Anagrams of portentous
Word portentous has
654 anagrams
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- ten-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- outports
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noun,
a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.
- outspent
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adjective,
worn-out; exhausted.
- one-spot
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noun,
the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- strepto-
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- potstone
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noun,
a kind of soapstone, sometimes used for making pots and other household utensils.
- portents
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- teutons
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noun,
a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- tropous
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- putters
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noun,
puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- tone-up
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noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- Stentor
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- petrous
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adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- sterno-
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- 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.
- Orontes
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noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- sputter
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noun,
the act or sound of sputtering.
- touters
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noun,
a tout.
- Suttner
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noun,
Bertha von [bur-thuh von;; German ber-tuh fuh n] /ˈbɜr θə vɒn;; German ˈbɛr tə fən/ (Show IPA), 1843–1914, Austrian writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1905.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- sporont
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noun,
(in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- neutro-
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- outsert
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noun,
an additional folded signature or sheet into which another is bound.
- outpost
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noun,
a station established at a distance from the main body of an army to protect it from surprise attack:
- outport
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noun,
a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.
- troupes
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noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- portent
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- punster
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noun,
a person who makes puns frequently.
- unroots
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verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- protest
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noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- Proteus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- pouters
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noun,
a person who pouts.
- nutters
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noun,
a person who gathers nuts.
- onerous
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adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- enroots
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- uproots
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verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- entrust
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verb (used with object),
to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust:
- soutter
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noun,
souter.
- posture
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noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pterous
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- operons
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- stouten
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verb (used with object),
to make stout.
- operon
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- super-
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- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- sporo-
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- pronto
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adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- strunt
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noun,
the fleshy part or stump of a tail, especially of a horse's tail.
- stoper
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noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- steno-
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- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- one-up
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adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- sprout
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noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- souter
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- stupor
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noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- osteo-
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- person
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noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Sooner
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noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- porous
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adjective,
full of pores.
- presto
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noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- pouter
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noun,
a person who pouts.
- proto-
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- Proton
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noun,
a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- Proust
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noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- pottos
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noun,
any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- prunes
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noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- Potter
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noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- potent
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noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- poster
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noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- poseur
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noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- ptero-
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- pteron
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noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- put-on
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noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- putter
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noun,
puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
- ouster
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noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- repots
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verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Pontus
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noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- Reston
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noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Petros
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noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- petro-
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- rotten
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adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- rottes
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noun,
rote2 .
- rouens
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- routes
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noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Ruston
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noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- setout
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noun,
preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
- set-to
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noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- set-up
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noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- outset
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noun,
the beginning or start:
- Sutter
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noun,
John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- utters
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adjective,
complete; total; absolute:
- Sutton
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noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- tropo-
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- Teuton
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noun,
a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- toners
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noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tuners
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noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- eroto-
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- T-stop
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noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- trouts
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noun,
any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon.
Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- erupts
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verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- topers
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noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- tropes
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noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- unrest
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noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- neuro-
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- troops
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noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- torose
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adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- Nestor
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noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- trones
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noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- tortes
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noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- Trento
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noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- touter
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noun,
a tout.
- tutors
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noun,
a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- troupe
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noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- unroot
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verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- uproot
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verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- utero-
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- tensor
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tenuto
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adjective,
Music. (of a note, chord, or rest) held to the full time value.
- uprose
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noun,
an act of rising up.
- enroot
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- teston
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noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- Nutter
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noun,
a person who gathers nuts.
- uptorn
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verb,
past participle of uptear.
- unstop
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verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- unstep
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verb (used with object),
to lift from its step, as a mast.
- rotes
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noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Roose
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verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- prost
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interjection,
prosit.
- Roost
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noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- troop
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noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- route
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noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- trone
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noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- ropes
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noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- roset
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noun,
resin; rosin.
- roues
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noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- roups
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noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- trets
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noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Utter
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adjective,
complete; total; absolute:
- rotte
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noun,
rote2 .
- rouse
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noun,
a rousing.
- re-up
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verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- Trent
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noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- Rouen
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- prose
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noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- touts
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noun,
a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
- roust
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verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- trop-
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- Prot.
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- routs
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noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- prunt
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noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- tutor
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noun,
a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- tunes
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noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- prune
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noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- Prus.
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- tuner
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noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Trust
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noun,
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- punts
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noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- Purse
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noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- Trout
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noun,
any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon.
Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- trots
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noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- resp.
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- upset
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noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- Upton
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- putto
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noun,
a representation of a cherubic infant, often shown winged.
- putts
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noun,
an act of putting.
- 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.
- repos
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noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
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verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- trope
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noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- unset
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adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- rept.
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- touse
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noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- sero-
-
- runes
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noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- stope
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noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- spurt
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noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- toots
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noun,
an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
- toons
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noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- tonus
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noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- Stent
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- tono-
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- step-
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- tones
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noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- ster.
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- Stern
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noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Stone
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noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- toner
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noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- stoop
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noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- Teut.
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- Teton
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noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- sprue
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noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- strut
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noun,
the act of strutting.
- teno-
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- tenor
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noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- Sturt
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noun,
violent quarreling.
- 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.
- stupe
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noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- stunt
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noun,
a stop or hindrance in growth or development.
- strop
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noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stopt
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noun,
the act of stopping.
- terns
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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.
- Strep
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noun,
streptococcus.
- Stout
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noun,
a dark, sweet brew made of roasted malt and having a higher percentage of hops than porter.
- stour
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noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- stoup
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noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- store
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noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- spurn
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noun,
disdainful rejection.
- toper
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noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- runts
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noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- setup
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noun,
organization; arrangement.
- Torte
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noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- snoot
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noun,
Slang. the nose.
- snoop
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noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- torts
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noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- Torun
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noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- torus
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noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- totes
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noun,
the act or course of toting.
- torse
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noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Toure
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noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- Seton
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noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Supt.
-
- Sept.
-
- senor
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Tours
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- torso
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noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- snore
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noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- spout
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noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- spor-
-
- topes
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noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- topo-
-
- sport
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noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- topos
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noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- TORES
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noun,
a torus.
- spore
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noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- Spoor
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noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- snort
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noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- spoon
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noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- spent
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verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- toros
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noun,
a bull.
- Soter
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noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- sopor
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noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- snout
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noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- pros.
-
- rotos
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noun,
rotogravure.
- prone
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noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- outen
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verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- OPers
-
- opto-
-
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- Orton
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noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- oste-
-
- Otter
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noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- ottos
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- Outer
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adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- onto-
-
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- peons
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noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- pert.
-
- pesto
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noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- petos
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noun,
wahoo3 .
- petr-
-
- poet.
-
- pron.
-
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- 30-30
-
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- ento-
-
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Euro-
-
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- neur-
-
- neut.
-
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- noso-
-
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- noto-
-
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- potto
-
noun,
any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- pret.
-
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Port.
-
- Pres.
-
- post-
-
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- 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.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- str.
-
- esp.
-
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- est.
-
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- OPer
-
- 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.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- 1080
-
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Tues
-
- Otto
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- oto-
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- eso-
-
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- pre-
-
- Ste.
-
- oro-
-
- tron
-
- pos.
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- nos-
-
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- 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.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- not-
-
- 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.
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- prs.
-
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- Nor.
-
- toot
-
noun,
an act or sound of tooting.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- top-
-
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- pot.
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- Ont.
-
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- pts.
-
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- supr
-
- sur-
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Eur.
-
- tout
-
noun,
a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
- neo-
-
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- ten.
-
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- 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.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- ter.
-
- 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.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- purs
-
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Pet.
-
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Pers
-
- putt
-
noun,
an act of putting.
- per.
-
- 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.
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- uro-
-
- rpt.
-
- uret
-
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- Ens.
-
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- 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.
- pro-
-
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- 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.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- USPO
-
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- sepn
-
- eous
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- tuts
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tut.”.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- out-
-
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- 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.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- 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.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Pen.
-
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- 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:
- 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.
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- USN
-
- NES
-
- Tro
-
- USO
-
- USP
-
- ERP
-
- TTS
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- USR
-
- TSE
-
- Tu.
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- EPT
-
- ETO
-
- tue
-
- 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.
- ESU
-
- ESR
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- TSP
-
- en-
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- TPN
-
- tr.
-
- uns
-
- eu-
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- up-
-
- Ep.
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- unp
-
- ETS
-
- ne-
-
- Tpr
-
- UNO
-
- Une
-
- ERT
-
- ure
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ur-
-
- EPS
-
- Tut
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tut.”.
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- eo-
-
- trp
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- ETR
-
- RPS
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- pt.
-
- 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).
- Ps.
-
- prn
-
- Pr.
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- SNU
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- PTO
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- OTS
-
- ote
-
- OSP
-
- SPR
-
- OSO
-
- ose
-
- spt
-
- 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.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Sr.
-
- RPO
-
- POR
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Re.
-
- 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.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- ROP
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- Rs.
-
- se-
-
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- SRO
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ot-
-
- St.
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEO
-
- op.
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- NSU
-
- nr.
-
- Npt
-
- NPR
-
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- TNT
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- 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.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PSE
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- NOP
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- STP
-
- PTT
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- oon
-
- oo-
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- ons
-
- ONR
-
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- 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.
- OPS
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noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- o-o
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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.
- opt
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Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- OOT
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- RP
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- TN
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- TT
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- P.
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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.
- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- RO
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- R.
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- UT
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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.
- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- RN
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- PU
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- OU
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noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- N.
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- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- U.
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- SN
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- SU
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- TP
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- t.
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- NP
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- T1
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- S.
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- O.
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- NU
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noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- RU
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- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- OE
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noun,
oy2 .