Anagrams of persistent
Word persistent has
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that can be made by using the letters of persistent.
- pinsetters
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noun,
a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- presentist
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noun,
a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled.
Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- pinsetter
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noun,
a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- Serpentis
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noun,
genitive of Serpens.
- sternites
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- tres-tine
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noun,
royal antler.
- interests
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- respites
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- spinster
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noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spitters
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noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- pretties
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noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- pretests
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- interest
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- presents
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noun,
the present time.
- sentries
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noun,
a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- tipsters
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noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- sternite
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- step-ins
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- priests
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noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- tipster
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noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- repents
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adjective,
creeping.
- tinters
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- streets
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- estrins
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noun,
estrone.
- spinets
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noun,
a small upright piano.
- penises
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noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- Teniers
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noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- spriest
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adjective,
a superlative of spry.
- sprints
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noun,
a short race at full speed.
- inserts
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- persist
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verb (used without object),
to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.:
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pretest
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- insteps
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noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- pesters
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- presets
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noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- petites
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- tenters
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- Petrine
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adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- repines
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verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- present
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noun,
the present time.
- testers
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noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- sprites
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noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- stripes
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noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- spitter
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noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- esprits
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noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- Serpens
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noun,
the Serpent, a constellation consisting of two separate parts, the head (Serpens Caput) and the tail (Serpens Cauda) with Ophiuchus in between.
- serines
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- sereins
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noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Trieste
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noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- septets
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noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- entires
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- entries
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noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- sinters
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Epstein
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noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- seiners
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noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- respite
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- Spenser
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noun,
Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.
- resents
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- Spener
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noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- sestet
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noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- Peters
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noun,
penis.
- Petite
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- resist
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noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- Petrie
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noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- series
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noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- serein
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noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- setter
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noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- septi-
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- steins
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noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- repent
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adjective,
creeping.
- Spiers
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noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- Sterne
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noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- pester
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- Pinter
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noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- serine
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- repine
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verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- serins
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noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- perses
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noun,
a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- resets
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noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- sterns
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noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- stints
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noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- stipes
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noun,
Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- stirps
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noun,
a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- Street
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- set-in
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adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- streps
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noun,
streptococcus.
- Strine
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noun,
Australian English.
- stripe
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noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- rentes
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noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- steeps
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noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- steers
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noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Sister
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noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- spirts
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noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- spites
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noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- stript
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noun,
a striptease.
- rinses
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noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- spinet
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noun,
a small upright piano.
- sprint
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noun,
a short race at full speed.
- prises
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noun,
leverage.
- prints
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noun,
the state of being printed.
- snipes
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noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- sneers
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noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- Sitter
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noun,
a person who sits.
- Priest
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noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- sitten
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verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- sirens
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- speers
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noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- resent
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- pisser
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noun,
something extremely difficult or unpleasant.
- pistes
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noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- sprits
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noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- septet
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noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- sprite
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noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- preens
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noun,
a pin or brooch.
- sinter
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- sirees
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noun,
sirree.
- spines
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noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- seines
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noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- reests
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verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- preset
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noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- seiner
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noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- prests
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noun,
a loan.
- ripens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- steres
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- nitres
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noun,
niter.
- inters
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verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- Tessie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- triene
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- instep
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noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- instr.
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- Nessie
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noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- titers
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noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- testis
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noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- inter.
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- Nereis
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noun,
clamworm.
- tenets
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noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- Tessin
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noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- tenses
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noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- testes
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noun,
plural of testis.
- Neisse
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noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- esters
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noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- tester
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noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- treens
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noun,
treenware.
- tentie
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adjective,
tenty.
- esprit
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noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- insets
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noun,
something inserted; insert.
- enter-
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- niters
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noun,
potassium nitrate.
- ternes
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noun,
terne metal.
- triste
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adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- tripes
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noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- titres
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noun,
titer.
- trines
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- espies
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noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- tenter
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- tinter
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- Estrin
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noun,
estrone.
- enters
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Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- entire
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- triens
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noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- insert
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- spier
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noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- tires
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noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- resin
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noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resit
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noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- rept.
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- spent
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verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- resp.
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- Essen
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noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- reset
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noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Estes
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noun,
a male given name.
- tints
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noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- reest
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verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- spite
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noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- tiers
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noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- spirt
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noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- spire
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noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spins
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noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- tines
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noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- reins
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noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Ester
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noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- spine
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noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- reist
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verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- reni-
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- spies
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- rente
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noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rents
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noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- titer
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noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- snips
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noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- titre
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noun,
titer.
- Sept.
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- seise
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verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- sipes
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verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sense
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noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- senti
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noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Epist
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- sents
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noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Epis.
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- sines
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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.
- septs
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noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- Seine
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noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- setts
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noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- tries
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noun,
plural of try.
- trine
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Seres
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noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- serin
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noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- tripe
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noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- trite
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adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- 30-30
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- trets
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noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- siree
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noun,
sirree.
- rests
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noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- snipe
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noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- Speer
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noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- rinse
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noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- snits
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noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- ripen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- treen
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noun,
treenware.
- spits
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noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Ernst
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noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Ernie
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noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- sites
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noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Siret
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noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sires
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noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Trent
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noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- Siren
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- seeps
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noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- tress
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noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- nitre
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noun,
niter.
- Ieper
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noun,
Ypres.
- seti-
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- neeps
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noun,
a turnip.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- pert.
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Neper
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noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- pests
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noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Stern
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noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Peter
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noun,
penis.
- Petit
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adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- peris
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noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- petr-
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- petri
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- tents
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noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- petti
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noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- iters
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noun,
a canal or passage.
- Piers
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noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- step-
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- Stent
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- Perse
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noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- peri-
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- Pines
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noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- peens
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noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- nitr-
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- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- 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.
- pene-
-
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- ster.
-
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- insep
-
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Pres.
-
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- inst.
-
- intr.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- Press
-
noun,
an act of pressing; pressure.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- insp.
-
- pret.
-
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- priss
-
noun,
a prissy person.
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- trit
-
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- 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.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- ten.
-
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- str.
-
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- Ste.
-
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- ter.
-
- Tit.
-
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- tri-
-
- SIPS
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- 1080
-
- Pen.
-
- ESIS
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prin
-
- prs.
-
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- psis
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- esp.
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- pts.
-
- pre-
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- piss
-
noun,
urine.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- Pet.
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pers
-
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- ette
-
- per.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- Ire.
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Rep.
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Ens.
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- sepn
-
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- 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.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- epi-
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- ISSN
-
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rit.
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rpt.
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- epit
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- ise
-
- ISR
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- 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:
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- ite
-
- IRS
-
- ist
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- NES
-
- ne-
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- ESR
-
- Ir.
-
- EIS
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EPT
-
- EPS
-
- Ep.
-
- ene
-
- en-
-
- eir
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- trp
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- TSP
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- TSS
-
- ERP
-
- tr.
-
- IPS
-
- ETS
-
- ipr
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- ine
-
- in.
-
- ier
-
- 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.
- ETR
-
- Tpr
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ese
-
- ERT
-
- TNT
-
- TPI
-
- TPN
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- PTT
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- RPS
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Re.
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- Rs.
-
- PSS
-
- SPR
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- SPS
-
- spt
-
- Sr.
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- RSE
-
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- RSS
-
- se-
-
- Sp.
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- PSE
-
- SRS
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- NPR
-
- Npt
-
- nr.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- STP
-
- ss.
-
- pt.
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- STI
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- Ps.
-
- TTS
-
- St.
-
- SSI
-
- SSN
-
- SSR
-
- SST
-
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- SSE
-
- T1
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- t.
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- i.
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- TT
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- EI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- TN
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- NP
-
- NI
-
- RI
-
- N.
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- 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.
- SN
-
- RP
-
- IP
-
- R.
-
- RN
-
- TP
-
- S.
-