Anagrams of noncombustibles
Word noncombustibles has
2289 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of noncombustibles.
- combustibles
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adjective,
capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable:
- combustible
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adjective,
capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable:
- combustions
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noun,
the act or process of burning.
- elocutions
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noun,
a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public:
- contusions
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noun,
an injury, as from a blow with a blunt instrument, in which the subsurface tissue is injured but the skin is not broken; bruise.
- incumbents
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noun,
the holder of an office:
- combustion
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noun,
the act or process of burning.
- motionless
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adjective,
without motion:
- columnists
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noun,
the writer or editor of a newspaper or magazine column.
- subsection
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noun,
a part or division of a section.
- columbines
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noun,
a plant, Aquilegia caerula, of the buttercup family, having showy flowers with white petals and white to blue sepals that form long, backward spurs: the state flower of Colorado.
- miscounsel
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verb (used with object),
to advise wrongly.
- simoleons
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noun,
a dollar.
- miscounts
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noun,
an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- oilstones
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noun,
a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- contusion
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noun,
an injury, as from a blow with a blunt instrument, in which the subsurface tissue is injured but the skin is not broken; bruise.
- continuos
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noun,
a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- buncombes
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noun,
bunkum.
- continues
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verb (used with object),
to go on with or persist in:
- outclimbs
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verb (used with object),
to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than:
- consolute
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adjective,
(of two liquids) mutually soluble in all proportions.
- unloosens
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verb (used with object),
to unloose; loosen.
- incumbent
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noun,
the holder of an office:
- locutions
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noun,
a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- lobscouse
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noun,
a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- omnibuses
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noun,
bus1 (def 1).
- bolection
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noun,
a raised molding, especially one having flat edges and a raised center, for framing a panel, doorway, fireplace, etc.
- botulisms
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noun,
a sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system acquired from spoiled foods in which botulin is present, especially improperly canned or marinated foods.
- lemniscus
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noun,
a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- coliseums
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noun,
Also, colosseum. an amphitheater, stadium, large theater, or other special building for public meetings, sporting events, exhibitions, etc.
- club-moss
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noun,
any plant of the genus Lycopodium.
- Tomlinson
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noun,
Henry Major, 1873–1958, English journalist and novelist.
- monecious
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adjective,
monoecious.
- monocline
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noun,
a monoclinal structure or fold.
- monticule
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noun,
a subordinate volcanic cone.
- Montlucon
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noun,
a city in central France.
- Colosseum
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noun,
an ancient amphitheater in Rome, begun a.d. c70 by Vespasian, having the form of an oval 617 by 512 feet (188 by 156 meters).
- cloisonne
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noun,
enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground.
- Columbine
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noun,
a plant, Aquilegia caerula, of the buttercup family, having showy flowers with white petals and white to blue sepals that form long, backward spurs: the state flower of Colorado.
- noontimes
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noun,
noon; noontide; noonday:
- closeouts
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noun,
a sale on all goods in liquidating a business.
- columbite
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noun,
a black, crystalline mineral, iron niobate, (Fe, Mn)Nb 2 O 6 , the principal ore of niobium, an end member of a series of solid solutions in which manganese and tantalum combine to form tantalite.
- insolents
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noun,
an insolent person.
- columnist
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noun,
the writer or editor of a newspaper or magazine column.
- semicolon
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noun,
the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- buntlines
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noun,
one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.
- countless
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adjective,
too numerous to count; innumerable:
- elocution
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noun,
a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public:
- economist
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noun,
a specialist in economics.
- seclusion
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noun,
an act of secluding:
- subtonics
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noun,
the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- eclosions
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noun,
the emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case.
- nobeliums
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noun,
a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- somnolent
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adjective,
sleepy; drowsy.
- emulsions
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noun,
Physical Chemistry. any colloidal suspension of a liquid in another liquid.
- nobelists
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noun,
a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- insolent
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noun,
an insolent person.
- ton-mile
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noun,
a unit of freight transportation measurement equivalent to a ton of freight transported one mile.
- bootless
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adjective,
without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless.
- toilsome
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adjective,
characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- moistens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- sublimes
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noun,
the sublime.
the realm of things that are sublime:
the quality of being sublime:
the greatest or supreme degree.
- Comnenus
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noun,
a dynasty of Byzantine emperors that ruled at Constantinople, 1057?–1185, and at Trebizond in Asia Minor, 1204–1461?.
- benisons
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noun,
benediction.
- ostioles
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noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- boomlets
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noun,
a brief increase, as in business activity or political popularity.
- isotones
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noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- Moliones
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noun,
Cteatus and Eurytus, the twin sons of Molione, sometimes said to have been joined at the waist. They were fathered by Poseidon and reared by Actor.
- ostomies
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noun,
any of various surgical procedures, as a colostomy, in which an artificial opening is made so as to permit the drainage of waste products either into an appropriate organ or to the outside of the body.
- Scotsmen
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noun,
a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
- coituses
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noun,
sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- Comenius
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noun,
John Amos (Jan Amos Komenský) 1592–1670, Moravian educational reformer and bishop.
- monocles
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noun,
an eyeglass for one eye.
- elusions
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noun,
the act of eluding; evasion.
- combusts
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verb (used with or without object),
to burn.
- Coliseum
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noun,
Also, colosseum. an amphitheater, stadium, large theater, or other special building for public meetings, sporting events, exhibitions, etc.
- nobelium
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noun,
a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- subsonic
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adjective,
noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- comb-out
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noun,
a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
- Colombes
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noun,
a city in N France, NW of Paris.
- counties
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noun,
the largest administrative division of a U.S. state:
- colonist
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noun,
an inhabitant of a colony.
- moonlets
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noun,
a small natural or artificial satellite, as one of a number of natural satellites thought to be embedded in the ring system of Saturn.
- moonsets
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noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- nucleons
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noun,
a proton or neutron, especially when considered as a component of a nucleus.
- Nobelist
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noun,
a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- combines
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noun,
a combination.
- solution
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noun,
the act of solving a problem, question, etc.:
- lections
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noun,
a version of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text; a variant reading.
- simoleon
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noun,
a dollar.
- no-count
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adjective, noun,
no-account.
- tensions
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noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- mentions
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noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- locoisms
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noun,
a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.
- locution
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noun,
a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- meniscus
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noun,
a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- centimos
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- obsolesc
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- uncloses
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verb (used with or without object),
to bring or come out of a closed state; open.
- Buncombe
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noun,
bunkum.
- litmuses
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noun,
a blue coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria. In alkaline solution litmus turns blue, in acid solution, red: widely used as a chemical indicator.
- scumbles
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noun,
the act or technique of scumbling.
- unbosoms
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Idioms,
unbosom oneself, to disclose one's thoughts, feelings, etc., to another person; confide one's private affairs:
- cutlines
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noun,
a caption or legend accompanying a cut or illustration in a publication.
- oilstone
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noun,
a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- oculists
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noun,
ophthalmologist.
- stoolies
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- buntline
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noun,
one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.
- unctions
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noun,
an act of anointing, especially as a medical treatment or religious rite.
- obnounce
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verb (used without object),
(in ancient Rome) to announce an unfavorable omen.
- unloosen
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verb (used with object),
to unloose; loosen.
- Simonson
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noun,
Lee, 1888–1967, U.S. set designer.
- cultisms
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noun,
the practices and devotions of a cult.
- tunicles
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noun,
a vestment worn over the alb by subdeacons, as at the celebration of the Mass, and by bishops.
- closeout
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noun,
a sale on all goods in liquidating a business.
- close-in
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adjective,
near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city:
- clonuses
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noun,
a rapid succession of flexions and extensions of a group of muscles, usually signifying an affection of the brain or spinal cord.
- stumbles
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noun,
the act of stumbling.
- noctules
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noun,
a large reddish insectivorous bat, Nyctalus noctula, common to Europe and Asia.
- botulins
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noun,
the toxin formed by botulinus and causing botulism.
- stubbles
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noun,
Usually, stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
- botulism
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noun,
a sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system acquired from spoiled foods in which botulin is present, especially improperly canned or marinated foods.
- eclosion
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noun,
the emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case.
- leucosis
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noun,
leukosis.
- miscount
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noun,
an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- line-out
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noun,
a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- bounties
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noun,
a premium or reward, especially one offered by a government:
- linocuts
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noun,
a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- incloses
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verb (used with object),
enclose.
- Colonies
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noun,
a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
- consults
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noun,
a consultation.
- nimbuses
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- unlooses
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verb (used with object),
to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- continue
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verb (used with object),
to go on with or persist in:
- entomol.
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- blousons
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noun,
a woman's outer garment having a drawstring, belt, or similar closing, at or below the waist, which causes it to blouse.
- consumes
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verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- consents
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noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- nelumbos
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noun,
lotus (def 3).
- noontime
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noun,
noon; noontide; noonday:
- emulsion
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noun,
Physical Chemistry. any colloidal suspension of a liquid in another liquid.
- sections
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noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- costumes
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noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- neustons
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noun,
the aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that float or swim in the surface film of a body of water.
- consoles
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noun,
Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- continuo
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noun,
a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- nonissue
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noun,
a matter or issue of little or no interest or importance:
- outclimb
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verb (used with object),
to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than:
- outsoles
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noun,
the outer sole of a shoe.
- subtonic
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noun,
the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- sunbelts
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noun,
the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
- solecism
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noun,
a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- sunstone
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noun,
a reddish variety of oligoclase feldspar, used as a gem, having a red and bright-yellow play of color.
- Countess
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noun,
the wife or widow of a count in the nobility of Continental Europe or of an earl in the British peerage.
- solstice
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noun,
Astronomy.
either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator: about June 21, when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22, when it reaches its southernmost point. Compare summer solstice, winter solstice.
either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.
- contemns
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verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- counsels
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noun,
advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- Solimoes
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noun,
Brazilian name of the Amazon from its junction with the Río Negro to the border of Peru.
- binocles
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noun,
binocular (def 1).
- Nicolson
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noun,
Sir Harold George, 1886–1968, English diplomat, biographer, and journalist (husband of Victoria Mary Sackville-West).
- coulombs
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noun,
the standard unit of quanitity of electricity in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one ampere. Abbreviation: C.
- bitumens
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noun,
any of various natural substances, as asphalt, maltha, or gilsonite, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
- connotes
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verb (used with object),
to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
- coulisse
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noun,
a timber or the like having a groove for guiding a sliding panel.
- bibelots
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noun,
a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.
- suctions
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noun,
the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- outlines
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noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- esconson
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noun,
sconcheon.
- nonsuits
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noun,
a judgment given against a plaintiff who neglects to prosecute, or who fails to show a legal cause of action or to bring sufficient evidence.
- citoles
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noun,
cittern.
- listens
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- lioness
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noun,
a female lion.
- lissome
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adjective,
lithesome or lithe, especially of body; supple; flexible.
- Clinton
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noun,
De Witt [duh wit] /də ˈwɪt/ (Show IPA), 1769–1828, U.S. political leader and statesman: governor of New York 1817–21, 1825–28 (son of James Clinton).
- onliest
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Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- linocut
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noun,
a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- entomo-
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- linnets
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noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- entombs
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verb (used with object),
to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
- oolites
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noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- ebonist
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noun,
a worker in ebony.
- cosines
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noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- eonisms
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- seismo-
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- seismol
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- esculin
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noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble glucoside, C 15 H 16 O 9 , obtained from the bark of the common horse chestnut and used chiefly in skin preparations as a protective against sunburn.
- Oscines
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noun,
an oscine bird.
- Soutine
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noun,
Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- incests
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noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- entoils
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- tunicle
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noun,
a vestment worn over the alb by subdeacons, as at the celebration of the Mass, and by bishops.
- bustles
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noun,
thriving or energetic activity; stir; ferment.
- counsel
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noun,
advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- timeous
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adjective,
timely; sufficiently early.
- unclose
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verb (used with or without object),
to bring or come out of a closed state; open.
- Coulomb
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noun,
the standard unit of quanitity of electricity in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one ampere. Abbreviation: C.
- unbosom
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Idioms,
unbosom oneself, to disclose one's thoughts, feelings, etc., to another person; confide one's private affairs:
- unbolts
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verb (used with object),
to open (a door, window, etc.) by or as if by removing a bolt; unlock; unfasten.
- lotuses
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noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- lotions
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noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- loosens
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verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- Celsius
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noun,
Anders [ahn-ders] /ˈɑn dərs/ (Show IPA), 1701–44, Swedish astronomer who devised the Celsius temperature scale.
- loobies
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noun,
an awkward person, especially one who is lazy or stupid; lout; lubber.
- loments
-
noun,
a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- stomous
-
- centimo
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- ensouls
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verb (used with object),
to endow with a soul.
- cession
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noun,
act of ceding, as by treaty.
- stolons
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noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- scumble
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noun,
the act or technique of scumbling.
- sitcoms
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noun,
situation comedy.
- omnibus
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noun,
bus1 (def 1).
- lobbies
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noun,
an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- ominous
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adjective,
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:
- customs
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noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- Coueism
-
noun,
a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- cesiums
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noun,
a rare, highly reactive, soft, metallic element of the alkali metal group, used chiefly in photoelectric cells. Symbol: Cs; atomic weight: 132.905; atomic number: 55; specific gravity: 1.9 at 20°C; melts at 28.5°C.
- tinsels
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noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- locoism
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noun,
a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.
- centums
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noun,
one hundred.
- costume
-
noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- section
-
noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- tousles
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noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- clubmen
-
noun,
a man who belongs to a club, especially a fashionable club, and is active in club life.
- lesions
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- insouls
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verb (used with object),
ensoul.
- embolic
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adjective,
Pathology. pertaining to an embolus or to embolism.
- ictuses
-
noun,
Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- elusion
-
noun,
the act of eluding; evasion.
- consent
-
noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- insoles
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- consist
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noun,
Railroads.
the rolling stock, exclusive of the locomotive, making up a train.
a record made of this rolling stock.
- insults
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noun,
an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- combine
-
noun,
a combination.
- console
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noun,
Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- Scotism
-
noun,
the set of doctrines of Duns Scotus.
- colonus
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noun,
a serf in the latter period of the Roman Empire or in the early feudal period.
- consols
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plural noun,
the funded government securities of Great Britain that originated in the consolidation in 1751 of various public securities, chiefly in the form of annuities, into a single debt issue without maturity.
- tunnies
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noun,
tuna1 .
- Colobus
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noun,
any of several large, slender African monkeys of the genus Colobus, lacking thumbs and having long silky fur of black and white (C. polykomos), black and reddish-brown (C. badius), or olive (C. verus): now dwindling.
- cubisms
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noun,
a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- tonsils
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noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- consult
-
noun,
a consultation.
- tunnels
-
noun,
an underground passage.
- sennits
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- incluse
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noun,
recluse (def 2).
- incomes
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noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- inconel
-
- coniums
-
noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- Comines
-
noun,
Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), 1445?–1511? French historian and diplomat.
- Tonnies
-
noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- combust
-
verb (used with or without object),
to burn.
- come-on
-
noun,
inducement; lure.
- connote
-
verb (used with object),
to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
- cubbies
-
noun,
a cubbyhole.
- emotion
-
noun,
an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
- embolus
-
noun,
undissolved material carried by the blood and impacted in some part of the vascular system, as thrombi or fragments of thrombi, tissue fragments, clumps of bacteria, protozoan parasites, fat globules, or gas bubbles.
- busbies
-
noun,
a tall fur hat with a baglike ornament hanging from the top over the right side.
- intens.
-
- consume
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- clootie
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) cloot (def 2).
- scolion
-
noun,
a song sung at banquets in ancient Greece.
- Silenus
-
noun,
a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- tocsins
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- lectins
-
noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- outsole
-
noun,
the outer sole of a shoe.
- lection
-
noun,
a version of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text; a variant reading.
- contuse
-
verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- inclose
-
verb (used with object),
enclose.
- Ossetic
-
noun,
the Indo-European, Iranian language of the Ossets.
- stencil
-
noun,
a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stemson
-
noun,
a curved timber in a wooden bow, scarfed at its lower end to the keelson.
- osmious
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
- closets
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- enlists
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- coontie
-
noun,
either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Z. floridana, of Florida, having a short trunk, pinnate leaves, and cones: Z. floridana is an endangered species.
- silents
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- cobbles
-
noun,
a cobblestone.
- intombs
-
verb (used with object),
entomb.
- Stimson
-
noun,
Henry L(ewis) 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.
- outcome
-
noun,
a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
- intones
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- tonuses
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- Ionesco
-
noun,
Eugène [French œ-zhen;; English yoo-jeen,, yoo-jeen] /French œˈʒɛn;; English yuˈdʒin,, ˈyu dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, French playwright, born in Romania.
- ionones
-
noun,
a light-yellow to colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid that is either one or a mixture of two unsaturated ketones having the formula C 13 H 20 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
- contemn
-
verb (used with object),
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- cultism
-
noun,
the practices and devotions of a cult.
- ossicle
-
noun,
a small bone.
- Stinnes
-
noun,
Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- outline
-
noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- isotone
-
noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- coeloms
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- cobnuts
-
noun,
the nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, Corylus avellana grandis.
- ostiole
-
noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- noisome
-
adjective,
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
- unbelts
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the belt from.
- cutline
-
noun,
a caption or legend accompanying a cut or illustration in a publication.
- Boletus
-
noun,
any mushroomlike fungus of the genus Boletus, having an easily separable layer of tubes on the underside of the cap or pileus.
- bonbons
-
noun,
a fondant, fruit, or nut center dipped in fondant or chocolate; a chocolate.
- moonlit
-
adjective,
lighted by the moon.
- bombous
-
adjective,
convex; spherical.
- Sublime
-
noun,
the sublime.
the realm of things that are sublime:
the quality of being sublime:
the greatest or supreme degree.
- nucleon
-
noun,
a proton or neutron, especially when considered as a component of a nucleus.
- boluses
-
noun,
Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine. a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. Abbreviation: bol.
- nucleo-
-
- bolsons
-
noun,
a desert valley, the level of which has been raised by aggradation, usually draining into a playa.
- motions
-
noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- Moulins
-
noun,
a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- sublets
-
noun,
a sublease.
- Mountie
-
noun,
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- nubbles
-
noun,
a small lump or piece.
- Boeotus
-
noun,
a son of Arne and Poseidon, and ancestor of the Boeotians.
- moutons
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- unisons
-
noun,
coincidence in pitch of two or more musical tones, voices, etc.
- nubbins
-
noun,
a small lump or stunted piece; stub.
- unloose
-
verb (used with object),
to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- Socinus
-
noun,
Faustus [faw-stuh s] /ˈfɔ stəs/ (Show IPA), (Fausto Sozzini) 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius [lee-lee-uh s] /ˈli li əs/ (Show IPA) (Lelio Sozzini), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.
- submits
-
verb (used with object),
to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- moonlet
-
noun,
a small natural or artificial satellite, as one of a number of natural satellites thought to be embedded in the ring system of Saturn.
- bonitos
-
noun,
any mackerellike fish of the genus Sarda, as S. sarda, of the Atlantic Ocean.
- sociol.
-
- moisten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- Misenus
-
noun,
a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.
- missout
-
noun,
(in the game of craps) a losing throw of the dice.
- bostons
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Massachusetts, in the E part.
- Bossuet
-
noun,
Jacques Bénigne [zhahk bey-neen-yuh] /ʒɑk beɪˈnin yə/ (Show IPA), 1627–1704, French bishop, writer, and orator.
- mobiles
-
noun,
a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
Compare stabile (def 3).
- Soubise
-
noun,
a brown or white sauce containing strained or puréed onions and served with meat.
- nuncles
-
noun,
uncle.
- Moebius
-
noun,
August Ferdinand, Möbius, August Ferdinand.
- nuncios
-
noun,
a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
- boonies
-
noun,
Informal. boondocks.
- numbles
-
plural noun,
certain of the inward parts of an animal, especially of a deer, used as food.
- molests
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- boomlet
-
noun,
a brief increase, as in business activity or political popularity.
- Molinos
-
noun,
Miguel de [mee-gel de] /miˈgɛl dɛ/ (Show IPA), c1640–c95, Spanish priest and mystic: chief exponent of quietism.
- boobies
-
noun,
a stupid person; dunce.
- Moncton
-
noun,
a city in SE New Brunswick, in E Canada.
- bonuses
-
noun,
something given or paid over and above what is due.
- bon-ton
-
noun,
good or elegant form or style.
- Bontocs
-
noun,
Bontok.
- monocle
-
noun,
an eyeglass for one eye.
- bonnets
-
noun,
a hat, usually tying under the chin and often framing the face, formerly much worn by women but now worn mostly by children.
- Sunnite
-
noun,
Sunni (def 1).
- blouson
-
noun,
a woman's outer garment having a drawstring, belt, or similar closing, at or below the waist, which causes it to blouse.
- botulin
-
noun,
the toxin formed by botulinus and causing botulism.
- subsoil
-
noun,
the bed or stratum of earth or earthy material immediately under the surface soil.
- Nicolet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1598–1642, French explorer in America.
- suction
-
noun,
the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- Nilotes
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- noncoms
-
noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- Nilsson
-
noun,
(Märta) Birgit [mahr-tah bir-git;; English mahr-tuh bur-git] /ˈmɑr tɑ ˈbɪr gɪt;; English ˈmɑr tə ˈbɜr gɪt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2005, Swedish soprano.
- benumbs
-
verb (used with object),
to make numb; deprive of sensation:
- niobous
-
adjective,
Chemistry. containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl 3 .
- benison
-
noun,
benediction.
- subtile
-
adjective,
subtle.
- solutes
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- nibbles
-
noun,
a small morsel or bit:
- Belmont
-
noun,
Alva Ertskin Smith Vanderbilt [urt-skin] /ˈɜrt skɪn/ (Show IPA), 1853–1933, U.S. women's-rights activist and socialite.
- nobbles
-
verb (used with object),
to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- somites
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- noctule
-
noun,
a large reddish insectivorous bat, Nyctalus noctula, common to Europe and Asia.
- sonnies
-
noun,
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
- subnets
-
noun,
the abstraction, in topology, of a subsequence.
- nombles
-
plural noun,
numbles.
- utensil
-
noun,
any of the instruments or vessels commonly used in a kitchen, dairy, etc.:
- noetics
-
noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- bibelot
-
noun,
a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.
- soloist
-
noun,
a person who performs a solo.
- Blossom
-
noun,
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- Sunbelt
-
noun,
the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
- mueslis
-
noun,
a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- muntins
-
noun,
Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- notions
-
noun,
a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something:
- muscles
-
noun,
a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscone
-
noun,
an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 16 H 30 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- notices
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- muslins
-
noun,
a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- bitumen
-
noun,
any of various natural substances, as asphalt, maltha, or gilsonite, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
- musties
-
noun,
(formerly) a kind of snuff having a musty flavor.
- bisects
-
noun,
Also called split. Philately. a portion of a stamp, usually half, used for payment of a proportionate amount of the face value of the whole stamp.
- neuston
-
noun,
the aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that float or swim in the surface film of a body of water.
- nostocs
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- Neilson
-
noun,
William Allan, 1869–1946, U.S. educator and lexicographer, born in Scotland.
- binocle
-
noun,
binocular (def 1).
- nelsons
-
noun,
a hold in which pressure is applied to the head, back of the neck, and one or both arms of the opponent.
- solions
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- soliton
-
- Nelumbo
-
noun,
lotus (def 3).
- bimboes
-
noun,
a foolish, stupid, or inept person.
- bilboes
-
noun,
a finely tempered sword.
- nonsuit
-
noun,
a judgment given against a plaintiff who neglects to prosecute, or who fails to show a legal cause of action or to bring sufficient evidence.
- miscues
-
noun,
Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
- moonset
-
noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- uncoils
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unwind from a coiled position.
- telsons
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- bounces
-
noun,
a bound or rebound:
- minuses
-
noun,
minus sign.
- minuets
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- bumbles
-
noun,
an awkward blunder.
- stubble
-
noun,
Usually, stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
- ocelots
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- Miletus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a son of Apollo and Aria, and the founder of the city of Miletus.
- Buisson
-
noun,
Ferdinand Édouard [fer-dee-nahn ey-dwar] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃ eɪˈdwær/ (Show IPA), 1841–1932, French statesman and educator: Nobel Peace Prize 1927.
- oboists
-
noun,
a player of the oboe.
- bunnies
-
noun,
Informal. a rabbit, especially a small or young one.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- sluices
-
noun,
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- bubonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bubo.
- unction
-
noun,
an act of anointing, especially as a medical treatment or religious rite.
- meltons
-
noun,
a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- Mencius
-
noun,
c380–289 b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- boucles
-
noun,
yarn with loops producing a rough, nubby appearance on woven or knitted fabrics.
- mention
-
noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- oculist
-
noun,
ophthalmologist.
- tension
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- luteins
-
noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- minutes
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- stumble
-
noun,
the act of stumbling.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- steno-
-
- suites
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- Toulon
-
noun,
a seaport in SE France: naval base.
- N-bomb
-
noun,
neutron bomb.
- touses
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- estocs
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- suints
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- nooses
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- looies
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- tousle
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- stools
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- lumine
-
verb (used with object),
to illumine.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- oleums
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- Nelson
-
noun,
a hold in which pressure is applied to the head, back of the neck, and one or both arms of the opponent.
- loosen
-
verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- lumens
-
noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- scouts
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- eosins
-
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.
- scents
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- Toombs
-
noun,
Robert, 1810–85, U.S. lawyer, orator, and Confederate statesman and army officer.
- ocelot
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- Tumbes
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Peru.
- mulcts
-
noun,
a fine, especially for a misdemeanor.
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- multi-
-
- Muncie
-
noun,
a city in E Indiana.
- munite
-
verb (used with object),
to fortify.
- muntin
-
noun,
Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- notion
-
noun,
a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something:
- muscle
-
noun,
a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- Melton
-
noun,
a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- Lonnie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alonso.
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- musics
-
noun,
an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- muslin
-
noun,
a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- loment
-
noun,
a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- obtuse
-
adjective,
not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- mussel
-
noun,
any bivalve mollusk, especially an edible marine bivalve of the family Mytilidae and a freshwater clam of the family Unionidae.
- lunies
-
noun,
a lunatic.
- Musset
-
noun,
(Louis Charles) Alfred de [lwee sharl al-fred duh] /lwi ʃarl alˈfrɛd də/ (Show IPA), 1810–57, French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
- tinmen
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- lumbo-
-
- looses
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- subtle
-
adjective,
thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- sclent
-
noun,
any slanting surface, as a slope.
- nimble
-
adjective,
quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid:
- Nimbus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- noncom
-
noun,
a noncommissioned officer.
- nonces
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- Nobile
-
noun,
Umberto [oo m-ber-taw] /ʊmˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- scones
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- scoots
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- ennuis
-
noun,
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
- emboss
-
verb (used with object),
to raise or represent (surface designs) in relief.
- oilmen
-
noun,
a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
- lucent
-
adjective,
shining.
- subset
-
noun,
a set that is a part of a larger set.
- Lucite
-
- nobble
-
verb (used with object),
to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- lutose
-
adjective,
covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- luteo-
-
- luetic
-
adjective,
syphilitic.
- Elmont
-
noun,
a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- tubmen
-
noun,
a barrister in the Court of Exchequer who had precedence in motions over every other barrister except the postman.
- Ennius
-
noun,
Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), 239–169? b.c, Roman poet.
- Scotus
-
noun,
John Duns, Duns Scotus, John.
- scoto-
-
- ensoul
-
verb (used with object),
to endow with a soul.
- cut-in
-
noun,
Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
- no-one
-
pronoun,
no person; not anyone; nobody:
- lotion
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- entomb
-
verb (used with object),
to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
- Nesbit
-
noun,
E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- nocti-
-
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- nibble
-
noun,
a small morsel or bit:
- icono-
-
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- louses
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- nocent
-
adjective,
harmful; injurious.
- scions
-
noun,
a descendant.
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- Nicole
-
noun,
a female given name: from Greek words meaning “victory” and “people.”.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- louies
-
noun,
looie.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Scioto
-
noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- Louise
-
noun,
Lake, a glacial lake in W Canada, in SW Alberta in the Canadian Rockies: resort. 5670 feet (1728 meters) above sea level.
- tenuis
-
noun,
an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.
- Scouse
-
noun,
a baked dish or stew made usually with meat and hardtack.
- Leucon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having a thick body wall with a highly branched canal system leading into the spongocoel.
- subnet
-
noun,
the abstraction, in topology, of a subsequence.
- locust
-
noun,
Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
- istles
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- limens
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- minute
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- nuncio
-
noun,
a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
- sublet
-
noun,
a sublease.
- toluic
-
adjective,
of or derived from toluic acid.
- molest
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- Linnet
-
noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- osteo-
-
- molies
-
noun,
an herb given to Odysseus by Hermes to counteract the spells of Circe.
- Moline
-
noun,
a city in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi.
- ostium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- nuncle
-
noun,
uncle.
- online
-
adverb,
with or through a computer, especially over a network.
- numis.
-
- molten
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- minuet
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Linton
-
noun,
Ralph, 1893–1953, U.S. anthropologist.
- stimes
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- linums
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- Iseult
-
noun,
Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance.
the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- obelus
-
noun,
a mark (− or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to point out spurious, corrupt, doubtful, or superfluous words or passages.
- ionone
-
noun,
a light-yellow to colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid that is either one or a mixture of two unsaturated ketones having the formula C 13 H 20 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- Onions
-
noun,
Charles Talbut [tawl-buh t,, tal-] /ˈtɔl bət,, ˈtæl-/ (Show IPA), 1873–1965, English lexicographer and philologist.
- stoics
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- miscue
-
noun,
Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
- leuco-
-
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- lesson
-
noun,
a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject:
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- oolite
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- Lesbos
-
noun,
Mytilene (def 1).
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- misuse
-
noun,
wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- lentic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in still water.
- lectin
-
noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- osmics
-
noun,
the science dealing with the sense of smell.
- M-line
-
noun,
one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- Lemnos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 186 sq. mi. (480 sq. km). Capital: Myrina.
- telium
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- Mobile
-
noun,
a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
Compare stabile (def 3).
- osmose
-
noun,
osmosis.
- Tobies
-
noun,
Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- Lieut.
-
- Mobius
-
noun,
August Ferdinand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1790–1868, German mathematician.
- subito
-
adverb,
(as a musical direction) suddenly; abruptly:
- onuses
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- limbos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- limbus
-
noun,
limbo1 .
- Monnet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- muesli
-
noun,
a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- income
-
noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- mouses
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- mousse
-
noun,
Cookery.
a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold:
an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish:
- incuse
-
noun,
an incuse figure or impression.
- Lobito
-
noun,
a seaport in W Angola.
- Mouton
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- lobose
-
adjective,
having broad, thick pseudopodia, as certain ameboid protozoans.
- oboles
-
noun,
a silver-alloy coin of France issued during the Middle Ages, the 24th part of a sol, or one-half denier.
- incult
-
adjective,
wild; rude; unrefined.
- nubble
-
noun,
a small lump or piece.
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- MSCons
-
- nubbin
-
noun,
a small lump or stunted piece; stub.
- moults
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- mesons
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- submit
-
verb (used with object),
to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- sunset
-
noun,
the setting or descent of the sun below the horizon in the evening.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- ousels
-
noun,
ouzel.
- obolus
-
noun,
a modern Greek unit of weight equal to 0.1 gram.
- Menton
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- imbues
-
verb (used with object),
to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.:
- sunlit
-
adjective,
lighted by the sun.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- locums
-
noun,
locum tenens.
- mucins
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- Stubbs
-
noun,
William, 1825–1901, English historian and bishop.
- stolon
-
noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- Lisbon
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Portugal, in the SW part, on the Tagus estuary.
- intomb
-
verb (used with object),
entomb.
- numble
-
plural noun,
certain of the inward parts of an animal, especially of a deer, used as food.
- minces
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- moonie
-
noun,
a member or follower of the Unification Church.
- ounces
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- Milton
-
noun,
John, 1608–74, English poet.
- oculo-
-
- insult
-
noun,
an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- insoul
-
verb (used with object),
ensoul.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- litmus
-
noun,
a blue coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria. In alkaline solution litmus turns blue, in acid solution, red: widely used as a chemical indicator.
- oboist
-
noun,
a player of the oboe.
- nuclei
-
noun,
plural of nucleus.
- motile
-
adjective,
Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously:
- motion
-
noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insect
-
noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- nubile
-
adjective,
(of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- tissue
-
noun,
Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
- Inness
-
noun,
George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- moulin
-
noun,
a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- lutein
-
noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- cobnut
-
noun,
the nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, Corylus avellana grandis.
- botels
-
noun,
boatel.
- bounce
-
noun,
a bound or rebound:
- cesium
-
noun,
a rare, highly reactive, soft, metallic element of the alkali metal group, used chiefly in photoelectric cells. Symbol: Cs; atomic weight: 132.905; atomic number: 55; specific gravity: 1.9 at 20°C; melts at 28.5°C.
- combos
-
noun,
Informal.
a small jazz or dance band. Compare big band.
combination (defs 2–4).
- blites
-
noun,
sea blite.
- cestus
-
noun,
a girdle or belt, especially as worn by women of ancient Greece.
- boules
-
noun,
Also called birne. a cylindrical lump of material for synthetic gems, made by the Verneuil process.
- Combes
-
noun,
a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
- socmen
-
noun,
sokeman.
- boucle
-
noun,
yarn with loops producing a rough, nubby appearance on woven or knitted fabrics.
- smolts
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- column
-
noun,
Architecture.
a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.
a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- Colton
-
noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- blooms
-
noun,
the flower of a plant.
- socles
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- colous
-
- blouse
-
noun,
a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- colins
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- colies
-
noun,
any of several slender, fruit-eating, African birds constituting the family Coliidae, having grayish-brown plumage and a long, pointed tail.
- bluets
-
noun,
Usually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis), of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.
- Coleus
-
noun,
any of several tropical Asian or African plants belonging to the genus Coleus, of the mint family, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy, colored foliage and blue flowers.
- unbelt
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the belt from.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- colent
-
- boutel
-
noun,
boltel (def 1).
- contos
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- solion
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- celoms
-
noun,
coelom.
- contin
-
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- smiles
-
noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- consul
-
noun,
an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- celto-
-
- consol
-
noun,
singular of consols.
- biomes
-
noun,
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
- soleus
-
noun,
a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- bisect
-
noun,
Also called split. Philately. a portion of a stamp, usually half, used for payment of a proportionate amount of the face value of the whole stamp.
- solemn
-
adjective,
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood:
- census
-
noun,
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- Connie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Constance.
- clints
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- Conium
-
noun,
the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- sensum
-
noun,
sense datum (def 1).
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- bouses
-
noun,
liquor or drink.
- socio-
-
- bosuns
-
noun,
boatswain.
- UNESCO
-
noun,
an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
- bonbon
-
noun,
a fondant, fruit, or nut center dipped in fondant or chocolate; a chocolate.
- umbles
-
plural noun,
numbles.
- client
-
noun,
a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- umbels
-
noun,
an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.
- clouts
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- climbs
-
noun,
a climbing; an ascent by climbing:
- bombes
-
noun,
a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.
- closet
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- closes
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- snoots
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- unison
-
noun,
coincidence in pitch of two or more musical tones, voices, etc.
- Simons
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- boosts
-
noun,
an upward shove or raise; lift.
- Cloots
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (Show IPA), Baron de ("Anacharsis Clootz") 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.
- clonus
-
noun,
a rapid succession of flexions and extensions of a group of muscles, usually signifying an affection of the brain or spinal cord.
- clones
-
noun,
Biology.
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- bonito
-
noun,
any mackerellike fish of the genus Sarda, as S. sarda, of the Atlantic Ocean.
- snoose
-
noun,
finely powdered tobacco; snuff.
- clines
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clites
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- Bonnes
-
noun,
a maid-servant.
- Bonnet
-
noun,
a hat, usually tying under the chin and often framing the face, formerly much worn by women but now worn mostly by children.
- Bonnie
-
noun,
a female given name: from the Latin word meaning “good.”.
- clino-
-
- Cletus
-
noun,
Anacletus.
- cnemis
-
noun,
the tibia or shin.
- blunts
-
noun,
something blunt, as a small-game arrow, a short sewing needle, or a short, thick cigar.
- boites
-
noun,
a nightclub; cabaret.
- sotols
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- unless
-
conjunction,
except under the circumstances that:
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- unites
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- coitus
-
noun,
sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- Boston
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Massachusetts, in the E part.
- sobeit
-
conjunction,
if it be so that; provided that.
- coeno-
-
- coelom
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- bosons
-
noun,
any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics: bosons have integral spins: 0, 1, 2, ….
- nobles
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- citole
-
noun,
cittern.
- Bolton
-
noun,
a borough in Greater Manchester, in NW England.
- bunton
-
noun,
one of a number of struts reinforcing the walls of a shaft and dividing it into vertical compartments.
- cobles
-
noun,
a flat-bottomed fishing boat with a lugsail, used mainly in northern England and Scotland for salmon.
- cobble
-
noun,
a cobblestone.
- Bootle
-
noun,
a city in Merseyside metropolitan county, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- bootie
-
noun,
Also, bootee. a usually soft, sometimes disposable sock or bootlike covering for the foot or shoe, as for informal wear, warmth, or protection:
- Bootes
-
noun,
the Herdsman, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Serpens, containing the bright star Arcturus.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- bolson
-
noun,
a desert valley, the level of which has been raised by aggradation, usually draining into a playa.
- ultimo
-
adverb,
in or of the month preceding the current one:
Abbreviation: ult., ulto.
Compare instant (def 11), proximo.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- bimbos
-
noun,
a foolish, stupid, or inept person.
- centi-
-
- Bontoc
-
noun,
Bontok.
- sliest
-
adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- Culion
-
noun,
an island of the Philippines, in the W part of the group, N of Palawan. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km).
- Somnus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.
- coutil
-
noun,
a sturdy fabric constructed of a compactly woven herringbone twill.
- Benton
-
noun,
Thomas Hart ("Old Bullion") 1782–1858, U.S. political leader.
- Seboim
-
noun,
Zeboim.
- Cousin
-
noun,
Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- uncool
-
adjective,
not self-assured or relaxed:
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- coulis
-
noun,
a sauce made with puréed vegetables or fruit and used as a base or garnish.
- culets
-
noun,
Jewelry. a small face forming the bottom of a faceted gem.
- benumb
-
verb (used with object),
to make numb; deprive of sensation:
- bustle
-
noun,
thriving or energetic activity; stir; ferment.
- besoms
-
noun,
a broom, especially one of brush or twigs.
- bumble
-
noun,
an awkward blunder.
- besots
-
verb (used with object),
to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
- costo-
-
- unbolt
-
verb (used with object),
to open (a door, window, etc.) by or as if by removing a bolt; unlock; unfasten.
- cosset
-
noun,
a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
- somni-
-
- uncoil
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unwind from a coiled position.
- solons
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- Benoit
-
noun,
Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- tunnel
-
noun,
an underground passage.
- Cubism
-
noun,
a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- slices
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- solute
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- cubebs
-
noun,
the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family.
- cueist
-
noun,
a billiard player.
- buteos
-
noun,
any of several buzzards or hawks of the genus Buteo.
- Belton
-
noun,
a town in W Missouri.
- Slocum
-
noun,
Joshua, 1844–c1910, U.S. mariner, author, and lecturer, born in Nova Scotia.
- solums
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- sebums
-
noun,
the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- Benoni
-
noun,
a city in the NE of the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg: gold mines.
- cuisse
-
noun,
a piece of armor or padding for protecting the thigh.
- buboes
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, especially in the groin or armpit.
- Beloit
-
noun,
a city in S Wisconsin.
- cteno-
-
- tussle
-
noun,
a rough physical contest or struggle; scuffle.
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- COSMOS
-
noun,
the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.
- cossie
-
noun,
a bathing suit; bathers.
- cubits
-
noun,
an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 cm).
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- cootie
-
noun,
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- Busoni
-
noun,
Ferruccio (Benvenuto) [fer-root-chaw ben-ve-noo-taw] /fɛrˈrut tʃɔ ˌbɛn vɛˈnu tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1924, Italian composer and pianist.
- scutes
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- Bicols
-
noun,
Bikol.
- busies
-
adjective,
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime:
- bicone
-
noun,
an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- Coombs
-
noun,
combe.
- sonics
-
noun,
the branch of science that deals with the practical applications of sound.
- custos
-
noun,
(italics) Latin. a custodian.
- bunion
-
noun,
inflammation of the synovial bursa of the great toe, usually resulting in enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe.
- Bunsen
-
noun,
Robert Wilhelm [rob-ert wil-helm;; German roh-bert vil-helm] /ˈrɒb ərt ˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈroʊ bɛrt ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1811–99, German chemist.
- coolie
-
noun,
an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- slimes
-
noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- smelts
-
noun,
any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
- sluice
-
noun,
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- busmen
-
noun,
a person who operates a bus.
- cosets
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- buncos
-
noun,
bunko.
- cosmo-
-
- cosies
-
noun,
a padded covering for a teapot, chocolate pot, etc., to retain the heat.
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- cumins
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- unbent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of unbend.
- Cosimo
-
noun,
Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
- built
-
noun,
the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure:
- monic
-
adjective,
(of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.
- ocul-
-
- Bunns
-
noun,
bun1 (def 1).
- teno-
-
- molet
-
noun,
mullet2 .
- bunco
-
noun,
bunko.
- Boone
-
noun,
Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- bonus
-
noun,
something given or paid over and above what is due.
- Boots
-
noun,
a servant, as at a hotel, who blacks or polishes shoes and boots.
- Smuts
-
noun,
Jan Christiaan [Dutch yahn kris-tee-ahn] /Dutch yɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1870–1950, South African statesman and general: prime minister 1919–24, 1939–48.
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- booms
-
noun,
a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
- Luton
-
noun,
a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- moble
-
verb (used with object),
to wrap the head of, as in a hood.
- octo-
-
- Boole
-
noun,
George, 1815–64, English mathematician and logician.
- numen
-
noun,
divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- boobs
-
noun,
a stupid person; fool; dunce.
- slobs
-
noun,
a slovenly or boorish person.
- Bunin
-
noun,
Ivan Alekseevich [ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1953, Russian poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1933.
- boost
-
noun,
an upward shove or raise; lift.
- molto
-
adverb,
very:
- molts
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- moils
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- numbs
-
adjective,
deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move:
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- Union
-
noun,
the act of uniting two or more things.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- snibs
-
noun,
a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.
- boons
-
noun,
something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- smile
-
noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- bosom
-
noun,
the breast of a human being.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Bouse
-
noun,
liquor or drink.
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- slues
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- obols
-
noun,
a silver coin of ancient Greece, the sixth part of a drachma.
- BSMet
-
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- Minn.
-
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- smolt
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- Metol
-
- BSBus
-
- MINCE
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- sluit
-
noun,
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- obole
-
noun,
a silver-alloy coin of France issued during the Middle Ages, the 24th part of a sol, or one-half denier.
- milts
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Milos
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- obits
-
noun,
Informal. an obituary.
- sluts
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- Milne
-
noun,
A(lan) A(lexander) 1882–1956, English novelist, playwright, and author of prose and verse for children.
- BSCom
-
- meso-
-
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- boson
-
noun,
any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics: bosons have integral spins: 0, 1, 2, ….
- Melun
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-et-Marne, in N France.
- melic
-
adjective,
intended to be sung.
- melon
-
noun,
the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- stuns
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- telic
-
adjective,
Grammar. expressing end or purpose:
- telo-
-
- Bueno
-
interjection,
good; all right.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- bosun
-
noun,
boatswain.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Mists
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- stums
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- Miss.
-
- Boult
-
noun,
Sir Adrian Cedric, 1889–1983, English conductor.
- meno-
-
- misos
-
noun,
a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- miso-
-
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- slubs
-
noun,
the fibers produced by slubbing.
- botel
-
noun,
boatel.
- Botes
-
noun,
compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
- Obote
-
noun,
(Apollo) Milton, 1924–2005, Ugandan political leader: president 1966–71 and 1980–85.
- Tenn.
-
- Boule
-
noun,
Also called birne. a cylindrical lump of material for synthetic gems, made by the Verneuil process.
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- misc.
-
- melts
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- cutin
-
noun,
a transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.
- snobs
-
noun,
a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- neut.
-
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- bilbo
-
noun,
a long iron bar or bolt with sliding shackles and a lock, formerly attached to the ankles of prisoners.
- no-no
-
noun,
anything that is forbidden or not advisable, as because of being improper or unsafe:
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- Neuss
-
noun,
a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- Bicol
-
noun,
Bikol.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- bices
-
noun,
either of two colors, bice blue or bice green.
- Bible
-
noun,
the collection of sacred writings of the Christian religion, comprising the Old and New Testaments.
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Bibl.
-
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- Solon
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- until
-
conjunction,
up to the time that or when; till:
- non-U
-
adjective,
not characteristic of or appropriate to the upper class, especially of Great Britain:
- Biles
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- biome
-
noun,
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
- sumos
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- noso-
-
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- biont
-
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- bimbo
-
noun,
a foolish, stupid, or inept person.
- biol.
-
- bints
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl.
- suets
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- noons
-
noun,
midday.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Binet
-
noun,
Alfred [al-frid;; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd;; French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1857–1911, French psychologist: co-deviser of the Binet-Simon scale.
- bines
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- bests
-
noun,
something or someone that is best:
- besot
-
verb (used with object),
to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
- bison
-
noun,
Also called American bison, American buffalo. a North American, oxlike ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders: formerly common in North America, its small remaining population in isolated western areas of the U.S. and Canada is now protected.
- 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.
- nomo-
-
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nomen
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- noct-
-
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- USSCt
-
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- soots
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- utile
-
adjective,
useful.
- NoibN
-
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- 30-30
-
- Noble
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- Nobel
-
noun,
Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- besom
-
noun,
a broom, especially one of brush or twigs.
- Niobe
-
noun,
the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- bents
-
noun,
direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- solum
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- Ninus
-
noun,
the legendary husband of Semiramis and founder of Nineveh.
- nisus
-
noun,
an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
- belts
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Bennu
-
noun,
Benu.
- nonce
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- Benis
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- Benin
-
noun,
Formerly Dahomey. a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence in 1960. 44,290 sq. mi. (114,711 sq. km). Capital: Porto Novo.
- subst
-
- solus
-
adjective,
(referring to a man) alone; by oneself (used formerly in stage directions).
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- musts
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mono-
-
- bolos
-
noun,
a large, heavy, single-edged knife or machete for hacking, used in the Philippines and by the U.S. Army.
- Mosul
-
noun,
a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- Susie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- nuci-
-
- motel
-
noun,
a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- bolts
-
noun,
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- MOTOS
-
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Boles
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- snubs
-
noun,
an act or instance of snubbing.
- moult
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mosso
-
adjective,
rapid; fast.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- Bonns
-
noun,
a city in W Germany, on the Rhine: seat of the government; former capital of West Germany.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- Mont.
-
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Bonne
-
noun,
a maid-servant.
- mools
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- bones
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- bonce
-
noun,
head; skull.
- Mossi
-
noun,
an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- bombs
-
noun,
Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- bombe
-
noun,
a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- bolus
-
noun,
Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine. a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. Abbreviation: bol.
- Boito
-
noun,
Arrigo [uh-ree-goh;; Italian ahr-ree-gaw] /əˈri goʊ;; Italian ɑrˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1918, Italian opera composer, poet, and novelist.
- boite
-
noun,
a nightclub; cabaret.
- bisso
-
noun,
bis2 .
- blest
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of bless.
- munic
-
- Munin
-
noun,
one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- soils
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- noto-
-
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- blite
-
noun,
sea blite.
- Bliss
-
noun,
supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment:
- bless
-
verb (used with object),
to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.
- Blois
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loire-et-Cher, in central France, on the Loire River: historic castle.
- music
-
noun,
an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- blent
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- Musil
-
noun,
Robert, 1880–1942, Austrian writer.
- blebs
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a blister or vesicle.
- bites
-
noun,
an act of biting.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- Boise
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Idaho, in the SW part: built on the site of an army post on the Oregon Trail.
- blume
-
noun,
Judy, born 1938, U.S. novelist.
- boils
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Unit.
-
- MSBus
-
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- MSEnt
-
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- Blunt
-
noun,
something blunt, as a small-game arrow, a short sewing needle, or a short, thick cigar.
- sunns
-
noun,
a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- Bloom
-
noun,
the flower of a plant.
- Sunni
-
noun,
Also called Sunnite. a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law.
Compare Shiʿite.
- Bluet
-
noun,
Usually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis), of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.
- blues
-
noun,
the blues, (used with a plural verb) depressed spirits; despondency; melancholy:
- socle
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- mucin
-
noun,
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- muco-
-
- mulct
-
noun,
a fine, especially for a misdemeanor.
- slims
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- Buteo
-
noun,
any of several buzzards or hawks of the genus Buteo.
- bunts
-
noun,
a push with the head or horns; butt.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- insol
-
- comb.
-
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Colum
-
noun,
Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- seti-
-
- inst.
-
- Colon
-
noun,
the sign (:) used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, etc., of what precedes; or to separate groups of numbers referring to different things, as hours from minutes in 5:30; or the members of a ratio or proportion, as in 1 : 2 = 3 : 6.
- Colo.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- stilb
-
noun,
a unit of luminance, equal to one candle per square centimeter.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Colin
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- Colet
-
noun,
John, 1467?–1519, English educator and clergyman.
- Coles
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Combe
-
noun,
a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
- Inonu
-
noun,
Ismet [is-met] /ɪsˈmɛt/ (Show IPA), (Ismet Paşa) 1884–1973, president of Turkey 1938–50; prime minister 1923–24, 1925–37, 1961–65.
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- tono-
-
- Conn.
-
- incl.
-
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- incus
-
noun,
Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals.
Compare malleus, stapes.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- Combs
-
noun,
a toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.
- in-lb
-
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- combo
-
noun,
Informal.
a small jazz or dance band. Compare big band.
combination (defs 2–4).
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- Otomi
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of south-central Mexico.
- ousts
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- silos
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- silts
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- clout
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- clots
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- Lemon
-
noun,
the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- to-be
-
adjective,
future; soon to be the thing specified (usually used in combination):
- Lenin
-
noun,
V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"N. Lenin") 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
- osmo-
-
- Tobin
-
noun,
James, 1918–2002, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1981.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- Close
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- cloot
-
noun,
a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
- lect.
-
- Tobol
-
noun,
a river rising in Kazakhstan, flowing NE through the Russian Federation in Asia to the Irtysh River. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- coils
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- Sices
-
noun,
syce.
- coel-
-
- issue
-
noun,
the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution:
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- COBOL
-
noun,
a programming language particularly suited for writing programs to process large files of data, using a vocabulary of common English words, phrases, and sentences.
- umbel
-
noun,
an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.
- tombe
-
noun,
a step in which a dancer falls from one leg to the other, landing with all the weight on the foot that has just moved, while flexing the knee.
- oste-
-
- coble
-
noun,
a flat-bottomed fishing boat with a lugsail, used mainly in northern England and Scotland for salmon.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- lusts
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- imbue
-
verb (used with object),
to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.:
- conns
-
noun,
responsibility for the steering of a ship.
- stobs
-
noun,
a post, stump, or stake.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- sebum
-
noun,
the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- tubi-
-
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- cubit
-
noun,
an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 cm).
- cubes
-
noun,
a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- embus
-
verb (used with or without object),
to get or put on a bus.
- Scot.
-
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- culet
-
noun,
Jewelry. a small face forming the bottom of a faceted gem.
- cubeb
-
noun,
the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family.
- tubes
-
noun,
a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- emuls
-
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- encl.
-
- secos
-
noun,
sekos.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- ennui
-
noun,
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- cutie
-
noun,
Informal. a charmingly attractive or cute person, especially a girl or a young woman (often used as a form of address):
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- tunic
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a coat worn as part of a military or other uniform.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- scums
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- tules
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- scuts
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- ecol.
-
- econ.
-
- cumin
-
noun,
a small plant, Cuminum cyminum, of the parsley family, bearing aromatic, seedlike fruit, used in cookery and medicine.
- sebi-
-
- ecto-
-
- culms
-
noun,
coal dust; slack.
- SCOTS
-
noun,
Also called Scottish. the English language as spoken in Scotland.
Compare Scots Gaelic.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- Conon
-
noun,
died a.d. 687, pope 686–687.
- Icel.
-
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- Ibsen
-
noun,
Henrik [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
- cont.
-
- Const
-
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- icons
-
- ictus
-
noun,
Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- Cons.
-
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- ileo-
-
- ileum
-
noun,
Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- ileus
-
noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- 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.
- sect.
-
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- costs
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- ento-
-
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- Eolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- nolos
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- semi-
-
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- coomb
-
noun,
combe.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- cools
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- ulent
-
- clone
-
noun,
Biology.
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- locum
-
noun,
locum tenens.
- locos
-
noun,
locoweed.
- stome
-
- UNCLE
-
noun,
a brother of one's father or mother.
- lobus
-
noun,
a lobe.
- sito-
-
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- lobos
-
noun,
the gray or timber wolf of the western U.S.
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- omni-
-
- tious
-
- locus
-
noun,
a place; locality.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- umbos
-
noun,
a boss on a shield, as one at the center of a circular shield.
- slice
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- Butes
-
noun,
phenylbutazone.
- Cimon
-
noun,
507–499 b.c, Athenian military leader, naval commander, and statesman (son of Miltiades).
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- cine-
-
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- onco-
-
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- UNCIO
-
- Sinus
-
noun,
a curve; bend.
- oleic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- situs
-
noun,
position; situation.
- ceils
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- oleo-
-
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- celom
-
noun,
coelom.
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- loons
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- oleum
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- looms
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- looie
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- lotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in flowing water.
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- Olson
-
noun,
Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- Louie
-
noun,
looie.
- leuc-
-
- cent.
-
- cutis
-
noun,
the true skin, consisting of the dermis and the epidermis.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- cists
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- clime
-
noun,
climate.
- slime
-
noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- linns
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- climb
-
noun,
a climbing; an ascent by climbing:
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- linen
-
noun,
fabric woven from flax yarns.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- limos
-
noun,
a limousine.
- Limon
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1908–72, Mexican dancer and choreographer in the U.S.
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- limns
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- onto-
-
- lunes
-
noun,
Archaic. fits of madness.
- limen
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- Cleon
-
noun,
died 422 b.c, Athenian general and political opponent of Pericles.
- cline
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- limbs
-
noun,
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
- limbo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- buses
-
noun,
a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus.
- Clint
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- simul
-
adverb,
(in prescriptions) together.
- licet
-
- Clite
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- umble
-
plural noun,
numbles.
- lunts
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- clomb
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of climb.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- lumb-
-
- Lumen
-
noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- busts
-
noun,
a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, especially a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject.
- lubes
-
noun,
lubricant.
- sines
-
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.
- Linus
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 76? pope 67?–76?.
- OIcel
-
- luces
-
noun,
plural of lux.
- Linum
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- Sino-
-
- so-so
-
adverb,
in an indifferent or passable manner; indifferently; tolerably.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- onium
-
- onion
-
noun,
a plant, Allium cepa, of the amaryllis family, having an edible, succulent, pungent bulb.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- SLBM
-
- nom.
-
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- ole-
-
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- scil
-
- ScBE
-
- sci.
-
- SEbS
-
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- stub
-
noun,
a short projecting part.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- SCSI
-
noun,
a standard for computer interface ports featuring faster data transmission and greater flexibility than normal ports.
- 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.
- obs.
-
- Soni
-
- slub
-
noun,
the fibers produced by slubbing.
- Oct.
-
- Ste.
-
- slob
-
noun,
a slovenly or boorish person.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- sec.
-
- 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.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- non-
-
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- SLIC
-
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- SLIM
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- slum
-
noun,
Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- oto-
-
- 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.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- sobs
-
noun,
the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- sibs
-
noun,
a kinsman; relative.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- sics
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- NTSB
-
- sub-
-
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- snib
-
noun,
a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- numb
-
adjective,
deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move:
- stob
-
noun,
a post, stump, or stake.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- osis
-
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- nunc
-
adverb,
now.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- snob
-
noun,
a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- Ont.
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- nubs
-
noun,
the point, gist, or heart of something.
- noun
-
noun,
any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group.
See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase.
Synonyms: substantive, name.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- Oboe
-
noun,
a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece.
- obis
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- obit
-
noun,
Informal. an obituary.
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- noon
-
noun,
midday.
- soln
-
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- SBIC
-
- obol
-
noun,
a silver coin of ancient Greece, the sixth part of a drachma.
- SBLI
-
- Sem.
-
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Obie
-
noun,
one of a group of awards given annually, beginning in 1956, by New York City's The Village Voice newspaper for achievement in the off-Broadway theater.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Sol.
-
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- nos-
-
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- not-
-
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- out-
-
- 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.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- obb.
-
- Com.
-
- nolo
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- coml
-
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- Con.
-
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- cool
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- 1080
-
- COLT
-
noun,
a young male animal of the horse family.
- coss
-
noun,
kos.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- cts.
-
- cube
-
noun,
a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- cule
-
- Culm
-
noun,
coal dust; slack.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- clue
-
noun,
anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
- umbo
-
noun,
a boss on a shield, as one at the center of a circular shield.
- Clem
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clement.
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- clit
-
noun,
clitoris.
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- clot
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- clou
-
noun,
a major point of interest or attention.
- club
-
noun,
a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- cml.
-
- Coln
-
noun,
former German name of Cologne.
- Cmon
-
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- ulto
-
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- Cobb
-
noun,
Howell [hou-uh l] /ˈhaʊ əl/ (Show IPA), 1815–68, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1849–51.
- cobs
-
noun,
a corncob.
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- Col.
-
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- cult
-
noun,
a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
- cuss
-
noun,
curse word; oath.
- cit.
-
- ICBM
-
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- ible
-
- Ibos
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- Ice.
-
- est.
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- ile-
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- IMCO
-
- Inc.
-
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- intl
-
- 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.
- etc.
-
- eso-
-
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- ebbs
-
noun,
the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- ebon
-
adjective,
ebony (def 6).
- tule
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- eco-
-
- ect-
-
- Tues
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- ESIS
-
- Emil
-
noun,
a male given name: from Latin Aemilius, a family name.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- tube
-
noun,
a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- enc.
-
- enl.
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- eous
-
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- 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 = .
- blub
-
noun,
a swelling of fresh plasterwork.
- bio-
-
- Bion
-
noun,
flourished c100 b.c, Greek pastoral poet.
- BIOS
-
noun,
computer firmware that directs many basic functions of the operating system, as booting and keyboard control.
- bite
-
noun,
an act of biting.
- bleb
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a blister or vesicle.
- blin
-
noun,
singular of blini.
- BLit
-
- blob
-
noun,
a globule of liquid; bubble.
- bloc
-
noun,
a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose.
- blot
-
noun,
a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- Blue
-
noun,
the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bine
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- Blum
-
noun,
Léon [lee-on;; French ley-awn] /ˈli ɒn;; French leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1872–1950, French statesman, journalist, and Socialist Party leader: premier of France 1936–37, 1938, 1946–47.
- BMet
-
- BMOC
-
- Bobo
-
noun,
Informal. a liberal, highly educated person who combines a bourgeois, affluent lifestyle with nonconformist values and attitudes.
- boil
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Bol.
-
- bole
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- Bolo
-
noun,
a large, heavy, single-edged knife or machete for hacking, used in the Philippines and by the U.S. Army.
- Bolt
-
noun,
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bomb
-
noun,
Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- bint
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl.
- bin-
-
- Bone
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- belt
-
noun,
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- USTC
-
- USSB
-
- BMus
-
- USMC
-
- USIS
-
- bbl.
-
plural,
barrel.
- bbls
-
plural,
barrel.
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- bels
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- bile
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- Beni
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- bens
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- Bent
-
noun,
direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
- Benu
-
noun,
the sacred bird of ancient Egypt, corresponding to the phoenix.
- Bess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- BEST
-
noun,
something or someone that is best:
- bet.
-
- Bib.
-
- Bice
-
noun,
either of two colors, bice blue or bice green.
- Biel
-
noun,
Lake. Bienne, Lake of.
- Bomu
-
noun,
a river in central Africa, forming part of the boundary between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, flowing N and W into the Uele River to form the Ubangi River. About 500 miles (805 km) long.
- Bonn
-
noun,
a city in W Germany, on the Rhine: seat of the government; former capital of West Germany.
- cis-
-
- but-
-
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- Bubo
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, especially in the groin or armpit.
- bubs
-
noun,
(used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.
- bul.
-
- bulb
-
noun,
Botany.
a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily.
a plant growing from such a bud.
- Bunn
-
noun,
bun1 (def 1).
- bunt
-
noun,
a push with the head or horns; butt.
- bus.
-
- buss
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
kiss.
- Bust
-
noun,
a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, especially a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject.
- Bute
-
noun,
phenylbutazone.
- BSSE
-
- buts
-
noun,
buts, reservations or objections:
- CBEL
-
- Cebu
-
noun,
an island in the S central Philippines. 1703 sq. mi. (4411 sq. km).
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- Cels
-
- cen.
-
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- cet-
-
- Ceto
-
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- btl.
-
- BSOT
-
- bons
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- bots
-
noun,
a disease affecting various mammals, especially horses, caused by the attachment of the parasitic larvae of botflies to the stomach of the host.
- boob
-
noun,
a stupid person; fool; dunce.
- boom
-
noun,
a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
- boon
-
noun,
something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit.
- boos
-
noun,
an exclamation of contempt or disapproval:
- Boot
-
noun,
a covering of leather, rubber, or the like, for the foot and all or part of the leg.
- Bosc
-
noun,
a large, greenish-yellow variety of pear.
- Bose
-
noun,
Sir Jagadis Chandre [juh-guh-dees chuhn-druh] /dʒə gəˈdis ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1858–1937, Indian physicist and plant physiologist.
- BOSS
-
noun,
a person who employs or superintends workers; manager.
- bot.
-
- bote
-
noun,
compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
- boun
-
verb (used with or without object),
to prepare; make ready.
- BSMT
-
- bout
-
noun,
a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.
- uni-
-
- BSCE
-
- BSEc
-
- BSEM
-
- BSES
-
- BSIE
-
- BSIT
-
- BSLM
-
- BSLS
-
- BSME
-
- tonn
-
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- min.
-
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- tel-
-
- TCBM
-
- mils
-
noun,
a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
- moil
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- mol.
-
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- molt
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- Mon.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- mool
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- Milt
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- Milo
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- melt
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- Lune
-
noun,
anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
- Lunt
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- ious
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- men-
-
- Mile
-
noun,
Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- ment
-
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- mes-
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- met.
-
- ten.
-
- mibs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- Mic.
-
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- mil.
-
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- lube
-
noun,
lubricant.
- nibs
-
noun,
his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical:
- Nebo
-
noun,
Mt. See under Pisgah.
- NEBS
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neo-
-
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- NCTE
-
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- nobs
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- subs
-
noun,
a submarine.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- NEbn
-
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mule
-
noun,
the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.
Compare hinny.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- mout
-
- MSBC
-
- MSCE
-
- msec
-
- MSIE
-
- MSSc
-
- MSTS
-
- sunn
-
noun,
a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- muc-
-
- mult
-
- sumi
-
noun,
black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.
- mun.
-
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- mus.
-
- MusB
-
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- muss
-
noun,
a state of disorder or untidiness.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- Luce
-
noun,
a pike, especially when fully grown.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- lin.
-
- lit.
-
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- LitB
-
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- itol
-
- litu
-
noun,
a plural of litas.
- Tob.
-
- lobe
-
noun,
a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Linn
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- lobi
-
noun,
plural of lobus.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Lib.
-
- libs
-
noun,
liberation (def 2):
- Tobe
-
noun,
the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- limo
-
noun,
a limousine.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lieu
-
noun,
place; stead.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- limb
-
noun,
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- lime
-
noun,
Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- limn
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- tomb
-
noun,
an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- tion
-
- lobo
-
noun,
the gray or timber wolf of the western U.S.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ISBN
-
- loun
-
noun,
loon2 .
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- isls
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- Loon
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Loco
-
noun,
locoweed.
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- Loeb
-
noun,
Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, German physiologist and experimental biologist in the U.S.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- lobs
-
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- ISSN
-
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- iso-
-
- LOOM
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- uti
-
- uns
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- UTC
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- 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.
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- USO
-
- USN
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TLC
-
- USB
-
- USC
-
- USM
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- STI
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- STM
-
- STL
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- Ulm
-
noun,
a city in E Baden-Württemberg, in S Germany, on the Danube.
- UNO
-
- SSM
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- unc
-
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- SSN
-
- UMT
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- ss.
-
- SSB
-
- Ube
-
noun,
a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- 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.
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- SSC
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- ult
-
- UIT
-
- USS
-
- TSE
-
- Sus
-
- TSI
-
- TSS
-
- TNB
-
- TMO
-
- Tu.
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- tub
-
noun,
a bathtub.
- tlo
-
- tue
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- Tbi
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- TBO
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- STB
-
- Une
-
- TCS
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- il-
-
- ics
-
- ITU
-
- io-
-
- ib.
-
- IBN
-
- Ibo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- ILO
-
- ETS
-
- ILS
-
- imu
-
noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- in.
-
- ine
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- IOC
-
- 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 = .
- eu-
-
- ETO
-
- IOT
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ec-
-
- ECM
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- EIS
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- EMT
-
- ESU
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- en-
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Esc
-
- ESL
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- 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.
- IOU
-
- EbN
-
- LOC
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- LMT
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- LON
-
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- LSC
-
- LSI
-
- LSM
-
- Les
-
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ium
-
- ise
-
- Isl
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ist
-
- ITC
-
- ite
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- IUS
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Lt.
-
- lb.
-
plural,
pound.
- LBO
-
- LBS
-
plural,
pound.
- LCI
-
- LCM
-
- LCT
-
- EBS
-
- ebb
-
noun,
the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- LST
-
- BNS
-
- BLT
-
plural,
a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
- BME
-
- BMI
-
- BMS
-
- BMT
-
- Bn.
-
- Bob
-
noun,
a short, jerky motion:
- BLM
-
- Bon
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- boo
-
noun,
an exclamation of contempt or disapproval:
- BSL
-
- BSE
-
- BSM
-
- BSN
-
- BSO
-
- BLS
-
- ble
-
- Bt.
-
- BSC
-
- BBC
-
- BCE
-
- BCL
-
- be-
-
- BEM
-
- bl.
-
- BSS
-
- BTU
-
noun,
the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound (0.4 kg) of water 1°F. Abbreviation: Btu, BTU, B.t.u., B.T.U., B.th.u.
- BIT
-
noun,
Machinery.
a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like.
a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill.
a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
- bbs
-
noun,
a size of shot, 0.18 inches (0.46 cm) in diameter, fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
- BCS
-
- bec
-
- Bel
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- Ben
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- bi-
-
- BIE
-
- BST
-
- BTE
-
- EOM
-
- CST
-
- CNS
-
- COB
-
noun,
a corncob.
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- CSO
-
- cte
-
- CNN
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- Cub
-
noun,
the young of certain animals, as the bear, lion, or tiger.
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- Cui
-
noun,
César [French sey-zar] /French seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), Antonovich [Russian uhn-taw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ʌnˈtɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1918, Russian composer.
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- eo-
-
- CNO
-
- CNM
-
- bu.
-
- cl.
-
- Bub
-
noun,
(used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.
- bun
-
noun,
any of a wide variety of variously shaped bread rolls, usually leavened and slightly sweetened or plain, sometimes containing spices, dried currants, etc.
- CBE
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Co.
-
- cs.
-
- ct.
-
- CBS
-
- CLU
-
- CEO
-
- CIB
-
- CIE
-
- CIM
-
- cle
-
- CLI
-
- Clo
-
- LSS
-
- LIM
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- OCS
-
- Oc.
-
- OSB
-
- OTC
-
- OBE
-
- obi
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- obl
-
- OEM
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- oic
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- OIt
-
- Om.
-
- OMB
-
- ob.
-
- Nun
-
noun,
a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- NMU
-
- 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:
- nib
-
noun,
the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NMI
-
- NNE
-
- NUM
-
- nob
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- lub
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- NSC
-
- NSU
-
- nub
-
noun,
the point, gist, or heart of something.
- NUL
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- ONI
-
- NEC
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- Sib
-
noun,
a kinsman; relative.
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- SCS
-
- SLE
-
- SMB
-
- SMS
-
- SNU
-
- SOB
-
noun,
the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- se-
-
- SCM
-
- ons
-
- ot-
-
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- oon
-
- OOT
-
- ose
-
- OSO
-
- OSS
-
- OTB
-
- SCB
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- So.
-
- sb.
-
- SBE
-
- sc.
-
- NES
-
- NOC
-
- NEB
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- MIT
-
- ml.
-
- MLS
-
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- ne-
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MIB
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- MOI
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MSE
-
- MSI
-
- MIE
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MST
-
- MSL
-
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- MBE
-
- Mc-
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSC
-
- mi.
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MBO
-
- MCI
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MSN
-
- mob
-
noun,
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
- MTS
-
- NbE
-
- MTO
-
- mtn
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- NBC
-
- MTI
-
- Mt.
-
- NCO
-
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- NBS
-
- ic
-
- i.
-
- NL
-
- TM
-
- TN
-
- NM
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- NC
-
- TL
-
- LM
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- UI
-
- ln
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- NI
-
- BB
-
noun,
a size of shot, 0.18 inches (0.46 cm) in diameter, fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
- SM
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- BO
-
- BM
-
- SN
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- MB
-
- M.
-
- BC
-
- B-
-
- NB
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- SL
-
- L.
-
- SU
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- UB
-
- O.
-
- UC
-
- t.
-
- TB
-
- T1
-
- U.
-
- TC
-
- 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.
- CU
-
- ol
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- CM
-
- S.
-
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- Eb
-
- UL
-
- le
-
- N.
-
- EI
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- MN
-
- LC
-
- L2
-
- L1
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- CB
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- CE
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.