Anagrams of presentationism
Word presentationism has
3814 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of presentationism.
- impersonates
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verb (used with object),
to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be:
- penetrations
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noun,
the act or power of penetrating.
- presentation
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noun,
an act of presenting.
- inseminators
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noun,
a technician who introduces prepared semen into the genital tract of breeding animals, especially cows and mares, for artificial insemination.
- pensionaries
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noun,
a pensioner.
- senarmontite
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noun,
a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- stationeries
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noun,
writing paper.
- poinsettias
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noun,
a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.
- inseminator
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noun,
a technician who introduces prepared semen into the genital tract of breeding animals, especially cows and mares, for artificial insemination.
- maisonettes
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noun,
a small house, especially one connected to a large apartment building.
- omnipresent
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adjective,
present everywhere at the same time:
- pretensions
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noun,
the laying of a claim to something.
- prenominate
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adjective,
mentioned beforehand.
- penetration
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noun,
the act or power of penetrating.
- impersonate
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verb (used with object),
to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be:
- patrimonies
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noun,
an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- impertinent
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adjective,
intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil:
- posterities
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noun,
succeeding or future generations collectively:
- Septentrion
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noun,
Obsolete. the north.
- maternities
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noun,
the state of being a mother; motherhood.
- entrapments
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noun,
the luring by a law-enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime.
- monasteries
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noun,
a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- patriotisms
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noun,
devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- inseminates
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verb (used with object),
to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- parsimonies
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noun,
extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- paternities
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noun,
the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- estimations
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noun,
judgment or opinion:
- easternmost
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adjective,
farthest east.
- nitrosamine
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noun,
any of a series of compounds with the type formula R 2 NNO, some of which are carcinogenic, formed in cured meats by the conversion of nitrite.
- marionettes
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noun,
a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- metaprotein
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noun,
a hydrolytic derivative of protein, insoluble in water but soluble in dilute acids or alkalis.
- Saint-Simon
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noun,
Comte de, 1760–1825, French philosopher and social scientist.
- Anti-semite
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noun,
a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews.
- ministrants
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adjective,
ministering.
- interments
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noun,
the act or ceremony of interring; burial.
- partitions
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noun,
a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- pensioners
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noun,
a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- proteinase
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noun,
any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- atonements
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noun,
satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.
- interposes
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verb (used with object),
to place between; cause to intervene:
- tanistries
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noun,
the system among various Celtic tribes of choosing a tanist.
- tenantries
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noun,
tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- seminaries
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noun,
a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- semination
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noun,
a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.
- semainiers
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noun,
a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- enantiosis
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noun,
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said; irony.
- enantiomer
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noun,
either of a pair of optical isomers that are mirror images of each other.
- enormities
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noun,
outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness:
- prestation
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noun,
a payment in money or in services.
- presentist
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noun,
a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled.
Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- patisserie
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noun,
a shop where pastry, especially French pastry, is made and sold.
- tapestries
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noun,
a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- inseminate
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verb (used with object),
to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- transition
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noun,
movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change:
- patriotism
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noun,
devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- martensite
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noun,
a metastable microconstituent of any of various forms of carbon steel, produced by undercooling sufficiently below the normal transformation temperature, especially a hard, brittle product of the decomposition of austenite, produced in this way.
- parisienne
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noun,
a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- Spenserian
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noun,
an imitator of Spenser.
- near-point
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noun,
the point nearest the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is at a maximum.
- transients
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noun,
a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like.
- tripinnate
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adjective,
bipinnate, as a leaf, with the divisions also pinnate.
- transitmen
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noun,
a person who makes observations with a transit.
- sarmentose
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adjective,
having runners.
- inpatients
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noun,
a patient who stays in a hospital while receiving medical care or treatment.
- spearmints
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noun,
an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- maisonette
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noun,
a small house, especially one connected to a large apartment building.
- prostatism
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noun,
symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- antimonies
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noun,
a brittle, lustrous, white metallic element occurring in nature free or combined, used chiefly in alloys and in compounds in medicine. Symbol: Sb; atomic number: 51; atomic weight: 121.75.
- pretension
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noun,
the laying of a claim to something.
- marionette
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noun,
a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- antinomies
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noun,
opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.
- isometries
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noun,
equality of measure.
- panettones
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noun,
an Italian yeast-leavened bread, traditionally eaten on holidays, usually made with raisins, candied fruit peels, almonds, and brandy.
- impression
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noun,
a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- praenomens
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noun,
the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- ministrant
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adjective,
ministering.
- pinsetters
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noun,
a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- stationers
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noun,
a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- permission
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noun,
authorization granted to do something; formal consent:
- epinasties
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noun,
(especially of leaves) increased growth on the upper surface of an organ or part, causing it to bend downward.
- striations
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noun,
striated condition or appearance.
- assortment
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noun,
the act of assorting; distribution; classification.
- stentorian
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adjective,
very loud or powerful in sound:
- Peronistas
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noun,
Peronist.
- persistent
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adjective,
persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement, etc.; persevering:
- permanents
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noun,
Also called permanent wave. a wave or curl that is set into the hair by the application of a special chemical preparation and that remains for a number of months.
- Poinsettia
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noun,
a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.
- terminates
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verb (used with object),
to bring to an end; put an end to:
- itinerants
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noun,
a person who alternates between working and wandering.
- orientates
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verb (used with or without object),
orient (defs 4–12).
- poetasters
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noun,
an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- minestrone
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noun,
a thick vegetable soup, often containing herbs, beans, bits of pasta, etc., and served with Parmesan cheese.
- ministrate
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verb (used without object),
to minister or administer.
- ministates
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noun,
a small, independent nation.
- iterations
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noun,
the act of repeating; a repetition.
- reinstates
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verb (used with object),
to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state:
- retentions
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noun,
the act of retaining.
- striptease
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noun,
a burlesque act in which a dancer removes garments one at a time to the accompaniment of music.
- postmaster
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noun,
the official in charge of a post office.
- Stresemann
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noun,
Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1878–1929, German statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- estaminets
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noun,
a bistro or small café.
- spinneries
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noun,
a spinning mill.
- entertains
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verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.
- repetition
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noun,
the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
- armipotent
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adjective,
strong in battle.
- Pentstemon
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noun,
penstemon.
- entrapment
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noun,
the luring by a law-enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime.
- stone-pine
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noun,
Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- asperities
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noun,
harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony:
- Meissonier
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noun,
Jean Louis Ernest [zhahn lwee er-nest] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1815–91, French painter.
- estimation
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noun,
judgment or opinion:
- Trasentine
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noun,
a brand of adiphenine.
- treponemas
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noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- isomerase
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noun,
any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- straitens
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verb (used with object),
to put into difficulties, especially financial ones:
- intestine
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noun,
Usually, intestines. the lower part of the alimentary canal, extending from the pylorus to the anus.
- tinstones
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noun,
cassiterite.
- ptomaines
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noun,
any of a class of foul-smelling nitrogenous substances produced by bacteria during putrefaction of animal or plant protein: formerly thought to be toxic.
- isentrope
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noun,
a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- intimates
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noun,
an intimate friend or associate, especially a confidant.
- partition
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noun,
a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- repentant
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adjective,
repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
- aspersion
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noun,
a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander:
- operettas
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noun,
a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- transepts
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noun,
any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- transient
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noun,
a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like.
- atropines
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- optimists
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noun,
an optimistic person.
- Trasimeno
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noun,
a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- part-time
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noun,
a period of time that is less than the usual or full time.
- sportsman
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noun,
a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportsmen
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noun,
a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- transmits
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verb (used with object),
to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- atonement
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noun,
satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.
- panettone
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noun,
an Italian yeast-leavened bread, traditionally eaten on holidays, usually made with raisins, candied fruit peels, almonds, and brandy.
- transpose
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noun,
Mathematics. a matrix formed from a given matrix by transposing.
- ostiaries
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noun,
Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church.
a member of the lowest-ranking of the four minor orders.
the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), lector (def 2).
- titanisms
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noun,
revolt against tradition, convention, and established order.
- reinstate
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verb (used with object),
to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state:
- osmeteria
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noun,
a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- intonates
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verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or modulation of voice.
- intromits
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verb (used with object),
to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- orpiments
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noun,
a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- Isenstein
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noun,
(in the Nibelungenlied) the home of Brunhild in Isenland.
- ornaments
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noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- remontant
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noun,
a remontant rose.
- atropisms
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noun,
poisoning resulting from atropine or belladonna.
- attempers
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verb (used with object),
to modify or moderate by mixing or blending with something different or opposite.
- parotitis
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noun,
inflammation of a parotid.
- Parseeism
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noun,
the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- orientate
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verb (used with or without object),
orient (defs 4–12).
- interpose
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verb (used with object),
to place between; cause to intervene:
- remission
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noun,
the act of remitting.
- internist
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noun,
a physician specializing in the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of adults.
- impetrate
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verb (used with object),
to obtain by entreaty.
- pointsmen
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noun,
a railway switchman.
- impassion
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verb (used with object),
to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
- stationer
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noun,
a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- Impatiens
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noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- impatient
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adjective,
not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
- statesmen
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noun,
a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- permanent
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noun,
Also called permanent wave. a wave or curl that is set into the hair by the application of a special chemical preparation and that remains for a number of months.
- point-set
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adjective,
(of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- entropies
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noun,
Thermodynamics.
(on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.
(in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S.
- peristome
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noun,
Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- entrepots
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noun,
a warehouse.
- sternites
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- important
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adjective,
of much or great significance or consequence:
- sternmost
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adjective,
farthest aft.
- impotents
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adjective,
not potent; lacking power or ability.
- pointsman
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noun,
a railway switchman.
- Peronista
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noun,
Peronist.
- Potteries
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noun,
the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- steersman
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noun,
a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
- estaminet
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noun,
a bistro or small café.
- pinasters
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noun,
a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- Esperanto
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noun,
an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish physician and philologist, and intended for international use. It is based on word roots common to the major European languages.
- estimates
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noun,
an approximate judgment or calculation, as of the value, amount, time, size, or weight of something.
- pinsetter
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noun,
a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- esoterism
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noun,
esotericism.
- estonians
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noun,
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
- epitomist
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noun,
a person who writes an epitome.
- pistareen
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noun,
peseta (def 2).
- Petrinism
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noun,
the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- petitions
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noun,
a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit:
- poetaster
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noun,
an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- topiaries
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noun,
topiary work; the topiary art.
- pertinent
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adjective,
pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant:
- personate
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adjective,
Botany.
(of a bilabiate corolla) masklike.
having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the gap between the lips, as in the snapdragon.
- pentosans
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noun,
any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- praenomen
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noun,
the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- stairstep
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noun,
a step in a staircase.
- protamine
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noun,
any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- insomnias
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noun,
inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- instanter
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adverb,
immediately; at once.
- emersions
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- prosimian
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noun,
a prosimian animal.
- prostates
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noun,
prostate gland.
- patentors
-
noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- intarsist
-
noun,
a person who creates in or practices intarsia.
- prominent
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adjective,
standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable:
- proteases
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noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- interests
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- interment
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noun,
the act or ceremony of interring; burial.
- intermits
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verb (used with object),
to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- passerine
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adjective,
of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- internat.
-
- passement
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noun,
a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- promisees
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noun,
a person to whom a promise is made.
- insistent
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adjective,
earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
- entertain
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verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.
- sternpost
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noun,
an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- enteritis
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noun,
Pathology. inflammation of the intestines, especially the small intestine.
- imprisons
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as if in a prison.
- impsonite
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noun,
a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- penstemon
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noun,
any of numerous chiefly North American plants belonging to the genus Penstemon, of the figwort family, some species of which are cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
- prenomens
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noun,
praenomen.
- pensioner
-
noun,
a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penitents
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noun,
a penitent person.
- stannites
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noun,
a mineral, iron-black to steel-gray in color, with a metallic luster, copper iron tin sulfide, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 : an ore of tin.
- penetrant
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noun,
a person or thing that penetrates.
- innermost
-
noun,
the innermost part.
- inpatient
-
noun,
a patient who stays in a hospital while receiving medical care or treatment.
- Patterson
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noun,
Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- insensate
-
adjective,
not endowed with sensation; inanimate:
- insertion
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noun,
the act of inserting:
- isoprenes
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- patroness
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noun,
a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- assertion
-
noun,
a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason:
- pimientos
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noun,
the ripe, red, mild-flavored fruit of the sweet or bell pepper, Capsicum annuum, used as a vegetable, relish, to stuff olives, etc.
- nitramine
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noun,
any of a class of compounds containing the nitramino group.
- antinoise
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adjective,
designed to reduce or ban excessively loud sound, as of jet engines or traffic:
- tensities
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noun,
the state of being tense; tenseness.
- amenities
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noun,
an agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility:
- mistreats
-
verb (used with object),
to treat badly or abusively.
- nepotisms
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noun,
patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics:
- Marinetti
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noun,
Emilio Filippo Tommaso [e-mee-lyaw fee-leep-paw tawm-mah-zaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ fiˈlip pɔ tɔmˈmɑ zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1944, Italian writer.
- Marinette
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noun,
a city in NE Wisconsin.
- Nestorian
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noun,
one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- Nierstein
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noun,
a village in SW central Germany, SSE of Mainz: noted for its wines.
- mentation
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noun,
mental activity.
- nine-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- sparteine
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noun,
a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- seriation
-
noun,
the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- neoterism
-
noun,
an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- nitramino
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adjective,
containing the nitramino group.
- misprints
-
noun,
a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- aperients
-
noun,
a medicine or food that acts as a mild laxative.
- nitratine
-
noun,
soda niter.
- Rosinante
-
noun,
the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- trination
-
noun,
celebration of Mass three times on the same day by the same priest.
- spearmint
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- serotines
-
noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- Romanists
-
noun,
Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- teosintes
-
noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- nominates
-
adjective,
having a particular name.
- Serpentis
-
noun,
genitive of Serpens.
- sestertia
-
noun,
a money of account of ancient Rome, equal to 1000 sesterces.
- antimeres
-
noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- tenorites
-
noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- spermato-
-
- anisettes
-
noun,
a cordial or liqueur flavored with aniseed.
- trisomies
-
noun,
an abnormality characterized by the presence of an additional chromosome to the normal diploid number.
- temptress
-
noun,
a woman who tempts, entices, or allures.
- triptanes
-
noun,
a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- semitones
-
noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- semainier
-
noun,
a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- Teiresias
-
noun,
Tiresias.
- Masterson
-
noun,
William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- masteries
-
noun,
command or grasp, as of a subject:
- monitress
-
noun,
a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- Massorete
-
noun,
Masorete.
- amnesties
-
noun,
a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- sea-otter
-
noun,
a marine otter, Enhydra lutris, of the shores of the northern Pacific, with a very valuable fur: now greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
- nanometer
-
noun,
one billionth of a meter. Abbreviation: nm.
- Neisseria
-
noun,
any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Neisseria, certain species of which, as N. gonorrhoeae, are pathogenic for humans.
- masonries
-
noun,
the craft or occupation of a mason.
- senoritas
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- satieties
-
noun,
the state of being satiated; surfeit.
- teamsters
-
noun,
a person who drives a team or a truck for hauling, especially as an occupation.
- sensation
-
noun,
the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
- Martinson
-
noun,
Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.
- tenonitis
-
noun,
tendinitis.
- saponites
-
noun,
a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- sententia
-
noun,
an aphorism; maxim.
- martinets
-
noun,
a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- sentients
-
noun,
a person or thing that is sentient.
- sentiment
-
noun,
an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
- near-miss
-
noun,
a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- tanneries
-
noun,
a place where tanning is carried on.
- misorient
-
verb (used with object),
to orient wrongly or improperly.
- Minnesota
-
noun,
a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul.
Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- itinerant
-
noun,
a person who alternates between working and wandering.
- tres-tine
-
noun,
royal antler.
- strontias
-
noun,
Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- sinistro-
-
- strontian
-
noun,
strontianite.
- retinites
-
noun,
any of various fossil resins, especially one derived from brown coal.
- Treponema
-
noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- retention
-
noun,
the act of retaining.
- striation
-
noun,
striated condition or appearance.
- itinerate
-
verb (used without object),
to go from place to place, especially in a regular circuit, as a preacher or judge.
- teratisms
-
noun,
love or worship of the monstrous.
- ministate
-
noun,
a small, independent nation.
- terminate
-
verb (used with object),
to bring to an end; put an end to:
- sirenians
-
noun,
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
- iteration
-
noun,
the act of repeating; a repetition.
- teratosis
-
noun,
teratism (def 2).
- resonates
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- resonants
-
noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- resistate
-
noun,
any of the class of sediments, as sand or sandstone, consisting chiefly of minerals resistant to weathering.
- resistant
-
noun,
a person or thing that resists.
- resinates
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- on-stream
-
adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- ointments
-
noun,
a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.
- arsenites
-
noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- spinneret
-
noun,
an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- Mertensia
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- spermines
-
noun,
a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- Simeonite
-
noun,
a member of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.
- Montespan
-
noun,
Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- impastes
-
verb (used with object),
to cover with or enclose in a paste.
- Teresian
-
noun,
a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- pi-meson
-
noun,
pion.
- pimentos
-
noun,
pimiento.
- estimate
-
noun,
an approximate judgment or calculation, as of the value, amount, time, size, or weight of something.
- Monessen
-
noun,
a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- impotent
-
noun,
an impotent person:
- personas
-
noun,
a person.
- pentoses
-
noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- impresas
-
noun,
a device or emblem.
- misprint
-
noun,
a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- ternions
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- termites
-
noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- importee
-
noun,
an imported person or thing.
- Peterson
-
noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- Personae
-
noun,
a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- imitates
-
verb (used with object),
to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example:
- Minorite
-
noun,
Friar Minor.
- pertains
-
verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- teratism
-
noun,
love or worship of the monstrous.
- Teresina
-
noun,
a port in NE Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.
- imprison
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as if in a prison.
- imprints
-
noun,
a mark made by pressure; a mark or figure impressed or printed on something.
- imprests
-
noun,
an advance of money; loan.
- metrists
-
noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- metritis
-
noun,
inflammation of the uterus.
- Peronism
-
noun,
the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- pentanes
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- tertians
-
noun,
Pathology. a tertian fever.
- pimiento
-
noun,
the ripe, red, mild-flavored fruit of the sweet or bell pepper, Capsicum annuum, used as a vegetable, relish, to stuff olives, etc.
- pentosan
-
noun,
any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- Monteria
-
noun,
a city in N Colombia.
- estampie
-
noun,
a medieval dance and instrumental form, in several repeated sections, associated chiefly with the trouvères.
- meanness
-
noun,
the state or quality of being mean.
- montanes
-
noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- meropias
-
noun,
partial blindness.
- Monstera
-
noun,
any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- minsters
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- Messiaen
-
noun,
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles [aw-lee-vyey œ-zhen praw-sper sharl] /ɔ liˈvyeɪ œˈʒɛn prɔˈspɛr ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1908–92, French composer and organist.
- pianette
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- mentions
-
noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- step-ins
-
noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- mistreat
-
verb (used with object),
to treat badly or abusively.
- permeant
-
adjective,
permeating; pervading.
- estrones
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- tentoria
-
noun,
Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- Peronist
-
noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- ten-spot
-
noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- etamines
-
noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- stentors
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- misstate
-
verb (used with object),
to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- pianists
-
noun,
a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.
- misspent
-
adjective,
spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted:
- misprise
-
verb (used with object),
misprize.
- pianisms
-
noun,
the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- mattress
-
noun,
a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as or on a bed, consisting of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework of metal springs.
- etatisms
-
noun,
state socialism.
- piasters
-
noun,
a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- petition
-
noun,
a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit:
- meionite
-
noun,
a member of the scapolite group, rich in calcium and containing no sodium.
- minarets
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- persians
-
noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- minister
-
noun,
a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- Messenia
-
noun,
a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- sternite
-
noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- pietisms
-
noun,
a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- 11-point
-
- Estonian
-
noun,
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
- moieties
-
noun,
a half.
- Piemonte
-
noun,
Italian name of Piedmont.
- tenorist
-
noun,
a person who sings tenor.
- tenorite
-
noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- toasters
-
noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- estreats
-
noun,
a true copy or extract of an original writing or record, as of a fine.
- Peterman
-
noun,
a safecracker.
- tensions
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- teosinte
-
noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- moistens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- isostere
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound isosteric with one or more other compounds.
- moperies
-
noun,
mopish behavior.
- panniers
-
noun,
a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- stomates
-
noun,
stoma (def 1).
- Tientsin
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Tianjin.
- painters
-
noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- ointment
-
noun,
a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.
- maestros
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- tampions
-
noun,
a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- notaries
-
noun,
notary public.
- Titanism
-
noun,
revolt against tradition, convention, and established order.
- maintops
-
noun,
a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.
- norsemen
-
noun,
Northman.
- Norseman
-
noun,
Northman.
- intromit
-
verb (used with object),
to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- tiresome
-
adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- introits
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a part of a psalm with antiphon recited by the celebrant of the Mass at the foot of the altar and, at High Mass, sung by the choir when the priest begins the Mass.
- intreats
-
verb (used with or without object),
entreat.
- pantries
-
noun,
a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
- maitrise
-
noun,
mastery; skill.
- smatters
-
noun,
slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- tetanies
-
noun,
a state marked by severe, intermittent tonic contractions and muscular pain, due to abnormal calcium metabolism.
- intrans.
-
- nonaries
-
noun,
a number in a nonary system.
- intranet
-
noun,
a computer network with restricted access, as within a company, that uses software and protocols developed for the Internet.
- parities
-
noun,
equality, as in amount, status, or character.
- nominees
-
noun,
a person nominated, as to run for elective office or fill a particular post.
- Stoneman
-
noun,
a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- Tiresias
-
noun,
a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- intonate
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or modulation of voice.
- Oresteia
-
noun,
a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- open-air
-
noun,
the outdoors.
- isoprene
-
noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- strepto-
-
- operates
-
verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- operetta
-
noun,
a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- one-time
-
adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- tinstone
-
noun,
cassiterite.
- one-step
-
noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- iterates
-
verb (used with object),
to utter again or repeatedly.
- optimist
-
noun,
an optimistic person.
- straiten
-
verb (used with object),
to put into difficulties, especially financial ones:
- onanisms
-
noun,
withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- stonemen
-
noun,
a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- iron-man
-
noun,
a person, as a worker or athlete, of great physical endurance who can be depended upon to perform a given task or job tirelessly.
- ironists
-
noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- Steinman
-
noun,
David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- ornament
-
noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- Timorese
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- striates
-
adjective,
striated.
- orpiment
-
noun,
a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- Ossetian
-
noun,
an Osset.
- strontia
-
noun,
Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- tipsters
-
noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- osteitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the substance of bone.
- nominate
-
adjective,
having a particular name.
- mannites
-
noun,
mannitol.
- Matteson
-
noun,
a town in NE Illinois.
- teatimes
-
noun,
the time at which tea is served or taken, usually in the late afternoon.
- insnares
-
verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- Martinon
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- teamster
-
noun,
a person who drives a team or a truck for hauling, especially as an occupation.
- naperies
-
noun,
table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
- tea-rose
-
noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- Masonite
-
- operants
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- patterns
-
noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- Massenet
-
noun,
Jules Émile Frédéric [zhyl ey-meel frey-dey-reek] /ʒül eɪˈmil freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1842–1912, French composer.
- masseter
-
noun,
a short, thick, masticatory muscle, the action of which assists in closing the jaws by raising the mandible or lower jaw.
- sternson
-
noun,
a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- mastitis
-
noun,
Pathology. inflammation of the breast.
- martinis
-
noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- M-series
-
noun,
See under M-line.
- temperas
-
noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- inertias
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- penitent
-
noun,
a penitent person.
- tempests
-
noun,
a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
- matinees
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- tempters
-
noun,
a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
- mortises
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- moraines
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- pensions
-
noun,
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
- teniasis
-
noun,
taeniasis.
- insomnia
-
noun,
inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- martinet
-
noun,
a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- noisette
-
noun,
a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat:
- Mariette
-
noun,
Auguste Édouard [oh-gyst ey-dwar] /oʊˈgüst eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, French Egyptologist.
- mannoses
-
noun,
a hexose, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained from the hydrolysis of the ivory nut and yielding mannitol upon reduction.
- tapsters
-
noun,
a bartender.
- intimate
-
noun,
an intimate friend or associate, especially a confidant.
- nitrites
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- manropes
-
noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- nitrates
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- internet
-
noun,
a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
- internes
-
noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- niteries
-
noun,
a nightclub.
- nineties
-
noun,
a cardinal number, ten times nine.
- intermit
-
verb (used with object),
to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- interims
-
noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- inspires
-
verb (used with object),
to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence:
- interest
-
noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- pasterns
-
noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pastries
-
noun,
a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patentor
-
noun,
a person or official agency that grants patents.
- nepotism
-
noun,
patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics:
- instates
-
verb (used with object),
to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- neonates
-
noun,
a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- Paterson
-
noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- Maronite
-
noun,
a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- instants
-
noun,
an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment:
- patients
-
noun,
a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- Masorete
-
noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- intrants
-
noun,
a person who enters (a college, association, etc.); entrant.
- aspirins
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a white, crystalline substance, C 9 H 8 O 4 , derivative of salicylic acid, used as an anti-inflammatory agent and to relieve the pain of headache, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, etc.; acetylsalicylic acid.
- trainmen
-
noun,
a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.
- protasis
-
noun,
the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if.
Compare apodosis.
- Somerset
-
noun,
a city in SE Massachusetts.
- protease
-
noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- eastmost
-
adjective,
easternmost.
- anisette
-
noun,
a cordial or liqueur flavored with aniseed.
- protests
-
noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- Protista
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- protists
-
noun,
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- stampers
-
noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- seamster
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.
- sonarmen
-
noun,
a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- satirist
-
noun,
a writer of satires.
- Einstein
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1879–1955, German physicist, U.S. citizen from 1940: formulator of the theory of relativity; Nobel Prize 1921.
- earnests
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- satinets
-
noun,
a satin-weave fabric made with cotton warp and wool filling, fulled and finished to resemble wool.
- traipses
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- ptomaine
-
noun,
any of a class of foul-smelling nitrogenous substances produced by bacteria during putrefaction of animal or plant protein: formerly thought to be toxic.
- sarsenet
-
noun,
sarcenet.
- transept
-
noun,
any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- raiments
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- anserine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the subfamily Anserinae, of the family Anatidae, comprising the true geese.
- Ansermet
-
noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- saponite
-
noun,
a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- rampions
-
noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- somatist
-
noun,
a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- prostate
-
noun,
prostate gland.
- atropism
-
noun,
poisoning resulting from atropine or belladonna.
- primines
-
noun,
the outer integument of an ovule.
- pressmen
-
noun,
a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- amniotes
-
noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- amorists
-
noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- pretests
-
noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- pretties
-
noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- semitone
-
noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- Semitist
-
noun,
an authority on Semitic languages, literature, etc.
- emprises
-
noun,
an adventurous enterprise.
- semipros
-
adjective, noun,
semiprofessional.
- Primates
-
noun,
the order comprising the primates.
- trispast
-
noun,
an ancient hoist or hauling device having three blocks.
- trisomes
-
noun,
a trisomic individual.
- emersion
-
noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- emitters
-
noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- pristine
-
adjective,
having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- stannite
-
noun,
a mineral, iron-black to steel-gray in color, with a metallic luster, copper iron tin sulfide, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 : an ore of tin.
- emission
-
noun,
an act or instance of emitting:
- emirates
-
noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- anemones
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having petallike sepals and including several wild species with white flowers as well as others cultivated for their showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- promisee
-
noun,
a person to whom a promise is made.
- promises
-
noun,
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one:
- anemosis
-
noun,
wind shake (def 1).
- pronates
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- prosaism
-
noun,
prosaic character or style.
- prosaist
-
noun,
a person who writes prose.
- attemper
-
verb (used with object),
to modify or moderate by mixing or blending with something different or opposite.
- saponins
-
noun,
any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.
- enations
-
noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- ripostes
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- treatise
-
noun,
a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay.
- Romanies
-
noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- Asnieres
-
noun,
a city in N central France, near Paris.
- arenites
-
noun,
psammite.
- reposits
-
verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- romaines
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- spirants
-
noun,
fricative (def 2).
- resinate
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- artistes
-
noun,
an artist, especially an actor, singer, dancer, or other public performer.
- resonant
-
noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- spermine
-
noun,
a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- resonate
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- triennia
-
noun,
a period of three years.
- respites
-
noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- arsonist
-
noun,
a person who commits arson.
- Responsa
-
noun,
the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- response
-
noun,
an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- ripienos
-
noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- rimstone
-
noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- restates
-
verb (used with object),
to state again or in a new way.
- spinster
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- arsenite
-
noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- retinite
-
noun,
any of various fossil resins, especially one derived from brown coal.
- retsinas
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- Romanist
-
noun,
Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Romanite
-
noun,
a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- atropine
-
noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- reinsmen
-
noun,
a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- transits
-
noun,
the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- transmit
-
verb (used with object),
to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- sanities
-
noun,
the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- antimere
-
noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- antinome
-
noun,
something that is contradictory or opposite to another; a logical contradiction.
- antirent
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a political party (1839–47) in New York that opposed the payment of rents to patroons.
- Sorensen
-
noun,
Soren Peter Lauritz [sœ-ruh n pey-tar lou-rits] /ˈsœ rən ˈpeɪ tær ˈlaʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1868–1939, Danish chemist: developed pH scale.
- transoms
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- ratteens
-
noun,
ratiné.
- spitters
-
noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- reinsman
-
noun,
a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- asterism
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a group of stars.
a constellation.
- spearmen
-
noun,
a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- remanent
-
adjective,
remaining; left behind.
- aortitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the aorta.
- spatters
-
noun,
the act or the sound of spattering:
- renitent
-
adjective,
resisting pressure; resistant.
- aperient
-
noun,
a medicine or food that acts as a mild laxative.
- spiremes
-
noun,
the threadlike chromatin of a cell nucleus, present during early meiosis or mitosis.
- treasons
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- Rossetti
-
noun,
Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- treaties
-
noun,
a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
- essonite
-
noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- rosettes
-
noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- repaints
-
noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- Pressman
-
noun,
a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- triptane
-
noun,
a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- torments
-
noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- airiness
-
noun,
openness to the air:
- ameiosis
-
noun,
aberrant meiosis in which only an equational division occurs, as in parthenogenesis.
- Tritonis
-
noun,
(in ancient geography) a mythical lake near the Mediterranean coast of Libya.
- septimes
-
noun,
the seventh of eight defensive positions.
- sinapism
-
noun,
mustard plaster.
- tontines
-
noun,
an annuity scheme in which subscribers share a common fund with the benefit of survivorship, the survivors' shares being increased as the subscribers die, until the whole goes to the last survivor.
- sinister
-
adjective,
threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous:
- stearins
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- portents
-
noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- Poitiers
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vienne, in W France: Roman ruins; battles a.d. 507, 732, 1356.
- stasimon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- posterns
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- Piranesi
-
noun,
Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
- entrepot
-
noun,
a warehouse.
- entreats
-
verb (used with object),
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
- tritones
-
noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- tropisms
-
noun,
an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- stations
-
noun,
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- episomes
-
- sentries
-
noun,
a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- epsomite
-
noun,
the natural form of Epsom salt, Mg 2 SO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, found as a crust in caves and lake deposits.
- erasions
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- serotine
-
noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- airtimes
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- seriemas
-
noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- poetries
-
noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- steamers
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- seriatim
-
adverb, adjective,
in a series; one after another.
- simitars
-
noun,
scimitar.
- epitasis
-
noun,
the part of an ancient drama, following the protasis, in which the main action is developed.
Compare catastasis, catastrophe (def 4), protasis.
- simonies
-
noun,
the making of profit out of sacred things.
- Pointers
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- sinapine
-
noun,
an alkaloid, C 16 H 25 NO 5 , found in the seeds of the black mustard.
- steapsin
-
noun,
the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
- pismires
-
noun,
an ant.
- topmasts
-
noun,
the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.
- epitomes
-
noun,
a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
- entrants
-
noun,
a competitor in a contest.
- tropines
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- entrains
-
verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- amitosis
-
noun,
the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
- prenames
-
noun,
given name.
- premiate
-
verb (used with object),
to grant a prize or an award to.
- espartos
-
noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- pinnati-
-
- enmities
-
noun,
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
- pinaster
-
noun,
a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- smartens
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- sentient
-
noun,
a person or thing that is sentient.
- smarties
-
noun,
a smart aleck.
- enspirit
-
verb (used with object),
inspirit.
- pioneers
-
noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- prenomen
-
noun,
praenomen.
- ensnares
-
verb (used with object),
to capture in, or involve as in, a snare:
- pineries
-
noun,
a place in which pineapples are grown.
- senorita
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sensoria
-
noun,
a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- tritomas
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Kniphofia, of the lily family, native to Africa, especially K. uvaria, having long, dense clusters of tubular red or yellow flowers.
- sirenian
-
noun,
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
- potestas
-
noun,
the authority of a paterfamilias over all members of his family and household.
- pintanos
-
noun,
sergeant major (def 3).
- presents
-
noun,
the present time.
- entities
-
noun,
something that has a real existence; thing:
- spanner
-
noun,
a person or thing that spans.
- spinner
-
noun,
a person or thing that spins.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- tampons
-
noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- Samoset
-
noun,
died 1653? North American Indian leader: aided Pilgrims during early years in New England.
- metopes
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- simitar
-
noun,
scimitar.
- samites
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- nitrate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- simians
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- nestors
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- spinets
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- spatter
-
noun,
the act or the sound of spattering:
- tampion
-
noun,
a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- sestina
-
noun,
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
- Niteroi
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- rotates
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- Ninette
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Siamese
-
noun,
a native of Siam.
- Siemens
-
noun,
Electricity. the standard unit of electrical conductance in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the reciprocal of the ohm and replacing the equivalent MKS unit (mho) Abbreviation: S.
- samisen
-
noun,
a guitarlike Japanese musical instrument having an extremely long neck and three strings, played with a plectrum.
- siennas
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- sorites
-
noun,
a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- tarpons
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- Rossini
-
noun,
Gioacchino Antonio [jaw-ahk-kee-naw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌdʒɔ ɑkˈki nɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1792–1868, Italian composer.
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- simpers
-
noun,
a silly, self-conscious smile.
- sinopis
-
noun,
a red ocher, used from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
- snap-on
-
adjective,
attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion:
- normans
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- tanists
-
noun,
the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- Spenser
-
noun,
Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.
- spermo-
-
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- minaret
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- Romaine
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- Romains
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- smitten
-
verb,
a past participle of smite.
- sinters
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- riposte
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- Sistine
-
adjective,
of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
- tansies
-
noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- nominee
-
noun,
a person nominated, as to run for elective office or fill a particular post.
- nitrite
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- tapemen
-
noun,
a person who holds and positions a tape in taking measurements.
- Minette
-
noun,
a syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
- miniate
-
verb (used with object),
to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- Smeaton
-
noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- ripieno
-
noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- minions
-
noun,
a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
- Rosanne
-
noun,
a female given name.
- notates
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- metrist
-
noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- tapster
-
noun,
a bartender.
- Rosetta
-
noun,
a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- Rosette
-
noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- Simpson
-
noun,
James Young, 1811–70, Scottish professor of obstetrics and obstetrician: pioneer in use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics.
- Sampson
-
noun,
Deborah, 1760–1827, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier who fought disguised as a man.
- saponin
-
noun,
any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.
- tartine
-
noun,
a fancy French open-faced sandwich topped with spreadable ingredients.
- tempera
-
noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- Tempter
-
noun,
a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
- Moissan
-
noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1852–1907, French chemist: Nobel prize 1906.
- soapers
-
noun,
soap opera.
- TEMPEST
-
noun,
a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
- tempers
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- Tampere
-
noun,
a city in SW Finland.
- septate
-
adjective,
divided by a septum or septa.
- septets
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- semaise
-
noun,
cymaise.
- seismo-
-
- tenpins
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- seiners
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- tension
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- somites
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- septime
-
noun,
the seventh of eight defensive positions.
- seaters
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- moisten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- soirees
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- sonants
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- monesia
-
noun,
a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- monster
-
noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- sennits
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- montane
-
noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- Sennett
-
noun,
Mack (Michael Sinnott) 1884–1960, U.S. motion-picture director and producer, born in Canada.
- sennets
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- tenners
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- semites
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- moneran
-
noun,
any organism of the kingdom Monera.
- Teniers
-
noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- sensate
-
adjective,
perceiving or perceived through the senses.
- moraine
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- semipro
-
adjective, noun,
semiprofessional.
- moreens
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- mortise
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- mostest
-
adjective, noun,
most.
- teatime
-
noun,
the time at which tea is served or taken, usually in the late afternoon.
- teasers
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- Serpent
-
noun,
a snake.
- misease
-
noun,
Archaic. discomfort; distress; suffering.
- mission
-
noun,
a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- seriema
-
noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- senoras
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- sapient
-
adjective,
having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- neatens
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- serines
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- tasters
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- sapiens
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling modern humans (Homo sapiens).
- seriate
-
adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- nemato-
-
- Nemesis
-
noun,
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.:
- santirs
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- neonate
-
noun,
a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- santims
-
noun,
a former coin of Latvia, the 100th part of a lat.
- tenters
-
noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- Serpens
-
noun,
the Serpent, a constellation consisting of two separate parts, the head (Serpens Caput) and the tail (Serpens Cauda) with Ophiuchus in between.
- Tartini
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1692–1770, Italian violinist and composer.
- natters
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- natrons
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- seaport
-
noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- teapots
-
noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- mitosis
-
noun,
the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- Nanette
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Ann.
- Mitanni
-
noun,
the Hurrian kingdom in NW Mesopotamia in the 15th and 14th centuries b.c.
- nanisms
-
noun,
the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- serapes
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- satoris
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- misters
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- satinet
-
noun,
a satin-weave fabric made with cotton warp and wool filling, fulled and finished to resemble wool.
- sereins
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- tensors
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- sateens
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- nasions
-
noun,
the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- sonnies
-
noun,
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
- Serapis
-
noun,
Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- nasties
-
noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- sapotes
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- misstep
-
noun,
a wrong step.
- tampers
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- pentose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- pension
-
noun,
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
- present
-
noun,
the present time.
- sterno-
-
- prename
-
noun,
given name.
- pentane
-
noun,
a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- premise
-
noun,
Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- starets
-
noun,
a religious teacher or counselor.
- praises
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- potties
-
noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- potsies
-
noun,
hopscotch.
- poteens
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- presets
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- peonies
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- postmen
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- Postman
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- pereion
-
noun,
(in a crustacean) the thorax.
- posters
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- postern
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- portent
-
noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- staters
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- Pontine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the pons.
- Permian
-
noun,
Geology. the Permian Period or System.
- pennate
-
adjective,
winged; feathered.
- penises
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- station
-
noun,
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- pattern
-
noun,
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- Stinnes
-
noun,
Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- promise
-
noun,
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one:
- patriot
-
noun,
a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
- Prissie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Priscilla.
- Stimson
-
noun,
Henry L(ewis) 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.
- patsies
-
noun,
a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
- prisons
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- primsie
-
adjective,
prim1 (def 1).
- smatter
-
noun,
slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- pattens
-
noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- primate
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- Preston
-
noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- patters
-
noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- priests
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- patties
-
noun,
any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked:
- Stanton
-
noun,
Edwin McMasters [muh k-mas-terz,, -mah-sterz] /məkˈmæs tərz,, -ˈmɑ stərz/ (Show IPA), 1814–69, U.S. statesman: Secretary of War 1862–67.
- stimies
-
noun,
stymie.
- Pearson
-
noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- Stetson
-
- Penates
-
plural noun,
gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.
- Peneios
-
noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- pretest
-
noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- prestos
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Pontian
-
noun,
pope a.d. 230–235.
- poisers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- pronate
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- Pierian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Muses.
- pissant
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing.
- pianism
-
noun,
the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- pianist
-
noun,
a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.
- pismire
-
noun,
an ant.
- Piarist
-
noun,
a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- piaster
-
noun,
a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- stearo-
-
- Stentor
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- steato-
-
- pieties
-
noun,
reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations:
- Petsamo
-
noun,
Finnish name of Pechenga.
- Pietism
-
noun,
a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- Pioneer
-
noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- pintano
-
noun,
sergeant major (def 3).
- pinners
-
noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- Pimento
-
noun,
pimiento.
- pinnate
-
adjective,
resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:
- pinites
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- pinions
-
noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- pinenes
-
noun,
a liquid terpene, C 10 H 16 , the principal constituent of oil of turpentine, found in other essential oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of camphor.
- pissoir
-
noun,
a street urinal for public use, especially one enclosed by a low wall, screen, or the like.
- step-in
-
noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Persian
-
noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- stereo-
-
- pointes
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- persist
-
verb (used without object),
to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.:
- pointer
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- poiesis
-
- statism
-
noun,
the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- Persson
-
noun,
Göran [yœ-rahn] /ˈyœ rɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1949, prime minister of Sweden 1996–2006.
- pertain
-
verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- poetess
-
noun,
a woman who writes poetry.
- pesetas
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- pesters
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- Pistoia
-
noun,
a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- Steptoe
-
noun,
an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- stepson
-
noun,
a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- peteman
-
noun,
peterman.
- poesies
-
noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- stators
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- pitmans
-
noun,
a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pitiers
-
noun,
a person who pities.
- petitor
-
noun,
a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- step-on
-
adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- Petrine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- Patmore
-
noun,
Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- patines
-
noun,
patina.
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- Orestes
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena.
- strati-
-
- opiates
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- straits
-
noun,
Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- repaint
-
noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- stemson
-
noun,
a curved timber in a wooden bow, scarfed at its lower end to the keelson.
- spireas
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- reopens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- optimes
-
noun,
(formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos.
Compare wrangler (def 2).
- spireme
-
noun,
the threadlike chromatin of a cell nucleus, present during early meiosis or mitosis.
- strains
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- rennets
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- repeats
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- spirits
-
noun,
the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- Oriente
-
noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remnant
-
noun,
a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- remises
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- orpines
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- stories
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- stopers
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- strato-
-
- repents
-
adjective,
creeping.
- reasons
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- striate
-
adjective,
striated.
- Riemann
-
noun,
Georg Friedrich Bernhard [gey-awrk free-drikh bern-hahrt] /geɪˈɔrk ˈfri drɪx ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1826–66, German mathematician.
- spinors
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spinose
-
adjective,
full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- stripes
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- restate
-
verb (used with object),
to state again or in a new way.
- onanism
-
noun,
withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- spirant
-
noun,
fricative (def 2).
- respite
-
noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- one-man
-
adjective,
of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person:
- repines
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- oneness
-
noun,
the quality of being one; singleness.
- resents
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- reseats
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- streets
-
noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- openers
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- operant
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- reptant
-
adjective,
repent2 .
- reposit
-
verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- re-pose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- operate
-
verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- Ossetia
-
noun,
a region in Caucasia: divided between North Ossetia of the Russian Federation and the South Ossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian Republic.
- stoners
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- patient
-
noun,
a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- protist
-
noun,
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- sprints
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- sprites
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- Staines
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, on the Thames River near Heathrow airport.
- 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.
- ptisans
-
noun,
a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- pteroma
-
noun,
pteron.
- pterion
-
noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- stamin-
-
- stamnos
-
noun,
a storage jar having an oval body tapering at the base and two horizontal handles set on the shoulder.
- stamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- Passion
-
noun,
any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- partite
-
noun,
an instrumental suite common chiefly in the 18th century.
- protest
-
noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- pastern
-
noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- protein
-
noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- pasters
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- pasties
-
noun,
pasties, a pair of small, cuplike coverings for the nipples of a stripper, nude model, etc.
- pastime
-
noun,
something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport:
- pastose
-
adjective,
having a heavy impasto.
- protean
-
adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- prostie
-
noun,
a prostitute.
- patents
-
noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- prostas
-
noun,
(in classical architecture) an antechamber or vestibule.
- raiment
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- parties
-
noun,
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
- spitter
-
noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- spotter
-
noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- rattons
-
noun,
a rat.
- ratteen
-
noun,
ratiné.
- stomate
-
noun,
stoma (def 1).
- stomat-
-
- Painter
-
noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- ratites
-
noun,
a bird having a ratite breastbone.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- paniers
-
noun,
pannier.
- rapines
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- pannier
-
noun,
a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- spriest
-
adjective,
a superlative of spry.
- ransoms
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- pannose
-
adjective,
having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.
- sprains
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- pansies
-
noun,
a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
- panties
-
noun,
underpants or undershorts for women and children.
- ramsons
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- paresis
-
noun,
partial motor paralysis.
- parison
-
noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- rampion
-
noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- Rameses
-
noun,
Ramses (def 1).
- raisins
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- metisse
-
noun,
a woman of mixed ancestry.
- primine
-
noun,
the outer integument of an ovule.
- Manners
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- isospin
-
noun,
isotopic spin.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- isation
-
- tessera
-
noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- Essonne
-
noun,
a department in N France. 699 sq. mi. (1810 sq. km). Capital: Évry.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- tonemes
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- tin-pot
-
adjective,
inferior; paltry; shoddy.
- aristo-
-
- tin-pan
-
adjective,
harsh, tinny, or clanging; noisy.
- aristos
-
noun,
aristocrat.
- tinners
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- esprits
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- isomers
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- Massine
-
noun,
Léonide [ley-aw-need] /leɪ ɔˈnid/ (Show IPA), 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.
- isatins
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- arpents
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- Esparto
-
noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- trepans
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- arseno-
-
- Maspero
-
noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- arsines
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- ARTEMIS
-
noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- tonners
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- artiste
-
noun,
an artist, especially an actor, singer, dancer, or other public performer.
- Trenton
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Jersey, in the W part, on the Delaware River: Washington defeated Hessian troops here 1776.
- Tonnies
-
noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- tontine
-
noun,
an annuity scheme in which subscribers share a common fund with the benefit of survivorship, the survivors' shares being increased as the subscribers die, until the whole goes to the last survivor.
- asinine
-
adjective,
foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid:
- martnet
-
noun,
an arrangement of lines formerly used for gathering up a leech of a sail.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- estamin
-
noun,
a worsted fabric constructed in twill weave with a rough surface.
- timpani
-
noun,
a set of kettledrums, especially as used in an orchestra or band.
- tomenta
-
noun,
pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- imitate
-
verb (used with object),
to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example:
- anoesis
-
noun,
a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.
- imarets
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- tertian
-
noun,
Pathology. a tertian fever.
- anoints
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- anomite
-
noun,
a variety of mica, similar to biotite but differing in optical orientation.
- mattins
-
noun,
matin (def 1).
- trioses
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- matters
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- toaster
-
noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- antero-
-
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- Etonian
-
noun,
a person who is or has been a pupil at Eton College.
- Antoine
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1943, French theatrical director, manager, and critic.
- etesian
-
adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- matinee
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- aorists
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- Matisse
-
noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- Trieste
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- Empirin
-
- tinters
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- aperies
-
noun,
apish behavior; mimicry.
- estreat
-
noun,
a true copy or extract of an original writing or record, as of a fine.
- estrins
-
noun,
estrone.
- etatism
-
noun,
state socialism.
- estrone
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- to-name
-
noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- etamine
-
noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- ironist
-
noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- ironies
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- matrons
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- martins
-
noun,
Peter, born 1946, U.S. choreographer and ballet master, born in Denmark.
- iterant
-
adjective,
characterized by repetition; repeating.
- ternion
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- manrope
-
noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- maintop
-
noun,
a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.
- attorns
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- enteron
-
noun,
the alimentary canal; the digestive tract.
- entero-
-
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- traipse
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- entasis
-
noun,
a slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.
- ensnare
-
verb (used with object),
to capture in, or involve as in, a snare:
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- testons
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- mansion
-
noun,
a very large, impressive, or stately residence.
- torment
-
noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- easiest
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- enation
-
noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- interne
-
noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- easters
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- Emerita
-
noun,
a woman with such status.
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- eminent
-
adjective,
high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished:
- emirate
-
noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- empties
-
noun,
Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can:
- emitter
-
noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- mannose
-
noun,
a hexose, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained from the hydrolysis of the ivory nut and yielding mannitol upon reduction.
- mannite
-
noun,
mannitol.
- emprise
-
noun,
an adventurous enterprise.
- EMPRESS
-
noun,
a female ruler of an empire.
- Emporia
-
noun,
a city in E Kansas.
- entrain
-
verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- Transit
-
noun,
the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- treetop
-
noun,
the top or uppermost branches of a tree.
- epinaos
-
noun,
a rear vestibule, as of a classical temple.
- iterate
-
verb (used with object),
to utter again or repeatedly.
- Martini
-
noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- asperse
-
verb (used with object),
to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- aspires
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- aspirin
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a white, crystalline substance, C 9 H 8 O 4 , derivative of salicylic acid, used as an anti-inflammatory agent and to relieve the pain of headache, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, etc.; acetylsalicylic acid.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- Epstein
-
noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- topmast
-
noun,
the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.
- tiepins
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- epitome
-
noun,
a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
- episome
-
noun,
bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal and that may replicate autonomously as a plasmid or become incorporated into the chromosome and replicate with it.
- epimers
-
noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- testers
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- entreat
-
verb (used with object),
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
- entrant
-
noun,
a competitor in a contest.
- attires
-
noun,
clothes or apparel, especially rich or splendid garments.
- entraps
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- atopies
-
noun,
an allergy, involving an inherited immunoglobulin of the IgE type, that predisposes a person to certain allergic responses, as atopic dermatitis.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- atomies
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- atiptoe
-
adverb, adjective,
standing or walking on tiptoe (usually used predicatively).
- transp.
-
- eonisms
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- Annette
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Anne.
- Estonia
-
noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- tritons
-
noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- imprint
-
noun,
a mark made by pressure; a mark or figure impressed or printed on something.
- mention
-
noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- intrant
-
noun,
a person who enters (a college, association, etc.); entrant.
- instars
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- instate
-
verb (used with object),
to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- amnions
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the innermost of the embryonic or fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
- tropine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- amniote
-
noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- insteps
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- Titoism
-
noun,
a form of communism associated with Tito, characterized by the assertion by a satellite state of its national interests in opposition to Soviet rule.
- imprest
-
noun,
an advance of money; loan.
- Ternate
-
noun,
an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
- impress
-
noun,
the act of impressing.
- impresa
-
noun,
a device or emblem.
- imposts
-
noun,
a tax; tribute; duty.
- amorist
-
noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- Amorite
-
noun,
a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
- imposes
-
Verb phrases,
impose on/upon,
to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude.
to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.).
to defraud; cheat; deceive:
- amosite
-
noun,
an asbestine variety of anthophyllite, rich in iron, formerly used as a heat-resistant material.
- Messier
-
noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- Tristan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Tristram.
- amities
-
noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- Tritoma
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Kniphofia, of the lily family, native to Africa, especially K. uvaria, having long, dense clusters of tubular red or yellow flowers.
- imports
-
noun,
something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
- intreat
-
verb (used with or without object),
entreat.
- Meropes
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- airtime
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- trompes
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- introns
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- inseams
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- inserts
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- meropia
-
noun,
partial blindness.
- insnare
-
verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- tipster
-
noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- titians
-
noun,
(Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
- instant
-
noun,
an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment:
- merisis
-
noun,
growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- merinos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- tritone
-
noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- inspans
-
verb (used with object),
to yoke or harness.
- inspire
-
verb (used with object),
to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence:
- termite
-
noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- termini
-
noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- petites
-
noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- inertia
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- tisanes
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- Menotti
-
noun,
Gian Carlo [jahn kahr-loh;; Italian jahn kahr-law] /dʒɑn ˈkɑr loʊ;; Italian dʒɑn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–2007, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- intones
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- tropism
-
noun,
an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- impasse
-
noun,
a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock.
- tsarism
-
noun,
czarism.
- impasto
-
noun,
the laying on of paint thickly.
- intense
-
adjective,
existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:
- Meitner
-
noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- tsarist
-
noun,
an adherent of a czar or of czarism.
- impaste
-
verb (used with object),
to cover with or enclose in a paste.
- Meissen
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
- imparts
-
verb (used with object),
to make known; tell; relate; disclose:
- Messina
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Sicily.
- intents
-
noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- metates
-
noun,
a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- meiosis
-
noun,
Cell Biology. part of the process of gamete formation, consisting of chromosome conjugation and two cell divisions, in the course of which the diploid chromosome number becomes reduced to the haploid.
Compare mitosis.
- Interim
-
noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- meinies
-
noun,
Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
- interns
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- impairs
-
noun,
Archaic. impairment.
- intines
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- Introit
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a part of a psalm with antiphon recited by the celebrant of the Mass at the foot of the altar and, at High Mass, sung by the choir when the priest begins the Mass.
- anemone
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having petallike sepals and including several wild species with white flowers as well as others cultivated for their showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- Imperia
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Italy.
- impers.
-
- amperes
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- intens.
-
- trisome
-
noun,
a trisomic individual.
- impones
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- posies
-
noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Portia
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- posers
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- prases
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- stater
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- inter.
-
- posits
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- posset
-
noun,
a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- patri-
-
- possie
-
noun,
a job; position.
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- epimer
-
noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- insist
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- stints
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- primes
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- intern
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- instr.
-
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- passim
-
adverb,
here and there: used in bibliographic references to indicate that the writer has drawn upon material scattered throughout the source cited.
- topmen
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- eosins
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- poises
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- eonian
-
adjective,
aeonian.
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Patmos
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois
-
noun,
a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- Potter
-
noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- potent
-
noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- pastes
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- praise
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- topman
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- stapes
-
noun,
the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear.
Also called stirrup.
Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- enter-
-
- emptor
-
noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- inspan
-
verb (used with object),
to yoke or harness.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- patios
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- pastis
-
noun,
a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- patent
-
noun,
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- prests
-
noun,
a loan.
- torses
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- intent
-
noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- potass
-
noun,
potash.
- patine
-
noun,
patina.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- starts
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- impair
-
noun,
Archaic. impairment.
- erases
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- impose
-
Verb phrases,
impose on/upon,
to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude.
to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.).
to defraud; cheat; deceive:
- impone
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- etapes
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- import
-
noun,
something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- Pieria
-
noun,
a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- steno-
-
- Pietas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman personification of familial affection, patriotism, and piety.
- estops
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- esters
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- imper.
-
- estate
-
noun,
a piece of landed property, especially one of large extent with an elaborate house on it:
- impost
-
noun,
a tax; tribute; duty.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- penta-
-
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- pinene
-
noun,
a liquid terpene, C 10 H 16 , the principal constituent of oil of turpentine, found in other essential oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of camphor.
- titmen
-
noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- pineta
-
noun,
an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- pinion
-
noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Persia
-
noun,
Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- perses
-
noun,
a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- imines
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- impart
-
verb (used with object),
to make known; tell; relate; disclose:
- steres
-
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peseta
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- iatro-
-
- petro-
-
- Petain
-
noun,
Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- Petite
-
noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- permit
-
noun,
an authoritative or official certificate of permission; license:
- toasts
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- inanes
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- pennis
-
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- pitier
-
noun,
a person who pities.
- Patton
-
noun,
Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- Titian
-
noun,
(Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- pisser
-
noun,
something extremely difficult or unpleasant.
- insane
-
adjective,
not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- pistes
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- 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.
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- stimes
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- pities
-
noun,
sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy:
- Pitman
-
noun,
a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pitmen
-
noun,
a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- patter
-
noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Patten
-
noun,
any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- Pitris
-
noun,
the legendary progenitor of any family.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- stator
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- Inness
-
noun,
George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- 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.
- pinite
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- Pennie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Penelope.
- pinnas
-
noun,
Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- titman
-
noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- espies
-
noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- penmen
-
noun,
a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- Penman
-
noun,
a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- pinons
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- 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.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- inmate
-
noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- Esenin
-
noun,
Sergey Aleksandrovich [Russian syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- steeps
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- sterns
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- innate
-
adjective,
existing in one from birth; inborn; native:
- pirate
-
noun,
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- peasen
-
noun,
a plural of pease.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- raisin
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- Empire
-
noun,
a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- sonars
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- aniso-
-
- anises
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- sonant
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- Season
-
noun,
one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- somni-
-
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- Somers
-
- somat-
-
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- satins
-
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.
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- sennas
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- Sennar
-
noun,
a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- Ampere
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- semens
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- anemo-
-
- anenst
-
preposition,
anent (def 2).
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- anoint
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- amnios
-
- sanies
-
noun,
a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.
- rotate
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- rotten
-
adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- Sparti
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- sparse
-
adjective,
thinly scattered or distributed:
- spares
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- saints
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Antrim
-
noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- Antons
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- Samson
-
noun,
a judge of Israel famous for his great strength. Judges 13–16.
- sansei
-
noun,
a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- sarees
-
noun,
sari.
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- Saseno
-
noun,
an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- sarsen
-
noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- Sarnen
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Obwalden, in central Switzerland, E of Bern.
- sapro-
-
- Sansom
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samson.
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- sapors
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- Santos
-
noun,
a seaport in S Brazil: world's largest coffee-exporting port.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- sennet
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- speans
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- sienna
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- siesta
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- snipes
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- simars
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simian
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Simons
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- simper
-
noun,
a silly, self-conscious smile.
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- sneers
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- aeron.
-
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- sitars
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Sister
-
noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- Sisera
-
noun,
the commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin: killed by Jael. Judges 4:17–22.
- sirens
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sirees
-
noun,
sirree.
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Triton
-
noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- septi-
-
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- AmerSp
-
- sepias
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Soares
-
noun,
Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- amino-
-
- sensor
-
noun,
a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- senors
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- amnion
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the innermost of the embryonic or fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
- serais
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- tromps
-
verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- snores
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- 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.
- sestet
-
noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- sesame
-
noun,
a tropical, herbaceous plant, Sesamum indicum, whose small oval seeds are edible and yield an oil.
- snorts
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- serosa
-
noun,
Embryology, Zoology.
the chorion.
a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- serins
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- series
-
noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- trompe
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- primos
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- ratite
-
noun,
a bird having a ratite breastbone.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- sprats
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- attire
-
noun,
clothes or apparel, especially rich or splendid garments.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- sports
-
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.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- Ateste
-
noun,
ancient name of Este.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- spirts
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- remiss
-
adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- spiro-
-
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- ratton
-
noun,
a rat.
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- spites
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- astro-
-
- astron
-
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- raises
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- attorn
-
verb (used with object),
to turn over to another; transfer.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- easies
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- prises
-
noun,
leverage.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- emesis
-
noun,
vomitus.
- proses
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- stanes
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- stains
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- trans.
-
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprits
-
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.
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- tramps
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- ptosis
-
noun,
a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- Stamps
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- ptisan
-
noun,
a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- ptero-
-
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- assort
-
verb (used with object),
to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- rosins
-
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.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- arsen-
-
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- armpit
-
noun,
the hollow under the arm at the shoulder; axilla.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- spines
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- rinses
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- arises
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- rosets
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Ronnie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Ronald or Veronica.
- Spears
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- speers
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Spiers
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- roasts
-
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.
- sperm-
-
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- sperms
-
noun,
semen.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- Aspers
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- repass
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pass back or again.
- aspire
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- aspens
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- Rennie
-
noun,
John, 1761–1821, Scottish engineer.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- rennet
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- Rennes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ille-et-Vilaine, in NW France: former capital of Brittany; scene of trial of Alfred Dreyfus, 1899.
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- Spirit
-
noun,
the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- repine
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- arsons
-
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.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- artist
-
noun,
a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- Trento
-
noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- treats
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- spirea
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- Passer
-
noun,
a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- netmen
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- pinner
-
noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- stript
-
noun,
a striptease.
- Monnet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- Moneta
-
noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- tiepin
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- streps
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- Street
-
noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- MAeroE
-
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- tampon
-
noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- tetras
-
noun,
any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums.
- tamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- tenets
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- Taipei
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part.
- taints
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- Morini
-
noun,
Erika, 1906–1995, U.S. violinist, born in Austria.
- strops
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- morass
-
noun,
a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- matter
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- mattes
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- Tenner
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- tinman
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- tanist
-
noun,
the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- Menton
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- storms
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- tip-in
-
noun,
tap-in.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- irises
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- stores
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- menses
-
noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- Strait
-
noun,
Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- tinmen
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- tenpin
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- opiate
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- mitten
-
noun,
a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.
- opsins
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- optime
-
noun,
(formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos.
Compare wrangler (def 2).
- isatin
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- tinter
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- mensas
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- notate
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- tetra-
-
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- natter
-
noun,
a conversation; chat.
- neaten
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- 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.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- tarots
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- taters
-
noun,
potato.
- testes
-
noun,
plural of testis.
- testis
-
noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- natron
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- taster
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- nation
-
noun,
a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own:
- Nasser
-
noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- niseis
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- nasion
-
noun,
the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- Nissan
-
noun,
Nisan.
- teapot
-
noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- tastes
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- Neisse
-
noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- Marino
-
noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- nepman
-
noun,
(in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- Nepean
-
noun,
a former city in SE Ontario, Canada, now part of Ottawa.
- Marion
-
noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- Nerine
-
noun,
any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- Marist
-
noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- tasset
-
noun,
either of two pieces of plate armor hanging from the fauld to protect the upper parts of the thighs.
- Marini
-
noun,
Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), Also, Marino [muh-ree-noh;; Italian mah-ree-naw] /məˈri noʊ;; Italian mɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), ("il Cavalier Marino") 1569–1625, Italian poet.
- Niemen
-
noun,
a river in the W Soviet Union in Europe, flowing into the Baltic: called Memel in its lower course. 565 miles (910 km) long.
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- Tassie
-
noun,
tass.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- tarso-
-
- nemat-
-
- netman
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- matri-
-
- Noreen
-
noun,
a female given name, Irish diminutive of Nora.
- manner
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- Taoism
-
noun,
the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- matins
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- manini
-
adjective,
small; insignificant.
- mottes
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- Tanner
-
noun,
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- Mannie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Emanuel.
- tempts
-
verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- motets
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- maists
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- Norman
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- tenaim
-
noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- Maisie
-
noun,
a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- tenant
-
noun,
a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
- Mannes
-
noun,
Leopold Damrosch, 1899–1964, U.S. composer and chemist.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- nitro-
-
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- Nantes
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- mantis
-
noun,
any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- manses
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- nanism
-
noun,
the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- 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.
- masto-
-
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- temper
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- misers
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- nepmen
-
noun,
(in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- intron
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- Tissot
-
noun,
James Joseph Jacques [zham zhaw-zef zhahk,, zheymz] /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk,, ʒeɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1836–1902, French painter.
- paries
-
noun,
Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- 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.
- otitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the ear.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- intra-
-
- Minoan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of ancient Crete.
- tiptoe
-
noun,
the tip or end of a toe.
- Minnie
-
noun,
mother; mom.
- Ionian
-
noun,
a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian2 (def 2), Dorian1 (def 2).
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Merope
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- stipos
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- Parsee
-
noun,
an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- stirps
-
noun,
a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- Ossian
-
noun,
a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- mesons
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- parses
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- Minnis
-
noun,
an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- Mettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- miosis
-
noun,
excessive constriction of the pupil of the eye, as a result of drugs, disease, or the like.
- stoats
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- stomas
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- pantie
-
noun,
panties.
- terat-
-
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- intro.
-
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- stomps
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- panto-
-
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- minion
-
noun,
a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
- pannes
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- Panini
-
noun,
flourished c400 b.c, Indian grammarian of Sanskrit.
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- ottars
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- metate
-
noun,
a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- metro-
-
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- partis
-
noun,
the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.
- intima
-
noun,
the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- 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.
- Pamiri
-
noun,
a member of a Caucasian people inhabiting the Pamirs.
- Osiris
-
noun,
the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- Pamirs
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- tenter
-
noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- osiers
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- paseos
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- stipes
-
noun,
Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intime
-
adjective,
intimate; cozy.
- intine
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- Stopes
-
noun,
Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.
- messan
-
noun,
a lap dog; small pet dog.
- titans
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of the sons of Uranus and Gaea, including Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus.
Also, Titaness. any of the sisters of these, including Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Themis, and Thia.
any of the offspring of the children of Uranus and Gaea.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- Metope
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- tentie
-
adjective,
tenty.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- spies
-
- sipes
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- temp.
-
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- Armen
-
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- aero-
-
- Sinas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- 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.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- 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.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Tempe
-
noun,
Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- MPers
-
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- areo-
-
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- apses
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- tempi
-
noun,
a plural of tempo.
- Sino-
-
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- ronin
-
noun,
a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- apsis
-
noun,
Astronomy. either of two points in an eccentric orbit, one (higher apsis) farthest from the center of attraction, the other (lower apsis) nearest to the center of attraction.
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- tempt
-
verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- Ronan
-
noun,
a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- speos
-
noun,
a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- snaps
-
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- 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.
- MSEnt
-
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- aeri-
-
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- meta-
-
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- metr-
-
- Neman
-
noun,
a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- sito-
-
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- term.
-
- nears
-
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- asst.
-
- treas
-
- reni-
-
- 30-30
-
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- assn.
-
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Renan
-
noun,
Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- mast-
-
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- arsis
-
noun,
Music. the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
Compare thesis (def 4).
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- nano-
-
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Miass
-
noun,
a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- 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.
- tears
-
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Nairn
-
noun,
a historic county in N Scotland.
- spins
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- rept.
-
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- naso-
-
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- resp.
-
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- siris
-
noun,
lebbek (def 1).
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- 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.
- anim.
-
- Minni
-
noun,
an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- somas
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- anent
-
preposition,
in regard to; about; concerning.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- meno-
-
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- semi-
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- mitts
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- sero-
-
- seti-
-
- seeps
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- anis-
-
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Minn.
-
- anion
-
noun,
a negatively charged ion, as one attracted to the anode in electrolysis.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- Minna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- sepia
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- Missa
-
noun,
Mass.
- Miss.
-
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- amin-
-
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- misos
-
noun,
a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- soaps
-
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.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- miso-
-
- Sept.
-
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Amer.
-
- septs
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- mero-
-
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- soars
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- Senna
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- Mists
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- amiss
-
Idioms,
take amiss, to be offended at or resentful of (something not meant to cause offense or resentment); misunderstand:
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- 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.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- sains
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- SAMOS
-
noun,
a Greek island in the E Aegean. 194 sq. mi. (502 sq. km).
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- Anton
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- samps
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- anti-
-
- Mossi
-
noun,
an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- Sinan
-
noun,
1489?–1587, Turkish architect, especially of mosques.
- Sinai
-
noun,
Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- matr-
-
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- spats
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- tera-
-
- spasm
-
noun,
Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- SPARS
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- simps
-
noun,
a fool; simpleton.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- span-
-
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- spaes
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- sanit
-
- Sans.
-
- satis
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- teno-
-
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- 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.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- Mont.
-
- sasin
-
noun,
blackbuck.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- Saros
-
noun,
the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- snips
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- 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.
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- annot
-
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Annie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Ann, Anna, or Anne.
- setts
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- mesas
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Matt.
-
- ante-
-
- mini-
-
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- trop-
-
- meso-
-
- simas
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- soras
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- matte
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- saris
-
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.
- Anson
-
noun,
a male given name.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- Tenn.
-
- minis
-
noun,
miniskirt.
- anon.
-
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Siepi
-
noun,
Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- matts
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Matthew.
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- OPers
-
- Pinna
-
noun,
Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Pinon
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- 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.
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tonia
-
- 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.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- 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.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- opsis
-
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- petr-
-
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petri
-
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- step-
-
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- tomia
-
noun,
the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Pieta
-
noun,
a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- 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.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Piman
-
noun,
any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- Pimas
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- Epis.
-
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- 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):
- Port.
-
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- oasis
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- stat.
-
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- pitas
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- pases
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- ition
-
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- omni-
-
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- Pitri
-
noun,
the legendary progenitor of any family.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Pitta
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- stats
-
noun,
Also, 'stat. thermostat.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- poet.
-
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- tipis
-
noun,
tepee.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- panne
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- Patti
-
noun,
Adelina [ah-de-lee-nah] /ˌɑ dɛˈli nɑ/ (Show IPA), (Adela Juana Maria Patti) 1843–1919, Italian operatic soprano, born in Spain.
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- pant-
-
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Pamir
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- titis
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- pene-
-
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- init.
-
- inion
-
noun,
a point at the external occipital protuberance of the skull.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- insep
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Penna
-
noun,
a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- Passe
-
noun,
the numbers 19 through 36 in roulette.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- part.
-
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- intr.
-
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- pari-
-
- inst.
-
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- patio
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- Patmo
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- insp.
-
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- patr-
-
- Penn.
-
- 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.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- impar
-
adjective,
unpaired; azygous.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- imit.
-
- imino
-
adjective,
containing the imino group.
- imine
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- pert.
-
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- stops
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- pesos
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- ster.
-
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- IATSE
-
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- pests
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- peta-
-
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- iasis
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- ossia
-
conjunction,
(indicating an alternative, usually easier, version of a passage in a musical score) or; or else.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- inapt
-
adjective,
not apt or fitting.
- inane
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- stome
-
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- oste-
-
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- peri-
-
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- impis
-
noun,
(in South African history) a unit of Zulu warriors; regiment.
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- Iran.
-
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Epist
-
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Prot.
-
- toti-
-
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Nitti
-
noun,
Francesco Saverio [frahn-ches-kaw sah-ve-ryaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ sɑˈvɛ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1868–1953, Italian lawyer, statesman, and economist.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- stamp
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- psoas
-
noun,
either of two muscles, one on each side of the loin, extending internally from the sides of the spinal column to the upper end of the femur, which assist in flexing and rotating the thigh and flexing the trunk on the pelvis.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- nitr-
-
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- trait
-
noun,
a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature:
- tramp
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- Srta.
-
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- PRISM
-
noun,
Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- priss
-
noun,
a prissy person.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- 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.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prom.
-
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- pron.
-
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- pros.
-
- 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.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- tapis
-
noun,
Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- Manon
-
noun,
an opera (1884) by Jules Massenet.
- pross
-
noun,
prostitute.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- 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.
- ation
-
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- 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.
- rasps
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spor-
-
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- atmo-
-
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- tarts
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- spits
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- astr.
-
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- pass.
-
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- Nisan
-
noun,
the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- 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.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- 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.
- 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).
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- atto-
-
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- atrip
-
adjective,
aweigh.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- prem.
-
- pret.
-
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- ento-
-
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- tamps
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- start
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- prae-
-
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- Press
-
noun,
an act of pressing; pressure.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- posts
-
noun,
a strong piece of timber, metal, or the like, set upright as a support, a point of attachment, a place for displaying notices, etc.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- posse
-
noun,
posse comitatus.
- prime
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- Primo
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- poss.
-
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- prims
-
noun,
privet.
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- nomen
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- taint
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- poses
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- Pres.
-
- nona-
-
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Priam
-
noun,
a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- Pratt
-
noun,
Edwin John, 1883–1964, Canadian poet.
- nonas
-
noun,
sleeping sickness (def 2).
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- post-
-
- prim.
-
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- spas
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Ste.
-
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Tasm
-
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tamp
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- sops
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Tit.
-
- titi
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- SMTP
-
- SMSA
-
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Soni
-
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- 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.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- tonn
-
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- 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.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- 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.
- tion
-
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- trit
-
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- str.
-
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- tipi
-
noun,
tepee.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- SPIM
-
noun,
a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- tri-
-
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- SRAM
-
- Sra.
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- ter.
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- tRNA
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tron
-
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- top-
-
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- ten.
-
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- 1080
-
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- eso-
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- ESIS
-
- NTIA
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- epit
-
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- epi-
-
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- not-
-
- Ens.
-
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Nina
-
noun,
girl; child.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- 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
-
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nom.
-
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- non-
-
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- esp.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Nor.
-
- 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.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- nos-
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ont.
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- pat.
-
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- 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.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Pen.
-
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- per.
-
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- Pers
-
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pet.
-
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- emia
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- opia
-
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Emp.
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- par.
-
- osis
-
- EMet
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- pam.
-
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- iso-
-
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- min.
-
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- MIPS
-
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- mes-
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- 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.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- itis
-
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- Man.
-
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Mar.
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- MEPA
-
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- meas
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- men-
-
- ment
-
- ISSN
-
- MNAS
-
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- ette
-
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- INRI
-
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- inae
-
- imps
-
noun,
a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- impi
-
noun,
(in South African history) a unit of Zulu warriors; regiment.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Imp.
-
- nane
-
pronoun, adverb, adjective,
none1 .
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- int.
-
- 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.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- neem
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- neo-
-
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- ins.
-
- 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.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- Mon.
-
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOpt
-
- Ire.
-
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- MSTS
-
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- mRNA
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MSAE
-
- MSEE
-
- 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 = .
- MSIE
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- MSPE
-
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- Pan.
-
- ANSI
-
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ant.
-
- AIME
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- 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.
- RIIA
-
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- aer-
-
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- 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).
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Apr.
-
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- apo-
-
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- aet.
-
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- ano-
-
- ARIS
-
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- 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.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- amp.
-
- Sam.
-
- Sais
-
noun,
an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- rpt.
-
- Aire
-
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- AISI
-
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Sat.
-
- 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.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- SASE
-
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- Anne
-
noun,
1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).
- 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.
- ann.
-
- RONA
-
- RNAS
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- amt.
-
- Rom.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- Arm.
-
- atm.
-
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- 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):
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pot.
-
- SIPS
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- ates
-
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- simp
-
noun,
a fool; simpleton.
- pre-
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- prin
-
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Pima
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- PIMS
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- 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.
- attn
-
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- piss
-
noun,
urine.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- pita
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- ator
-
- pnea
-
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- 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.
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pro-
-
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- asps
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- 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.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- ASME
-
- asis
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- sepn
-
- pts.
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- art.
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Sem.
-
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- PSAT
-
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- psis
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- psia
-
- ASTM
-
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- att.
-
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- ASSR
-
- prs.
-
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Am.
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ap-
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- Me.
-
- Tro
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- 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.
- TSP
-
- ae.
-
- IRO
-
- an.
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- trp
-
- ist
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- ISA
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ITA
-
- ISR
-
- TSS
-
- TSI
-
- Ar.
-
- ite
-
- TSE
-
- 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.
- ise
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- IRS
-
- 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.
- ea.
-
- AME
-
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ast
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- en-
-
- ene
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ASR
-
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- at.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Ep.
-
- ASN
-
- ASM
-
- ASI
-
- EPA
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ase
-
- ARS
-
- EMR
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EPT
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- EAM
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- EOM
-
- ean
-
- eo-
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ATP
-
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- tra
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPM
-
- TPI
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EEO
-
- eir
-
- EIS
-
- EPS
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- AMS
-
- TMO
-
- IAS
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ier
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- in.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- 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 = .
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ior
-
- 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.
- IOT
-
- IPA
-
- IPM
-
- IPO
-
- ipr
-
- IPS
-
- Ir.
-
- TNT
-
- Ia.
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ESR
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ERP
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- ese
-
- APS
-
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- io-
-
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- 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.
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- aor
-
- ETS
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Mo.
-
- SMA
-
- TTS
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- PMT
-
- POA
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- POR
-
- PRA
-
- PSA
-
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PSS
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PTT
-
- 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.
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- SSR
-
- SSN
-
- SSM
-
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- SSA
-
- ss.
-
- SRS
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PIO
-
- Sr.
-
- pm.
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- STP
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ose
-
- OSP
-
- OSS
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- OTS
-
- Pa.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Pr.
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- STM
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- STI
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- pim
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- Re.
-
- spt
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- se-
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- SRO
-
- SAE
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- SAR
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- RSS
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- SMS
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- SPS
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RMA
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RPS
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- SPR
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- REA
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- RSA
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RNA
-
- ROA
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROI
-
- ROP
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- RPM
-
- RPO
-
- Rs.
-
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- ote
-
- OPM
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIP
-
- MIE
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- Nan
-
noun,
naan.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- mi.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- MEP
-
- ne-
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- NEA
-
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NES
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NIA
-
- MIT
-
- MTS
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- MRA
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOI
-
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOR
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MPA
-
- MNE
-
- MPE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRE
-
- MTP
-
- MNA
-
- MRI
-
- MRP
-
- MSA
-
- MSE
-
- MSI
-
- MSN
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- MTI
-
- mtn
-
- MTO
-
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- MNS
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- op.
-
- OSA
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- ONI
-
- OAP
-
- 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
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OEM
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ons
-
- TIA
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- OMS
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noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- MAE
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noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- M-1
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noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- oma
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plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- Om.
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- OES
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noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- ONR
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- tet
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noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- OIr
-
- TAP
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noun,
a light but audible blow:
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- TAR
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noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- NMI
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- NMR
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- NNE
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- Mat
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noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- NNP
-
- mas
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noun,
mother1 .
- Noe
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noun,
Noah (def 1).
- TAO
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noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- NSA
-
- NOP
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- Tan
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noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- NPR
-
- Npt
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- nr.
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- MAP
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noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- OPA
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- Mao
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- NRA
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- OIt
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- TT
-
- A.
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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.
- MN
-
- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
- M.
-
- SN
-
- SM
-
- 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.
- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- AO
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- IT
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noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- TM
-
- SA
-
- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ee
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- EI
-
- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- O.
-
- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- OA
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- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- T1
-
- PI
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- TP
-
- t.
-
- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- 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.
- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- S.
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- NP
-
- RP
-
- IP
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- RO
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- N.
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- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
- NI
-
- RN
-
- NM
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- RI
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- TN
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- i.
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- R.
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- MP
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