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- percentiles
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noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies:
- delitescent
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adjective,
concealed; hidden; latent.
- precedents
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noun,
Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
- interested
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- red-pencil
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verb (used with object),
to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead:
- percentile
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noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies:
- telescreen
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noun,
a television, screen, especially a large one suitable for viewing by large numbers of people.
- predestine
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verb (used with object),
to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine:
- intercepts
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noun,
an interception.
- epicenters
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noun,
Also, epicentrum. Geology. a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate.
- centistere
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noun,
one 100th of a stere.
- pestilence
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noun,
a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- intercedes
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verb (used without object),
to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition:
- Electrides
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plural noun,
the Amber Islands.
- decenters
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verb (used with object),
to put out of center.
- centipede
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noun,
any of numerous predaceous, chiefly nocturnal arthropods constituting the class Chilopoda, having an elongated, flattened body composed of from 15 to 173 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair being modified into poison fangs.
- treelined
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adjective,
having a line of trees:
- electrets
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noun,
a dielectric that possesses a permanent or semipermanent electric polarity, analogous to a permanent magnet.
- Leicester
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noun,
1st Earl of, Robert Dudley.
- 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.
- precedent
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noun,
Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
- decretist
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noun,
a student in the faculty of law.
- intersect
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verb (used with object),
to cut or divide by passing through or across:
- splenetic
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noun,
a splenetic person.
- residence
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noun,
the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home:
- Spitteler
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noun,
Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
- intercept
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noun,
an interception.
- pestilent
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adjective,
producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- intercede
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verb (used without object),
to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition:
- repetends
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noun,
Mathematics. the part of a repeating decimal that is repeated, as 1234 in 0.123412341234. ….
- derelicts
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noun,
a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
- decentres
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verb (used with object),
decenter.
- tres-tine
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noun,
royal antler.
- celestite
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noun,
a white to pale-blue mineral, strontium sulfate, SrSO 4 , occurring in tabular crystals, the principal ore of strontium.
- president
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- pedleries
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noun,
peddlery.
- presentee
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noun,
a person to whom something is presented.
- presenile
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adjective,
pertaining to or exhibiting the characteristics of presenility; prematurely old.
- preselect
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verb (used with object),
to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- pretences
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noun,
pretense.
- epicenter
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noun,
Also, epicentrum. Geology. a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate.
- prentices
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noun,
a male given name.
- denticles
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noun,
a small tooth or toothlike part.
- prescient
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adjective,
having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight:
- pelerines
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noun,
a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- Dniester
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noun,
a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.
- derelict
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noun,
a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
- prescind
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verb (used with object),
to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- lettered
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noun,
a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- presence
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noun,
the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- depletes
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verb (used with object),
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
- interest
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- sternite
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- pretence
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noun,
pretense.
- declines
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noun,
a downward slope; declivity.
- dinettes
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noun,
a small space or alcove, often in or near the kitchen, serving as an informal dining area.
- spirelet
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noun,
a small spire, as on a turret.
- preteens
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noun,
Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- terpenes
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noun,
(originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- discrete
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adjective,
apart or detached from others; separate; distinct:
- pretense
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noun,
pretending or feigning; make-believe:
- testicle
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noun,
testis.
- Leinster
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noun,
a province in the E Republic of Ireland. 7576 sq. mi. (19,620 sq. km).
- tiercels
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noun,
tercel.
- entitles
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verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- splinter
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noun,
a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter
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noun,
a person or thing that splits.
- strident
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adjective,
making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking:
- tendrils
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noun,
a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- pretties
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noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- decenter
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verb (used with object),
to put out of center.
- licensee
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noun,
a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- deselect
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verb (used with object),
to discharge (a trainee) from a program of training.
- deep-set
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adjective,
placed far in:
- denticle
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noun,
a small tooth or toothlike part.
- prelects
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verb (used without object),
to lecture or discourse publicly.
- precents
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- detentes
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noun,
a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements.
- decentre
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verb (used with object),
decenter.
- lecterns
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- pretends
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adjective,
Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit:
- precedes
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noun,
Journalism. copy printed at the beginning of a news story presenting late bulletins, editorial notes, or prefatory remarks.
- predicts
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verb (used with object),
to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell:
- decrepit
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adjective,
weakened by old age; feeble; infirm:
- plenties
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noun,
a full or abundant supply or amount:
- reclines
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verb (used with object),
to cause to lean back on something; place in a recumbent position.
- redlines
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noun,
Automotive.
the maximum rotational speed, or angular velocity, of the engine crankshaft that is considered safe: often measured in rpm.
a red line or boundary of a red area that delineates such a value, as on a tachometer.
- reenlist
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verb (used with or without object),
to enlist again.
- inserted
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- pedicels
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noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- discreet
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adjective,
judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- secretin
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noun,
a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- Pericles
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noun,
c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- percents
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- silencer
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noun,
a person or thing that silences.
- sclereid
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noun,
a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- trendies
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noun,
a trendy person, place, object, or idea.
- centrist
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noun,
(especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- sclerite
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noun,
any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- electret
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noun,
a dielectric that possesses a permanent or semipermanent electric polarity, analogous to a permanent magnet.
- centiles
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noun,
(not in technical use) a percentile.
- centered
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noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- peltries
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noun,
fur skins; pelts collectively.
- erectile
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adjective,
capable of being erected or set upright.
- sleep-in
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noun,
a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.
- pelerine
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noun,
a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- Serendip
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noun,
Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- celeries
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noun,
a plant, Apium graveolens, of the parsley family, whose leafstalks are eaten raw or cooked.
- tridents
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noun,
a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
- epicenes
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noun,
a person or thing that is epicene.
- selectee
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noun,
one selected by draft for service in one of the armed forces.
- enlistee
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noun,
a person who enlists for military service.
Compare draftee.
- selenite
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
- trindles
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noun,
British Dialect. a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- selenide
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noun,
any compound in which bivalent selenium is combined with a positive element, as potassium selenide, K 2 Se, or with a group.
- pedicles
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noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- reticent
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adjective,
disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
- scienter
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noun,
a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt:
- perlites
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noun,
a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- resident
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noun,
a person who resides in a place.
- citterns
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noun,
an old musical instrument related to the guitar, having a flat, pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.
- repetend
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noun,
Mathematics. the part of a repeating decimal that is repeated, as 1234 in 0.123412341234. ….
- sterile
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adjective,
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic:
- dentist
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noun,
a person whose profession is dentistry.
- sterlet
-
noun,
a small sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus, of the Black and Caspian seas, valued as a source of caviar.
- speeder
-
noun,
a person or thing that speeds.
- sectile
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adjective,
capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- depicts
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verb (used with object),
to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- deplete
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verb (used with object),
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
- spectre
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noun,
specter.
- Serpent
-
noun,
a snake.
- secrete
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noun,
a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
- lectins
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noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lectern
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- pedicle
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noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- specter
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noun,
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Script.
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- preside
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verb (used without object),
to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- pretest
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- dentils
-
noun,
any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
- relicts
-
noun,
Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- distent
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adjective,
distended.
- epeeist
-
noun,
a person who fences with an épée.
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Spender
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noun,
a person who spends, especially one who habitually spends excessively or lavishly; spendthrift.
- entrees
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- entices
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verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- deniers
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- preteen
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noun,
Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- enteric
-
noun,
enterics, Bacteriology. enterobacteria.
- selenic
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adjective,
of or containing selenium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- Dnieper
-
noun,
a river rising in the W Russian Federation flowing S through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Ukraine to the Black Sea. 1400 miles (2250 km) long.
- discern
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend:
- Spieler
-
noun,
a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- Spelter
-
noun,
zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- incepts
-
verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- epicene
-
noun,
a person or thing that is epicene.
- inspect
-
verb (used with object),
to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically:
- pretend
-
adjective,
Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit:
- spindle
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noun,
a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- Epistle
-
noun,
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- Epstein
-
noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- repines
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- electr-
-
- stencil
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noun,
a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- reticle
-
noun,
a network of fine lines, wires, or the like placed in the focus of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.
- steepen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become steeper.
- steelie
-
noun,
a playing marble made of steel.
- recepts
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- directs
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- recites
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- diester
-
noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- recline
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verb (used with object),
to cause to lean back on something; place in a recumbent position.
- scepter
-
noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- redline
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noun,
Automotive.
the maximum rotational speed, or angular velocity, of the engine crankshaft that is considered safe: often measured in rpm.
a red line or boundary of a red area that delineates such a value, as on a tachometer.
- rescind
-
verb (used with object),
to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- receipt
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noun,
a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- sleeper
-
noun,
a person or thing that sleeps.
- retenes
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- eclipse
-
noun,
Astronomy.
the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse)
a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.
the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- dinette
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noun,
a small space or alcove, often in or near the kitchen, serving as an informal dining area.
- respite
-
noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- slender
-
adjective,
having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length:
- relents
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- splicer
-
noun,
a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.
- respect
-
noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- steeple
-
noun,
an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- sincere
-
adjective,
free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
- splenic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen:
- spitter
-
noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- elected
-
noun,
elect (def 10).
- replete
-
noun,
Entomology. (among honey ants) a worker with a distensible crop in which honeydew and nectar are stored for the use of the colony.
- replies
-
noun,
an answer or response in words or writing.
- reptile
-
noun,
any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- descent
-
noun,
the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- settler
-
noun,
a person or thing that settles.
- deseret
-
noun,
a territory established by the Mormons in 1849 as a proposed state of the Union: was refused admission to the Union by Congress and incorporated in the newly organized Territory of Utah 1850.
- silence
-
noun,
absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- despite
-
noun,
contemptuous treatment; insult.
- destine
-
verb (used with object),
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
- recedes
-
verb (used with object),
to cede back; yield or grant to a former possessor.
- detects
-
verb (used with object),
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act:
- repents
-
adjective,
creeping.
- princes
-
noun,
a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- detente
-
noun,
a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements.
- eserine
-
noun,
physostigmine.
- detents
-
noun,
a mechanism that temporarily keeps one part in a certain position relative to that of another, and can be released by applying force to one of the parts.
- spittle
-
noun,
saliva; spit.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- sceptre
-
noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- Spencer
-
noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- entitle
-
verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- stilted
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- trestle
-
noun,
a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
- pencels
-
noun,
a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- credits
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- terpene
-
noun,
(originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- pelters
-
noun,
a person or thing that pelts.
- Pilsner
-
noun,
a pale, light lager beer.
- pincers
-
noun,
a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinders
-
noun,
peanut.
- crenels
-
noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- pelites
-
noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- Terence
-
noun,
(Publius Terentius Afer) c190–159? b.c, Roman playwright.
- litters
-
noun,
objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- tercets
-
noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- tinters
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- cretins
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- tercels
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- lisente
-
noun,
plural of sente.
- triceps
-
noun,
a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
- pintles
-
noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- Celeste
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- linters
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- Crispen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become crisp.
- credent
-
adjective,
Archaic. believing.
- centile
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a percentile.
- trident
-
noun,
a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
- petrels
-
noun,
any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- perlite
-
noun,
a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- tipster
-
noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- tinders
-
noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- Perseid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- perinde
-
adverb,
(in prescriptions) in the same manner as before.
- cistern
-
noun,
a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
- cittern
-
noun,
an old musical instrument related to the guitar, having a flat, pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.
- Needles
-
noun,
a town in SE California: on Colorado River at Arizona line.
- nettles
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- petites
-
noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- Petrine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- pierces
-
noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- percent
-
noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- pensile
-
adjective,
hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pettles
-
verb (used with object),
to fondle; pet.
- tierces
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- tiercel
-
noun,
tercel.
- pencils
-
noun,
a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- tierced
-
adjective,
(of an escutcheon) divided vertically or horizontally into three equal parts.
- centri-
-
- centres
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- pierced
-
adjective,
punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design:
- linseed
-
noun,
flaxseed.
- Nereids
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- decrees
-
noun,
a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law:
- decline
-
noun,
a downward slope; declivity.
- predict
-
verb (used with object),
to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell:
- trisect
-
verb (used with object),
to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- deceits
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- license
-
noun,
formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- decerns
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- trindle
-
noun,
British Dialect. a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- deciles
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- teeters
-
noun,
a seesaw motion; wobble.
- striped
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- deicers
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- prelect
-
verb (used without object),
to lecture or discourse publicly.
- decries
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- letters
-
noun,
a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- teepees
-
noun,
tepee.
- deepens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become deep or deeper:
- pectens
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- triplet
-
noun,
one of three children or offspring born at the same birth.
- triples
-
noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- teeners
-
noun,
a teenager.
- precise
-
adjective,
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:
- Trieste
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- pedicel
-
noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- liernes
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- tenters
-
noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- precede
-
noun,
Journalism. copy printed at the beginning of a news story presenting late bulletins, editorial notes, or prefatory remarks.
- stipend
-
noun,
a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- tensile
-
adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- delicts
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- tenrecs
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- 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.
- precent
-
verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- pectins
-
noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- deletes
-
verb (used with object),
to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.
- tendril
-
noun,
a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- peelers
-
noun,
a person or thing that peels.
- present
-
noun,
the present time.
- leister
-
noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- tenders
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- rident
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Niepce
-
noun,
Joseph Nicéphore [zhaw-zef nee-sey-fawr] /ʒɔ zɛf ni seɪˈfɔr/ (Show IPA), 1765–1833, French inventor.
- sclent
-
noun,
any slanting surface, as a slope.
- Perlis
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- eterne
-
adjective,
eternal.
- nested
-
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.
- retene
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- perdie
-
adverb, interjection,
pardi.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- Nettle
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- pensil
-
noun,
pencel.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- Seeder
-
noun,
a person or thing that seeds.
- Peirce
-
noun,
Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
- Peerce
-
noun,
Jan (Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) 1904–84, U.S. opera singer.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- pelite
-
noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- peeler
-
noun,
a person or thing that peels.
- pelter
-
noun,
a person or thing that pelts.
- selen-
-
- Selene
-
noun,
the Greek goddess of the moon.
Compare Thyone.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- secede
-
verb (used without object),
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
- pensee
-
noun,
a reflection or thought.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- pencel
-
noun,
a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pecten
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- pencil
-
noun,
a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- Selden
-
noun,
George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- scler-
-
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- pectin
-
noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- escent
-
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- pettle
-
verb (used with object),
to fondle; pet.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- pintle
-
noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- recept
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- recipe
-
noun,
a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish:
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- pitted
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- recti-
-
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- listed
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- pinder
-
noun,
peanut.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- recede
-
verb (used with object),
to cede back; yield or grant to a former possessor.
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- letter
-
noun,
a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- lentic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in still water.
- lepers
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- lectin
-
noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- letted
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Lettic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- Lettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Laetitia.
- prices
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- prides
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- precis
-
noun,
a concise summary.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- Prince
-
noun,
a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- lierne
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- Pilsen
-
noun,
German name of Plzeň.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- pestle
-
noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- Petite
-
noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- needle
-
noun,
a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- incept
-
verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- repine
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- 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.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- idlers
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- Petrel
-
noun,
any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- indecl
-
- litten
-
adjective,
lighted1 .
- instr.
-
- litter
-
noun,
objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- Littre
-
noun,
Maximilien Paul Émile [mak-see-mee-lyan pawl ey-meel] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ pɔl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1801–88, French lexicographer and philosopher.
- Pierce
-
noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- inter.
-
- relict
-
noun,
Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- pieces
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- piecer
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- insect
-
noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- repels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- Leiden
-
noun,
a city in W Netherlands.
- select
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- entree
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- teener
-
noun,
a teenager.
- delist
-
verb (used with object),
to delete from a list, as one that indicates acceptability, legitimacy, or the like.
- delict
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- delete
-
verb (used with object),
to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.
- Street
-
noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- strict
-
adjective,
characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles:
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- stript
-
noun,
a striptease.
- teepee
-
noun,
tepee.
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- deepen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become deep or deeper:
- Teeter
-
noun,
a seesaw motion; wobble.
- decree
-
noun,
a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law:
- decile
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- decern
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to discern.
- decent
-
adjective,
conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
- deceit
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- tender
-
noun,
the act of tendering; an offer of something for acceptance.
- tenets
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- tented
-
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.
- stipel
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- tentie
-
adjective,
tenty.
- Steele
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.
- spleen
-
noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- splen-
-
- splice
-
noun,
a joining of two ropes or parts of a rope by splicing.
- spline
-
noun,
a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- splint
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- detest
-
verb (used with object),
to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- detent
-
noun,
a mechanism that temporarily keeps one part in a certain position relative to that of another, and can be released by applying force to one of the parts.
- detect
-
verb (used with object),
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act:
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- depict
-
verb (used with object),
to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- dentil
-
noun,
any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
- denti-
-
- dentes
-
noun,
plural of dens.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- tenter
-
noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- tepees
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- dispel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
- centr-
-
- tinter
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- cinder
-
noun,
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- ciders
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- titled
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- titles
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- centi-
-
- tinder
-
noun,
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- trends
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- trepid
-
adjective,
fearful or apprehensive, especially trembling from fear.
- Celine
-
noun,
Louis-Ferdinand [lwee-fer-dee-nahn] /lwi fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), (Louis F. Destouches) 1894–1961, French novelist and physician.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- 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.
- triple
-
noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- tincts
-
noun,
tint; tinge; coloring.
- cripes
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath or an exclamation of astonishment.)
- credit
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- tercel
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- cretin
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- tercet
-
noun,
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- crepes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- terete
-
adjective,
slender and smooth, with a circular transverse section.
- crenel
-
noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- creese
-
noun,
a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- creeps
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- creels
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- testee
-
noun,
a person who is tested, as by a scholastic examination.
- cisele
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- clites
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clints
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- tiered
-
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.
- clines
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- client
-
noun,
a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- Tilden
-
noun,
Samuel Jones, 1814–86, U.S. statesman.
- clepes
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- tildes
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- tinct.
-
- direct
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- settee
-
noun,
a seat for two or more persons, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered.
- spired
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- Settle
-
noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- eldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- septi-
-
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- septic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- Elsene
-
noun,
Dutch name of Ixelles.
- Spence
-
noun,
a pantry.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- Serene
-
noun,
serenity; tranquillity.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- elect.
-
- Ederle
-
noun,
Gertrude Caroline, 1906–2003, U.S. swimmer.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- specie
-
noun,
coined money; coin.
- elects
-
noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- slicer
-
noun,
a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food:
- 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;
- slider
-
noun,
a person or thing that slides.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- spider
-
noun,
any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- distr.
-
- entice
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- spinel
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- 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:
- enter-
-
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Eileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- Dnestr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dniester.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- sendee
-
noun,
the person to whom something is sent.
- piled
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- piece
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- tiled
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tilts
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- scrip
-
noun,
a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- petr-
-
- tilde
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- piend
-
noun,
arris.
- 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.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- petri
-
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- 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.
- 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.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- pert.
-
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Sept.
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Pence
-
noun,
a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination):
- pelts
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- Pelee
-
noun,
Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4428 feet (1350 meters).
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- trend
-
noun,
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift:
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- Peene
-
noun,
a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- Peele
-
noun,
George, 1558?–97? English dramatist.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- 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.
- PEDir
-
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- pends
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- seti-
-
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sect.
-
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Perle
-
noun,
a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- 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.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- scend
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- pene-
-
- peril
-
noun,
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger:
- Seric
-
- peri-
-
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- title
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- treed
-
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.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Pinel
-
noun,
Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- Price
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rcpt.
-
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- 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.
- repel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- spice
-
noun,
any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- Pride
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- step-
-
- ster.
-
- spend
-
verb (used with object),
to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- spelt
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- 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.
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- repic
-
noun,
the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- speed
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- stilt
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- relic
-
noun,
a surviving memorial of something past.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- 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.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- Renee
-
noun,
a female given name, French form of Renata.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- 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.
- rect.
-
- recpt
-
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Recit
-
- reni-
-
- recip
-
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- telic
-
adjective,
Grammar. expressing end or purpose:
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- plier
-
noun,
pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- 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.
- tepee
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- 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.
- pred.
-
- Tepic
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Nayarit, W central Mexico.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- tepid
-
adjective,
moderately warm; lukewarm:
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- scelp
-
noun,
a slap, smack, or blow, especially one given with the open hand.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- tele-
-
- 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.
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- spec.
-
- rept.
-
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- 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.
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Pres.
-
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- retd.
-
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- slice
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- 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.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- resp.
-
- slept
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- pret.
-
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- pedi-
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- intr.
-
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- inst.
-
- insp.
-
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- 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:
- Crile
-
noun,
George Washington, 1864–1943, U.S. surgeon.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- incr.
-
- incl.
-
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- crips
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- CRISP
-
noun,
Chiefly British. potato chip.
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- crit.
-
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- Icel.
-
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- licet
-
- Letts
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- leper
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- cine-
-
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- lends
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- lect.
-
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- clepe
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- clept
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of clepe.
- cline
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- Clint
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- clipt
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- Clite
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- 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 .
- cert.
-
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- dent.
-
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- edit.
-
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- edict
-
noun,
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- dept.
-
- desc.
-
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- dict.
-
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dript
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Dnepr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dnieper.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- dist.
-
- disc.
-
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dirls
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- dipl.
-
- dints
-
noun,
force; power:
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- deci-
-
- epees
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- decl.
-
- ESPEC
-
- deeps
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- Deere
-
noun,
John, 1804–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of farm implements.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- 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.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- Epist
-
- Episc
-
- Epis.
-
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- eerie
-
adjective,
uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird:
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- encl.
-
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- insep
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- cent.
-
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- ceils
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- 30-30
-
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Ens.
-
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- epee
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- epi-
-
- epic
-
noun,
an epic poem.
- 1080
-
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- cet-
-
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- epit
-
- pede
-
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- enl.
-
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- TDRS
-
- enc.
-
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Del.
-
- ence
-
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- end-
-
- sepn
-
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- per.
-
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- tel-
-
- esp.
-
- Cels
-
- deep
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- est.
-
- 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.
- std.
-
- pled
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Dec.
-
- PERL
-
- DCNL
-
- ten.
-
- rpt.
-
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rit.
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- 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.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- sci.
-
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- trid
-
- 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).
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- sec.
-
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- scr.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- 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.
- 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.
- Esd.
-
- scil
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Ste.
-
- dpt.
-
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drip
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- trit
-
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- SpEd
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- CERN
-
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- spic
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- pct.
-
- DERP
-
noun,
a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- ped.
-
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- peds
-
- dips
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- dipt
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- dir.
-
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- dlr.
-
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- dis-
-
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- Din.
-
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- pend
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Den.
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- lip-
-
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- str.
-
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- 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.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- pelt
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- ect-
-
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- der.
-
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- SLIC
-
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- depr
-
- sld.
-
- dep.
-
- Cdr.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- 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.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Pen.
-
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- 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.
- cpd.
-
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- 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.
- rcd.
-
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- 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.
- Ltd.
-
- clit
-
noun,
clitoris.
- clip
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- 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.
- PTSD
-
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- lin.
-
- psid
-
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- 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.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Cres
-
- Ire.
-
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- 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.
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- pice
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.
Compare pie5 .
- PICS
-
noun,
a movie.
- Pict
-
noun,
a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.
- pts.
-
- psec
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- LitD
-
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Lett
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- 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.
- cide
-
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- clep
-
- prs.
-
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- tilt
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- prin
-
- cit.
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- cis-
-
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- cir.
-
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- pil-
-
- lit.
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- NCTE
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Tit.
-
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- IEEE
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- tri-
-
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- ile-
-
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- crip
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- Pers
-
- Ice.
-
- repl
-
- ctr.
-
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- cts.
-
- etc.
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- ette
-
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- 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.
- 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.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Ind.
-
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- cen.
-
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- Rep.
-
- 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.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- IndE
-
- pre-
-
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- 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.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- ins.
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- cene
-
- intl
-
- int.
-
- NDSL
-
- prec
-
- rel.
-
- Inc.
-
- ter.
-
- cte
-
- St.
-
- CIP
-
- DCL
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- CST
-
- TSE
-
- DSC
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- 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.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- spt
-
- TNT
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- DIL
-
- tlr
-
- trp
-
- TSI
-
- CIE
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- TSP
-
- de-
-
- DCS
-
- TLC
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CED
-
- cl.
-
- CLI
-
- Tpr
-
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- tr.
-
- CDT
-
- CLR
-
- CPR
-
- TCS
-
- CNS
-
- STI
-
- CPL
-
- CPI
-
- TID
-
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- ct.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- CSR
-
- cp.
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- CRT
-
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- 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.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- CRS
-
- di.
-
- DET
-
- TPN
-
- cr.
-
- tpd
-
- cle
-
- STP
-
- STL
-
- CRP
-
- cs.
-
- CPS
-
- TPI
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SPR
-
- LCD
-
- RCS
-
- RCP
-
- Rd.
-
- PTT
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PSE
-
- PSC
-
- LSD
-
- Lt.
-
- LCI
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- LCT
-
- Ld.
-
- LDC
-
- LDP
-
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- lep
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- Les
-
- Re.
-
- RPS
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ILS
-
- in.
-
- ine
-
- ipr
-
- IPS
-
- Ir.
-
- IRC
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- IRL
-
- IRS
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- RCN
-
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- Isl
-
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- ITC
-
- ite
-
- LDS
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- RDS
-
- RDC
-
- RCT
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- il-
-
- NSC
-
- NES
-
- 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:
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NPR
-
- Npt
-
- nr.
-
- NRC
-
- pc.
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- pd.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PCI
-
- PCS
-
- PDL
-
- PDT
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- PRC
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- PLR
-
- pli
-
- PLC
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- pl.
-
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- 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.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- LPN
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LSC
-
- LSI
-
- LST
-
- ltr
-
- 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:
- PID
-
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- NDE
-
- ne-
-
- NEC
-
- ILP
-
- ise
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- en-
-
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- eir
-
- EIS
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- 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).
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- 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.
- ene
-
- ier
-
- Ep.
-
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- EPS
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- EPT
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- SED
-
- se-
-
- EEE
-
- EEC
-
- SDI
-
- DSR
-
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- DLC
-
- DLS
-
- DNR
-
- DPC
-
- DPI
-
- DPS
-
- Dr.
-
- DRE
-
- DSP
-
- DST
-
- EDT
-
- ETD
-
- SLR
-
- SLP
-
- ec-
-
- ed.
-
- EDC
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- SLE
-
- EDP
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- SDR
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- ERP
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- rnd
-
- RLD
-
- ETR
-
- Sp.
-
- ETS
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- ics
-
- id.
-
- 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.
- ide
-
- IDP
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
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- TTS
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- sc.
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- SCP
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- ERT
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- Esc
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- ese
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- ESL
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- ScD
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- ESR
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- ERS
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noun,
ervil.
- IP
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- T1
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
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- TT
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- EI
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- ee
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- L1
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
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noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- TD
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- P.
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noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- TC
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- le
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- i.
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- SN
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- PI
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- DN
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- ic
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- CE
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- 3D
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noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- LP
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plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- 2D
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noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
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- DP
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- D.
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- LI
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noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- RI
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
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- RN
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- TL
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- el
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noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ln
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- TN
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- S.
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- TP
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- R.
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- LR
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- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- DC
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noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
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- RP
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- L2
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- ND
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- NI
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- NP
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- LC
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- L.
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- dl
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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.
- SL
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- NC
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