal part; the inside.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- aeron.
-
- toward
-
adjective,
about to come soon; imminent.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- worsen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become worse.
- Towers
-
noun,
a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- intro.
-
- Astrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from Scandinavian, meaning “divine strength.”.
- intra-
-
- Towner
-
noun,
a person who lives in a town or city.
- Townes
-
noun,
Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
- Townie
-
noun,
a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- endows
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:
- worser
-
adjective, adverb,
worse.
- torrid
-
adjective,
subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area:
- ferri-
-
- adren-
-
- ferro-
-
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- narrow
-
noun,
a narrow part, place, or thing.
- reward
-
noun,
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- softie
-
noun,
softy.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- soften
-
verb (used with object),
to make soft or softer.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- adreno
-
- errand
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- adrift
-
adjective, adverb,
floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored:
- adroit
-
adjective,
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- retro-
-
- iodate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- fetors
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- errant
-
adjective,
deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.
- worset
-
noun, adjective,
worsted.
- wisent
-
noun,
bison (def 2).
- frater
-
noun,
a brother, as in a religious or fraternal order; comrade.
- downer
-
noun,
Informal.
a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate.
a depressing experience, person, or situation.
- Dawson
-
noun,
Sir John William, 1820–99, Canadian geologist and educator.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- rawins
-
noun,
a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- Fresno
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- arrest
-
noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arride
-
verb (used with object),
to be agreeable or pleasing to.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Warner
-
noun,
Charles Dudley [duhd-lee] /ˈdʌd li/ (Show IPA), 1829–1900, U.S. editor and essayist.
- Sandie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Sandro.
- Warder
-
noun,
a person who guards something, as a doorkeeper or caretaker.
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- Warren
-
noun,
a place where rabbits breed or abound.
- fortis
-
noun,
a fortis consonant.
- arrows
-
noun,
a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- arsen-
-
- owners
-
noun,
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- wasted
-
noun,
useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting:
- Darwin
-
noun,
Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- rostra
-
noun,
a plural of rostrum.
- darter
-
noun,
a person or thing that darts or moves swiftly.
- detain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- forint
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- dewars
-
noun,
Sir James, 1842–1923, Scottish chemist and physicist.
- dewans
-
noun,
(in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- Ostend
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Belgium.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- Derris
-
noun,
any East Indian plant belonging to the genus Derris, of the legume family, especially D. elliptica, the roots of which contain rotenone and are used as an insecticide.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- roster
-
noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- denti-
-
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Fortas
-
noun,
Abe, 1910–1982, U.S. lawyer, government official, and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1965–69.
- fortes
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- Warden
-
noun,
a person charged with the care or custody of persons, animals, or things; keeper.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- Darrow
-
noun,
Clarence (Seward) 1857–1938, U.S. lawyer, lecturer, and author.
- wander
-
noun,
Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.
- Strand
-
noun,
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
- raters
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- weirdo
-
noun,
an odd, eccentric, or unconventional person.
- Weirds
-
noun,
fate; destiny.
- rowans
-
noun,
the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- Widnes
-
noun,
a city in NW England, just E of Liverpool, on the Mersey River.
- fraise
-
noun,
Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- strafe
-
noun,
a strafing attack.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- widens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become wide or wider; broaden; expand.
- raster
-
noun,
Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Fraser
-
noun,
James Earle, 1876–1953, U.S. sculptor.
- ranids
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- Weston
-
noun,
Edward, 1886–1958, U.S. photographer.
- astron
-
- astro-
-
- indef.
-
- raider
-
noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- Darren
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Radnor
-
noun,
a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- Winder
-
noun,
a person or thing that winds.
- darner
-
noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- waster
-
noun,
a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- radio-
-
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- Waters
-
noun,
Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.
- Danite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Dan.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- danios
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Foster
-
noun,
Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- radons
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- rowens
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- Watson
-
noun,
James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- Rowena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rafter
-
noun,
any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
- Winsor
-
noun,
Justin, 1831–97, U.S. librarian and historian.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- infest
-
verb (used with object),
to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do:
- Sendai
-
noun,
a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- twains
-
noun,
Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- aniso-
-
- Donets
-
noun,
a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- wirers
-
noun,
a person who wires.
- donate
-
verb (used with object),
to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause:
- Arendt
-
noun,
Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.
- Dorati
-
noun,
Antal [ahn-tahl;; Hungarian on-tol] /ˈɑn tɑl;; Hungarian ˈɒn tɒl/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Hungarian conductor, in the U.S.
- twines
-
noun,
a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- twofer
-
noun,
a card or ticket entitling the holder to purchase two tickets to a theatrical performance at a reduced price.
- answer
-
noun,
a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.:
- redowa
-
noun,
a Bohemian dance in two forms, one resembling the waltz or the mazurka, the other resembling the polka.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- waders
-
noun,
a person or thing that wades.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- Dnestr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dniester.
- foetid
-
adjective,
fetid.
- stoned
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- dowers
-
noun,
Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- iatro-
-
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- tarso-
-
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- refits
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- dorter
-
noun,
a dormitory, especially in a monastery.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- dorsi-
-
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- dorser
-
noun,
dosser1 .
- infra-
-
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- infers
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- orders
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- Frieda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- strife
-
noun,
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism:
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- ardent
-
adjective,
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:
- redfin
-
noun,
any of various small freshwater minnows with red fins, especially a shiner, Notropis umbratilis, of streams in central North America.
- Friend
-
noun,
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
- dinars
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- wadies
-
noun,
wadi.
- Forest
-
noun,
a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- ardors
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- onward
-
adverb,
toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- distr.
-
- Winter
-
noun,
the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox).
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- Tarnow
-
noun,
a city in SE Poland, E of Cracow.
- friers
-
noun,
fryer.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- infare
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- disown
-
verb (used with object),
to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce:
- Sartre
-
noun,
Jean-Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ˈpɔl/ (Show IPA), 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.
- Waiter
-
noun,
a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- sweat
-
noun,
the process of sweating or perspiring.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- sward
-
noun,
the grassy surface of land; turf.
- SWIFT
-
noun,
any of numerous long-winged, swallowlike birds of the family Apodidae, related to the hummingbirds and noted for their rapid flight.
- Swain
-
noun,
a male admirer or lover.
- intr.
-
- Iran.
-
- swine
-
noun,
any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products.
Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- strow
-
verb,
strew.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- Stowe
-
noun,
Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Swati
-
noun,
Swat (def 2).
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- ster.
-
- ideo-
-
- infer
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- Swart
-
noun,
Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- strew
-
verb (used with object),
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle:
- inst.
-
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- straw
-
noun,
a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- swarf
-
noun,
an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- Iowan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Iowa.
- sware
-
verb,
simple past tense of swear.
- Indo-
-
- infos
-
noun,
information.
- IATSE
-
- Iowas
-
noun,
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines.
Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- swear
-
Verb phrases,
swear by,
to name (a sacred being or thing) as one's witness or guarantee in swearing.
Informal. to have great confidence in; rely on:
to have certain knowledge of:
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- owner
-
noun,
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- rafts
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- Rowen
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Rowan
-
noun,
the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- rares
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- Owens
-
noun,
Jesse (John Cleveland) 1913–80, U.S. athlete.
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ordn.
-
- Sarre
-
noun,
French name of Saar.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- oste-
-
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- orris
-
noun,
an iris, Iris germanica florentina, having a fragrant rootstock.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- sanit
-
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- retd.
-
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- resaw
-
noun,
Lumbering. a machine for cutting logs into lumber.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- restr
-
- roars
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- rewin
-
verb (used with object),
to win back or again.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- riser
-
noun,
a person who rises, especially from bed:
- Rider
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- rifts
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- reni-
-
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- rater
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- rawin
-
noun,
a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- rears
-
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- refit
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- reifs
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- nears
-
- Narew
-
noun,
a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- naso-
-
- softa
-
noun,
a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- SOFIA
-
noun,
Also, Sofiya [Bulgarian saw-fee-yuh] /Bulgarian ˈsɔ fi yə/ (Show IPA). a city in and the capital of Bulgaria, in the W part.
- Sofer
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- sofar
-
noun,
a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- Newar
-
noun,
a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- sito-
-
- staid
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- Starr
-
noun,
Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 1848–89, U.S. outlaw and folk hero.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stand
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- isnad
-
noun,
the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- Srta.
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- naifs
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- newts
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
- oidea
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- seti-
-
- serow
-
noun,
a goat antelope of the genus Capricornis, of eastern Asia, related to the goral: the Sumatran serow is endangered.
- sero-
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- serif
-
noun,
a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- swore
-
verb,
a simple past tense of swear.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- sewan
-
noun,
seawan.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- OFris
-
noun,
the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- often
-
adverb,
many times; frequently:
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Sino-
-
- 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.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- sinew
-
noun,
a tendon.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norw.
-
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- sword
-
noun,
a weapon having various forms but consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved blade, sharp-edged on one or both sides, with one end pointed and the other fixed in a hilt or handle.
- finds
-
noun,
an act of finding or discovering.
- sworn
-
verb,
past participle of swear.
- dist.
-
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- wains
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- waifs
-
noun,
a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- dints
-
noun,
force; power:
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- wafts
-
noun,
a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- wafer
-
noun,
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- wadis
-
noun,
the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall.
- wades
-
noun,
an act or instance of wading:
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- wader
-
noun,
a person or thing that wades.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- twine
-
noun,
a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- waist
-
noun,
the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.
- Twain
-
noun,
Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- waste
-
noun,
useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting:
- dates
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- Dawes
-
noun,
Charles Gates, 1865–1951, U.S. financier and diplomat: vice president of the U.S. 1925–29; Nobel Peace Prize 1925.
- dawns
-
noun,
the first appearance of daylight in the morning:
- warns
-
verb (used with object),
to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable:
- wares
-
noun,
Usually, wares.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- wards
-
noun,
a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dent.
-
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- wants
-
noun,
something wanted or needed; necessity:
- wanes
-
noun,
a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
- dewan
-
noun,
(in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- Dewar
-
noun,
Sir James, 1842–1923, Scottish chemist and physicist.
- wands
-
noun,
a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- waits
-
noun,
an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt:
- Waite
-
noun,
Morrison Remick [rem-ik] /ˈrɛm ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1816–88, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1874–88.
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- darns
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- Triad
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- drown
-
Verb phrases,
drown in,
to be overwhelmed by:
to be covered with or enveloped in:
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- dwarf
-
noun,
a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- Trier
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- trews
-
noun,
close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- treas
-
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edit.
-
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- drift
-
noun,
a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- drier
-
noun,
a person or thing that dries.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- tsadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- dorrs
-
noun,
dor1 .
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- trows
-
verb (used with or without object),
to believe, think, or suppose.
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- dower
-
noun,
Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowie
-
adjective,
dull; melancholy; dismal.
- Downs
-
noun,
a downward movement; descent.
- Drews
-
noun,
Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- dowse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- draft
-
noun,
a drawing, sketch, or design.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- drawn
-
noun,
an act of drawing.
- draws
-
- drear
-
adjective,
dreary.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- darts
-
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- afrit
-
noun,
afreet.
- Afro-
-
- afros
-
noun,
a hair style originating with black persons, in which the hair is allowed to grow naturally and to acquire a bushy appearance.
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- Woden
-
noun,
the chief god of the pagan Anglo-Saxons, identified with the Scandinavian Odin.
- woads
-
noun,
a European plant, Isatis tinctoria, of the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- wites
-
noun,
a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- witan
-
noun,
the members of the national council or witenagemot.
- afire
-
adjective,
on fire:
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- Andes
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- andr-
-
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- Wisd.
-
- wirra
-
interjection,
an exclamation of sorrow or lament.
- anis-
-
- afore
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
before.
- worse
-
noun,
that which is worse.
- wires
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- Wotan
-
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- wrote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of write.
- 30-30
-
- write
-
Verb phrases,
write down,
to set down in writing; record; note.
to direct one's writing to a less intelligent reader or audience:
- wrist
-
noun,
the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
- wrier
-
adjective,
comparative of wry.
- wrest
-
noun,
a wresting; twist or wrench.
- aden-
-
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- adits
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- worts
-
noun,
the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- adown
-
adverb, preposition,
down1 .
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- worst
-
noun,
that which is worst.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- aeri-
-
- aero-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- water
-
noun,
a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- wides
-
noun,
Cricket. a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting.
- widen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become wide or wider; broaden; expand.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- astr.
-
- Werra
-
noun,
a river in central Germany, flowing N from the Thuringian Forest and joining the Fulda River to form the Weser River. 181 miles (291 km) long.
- ation
-
- wends
-
noun,
a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- weirs
-
noun,
a small dam in a river or stream.
- awner
-
noun,
a machine for cutting the awns from grain.
- weird
-
noun,
fate; destiny.
- wefts
-
noun,
Textiles. filling (def 5).
- wears
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- weans
-
Verb phrases,
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Dante
-
noun,
(Dante Alighieri) 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- wirer
-
noun,
a person who wires.
- areo-
-
- wired
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- anti-
-
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- ardor
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- winos
-
noun,
a person who is addicted to wine, especially a derelict.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Arndt
-
noun,
Ernst Moritz [ernst moh-rits] /ɛrnst ˈmoʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1769–1860, German poet and historian.
- wines
-
noun,
the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- arris
-
noun,
a sharp ridge, as between adjoining channels of a Doric column.
- arrow
-
noun,
a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- winds
-
noun,
air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface:
- Edwin
-
noun,
Also, Eadwine. a.d. 585?–633, king of Northumbria 617–633.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- foins
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- fards
-
noun,
facial cosmetics.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- fares
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- Foist
-
verb (used with object),
to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon):
- faros
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- Farro
-
noun,
emmer.
- Fonda
-
noun,
an inn or restaurant.
- tawie
-
adjective,
docile; easy to manage.
- Farsi
-
noun,
the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- farts
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- first
-
noun,
the person or thing that is first in time, order, rank, etc.
- 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.
- firns
-
noun,
névé.
- fires
-
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- fonds
-
noun,
a background or groundwork, especially of lace.
- fated
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- fores
-
noun,
the forepart of anything; front.
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- forte
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- fort.
-
- fore-
-
- Fanti
-
noun,
a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- faint
-
noun,
a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon:
- Fords
-
noun,
a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- fairs
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- fanes
-
noun,
a temple.
- fanos
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fiord
-
noun,
fjord.
- Fates
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- fades
-
noun,
an act or instance of fading.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- fends
-
verb (used with object),
to ward off (often followed by off):
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- fidos
-
noun,
a system for evaporating the fog above airfield runways by the heat from burners.
- feria
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- fiats
-
noun,
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order:
Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- tera-
-
- Festa
-
noun,
a feast, festival, or holiday.
- fetas
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- feti-
-
- fetor
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- feist
-
noun,
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- Fiona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Terri
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- fatso
-
noun,
a fat person (used as a term of address).
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- fawns
-
noun,
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- tears
-
- finos
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- fines
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- fears
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- Fiend
-
noun,
Satan; the devil.
- Finer
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- Feast
-
noun,
any rich or abundant meal:
- Fedin
-
noun,
Konstantin Aleksandrovich [kuh n-stuhn-tyeen uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /kən stʌnˈtyin ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1977, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- terr.
-
- feint
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- fetid
-
adjective,
having an offensive odor; stinking.
- front
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- friar
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- frier
-
noun,
fryer.
- Fries
-
noun,
plural of fry1 .
- tonia
-
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Frost
-
noun,
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- Fris.
-
- frise
-
noun,
a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- Erwin
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “boar” and “friend.”.
- frets
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- frore
-
adjective,
frozen; frosty.
- Frits
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- Tower
-
noun,
a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- frond
-
noun,
an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- frons
-
noun,
the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- erron
-
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Fried
-
noun,
Alfred Hermann [al-frid hur-muh n;; German ahl-freyt her-mahn] /ˈæl frɪd ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈɑl freɪt ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1921, Austrian writer and journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- frown
-
noun,
a frowning look; scowl.
- Freda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- frats
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- endow
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:
- Freon
-
- fader
-
noun,
a person or thing that fades.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- Frans
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- ento-
-
- frows
-
noun,
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- towie
-
noun,
a form of contract bridge for three players in which the players bid for the dummy hand after six of its cards have been turned up.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- endo-
-
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- ten.
-
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- wets
-
noun,
something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture:
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- rit.
-
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- writ
-
noun,
Law.
a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
(in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
- WRNS
-
- wide
-
noun,
Cricket. a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting.
- Wind
-
noun,
air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface:
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- wrnt
-
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- wife
-
noun,
a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
- Wien
-
noun,
Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel prize 1911.
- wons
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of win1 .
- Taif
-
noun,
a city in W Saudi Arabia.
- wine
-
noun,
the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- RONA
-
- wise
-
noun,
way of proceeding or considering; manner; fashion (usually used in combination or in certain phrases):
- West
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the left when facing north, corresponding to the point where the sun is seen to set. Abbreviation: W.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- worn
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- wore
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- wite
-
noun,
a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Stow
-
noun,
a city in NE Ohio.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Word
-
noun,
a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- woad
-
noun,
a European plant, Isatis tinctoria, of the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Wis.
-
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- WINS
-
noun,
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- RNAS
-
- 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.
- wino
-
noun,
a person who is addicted to wine, especially a derelict.
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- Swat
-
noun,
a smart blow; slap; smack.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Wren
-
noun,
any of numerous small, active songbirds of the family Troglodytidae, especially Troglodytes troglodytes, of the Northern Hemisphere, having dark-brown plumage barred with black and a short, upright tail.
Compare house wren, marsh wren, rock wren, winter wren.
- WRAF
-
- str.
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- SWAN
-
noun,
any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult.
Compare mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
- wire
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- TDRS
-
- taws
-
noun,
a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- wort
-
noun,
the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
- wist
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of wit2 .
- safe
-
noun,
a steel or iron box or repository for money, jewels, papers, etc.
- wert
-
verb,
a 2nd person singular pt. indicative and subj. of be.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tron
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- serf
-
noun,
a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- swot
-
noun,
a student who studies assiduously, especially to the exclusion of other activities or interests; grind.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Trow
-
verb (used with or without object),
to believe, think, or suppose.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- TODS
-
- toad
-
noun,
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
Compare frog1 (def 1).
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- twi-
-
- Seif
-
noun,
a long narrow sand dune parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- twin
-
noun,
either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Soni
-
- 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.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Wade
-
noun,
an act or instance of wading:
- soft
-
noun,
something that is soft or yielding; the soft part.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- tows
-
noun,
an act or instance of towing.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Town
-
noun,
a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- tref
-
adjective,
Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- tri-
-
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- trid
-
- sift
-
verb (used with object),
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Snow
-
noun,
Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.
Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- Torr
-
noun,
a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- sewn
-
noun,
the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- tRNA
-
- sawn
-
noun,
a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- Stew
-
noun,
a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
- std.
-
- Ware
-
noun,
Usually, wares.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:
- Tewa
-
noun,
a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.
- warn
-
verb (used with object),
to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable:
- Staw
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
stall1 .
- Ste.
-
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- wart
-
noun,
a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
- Wast
-
verb,
a 2nd person singular pt. indicative of be.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- Safi
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- rows
-
noun,
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- WATS
-
noun,
bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller.
- wean
-
Verb phrases,
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Wear
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- weds
-
- Rowe
-
noun,
Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- weft
-
noun,
Textiles. filling (def 5).
- Weir
-
noun,
a small dam in a river or stream.
- ter.
-
- Wend
-
noun,
a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
- wens
-
noun,
Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, especially on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- went
-
noun,
the act of going:
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- ward
-
noun,
a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sown
-
verb,
a past participle of sow1 .
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- wadi
-
noun,
the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall.
- WADS
-
noun,
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- waes
-
noun,
woe.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- Wafd
-
noun,
a nationalist party in Egypt.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Sat.
-
- tion
-
- waft
-
noun,
a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
- waif
-
noun,
a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- Sra.
-
- 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.
- Wain
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- WAIS
-
noun,
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
See under Wechsler Scales.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Wait
-
noun,
an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt:
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- wand
-
noun,
a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- Wane
-
noun,
a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- wans
-
noun,
wide-area network.
- want
-
noun,
something wanted or needed; necessity:
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- WAFS
-
noun,
a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- sofa
-
noun,
a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.
- foin
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- dia-
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- NEFS
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- neo-
-
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- firn
-
noun,
névé.
- dews
-
noun,
moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
- NEWS
-
noun,
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information:
- Dewi
-
noun,
Saint, David, Saint.
- NEWT
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
- Fino
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Dino
-
- dir.
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- naif
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- NASD
-
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Din.
-
- dif-
-
- der.
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- daws
-
noun,
jackdaw.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- deaf
-
noun,
deaf persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- nows
-
noun,
the present time or moment:
- nowt
-
noun,
an ox.
- Fin.
-
- end-
-
- Dawn
-
noun,
the first appearance of daylight in the morning:
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- NTIA
-
- fids
-
noun,
a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- FIDO
-
noun,
a system for evaporating the fog above airfield runways by the heat from burners.
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- dat.
-
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- def.
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- NIRA
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- FINE
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- Den.
-
- find
-
noun,
an act of finding or discovering.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- deft
-
adjective,
dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever:
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Nor.
-
- defs
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- nos-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- not-
-
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dis-
-
- fiat
-
noun,
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order:
Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- FORD
-
noun,
a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- idae
-
- Idas
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- Dows
-
noun,
dhow.
- Down
-
noun,
a downward movement; descent.
- dowf
-
adjective,
dull; stupid.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Drew
-
noun,
Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- fora
-
noun,
a plural of forum.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- inae
-
- IndE
-
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- Inf.
-
- info
-
noun,
information.
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- ins.
-
- Fri.
-
- frow
-
noun,
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- frit
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- Frs.
-
- frt.
-
- fret
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- Frei
-
noun,
Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- FRED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Frederick.
- frat
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- fwd.
-
- Fran
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- frae
-
preposition, adverb,
from.
- Ind.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- int.
-
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- iso-
-
- rift
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- FOIA
-
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- EFTA
-
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- 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.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- FITS
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- efts
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- fist
-
noun,
the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm.
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- firs
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- font
-
noun,
a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- iod-
-
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- for.
-
- Fons
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- EDTA
-
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Iowa
-
noun,
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines.
Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- fond
-
noun,
a background or groundwork, especially of lace.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Ire.
-
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- AInd
-
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- Fano
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- fane
-
noun,
a temple.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- AIDS
-
noun,
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- raws
-
noun,
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- Fair
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- aet.
-
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- ano-
-
- FAST
-
noun,
a fastening for a door, window, or the like.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- anew
-
adverb,
over again; again; once more:
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Fars
-
noun,
a province in SW Iran. 51,466 sq. mi. (133,297 sq. km).
- ands
-
- Faro
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- raft
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- fare
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- fard
-
noun,
facial cosmetics.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Aire
-
- 1080
-
- afr-
-
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- ANSI
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- 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.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- adit
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Esd.
-
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- eso-
-
- est.
-
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Ewan
-
noun,
a male given name, Welsh form of John.
- Rida
-
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- rife
-
adjective,
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use:
- rifs
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- fade
-
noun,
an act or instance of fading.
- fado
-
noun,
a Portuguese folk song typically of doleful or fatalistic character and usually accompanied on the guitar.
- fain
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- ref.
-
- refs
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
referee.
- reft
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- reif
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- aer-
-
- fads
-
noun,
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- fart
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- rad.
-
- feds
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.
- fend
-
verb (used with object),
to ward off (often followed by off):
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- ator
-
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- ates
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- fedn
-
- awed
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Fed.
-
- feat
-
noun,
a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.:
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- Fear
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- ant.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ont.
-
- Fens
-
noun,
Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in E England, S of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.
- awes
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- daft
-
adjective,
senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- oafs
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- feta
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- enow
-
adjective, adverb,
enough.
- fest
-
noun,
an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination):
- Fern
-
noun,
any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- FERA
-
- awns
-
noun,
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- ARIS
-
- owns
-
Idioms,
come into one's own,
to take possession of that which is due or owed one.
to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit:
- owes
-
verb (used with object),
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
- Owen
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- owse
-
noun,
ox.
- arr.
-
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Fawn
-
noun,
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- art.
-
- OSRD
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- ord.
-
- fate
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- fats
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) cattle fattened and ready for market.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EIS
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ESR
-
- eir
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- ed.
-
- EOF
-
- tr.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- tra
-
- TOW
-
noun,
an act or instance of towing.
- en-
-
- ef-
-
- ESA
-
- EDT
-
- eft
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- ERT
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- di.
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- aor
-
- ard
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ARF
-
interjection,
(used to imitate the bark of a dog).
- ARS
-
- ase
-
- Win
-
noun,
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- ASI
-
- ASN
-
- ASR
-
- ANF
-
- ast
-
- wid
-
- wet
-
noun,
something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture:
- ASW
-
- at.
-
- Wes
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Wesley.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- awe
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- wen
-
noun,
Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, especially on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
- awn
-
noun,
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- do.
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- ad-
-
- Af.
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- an.
-
- Ar.
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- ADF
-
- WRA
-
- wot
-
verb,
first and third person singular present of wit2 .
- wos
-
noun,
woe.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- WIT
-
noun,
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- ae.
-
- AEF
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- AFS
-
- AFT
-
adverb,
at, close to, or toward the stern or tail:
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Won
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of North and South Korea, equal to 100 chon.
- woe
-
noun,
grievous distress, affliction, or trouble:
- 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.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Wei
-
noun,
any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, especially one ruling a.d. 220–265 and one ruling a.d. 386–534.
- DOA
-
- 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.
- DSA
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- TWA
-
noun,
a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 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
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- DOW
-
noun,
dhow.
- Dr.
-
- Tro
-
- DRE
-
- DSR
-
- two
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
- DST
-
- DSW
-
- DWI
-
- eo-
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ETD
-
- ea.
-
- trf
-
- ead
-
- ean
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- Doi
-
- DSO
-
- War
-
noun,
a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- dwt
-
- DAE
-
- DAR
-
- Wat
-
noun,
a Buddhist temple or monastery in Thailand or Cambodia.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- was
-
verb,
1st and 3rd person singular pt. indicative of be.
- daw
-
noun,
jackdaw.
- de-
-
- DEA
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- DET
-
- wd.
-
- DEW
-
noun,
moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
- DFA
-
- DFT
-
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- WAF
-
noun,
a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- wae
-
noun,
woe.
- DNA
-
- DNR
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- wad
-
noun,
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
- ETO
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- oaf
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- 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).
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ODT
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- of-
-
- OFr
-
- OSD
-
- oft
-
adverb,
often.
- SED
-
- oid
-
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- SDR
-
- SDI
-
- SDA
-
- SAW
-
noun,
a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- OSF
-
- OSA
-
- ONI
-
- NFS
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NDE
-
- WTF
-
- SOF
-
- ne-
-
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- NEA
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- nef
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- NES
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- ETR
-
- NFD
-
- NIA
-
- OED
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- now
-
noun,
the present time or moment:
- nr.
-
- sew
-
noun,
the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- NRA
-
- NSA
-
- NWS
-
- ONF
-
- ONR
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ROW
-
noun,
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- 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.
- raw
-
noun,
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- RDA
-
- RDF
-
- RDS
-
- REA
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- ROI
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- 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.
- RFA
-
- RFD
-
- RFE
-
- RFI
-
- ROA
-
- RNR
-
- rnd
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- RNA
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- RIF
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- RAF
-
- Rs.
-
- ons
-
- own
-
Idioms,
come into one's own,
to take possession of that which is due or owed one.
to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit:
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- SAR
-
- ose
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- owe
-
verb (used with object),
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- OWI
-
- Rd.
-
- RSA
-
- SAE
-
- Re.
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SWA
-
- SRO
-
- So.
-
- sd.
-
- rtw
-
- RTS
-
- RTF
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- New
-
noun,
something that is new; a new object, quality, condition, etc.:
- NAD
-
- FSA
-
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- FOS
-
- FOT
-
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- Fra
-
noun,
a title of address for a friar or brother.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- FSR
-
- taw
-
noun,
a choice or fancy marble used as a shooter.
- ft.
-
- NSF
-
- FWA
-
- id.
-
- IFS
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- Sw.
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- FIT
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- TIA
-
- ETS
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- FAS
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- fo.
-
- FAD
-
noun,
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
- Fan
-
noun,
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- FAO
-
- FAR
-
Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- FAT
-
noun,
any of several white or yellowish greasy substances, forming the chief part of adipose tissue of animals and also occurring in plants, that when pure are colorless, odorless, and tasteless and are either solid or liquid esters of glycerol with fatty acids; fats are insoluble in water or cold alcohol but soluble in ether, chloroform, or benzene: used in the manufacture of soap, paints, and other protective coatings and in cooking.
- FDA
-
- TID
-
- tfr
-
- 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.
- FDR
-
noun,
(Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- FET
-
- few
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) a small number or amount:
- Fia
-
- fid
-
noun,
a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
- fie
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.)
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- FIO
-
- FIR
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- ide
-
- FTW
-
- ite
-
- St.
-
- ior
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ist
-
- IOT
-
- Ir.
-
- STI
-
- IRO
-
- IRS
-
- ISR
-
- ise
-
- ISA
-
- Iwo
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- IOF
-
- SOW
-
noun,
an adult female swine.
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- ier
-
- Sta
-
- Ife
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- in.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- ine
-
- ITA
-
- NWT
-
- Sr.
-
- NSW
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- N.
-
- DN
-
- IW
-
- SN
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- FE
-
- D.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- f.
-
noun,
(Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- wt
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- EW
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, or the like):
- AI
-
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.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- AO
-
- ND
-
- NI
-
- RO
-
- FD
-
- FI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
- NF
-
- FA
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- RF
-
- TN
-
- RW
-
- WO
-
noun,
woe.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- OA
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- TD
-
- t.
-
- FW
-
- we
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- EI
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- i.
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- DW
-
- IF
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- DF
-
- OW
-
interjection,
(used especially as an expression of intense or sudden pain.)
- O.
-
- WI
-
- SF
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- WF
-
- w/
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- R.
-
- S.
-
- SA
-
- fn
-
- RN
-
- RI
-
- NW
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .