Anagrams of pratincolous
Word pratincolous has
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- Apostolic
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adjective,
of or characteristic of an apostle.
- platinous
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adjective,
containing bivalent platinum.
- rainspout
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noun,
waterspout (def 1).
- Proustian
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adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- tonsorial
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adjective,
of or relating to a barber or barbering:
- atrocious
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adjective,
extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal:
- supinator
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noun,
a muscle used in supination.
- Acropolis
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noun,
the citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city.
- locutoria
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noun,
parlor (def 4).
- locutions
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noun,
a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- consultor
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noun,
a member of a secular clergy who advises a bishop.
- locations
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noun,
a place of settlement, activity, or residence:
- prolusion
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noun,
a preliminary written article.
- suctorian
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noun,
a suctorial animal.
- suctorial
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adjective,
adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- prolactin
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noun,
an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- calutrons
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noun,
a device for separating isotopes by atomic mass, operating in a manner similar to a mass spectrograph.
- insulator
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noun,
Electricity.
a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible.
insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- cast-iron
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noun,
an alloy of iron, carbon, and other elements, cast as a soft and strong, or as a hard and brittle, iron, depending on the mixture and methods of molding.
- Patroclus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- consortia
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noun,
a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- troupials
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noun,
any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- contrails
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noun,
a visible condensation of water droplets or ice crystals from the atmosphere, occurring in the wake of an aircraft, rocket, or missile under certain conditions.
- paroicous
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adjective,
(of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pulsation
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noun,
the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- cilantros
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noun,
the strong-scented leaves of the coriander plant, used in salads or to flavor and garnish food.
- picaroons
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noun,
a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- prolation
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noun,
the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- platoons
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noun,
a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- pai-loos
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noun,
(in Chinese architecture) a decorative or monumental gateway having a trabeated form with three compartments, the central one higher than the others.
- cautions
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noun,
alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness:
- Platonic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines:
- optional
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adjective,
left to one's choice; not required or mandatory:
- linocuts
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noun,
a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- Pactolus
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noun,
a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- Pliotron
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noun,
any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- unicolor
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adjective,
having only one color.
- unipolar
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adjective,
Also, homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
- Sculptor
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noun,
a person who practices the art of sculpture.
- Plutonic
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adjective,
noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- contrail
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noun,
a visible condensation of water droplets or ice crystals from the atmosphere, occurring in the wake of an aircraft, rocket, or missile under certain conditions.
- unplaits
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verb (used with object),
to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.
- troupial
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noun,
any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- coolants
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noun,
a substance, usually a liquid or a gas, used to reduce the temperature of a system below a specified value by conducting away the heat produced in the operation of the system, as the liquid in an automobile cooling system or the fluid that removes heat from the core of a nuclear reactor.
- Plotinus
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noun,
a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- colorant
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noun,
something used as a coloring matter; pigment; dye.
- ructions
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noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- sorption
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noun,
the state or process of being sorbed.
- nitroso-
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- clarinos
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noun,
a valveless trumpet used in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing rapid passages in the high register.
- tournois
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adjective,
(of coins) minted in Tours, France:
- patroons
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noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- nocturia
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noun,
a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- touracos
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noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- nol-pros
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verb (used with object),
to end by a nolle prosequi.
- Clairton
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noun,
a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- picaroon
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noun,
a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- solution
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noun,
the act of solving a problem, question, etc.:
- Luristan
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noun,
a mountainous region in W Iran.
- lunatics
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noun,
(no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- coal-pit
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noun,
a pit where coal is dug.
- sit-upon
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noun,
a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.
- platino-
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- pin-curl
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noun,
a dampened curl that is kept in place by a clip or hairpin.
- cislunar
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adjective,
of or relating to the space between the earth and the orbit of the moon.
- auctions
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noun,
Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- piscator
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noun,
fisherman.
- locution
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noun,
a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- location
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noun,
a place of settlement, activity, or residence:
- colonist
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noun,
an inhabitant of a colony.
- captious
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adjective,
apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.
- patinous
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adjective,
patinated.
- colorist
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noun,
a person who uses color skillfully.
- cilantro
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noun,
the strong-scented leaves of the coriander plant, used in salads or to flavor and garnish food.
- nuptials
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noun,
Usually, nuptials. a wedding or marriage.
- plastron
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noun,
a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- tropical
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noun,
tropicals, lightweight clothing, suitable for warm, especially summer weather.
- tropaion
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noun,
a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- puritans
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noun,
a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- carotins
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noun,
carotene.
- air-cool
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verb (used with object),
Machinery. to remove the heat of combustion, friction, etc., from (a machine, engine, or device), as by air streams flowing over an engine jacket.
- canorous
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adjective,
melodious; musical.
- carpools
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noun,
Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- ostracon
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noun,
(in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- Rasputin
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noun,
Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- cantoris
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adjective,
of or relating to the gospel or liturgical north side of a church (opposed to decani).
- osculant
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adjective,
united by certain common characteristics.
- courants
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noun,
courante.
- cantrips
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noun,
Chiefly Scot. a magic spell; trick by sorcery.
- courlans
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noun,
the limpkin.
- Ilocanos
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noun,
a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- positron
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noun,
an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- ortolans
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noun,
an Old World bunting, Emberiza hortulana, esteemed as a table delicacy.
- Tarnopol
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noun,
Ternopol.
- rainouts
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noun,
a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- scapulo-
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- curtains
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noun,
a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
- curtails
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noun,
a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- orcinols
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noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 7 H 8 O 2 , sweet but unpleasant in taste, that reddens on exposure to air: obtained from many lichens or produced synthetically and used chiefly as a reagent for certain carbohydrates.
- purloins
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verb (used with object),
to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- crotalin
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noun,
a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- pulsator
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noun,
something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- croutons
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noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- cortisol
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noun,
Biochemistry. one of several steroid hormones produced by the adrenal cortex and resembling cortisone in its action.
- couloirs
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noun,
a steep gorge or gully on the side of a mountain, especially in the Alps.
- clarions
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noun,
an ancient trumpet with a curved shape.
- copilots
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noun,
a pilot who is second in command of an aircraft.
- corantos
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noun,
courante.
- pontiacs
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noun,
c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- Polonius
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noun,
the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- scotopia
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noun,
vision in dim light (opposed to photopia).
- coronals
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noun,
a crown; coronet.
- Scorpion
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noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Scorpionida, widely distributed in warmer parts of the world, having a long, narrow, segmented tail that terminates in a venomous sting.
- 11-point
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- cornutos
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noun,
a cuckold.
- caltrops
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noun,
any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- porticos
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noun,
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- calutron
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noun,
a device for separating isotopes by atomic mass, operating in a manner similar to a mass spectrograph.
- Alcinous
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noun,
king of the Phaeacians and father of Nausicaä and Laodamas.
- outcrops
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noun,
Geology.
a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth.
the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- citrons
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noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- Carlson
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noun,
Anton Julius [an-tohn,, -ton] /ˈæn toʊn,, -tɒn/ (Show IPA), 1875–1956, U.S. physiologist, born in Sweden.
- Carlton
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noun,
Stephen Norman ("Steve"; "Lefty") born 1944, U.S. baseball player.
- nostril
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noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- citrals
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noun,
a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- Carlist
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noun,
a supporter of the claims of Don Carlos of Spain or of his successors to the Spanish throne.
- catnips
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noun,
a plant, Nepeta cataria, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves containing aromatic oils that are a cat attractant.
- octopus
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noun,
any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- cations
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noun,
a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- opsonic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or influenced by opsonin; capable of promoting phagocytosis.
- Clapton
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noun,
Eric, born 1945, English blues and rock guitarist and composer.
- clarino
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noun,
a valveless trumpet used in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing rapid passages in the high register.
- sautoir
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noun,
a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- carious
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adjective,
having caries, as teeth; decayed.
- optical
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noun,
opticals, optical effects.
- Clarion
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noun,
an ancient trumpet with a curved shape.
- oculars
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noun,
Optics. eyepiece.
- carpous
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- slip-on
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noun,
something made this way, especially an article of clothing.
- scolion
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noun,
a song sung at banquets in ancient Greece.
- nutrias
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noun,
the coypu.
- Scorpio
-
noun,
Astronomy. Scorpius.
- carpool
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noun,
Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- nuptial
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noun,
Usually, nuptials. a wedding or marriage.
- scopula
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noun,
a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- Script.
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- caution
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noun,
alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness:
- transp.
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- transl.
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- carnous
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adjective,
carnose.
- Scutari
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noun,
Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- oilcups
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noun,
a closed cup or can supplying lubricant to a bearing or bearings.
- cartoon
-
noun,
a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- oilcans
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noun,
a can having a long spout through which oil is poured or squirted to lubricate machinery or the like.
- sculpin
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noun,
any small, freshwater fish of the genus Cottus, of the family Cottidae, having a large head with one or more spines on each side; bullhead.
- cistron
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noun,
a segment of DNA that encodes for the formation of a specific polypeptide chain; a structural gene.
- Carolus
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noun,
any of various coins issued under monarchs named Charles, especially the broad of Charles I of England.
- oculist
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noun,
ophthalmologist.
- Ontario
-
noun,
a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- carotin
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noun,
carotene.
- torulas
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noun,
a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- nitrous
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adjective,
pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- coronal
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noun,
a crown; coronet.
- insculp
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verb (used with object),
to carve in or on something; engrave.
- Costain
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noun,
Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- insular
-
noun,
an inhabitant of an island; islander.
- Cortona
-
noun,
Pietro da [pye-traw dah] /ˈpyɛ trɔ dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Pietro Berrettini) 1596–1669, Italian painter and architect.
- cortina
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noun,
a weblike, often evanescent veil covering the gills or hanging from the cap edge of certain mushrooms, particularly those of genus Cortinarius, and sometimes persisting as a ring or remnant of fibrils around the mushroom stalk.
- tailors
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noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- coronas
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noun,
a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon.
- surcoat
-
noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- inpours
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verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- cornuto
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noun,
a cuckold.
- topical
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noun,
Philately. any of a collection of different stamps treating the same subject.
- coranto
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noun,
courante.
- copulas
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noun,
something that connects or links together.
- suction
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noun,
the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- toprail
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noun,
the uppermost rail of the back of a chair or the like; a crest rail.
- cop-out
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noun,
an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion:
- talions
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noun,
lex talionis.
- couloir
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noun,
a steep gorge or gully on the side of a mountain, especially in the Alps.
- copilot
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noun,
a pilot who is second in command of an aircraft.
- curtain
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noun,
a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
- culprit
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noun,
a person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault.
- tincals
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noun,
a former name for crude native borax.
- crouton
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noun,
a small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
- cupolas
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noun,
Architecture.
a light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere.
a dome, especially one covering a circular or polygonal area.
- crotons
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noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- curiosa
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plural noun,
books, pamphlets, etc., dealing with unusual subjects.
- curtail
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noun,
a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtals
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noun,
a 16th-century bassoon.
- incrust
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verb (used with object),
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- cratons
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noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- tarpons
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noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- craniol
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- cranio-
-
- Ilocano
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noun,
a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- inclasp
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verb (used with object),
enclasp.
- courlan
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noun,
the limpkin.
- courant
-
noun,
courante.
- copious
-
adjective,
large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful:
- stoical
-
adjective,
impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics:
- Sno-Cat
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- lunatic
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noun,
(no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- locator
-
noun,
a person who locates something.
- spicula
-
noun,
a spicule.
- torsion
-
noun,
the act of twisting.
- soupcon
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noun,
a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- lotions
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noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- soprano
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noun,
the uppermost part or voice.
- Puritan
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noun,
a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- toucans
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noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- spirant
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noun,
fricative (def 2).
- solunar
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adjective,
pertaining to or listing the rising and setting times of the sun and moon, phases of the moon, eclipses, etc.:
- soliton
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- Socotra
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noun,
an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- touraco
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noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- sociol.
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- clip-on
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noun,
a clip-on device, ornament, or the like.
- Tournai
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noun,
a city in W Belgium, on the Scheldt River.
- Locarno
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noun,
a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Maggiore: Locarno Pact 1925.
- colours
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noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- Stalino
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noun,
a former name of Donetsk.
- contra-
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- topsail
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noun,
a sail, or either of a pair of sails, set immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast.
- topsoil
-
noun,
the fertile, upper part of the soil.
- latinos
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noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- Latinus
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noun,
the father of Lavinia and king of Latium at the time of the arrival of Aeneas.
- coolant
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noun,
a substance, usually a liquid or a gas, used to reduce the temperature of a system below a specified value by conducting away the heat produced in the operation of the system, as the liquid in an automobile cooling system or the fluid that removes heat from the core of a nuclear reactor.
- control
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noun,
the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command:
- contras
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- lictors
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noun,
(in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- Spirula
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noun,
any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- contour
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noun,
the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- linocut
-
noun,
a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- consult
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noun,
a consultation.
- constr.
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- 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.
- consort
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noun,
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- Conrail
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noun,
a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- conatus
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noun,
an effort or striving.
- colonus
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noun,
a serf in the latter period of the Roman Empire or in the early feudal period.
- crustal
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adjective,
of or relating to a crust, as of the earth.
- caption
-
noun,
a title or explanation for a picture or illustration, especially in a magazine.
- Rantoul
-
noun,
a city in E Illinois.
- upsilon
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- upstair
-
noun,
(usually used with a singular verb) an upper story or stories; the part of a building or house that is above the ground floor:
- Roscian
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving acting.
- portion
-
noun,
a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it:
- picaros
-
noun,
a rogue or vagabond.
- turacos
-
noun,
touraco.
- uracils
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a pyrimidine base, C 4 H 4 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U.
- Paulist
-
noun,
a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- patulin
-
noun,
a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- patroon
-
noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- potions
-
noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- astrol.
-
- parulis
-
noun,
gumboil.
- portico
-
noun,
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- partons
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- atonics
-
noun,
Grammar. an unaccented word, syllable, or sound.
- Proclus
-
noun,
a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- procto-
-
- pronaos
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- actino-
-
- parotic
-
adjective,
situated about or near the ear.
- pronota
-
noun,
the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- Atropos
-
noun,
the Fate who cuts the thread of life.
- parlous
-
adverb,
to a large extent; greatly.
- auction
-
noun,
Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- parison
-
noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- uproots
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- Pilatus
-
noun,
a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- prosaic
-
adjective,
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative:
- plastic
-
noun,
Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- pocosin
-
noun,
a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- unplait
-
verb (used with object),
to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.
- plutons
-
noun,
any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- riotous
-
adjective,
(of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- plosion
-
noun,
the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant.
Also called explosion.
Compare implosion (def 2).
- uncoils
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unwind from a coiled position.
- unclasp
-
verb (used with object),
to undo the clasp or clasps of; unfasten.
- platoon
-
noun,
a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- apostil
-
noun,
a marginal annotation or note.
- uncials
-
noun,
an uncial letter.
- rialtos
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- apricot
-
noun,
the downy, yellow, sometimes rosy fruit, somewhat resembling a small peach, of the tree Prunus armeniaca.
- unroots
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- Polaris
-
noun,
Astronomy. the polestar or North Star, a star of the second magnitude situated close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor: the outermost star in the handle of the Little Dipper.
- unstrap
-
verb (used with object),
to take off or slacken the strap of.
- plaints
-
noun,
a complaint.
- Pontiac
-
noun,
c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- rituals
-
noun,
an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- Ariosto
-
noun,
Ludovico [loo-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌlu dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1474–1533, Italian poet: author of Orlando Furioso.
- pontils
-
noun,
punty.
- ratoons
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- aristo-
-
- porcino
-
noun,
Usually, porcini. cep.
- porions
-
noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- rootcap
-
noun,
the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- urinals
-
noun,
a flushable wall fixture, as in a public lavatory, used by men for urinating.
- pointal
-
noun,
pointel.
- caltrop
-
noun,
any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- purloin
-
verb (used with object),
to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- Troilus
-
noun,
a warrior son of Priam, mentioned by Homer and Vergil and later represented as the lover of Cressida.
- acinous
-
adjective,
consisting of acini.
- utopias
-
noun,
an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- caplins
-
noun,
capelin.
- Utopian
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Utopia.
- Capitol
-
noun,
the building in Washington, D.C., used by the Congress of the U.S. for its sessions.
- ortolan
-
noun,
an Old World bunting, Emberiza hortulana, esteemed as a table delicacy.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- racoons
-
noun,
raccoon.
- outsail
-
verb (used with object),
to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.
- outspan
-
noun,
the act or a place of outspanning.
- purlins
-
noun,
a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- outsoar
-
verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- cantrip
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a magic spell; trick by sorcery.
- oscular
-
adjective,
pertaining to an osculum.
- rainout
-
noun,
a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- outcrop
-
noun,
Geology.
a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth.
the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- pai-loo
-
noun,
(in Chinese architecture) a decorative or monumental gateway having a trabeated form with three compartments, the central one higher than the others.
- paniolo
-
noun,
a person who herds cattle; cowboy.
- orcinol
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 7 H 8 O 2 , sweet but unpleasant in taste, that reddens on exposure to air: obtained from many lichens or produced synthetically and used chiefly as a reagent for certain carbohydrates.
- tropous
-
- oration
-
noun,
a formal public speech, especially one delivered on a special occasion, as on an anniversary, at a funeral, or at academic exercises.
- Canopus
-
noun,
Astronomy. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Carina: the second brightest star in the heavens.
- ruction
-
noun,
a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- Austro-
-
- Ouranos
-
noun,
Uranus (def 2).
- oralist
-
noun,
an advocate of oralism.
- stolon
-
noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- porion
-
noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- curios
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- ratoon
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- pontil
-
noun,
punty.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- isopor
-
noun,
an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting points of equal annual change in the declination, inclination, or other components of the earth's magnetic field.
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- cupro-
-
- isotac
-
noun,
a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- pooris
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- Pontus
-
noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- pulsar
-
noun,
Astronomy. one of several hundred known celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars, that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
- lacto-
-
- tapirs
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- Pontic
-
noun,
an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- Poitou
-
noun,
a region and former province in W France.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- poison
-
noun,
a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- Culion
-
noun,
an island of the Philippines, in the W part of the group, N of Palawan. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km).
- sprout
-
noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- spruit
-
noun,
(in southern Africa) a small stream.
- lauric
-
adjective,
of or derived from lauric acid.
- purlin
-
noun,
a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- Poncas
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- tincal
-
noun,
a former name for crude native borax.
- latins
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- cupola
-
noun,
Architecture.
a light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere.
a dome, especially one covering a circular or polygonal area.
- Latino
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- lapins
-
noun,
a rabbit.
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- polit.
-
- Rialto
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- polios
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- racist
-
noun,
a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- sultan
-
noun,
the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- inlaut
-
noun,
medial position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- insoul
-
verb (used with object),
ensoul.
- poults
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- talion
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- raptus
-
noun,
a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- cut-in
-
noun,
Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
- tarso-
-
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- inpour
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- incurs
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- tauro-
-
- incult
-
adjective,
wild; rude; unrefined.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- Proton
-
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.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- iatro-
-
- proto-
-
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- pronto
-
adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- Icarus
-
noun,
Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- talons
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- Potosi
-
noun,
a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- sunlit
-
adjective,
lighted by the sun.
- curtal
-
noun,
a 16th-century bassoon.
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- ticals
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Siam, equal to 100 satang: replaced in 1928 by the baht.
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- supra-
-
- icono-
-
- portal
-
noun,
a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- Portia
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- racons
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- ptisan
-
noun,
a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- Tailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- instr.
-
- racoon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- intro.
-
- intra-
-
- insult
-
noun,
an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- postal
-
noun,
Informal. postal card.
- Curtin
-
noun,
John, 1885–1945, Australian statesman: prime minister 1941–45.
- Curtis
-
noun,
Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- potion
-
noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- insula
-
noun,
a group of convolutions situated at the base of the lateral fissure of the brain.
- instal
-
verb (used with object),
install.
- plano-
-
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- parous
-
- sculpt
-
verb (used with or without object),
Fine Arts. to carve, model, or make by using the techniques of sculpture.
- Rustin
-
noun,
Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- rustic
-
noun,
a country person.
- paints
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- nutria
-
noun,
the coypu.
- Pansil
-
noun,
Pancha Sila.
- panto-
-
- Siouan
-
noun,
an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- situla
-
noun,
a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- sit-up
-
noun,
an exercise in which a person lies flat on the back, lifts the torso to a sitting position, and then lies flat again without changing the position of the legs: formerly done with the legs straight but now usually done with the knees bent.
- parols
-
noun,
something stated or declared.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- sculp.
-
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- nopals
-
noun,
any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- partis
-
noun,
the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- nocti-
-
- Pascin
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patios
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- patois
-
noun,
a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patri-
-
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- Nistru
-
noun,
Romanian name of Dniester.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- optics
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision.
- Saturn
-
noun,
an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- opacus
-
adjective,
(of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- orison
-
noun,
a prayer.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- scato-
-
- orlops
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- Scioto
-
noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- sarco-
-
- scoria
-
noun,
Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- sapro-
-
- saloop
-
noun,
a hot drink prepared originally from salep but later from sassafras, together with milk and sugar.
- scroop
-
noun,
a scrooping sound.
- Scotia
-
noun,
a deep concave molding between two fillets, as in the Attic base.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- saloon
-
noun,
a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
- oilcup
-
noun,
a closed cup or can supplying lubricant to a bearing or bearings.
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- oilcan
-
noun,
a can having a long spout through which oil is poured or squirted to lubricate machinery or the like.
- oculo-
-
- sailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- ocular
-
noun,
Optics. eyepiece.
- octroi
-
noun,
(formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- Octans
-
noun,
the Octant, a southern constellation that contains the south celestial pole.
- sacro-
-
- rutins
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- nitro-
-
- social
-
noun,
a social gathering or party, especially of or as given by an organized group:
- lictor
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- spiro-
-
- locust
-
noun,
Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
- Locris
-
noun,
either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- spinal
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a spinal anesthetic.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- pistol
-
noun,
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- Plains
-
noun,
an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.
- spiral
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- plaint
-
noun,
a complaint.
- plani-
-
- option
-
noun,
the power or right of choosing.
- roncos
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- plants
-
noun,
any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- spital
-
noun,
a hospital, especially one for lazars.
- splint
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- Li-sao
-
noun,
a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan.
- spoilt
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- Lipton
-
noun,
Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- sporo-
-
- ritual
-
noun,
an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- pliant
-
adjective,
bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable:
- linacs
-
noun,
linear accelerator.
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- pluton
-
noun,
any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- rictus
-
noun,
the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- socio-
-
- Pictor
-
noun,
the Painter, a southern constellation between Dorado and Carina.
- nastic
-
adjective,
of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- patrol
-
noun,
a person or group of persons assigned to patrol an area, road, etc.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- narcos
-
noun,
narc.
- narco-
-
- Napoli
-
noun,
Italian name of Naples.
- solion
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- picaro
-
noun,
a rogue or vagabond.
- picots
-
noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- picro-
-
- Lurcat
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- lunars
-
noun,
a lunar observation taken for purposes of navigation or mapping.
- Sparti
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- Lucias
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “light.”.
- Lucian
-
noun,
a.d. 117–c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist.
- piculs
-
noun,
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).
- Sonora
-
noun,
a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- pilots
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilous
-
adjective,
pilose.
- soucar
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- lotion
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- lorica
-
noun,
Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- lorans
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- pintas
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- scoto-
-
- Stalin
-
noun,
Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- cartop
-
adjective,
of a size and shape suitable for carrying on the top of an automobile.
- colour
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- consul
-
noun,
an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- consol
-
noun,
singular of consols.
- Turpin
-
noun,
Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
- Colton
-
noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- turnip
-
noun,
the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- Torino
-
noun,
Turin.
- turco-
-
- colous
-
- colors
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- contr.
-
- turaco
-
noun,
touraco.
- colins
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- coitus
-
noun,
sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- astro-
-
- astron
-
- Tunica
-
noun,
a tunic.
- atonic
-
noun,
Grammar. an unaccented word, syllable, or sound.
- coatis
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- atopic
-
adjective,
of or relating to atopy.
- Tuinal
-
- contos
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- Auriol
-
noun,
Vincent [vin-suh nt;; French van-sahn] /ˈvɪn sənt;; French vɛ̃ˈsɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1884–1966, French statesman: president 1947–54.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- Alston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- corona
-
noun,
a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon.
- unstop
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- unrips
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- aniso-
-
- corita
-
noun,
a boat resembling a large, woven basket, used by Indians of the southwestern U.S.
- corals
-
noun,
the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
- copula
-
noun,
something that connects or links together.
- copro-
-
- uncool
-
adjective,
not self-assured or relaxed:
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- copras
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- uncoil
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unwind from a coiled position.
- uncial
-
noun,
an uncial letter.
- uncaps
-
verb (used with object),
to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- ultras
-
noun,
an extremist, as in politics, religion, fashion, etc.
- ultra-
-
- copals
-
noun,
a hard, lustrous resin obtained from various tropical trees and used chiefly in making varnishes.
- arioso
-
noun,
an arioso composition or section.
- Ulpian
-
noun,
(Domitius Ulpianus) died a.d. 288? Roman jurist.
- coopts
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coapts
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- aurist
-
noun,
a physician specializing in the treatment of ear diseases; otologist.
- corpus
-
noun,
a large or complete collection of writings:
- Carson
-
noun,
Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- Citrus
-
noun,
any small tree or spiny shrub of the genus Citrus, of the rue family, including the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, citron, kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental.
- Citron
-
noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- citral
-
noun,
a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- Carnot
-
noun,
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite [la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- trans.
-
- carpo-
-
- carpos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek goddess of summer fruit, considered by Athenians as one of the Horae.
- triacs
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- carpus
-
noun,
the part of the upper extremity between the hand and the forearm; wrist.
- carton
-
noun,
a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- Caruso
-
noun,
Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1921, Italian operatic tenor.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- casino
-
noun,
a building or large room used for meetings, entertainment, dancing, etc., especially such a place equipped with gambling devices, gambling tables, etc.
- Caslon
-
noun,
William, 1692–1766, English type founder and designer.
- catsup
-
noun,
ketchup.
- trinal
-
adjective,
threefold; triple; trine.
- catnip
-
noun,
a plant, Nepeta cataria, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves containing aromatic oils that are a cat attractant.
- Catlin
-
noun,
George, 1796–1872, U.S. painter.
- cation
-
noun,
a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- Carlos
-
noun,
Don [don;; Spanish dawn] /dɒn;; Spanish dɔn/ (Show IPA), (Carlos Maria Isidro de Borbón) 1788–1855, pretender to the Spanish throne.
- captor
-
noun,
a person who has captured a person or thing.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- torula
-
noun,
a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- Austin
-
noun,
Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- austr-
-
- tropo-
-
- tropic
-
noun,
Geography.
either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone.
the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- toucan
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
- clouts
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- Cairns
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Australia.
- Toulon
-
noun,
a seaport in SE France: naval base.
- Cloris
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- trails
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- Cloots
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (Show IPA), Baron de ("Anacharsis Clootz") 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.
- clonus
-
noun,
a rapid succession of flexions and extensions of a group of muscles, usually signifying an affection of the brain or spinal cord.
- Cantor
-
noun,
the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
- clints
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- Cantos
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- clino-
-
- cantus
-
noun,
cantus firmus.
- caplin
-
noun,
capelin.
- capons
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- claros
-
noun,
such a cigar.
- Capris
-
noun,
Capri pants.
- upcast
-
noun,
an act of casting upward.
- Tuscan
-
noun,
the standard literary form of the Italian language.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- urinal
-
noun,
a flushable wall fixture, as in a public lavatory, used by men for urinating.
- costo-
-
- Alison
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alice.
- craton
-
noun,
a relatively rigid and immobile region of continental portions of the earth's crust.
- cotula
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a measure.
- acious
-
- Toluca
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Mexico state, in S central Mexico.
- coulis
-
noun,
a sauce made with puréed vegetables or fruit and used as a base or garnish.
- actins
-
noun,
a globulin that is present in muscle plasma and that in connection with myosin plays an important role in muscle contraction.
- croups
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- actin-
-
- Croton
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- Alcuin
-
noun,
(Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- acinus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate, baccate fruit, as the blackberry.
- Crista
-
noun,
a crest or ridge.
- urano-
-
- uranic
-
adjective,
of or containing uranium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- coupon
-
noun,
a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
- toluic
-
adjective,
of or derived from toluic acid.
- coutil
-
noun,
a sturdy fabric constructed of a compactly woven herringbone twill.
- croons
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- Cousin
-
noun,
Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- Uralic
-
noun,
a family of languages that comprises Finno-Ugric and Samoyed as subfamilies. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian belong to Uralic.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- uracil
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a pyrimidine base, C 4 H 4 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- action
-
noun,
the process or state of acting or of being active:
- uproot
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- Alnico
-
noun,
a permanent-magnet alloy having aluminum, nickel, and cobalt as its principal ingredients.
- urials
-
noun,
a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
- Coruna
-
noun,
La Coruña.
- Alonso
-
noun,
Alicia (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoyo) born 1921, Cuban ballerina.
- Utopia
-
noun,
an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- Uticas
-
noun,
an ancient city on the N coast of Africa, NW of Carthage.
- tolans
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- aloins
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- costal
-
adjective,
Anatomy. pertaining to the ribs or the upper sides of the body:
- urino-
-
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- pron.
-
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- Acton
-
noun,
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- Palos
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- Auric
-
adjective,
of or containing gold in the trivalent state.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- pros.
-
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- Cant.
-
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- acro-
-
- canto
-
noun,
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
- Canso
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Panic
-
noun,
a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- Prot.
-
- Oscan
-
noun,
one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- sarc-
-
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- auto.
-
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- pant-
-
- palis
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a steep slope or cliff.
- Actis
-
noun,
a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- proc.
-
- Salic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Salian Franks.
- cains
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- Aust.
-
- actos
-
- cairn
-
noun,
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- runic
-
adjective,
consisting of or set down in runes:
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- Caius
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 296, pope 283–296.
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- paint
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- salon
-
noun,
a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- Salop
-
noun,
a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- Salto
-
noun,
a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- prius
-
noun,
a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- sanit
-
- trop-
-
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- USLTA
-
- carpi
-
noun,
plural of carpus.
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- Olson
-
noun,
Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- scopa
-
noun,
pollen brush.
- onco-
-
- onlap
-
noun,
the advance of a sea beyond its former shore.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- scoop
-
noun,
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- carp-
-
- Carol
-
noun,
a song, especially of joy.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- onto-
-
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- carps
-
noun,
a peevish complaint.
- Scot.
-
- scat-
-
- punas
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- puris
-
noun,
poori.
- ocul-
-
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- punts
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- 30-30
-
- Punic
-
noun,
the language of ancient Carthage, a form of late Phoenician.
- Utica
-
noun,
an ancient city on the N coast of Africa, NW of Carthage.
- Pusan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- pulis
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- purls
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- pulas
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Botswana, equal to 100 thebe: replaced the rand in 1976.
- scaup
-
noun,
any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- capot
-
noun,
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
- capos
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- Aulis
-
noun,
a port in ancient Boeotia, in E central Greece: the Greek fleet set out from here for Troy during the Trojan War.
- orial
-
- Orion
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- Capon
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- Orlon
-
- orlop
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- acpt.
-
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Capri
-
noun,
an island in W Italy, in the Bay of Naples: grottoes; resort. 5½ sq. mi. (14 sq. km).
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- pruta
-
noun,
prutah.
- rails
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- scarp
-
noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- carls
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- scalp
-
noun,
the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- optic
-
noun,
the eye.
- Prus.
-
- Carin
-
noun,
a female given name.
- caput
-
noun,
any head or headlike expansion on a structure, as on a bone.
- opto-
-
- Sault
-
noun,
a waterfall or rapid.
- Capt.
-
- caps.
-
- orals
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- aulos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek wind instrument, a double pipe played with a double reed.
- Alost
-
noun,
a city in central Belgium, NW of Brussels.
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- plast
-
- Alcor
-
- plait
-
noun,
a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plan-
-
- unapt
-
adjective,
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable:
- uncap
-
verb (used with object),
to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- plant
-
noun,
any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- uncia
-
noun,
a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
- Alcon
-
noun,
a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- plat.
-
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- April
-
noun,
the fourth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Apr.
- Plato
-
noun,
427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- Apoc.
-
- UNCIO
-
- arcus
-
noun,
a dense, horizontal, roll-shaped cloud sometimes occurring at the lower front portion of a cumulonimbus.
- plain
-
noun,
an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.
- plica
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- Arius
-
noun,
died a.d. 336, Christian priest at Alexandria: founder of Arianism.
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- pious
-
adjective,
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- Ronco
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- pisco
-
noun,
a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- arils
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- pitas
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Piura
-
noun,
a city in N Peru.
- plats
-
noun,
a plot of ground.
- plio-
-
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- rials
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- Altus
-
noun,
a city in SW Oklahoma.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- Alton
-
noun,
a city in SW Illinois.
- alto-
-
- alti-
-
- polos
-
noun,
a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- Ponca
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- until
-
conjunction,
up to the time that or when; till:
- Alsop
-
noun,
Joseph W(right) 1910–1989, U.S. political journalist and writer.
- Alsip
-
noun,
a town in NE Illinois.
- poori
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- rcpt.
-
- pools
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- polio
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- polar
-
adjective,
of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- Port.
-
- anti-
-
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- plur.
-
- Pluto
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- antic
-
noun,
Usually, antics.
a playful trick or prank; caper.
a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
- 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):
- Unit.
-
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- unrip
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- pocul
-
- poilu
-
noun,
a French common soldier.
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- alist
-
adjective,
inclined to one side; heeling or listing.
- anis-
-
- anils
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- ulpan
-
noun,
an institute or school for intensive study of Hebrew, especially by immigrants to Israel.
- ulnas
-
noun,
Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb.
Compare radius (def 7).
- Paoli
-
noun,
Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
- patr-
-
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- patio
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- Tupis
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Pasco
-
noun,
a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- ation
-
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- pari-
-
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- aulic
-
adjective,
of or relating to a royal court.
- Parl.
-
- atrip
-
adjective,
aweigh.
- parol
-
noun,
something stated or declared.
- tulip
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Tulipa, of the lily family, cultivated in many varieties, and having lance-shaped leaves and large, showy, usually erect, cup-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
- Tulsa
-
noun,
a city in NE Oklahoma: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- part.
-
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Tunas
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- tunic
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a coat worn as part of a military or other uniform.
- Pauli
-
noun,
Wolfgang [woo lf-gang;; German vawlf-gahng] /ˈwʊlf gæŋ;; German ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/ (Show IPA), 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1945.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- Pinta
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- ulans
-
noun,
uhlan.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- Pilar
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- pilau
-
noun,
pilaf.
- pilon
-
noun,
something extra; lagniappe.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- pilot
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilus
-
noun,
a hair or hairlike structure.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- post-
-
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- Picus
-
noun,
an ancient Italian god of agriculture.
- octo-
-
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- aspic
-
noun,
a savory jelly usually made with meat or fish stock and gelatin, chilled and used as a garnish and coating for meats, seafoods, eggs, etc.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- poult
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- picul
-
noun,
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).
- uran-
-
- picas
-
noun,
a 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.
- pico-
-
- picot
-
noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- ascon
-
noun,
a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- asco-
-
- Urial
-
noun,
a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- octan
-
noun,
an octan fever.
- sputa
-
noun,
matter, as saliva mixed with mucus or pus, expectorated from the lungs and respiratory passages.
- copal
-
noun,
a hard, lustrous resin obtained from various tropical trees and used chiefly in making varnishes.
- lapin
-
noun,
a rabbit.
- lapis
-
noun,
(italics) Latin. stone (used in Latin names for minerals, gems, etc.)
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- Laris
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- Srta.
-
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- Laius
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus: unwittingly killed by Oedipus.
- Latin
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- coopt
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- co-op
-
noun,
a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- coop.
-
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- cools
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- topo-
-
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- stupa
-
noun,
a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- Ital.
-
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- laics
-
noun,
one of the laity.
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- copra
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- stola
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- lact-
-
- copr-
-
- Copan
-
noun,
Santa Rosa de Copán.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- 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.
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Colon
-
noun,
the sign (:) used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, etc., of what precedes; or to separate groups of numbers referring to different things, as hours from minutes in 5:30; or the members of a ratio or proportion, as in 1 : 2 = 3 : 6.
- Colo.
-
- Colin
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- colat
-
- Colas
-
noun,
a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- locos
-
noun,
locoweed.
- locus
-
noun,
a place; locality.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- loans
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- Spica
-
noun,
spike2 .
- loons
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- LOOPS
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- coils
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- color
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- Const
-
- linac
-
noun,
linear accelerator.
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- cont.
-
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- sport
-
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.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Linus
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 76? pope 67?–76?.
- Lipan
-
noun,
a member of a group of Apache Indians who lived in the U.S. east of the Rio Grande.
- litas
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- lipo-
-
- Cons.
-
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- liras
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- spool
-
noun,
any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- splat
-
noun,
Also, splad. a broad, flat piece of wood, either pierced or solid, forming the center upright part of a chair back or the like.
- Coral
-
noun,
the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- crit.
-
- CRISP
-
noun,
Chiefly British. potato chip.
- crips
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- tonal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having tonality.
- cutin
-
noun,
a transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.
- cutis
-
noun,
the true skin, consisting of the dermis and the epidermis.
- Taupo
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- craps
-
noun,
a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
- tonia
-
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- tono-
-
- tapis
-
noun,
Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- icons
-
- ictus
-
noun,
Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- Crius
-
noun,
a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- tical
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Siam, equal to 100 satang: replaced in 1928 by the baht.
- tapir
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- tious
-
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tolan
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- culpa
-
noun,
Roman and Civil Law. negligence; neglect (distinguished from dolus):
- Tolar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- Cunas
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- tolas
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- croup
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- Curia
-
noun,
one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
- curio
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curls
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- croon
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- intr.
-
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- corpn
-
- Corpl
-
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- tails
-
noun,
tail1 (def 6).
- corp.
-
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- talcs
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- sural
-
adjective,
of or relating to the calf of the leg.
- Iran.
-
- Supt.
-
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- topic
-
noun,
a subject of conversation or discussion:
- talus
-
noun,
the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
- coups
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- Talos
-
noun,
a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- inapt
-
adjective,
not apt or fitting.
- talon
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- incas
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- incl.
-
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- incor
-
- incr.
-
- incur
-
verb (used with object),
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- incus
-
noun,
Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals.
Compare malleus, stapes.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- input
-
noun,
something that is put in.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- insol
-
- insp.
-
- inst.
-
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- LORAN
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- spor-
-
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- sito-
-
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- cloot
-
noun,
a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
- noto-
-
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- solan
-
noun,
a gannet.
- nails
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- solar
-
noun,
Informal. solar energy.
- clops
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- slain
-
noun,
sley.
- Solon
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- Luton
-
noun,
a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- clots
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- clout
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- clipt
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- claps
-
noun,
an act or instance of clapping.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- lunts
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- sirup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- lunas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- lunar
-
noun,
a lunar observation taken for purposes of navigation or mapping.
- nuci-
-
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- triac
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- torus
-
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.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- naso-
-
- noso-
-
- nurls
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- Tours
-
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.
- trail
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noct-
-
- sluit
-
noun,
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- slurp
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- snail
-
noun,
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- claro
-
noun,
such a cigar.
- nolos
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- CLASP
-
noun,
a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing:
- nitr-
-
- nopal
-
noun,
any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- clast
-
noun,
a grain of sediment, silt, sand, gravel, etc., especially as a constituent fragment of a clastic rock formation, as distinguished from a chemical or biogenic component of such a formation.
- clans
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Clint
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- natl.
-
- naut.
-
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- Clair
-
noun,
René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1981, French motion-picture director and writer.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Norco
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Sloan
-
noun,
John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- Lorca
-
noun,
García Lorca.
- sloop
-
noun,
a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails.
Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- Lucia
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “light.”.
- clapt
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of clap1 .
- Lucas
-
noun,
George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- scrap
-
noun,
a small piece or portion; fragment:
- coapt
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- cauls
-
noun,
a part of the amnion sometimes covering the head of a child at birth.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- lotas
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- lotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in flowing water.
- scrip
-
noun,
a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- trial
-
noun,
Law.
the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- coati
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- loups
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- octa-
-
- caus.
-
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- octal
-
noun,
octonary (def 6).
- Sino-
-
- Ciano
-
noun,
Count Galeazzo [gah-le-aht-tsaw] /ˌgɑ lɛˈɑt tsɔ/ (Show IPA), (Ciano di Cortellazzo) 1903–44, Italian Fascist statesman: minister of foreign affairs 1936–43.
- scuta
-
noun,
plural of scutum.
- Lucan
-
noun,
(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) a.d. 39–65, Roman poet, born in Spain.
- sinal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- span-
-
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- coals
-
noun,
a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.
Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- scup
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- USPO
-
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- purs
-
- USRC
-
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- USTC
-
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- talc
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- tola
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- top-
-
- purl
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- Saul
-
noun,
the first king of Israel. I Sam. 9.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- scr.
-
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- saur
-
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- tRNA
-
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- USIA
-
- Ural
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation, flowing S from the S Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. 1575 miles (2535 km) long.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- USAR
-
- uric
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- uro-
-
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- taur
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tri-
-
- USCA
-
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- USNA
-
- tion
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- SLIC
-
- sial
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- slat
-
noun,
a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- uria
-
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sci.
-
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- scil
-
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- slap
-
noun,
a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- 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.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Ulan
-
noun,
uhlan.
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- Rus.
-
- 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.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- 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.
- ulna
-
noun,
Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb.
Compare radius (def 7).
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- 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.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- sail
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- Soni
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- SPCA
-
- spic
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Tupi
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- Tula
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- rpt.
-
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- 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.
- RONA
-
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- upas
-
noun,
the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- uni-
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- supr
-
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- rit.
-
- sur-
-
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Sat.
-
- tail
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Sra.
-
- ulto
-
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- RNAS
-
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- tron
-
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- soln
-
- str.
-
- SALT
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- Sol.
-
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ctr.
-
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- Lat.
-
- laic
-
noun,
one of the laity.
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- LAIS
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Lani
-
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- LARC
-
noun,
long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception):
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- itol
-
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- Lias
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- lin.
-
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- lip-
-
- lipa
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Croatia.
- lacs
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- iso-
-
- LISA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Inc.
-
- cult
-
noun,
a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
- Cuna
-
noun,
a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- cur.
-
- curl
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- Cusp
-
noun,
a point or pointed end.
- ical
-
- ICAO
-
- Inca
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- intl
-
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- ious
-
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- 1080
-
- nolo
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NIRA
-
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Nor.
-
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- nos-
-
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- NTIA
-
- nurl
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- OAPC
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- lit.
-
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- litu
-
noun,
a plural of litas.
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- loca
-
noun,
a plural of locus.
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- Loco
-
noun,
locoweed.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Loon
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- loop
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- loun
-
noun,
loon2 .
- Loup
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Luna
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana.
- Lunt
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- cts.
-
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- asci
-
noun,
plural of ascus.
- Apsu
-
noun,
an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- Apus
-
noun,
the Bird of Paradise, a southern constellation between Octans and Triangulum Australe.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- ARIS
-
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- art.
-
- asc-
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- apo-
-
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- atic
-
- Atli
-
noun,
Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- ator
-
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- aur-
-
- Aus.
-
- aut-
-
- Apr.
-
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- Cal.
-
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- Acis
-
noun,
the lover of Galatea, killed by Polyphemus out of jealousy.
- ACLS
-
- ACLU
-
- acr-
-
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Acus
-
noun,
Surgery. a needle, especially one used in a surgical operation.
- ails
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Ainu
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal population of northernmost Japan, having lighter skin and hairier bodies than other Japanese.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- Alco
-
- Alis
-
- ALIT
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of alight1 .
- Alps
-
noun,
a high mountain.
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- alt.
-
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- ano-
-
- ANSI
-
- ant.
-
- ANTU
-
- Cain
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- CALS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Calvin.
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Col.
-
- COLA
-
noun,
a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- Coln
-
noun,
former German name of Cologne.
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- COLT
-
noun,
a young male animal of the horse family.
- Con.
-
- cool
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- Cor.
-
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Cort
-
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- coup
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- crat
-
- crip
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- coal
-
noun,
a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.
Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- Can.
-
- cir.
-
- cap.
-
- capo
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- Carl
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- cat.
-
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- caul
-
noun,
a part of the amnion sometimes covering the head of a child at birth.
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- cis-
-
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- cit.
-
- clan
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- clap
-
noun,
an act or instance of clapping.
- clar
-
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- clip
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- clit
-
noun,
clitoris.
- clop
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- clot
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- clou
-
noun,
a major point of interest or attention.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- oto-
-
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- pot.
-
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- 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):
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- out-
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- 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.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- oro-
-
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- PSAT
-
- 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.
-
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- pro-
-
- prin
-
- prau
-
noun,
proa.
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Pool
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- psia
-
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- Pali
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a steep slope or cliff.
- Pan.
-
- Pict
-
noun,
a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.
- PICS
-
noun,
a movie.
- Pica
-
noun,
a 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- par.
-
- pial
-
adjective,
of or relating to the pia mater.
- Pal.
-
- pct.
-
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- Paur
-
noun,
Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- pat.
-
- Paul
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles.
Compare Saul (def 2).
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- pil-
-
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Polo
-
noun,
a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
- PACT
-
noun,
an agreement, covenant, or compact:
- Pola
-
noun,
Pula.
- Pol.
-
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- poco
-
adverb,
somewhat; rather:
- plus
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- plot
-
noun,
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:
- pacs
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- pita
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- Pail
-
noun,
bucket.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- 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.
- opia
-
- pos.
-
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- puna
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- pts.
-
- puls
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Ont.
-
- Oona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Pula
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Botswana, equal to 100 thebe: replaced the rand in 1976.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- 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.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- puca
-
noun,
(in folklore) an Irish spirit, mischievous but not malevolent, corresponding to the English Puck.
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- Opal
-
noun,
a mineral, an amorphous form of silica, SiO 2 with some water of hydration, found in many varieties and colors, including a form that is milky white.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Oct.
-
- puli
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ACS
-
- ROI
-
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- PIO
-
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- ACP
-
- 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.
- 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.
- APC
-
- CNO
-
- Pul
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- pli
-
- PLR
-
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- PLO
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPI
-
- CLI
-
- PLC
-
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- PLA
-
- Clo
-
- RNA
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- ROA
-
- CLR
-
- CLU
-
- AIC
-
- CNS
-
- pl.
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- ROP
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- tlr
-
- CRP
-
- CRS
-
- CRT
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- PCS
-
- PCI
-
- CSA
-
- CSO
-
- CSR
-
- tlo
-
- 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.
- TLC
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- CST
-
- CTA
-
- UTC
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- uti
-
- al.
-
- ac-
-
- ap-
-
- ALP
-
noun,
a high mountain.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- USC
-
- 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.
- AUC
-
- USN
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- USO
-
- USP
-
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- USR
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- CPA
-
- CPI
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- CPL
-
- CPO
-
- CPR
-
- CPS
-
- Ar.
-
- CPU
-
- an.
-
- plu
-
noun,
plew.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- POA
-
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- UNO
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- unp
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ASI
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ANC
-
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- uns
-
- USA
-
- ALU
-
- ASR
-
- PUC
-
- ast
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ASU
-
- PRA
-
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- at.
-
- UAR
-
- UCR
-
- RPS
-
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- Apl
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PSC
-
- APS
-
- AOU
-
- aor
-
- PSA
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- unc
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ult
-
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- PRC
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- ARU
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- UIT
-
- ATC
-
- up-
-
- POC
-
- Tro
-
- ct.
-
- cl.
-
- CAI
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- RCA
-
- RCN
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- RCT
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- cr.
-
- ur-
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- CIA
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- CIP
-
- cs.
-
- cp.
-
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- RCP
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- UPC
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- UPI
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- Cui
-
noun,
César [French sey-zar] /French seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), Antonovich [Russian uhn-taw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ʌnˈtɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1918, Russian composer.
- ATP
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- RCS
-
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- Co.
-
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- POR
-
- Tu.
-
- 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.
- TSP
-
- TSI
-
- ALC
-
- trp
-
- ca.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- OCS
-
- TCS
-
- PAU
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in SW France: winter resort.
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- LPN
-
- LSC
-
- LON
-
- LSI
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- LST
-
- LTA
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- ltr
-
- sc.
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- NCO
-
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- OPA
-
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- Sr.
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- pc.
-
- LCA
-
- LCI
-
- spt
-
- LCT
-
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Pa.
-
- SPR
-
- SAR
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- OTS
-
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- OTA
-
- ot-
-
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- OSP
-
- OSO
-
- LOC
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- OOT
-
- Sp.
-
- OSA
-
- NSC
-
- NSU
-
- OIr
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- NUL
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- Oc.
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- op.
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- NRC
-
- OTC
-
- OAO
-
- OAP
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- oic
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- SCP
-
- OAU
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- NSA
-
- NRA
-
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- ons
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- oon
-
- NIA
-
- SNU
-
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- oo-
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NOC
-
- nr.
-
- ONR
-
- ONI
-
- SLR
-
- SLP
-
- NOP
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- 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.
- Ola
-
- OIt
-
- NPR
-
- Npt
-
- SLA
-
- SRO
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- St.
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ial
-
- Sta
-
- Ia.
-
- IPA
-
- IPO
-
- io-
-
- ipr
-
- ITU
-
- ics
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- IPS
-
- Ir.
-
- IRC
-
- IRL
-
- IRO
-
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- 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.
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ISA
-
- IOU
-
- IOT
-
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- RTS
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- ILP
-
- ILS
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- in.
-
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- RSA
-
- rt.
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- il-
-
- Rs.
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- TAL
-
- IOC
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- IAS
-
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- ior
-
- ILO
-
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- Isl
-
- Lt.
-
- TIA
-
- LAC
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- Ps.
-
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- prn
-
- STL
-
- STP
-
- Pr.
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- STI
-
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- 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.
- cup
-
noun,
a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- LAP
-
noun,
the front part of the human body from the waist to the knees when in a sitting position.
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- So.
-
- TCA
-
- OCR
-
- La.
-
- ITC
-
- ist
-
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- ITA
-
- ISR
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- IUS
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- RPO
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- i.
-
- O.
-
- R.
-
- AO
-
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- ic
-
- TC
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TN
-
- RP
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- TL
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- OA
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- t.
-
- ol
-
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- UC
-
- U.
-
- 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.
- L.
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- ln
-
- LC
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- L1
-
- SU
-
- L2
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- CU
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- S.
-
- SA
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- SL
-
- TP
-
- UI
-
- RC
-
- T1
-
- RI
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- RN
-
- SN
-
- NL
-
- RU
-
- PU
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- IP
-
- UL
-
- NP
-
- NI
-
- NC
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- RO
-
- LR
-
- 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.