Anagrams of prolegomenous
Word prolegomenous has
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- monologues
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noun,
a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker:
- prolonges
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noun,
a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
- monopoles
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noun,
magnetic monopole.
- prologues
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noun,
a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- monologue
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noun,
a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker:
- gonopores
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noun,
an opening through which eggs or sperm are released, especially in invertebrates.
- promulges
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verb (used with object),
to promulgate.
- erogenous
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adjective,
especially sensitive to sexual stimulation, as certain areas of the body:
- nol-pros
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verb (used with object),
to end by a nolle prosequi.
- emulgens
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noun,
(in prescriptions) an emulsifying agent.
- legrooms
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noun,
space sufficient for keeping one's legs in a comfortable position, as in an automobile.
- prolonge
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noun,
a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
- prognose
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verb (used with or without object),
to subject to or make a prognosis.
- mongoose
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noun,
a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- supermen
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noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- superego
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noun,
the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- gomerels
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noun,
a fool.
- plungers
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noun,
Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- enormous
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adjective,
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense:
- loungers
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noun,
a person or thing that lounges.
- mongrels
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noun,
a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
- peroneus
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noun,
any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- eugenols
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noun,
a colorless, oily, spicy, aromatic, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 10 H 12 O 2 , extracted from certain essential oils, as oil of cloves: used chiefly in perfumery and in dentistry as an antiseptic.
- prologue
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noun,
a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- gonopore
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noun,
an opening through which eggs or sperm are released, especially in invertebrates.
- monopole
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noun,
magnetic monopole.
- Spurgeon
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noun,
Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- Spengler
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noun,
Oswald [oz-wawld;; German aws-vahlt] /ˈɒz wɔld;; German ˈɔs vɑlt/ (Show IPA), 1880–1936, German philosopher.
- lonesome
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adjective,
depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely:
- longsome
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adjective,
tiresomely long; so protracted as to weary or cause boredom.
- longspur
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noun,
any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- gruesome
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adjective,
causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly:
- gospeler
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noun,
a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- oenomels
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noun,
a drink made of wine mixed with honey.
- prolongs
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verb (used with object),
to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer:
- generous
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adjective,
liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish:
- gun-room
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noun,
a room in which guns are kept.
- promulge
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verb (used with object),
to promulgate.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- plunger
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noun,
Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- germens
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noun,
a germ.
- rumples
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noun,
a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.
- eugenol
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noun,
a colorless, oily, spicy, aromatic, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 10 H 12 O 2 , extracted from certain essential oils, as oil of cloves: used chiefly in perfumery and in dentistry as an antiseptic.
- oenomel
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noun,
a drink made of wine mixed with honey.
- sporule
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noun,
a spore, especially a small one.
- lounger
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noun,
a person or thing that lounges.
- Logrono
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noun,
a city in N Spain.
- plumose
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adjective,
having feathers or plumes; feathered.
- openers
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- oospore
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noun,
a fertilized egg within an oogonium.
- MSGeolE
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- someone
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pronoun,
some person; somebody.
- lounges
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noun,
a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.
- pomelos
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noun,
the very large, yellow or orange citrus fruit of a tree, Citrus maxima, of southeastern Asia.
- legroom
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noun,
space sufficient for keeping one's legs in a comfortable position, as in an automobile.
- Soleure
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noun,
French name of Solothurn.
- oolongs
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noun,
a brown or amber tea grown in China and Taiwan and partially fermented before being dried.
- pongees
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noun,
silk of a slightly uneven weave made from filaments of wild silk woven in natural tan color.
- splunge
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- pneumo-
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- seleno-
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- spermo-
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- onerous
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adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- morgens
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noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- spleno-
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- legumes
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noun,
any plant of the legume family, especially those used for feed, food, or as a soil-improving crop.
- genomes
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noun,
a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- lemures
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plural noun,
the ghosts of the dead of a family, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or propitiated; larvae.
- morgues
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noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- splurge
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verb (used without object),
to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one:
- pogroms
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noun,
an organized massacre, especially of Jews.
- pugrees
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noun,
a light turban worn in India.
- loopers
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noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- plunges
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noun,
act of plunging.
- Solomon
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noun,
fl. 10th century b.c., king of Israel (son of David).
- Morelos
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noun,
a state in S central Mexico. 1916 sq. mi. (4960 sq. km). Capital: Cuernavaca.
- Gompers
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noun,
Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- sponger
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noun,
a person or thing that sponges.
- gomerel
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noun,
a fool.
- pleuro-
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- operons
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- supreme
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noun,
suprême (def 3).
- supremo
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noun,
the person in charge; chief.
- repulse
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noun,
the act of repelling.
- repugns
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verb (used with object),
to oppose or refute.
- operose
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adjective,
industrious, as a person.
- Emerson
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noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- gosmore
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noun,
cat's-ear.
- Elpenor
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noun,
(in the Odyssey) a companion of Odysseus who was killed when he fell off the roof of Circe's palace.
- Melrose
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noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- unloose
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verb (used with object),
to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- mongoes
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noun,
mungo.
- Negroes
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noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- presume
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verb (used with object),
to take for granted, assume, or suppose:
- unmoors
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verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- relumes
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verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- unreels
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verb (used with object),
to unwind from or as if from a reel:
- merlons
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noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- pelorus
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noun,
a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- Meropes
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noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- reopens
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- mongers
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noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- surgeon
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noun,
a physician who specializes in surgery.
- mongols
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noun,
a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia.
- sunroom
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noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- spumone
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noun,
an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- pleuron
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noun,
the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- leprose
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adjective,
leprous.
- pumelos
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noun,
pomelo.
- erelong
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adverb,
before long; soon.
- superl.
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- murgeon
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noun,
a grimace; a wry face.
- plenums
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noun,
the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- prolong
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verb (used with object),
to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer:
- lumpens
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noun,
a lumpen individual or group.
- Lugones
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noun,
Leopoldo [le-aw-pawl-daw] /ˌlɛ ɔˈpɔl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, Argentine poet and diplomat.
- lumpers
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noun,
a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber.
- lungees
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noun,
lungi.
- prolegs
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noun,
one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- lungers
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noun,
a person who has chronic lung disease, especially tuberculosis.
- leprous
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adjective,
Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- mongrel
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noun,
a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
- sempre
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adverb,
throughout.
- mungos
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noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- lepers
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noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- legmen
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noun,
a person employed to transact business outside an office, especially on behalf of one whose responsibilities require his or her presence in the office.
- grouse
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noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- legers
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noun,
ledger (def 4).
- proleg
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noun,
one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- gruels
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noun,
a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- leones
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noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Nereus
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noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- Lemnos
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noun,
a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 186 sq. mi. (480 sq. km). Capital: Myrina.
- sloper
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noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- Munroe
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noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- legume
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noun,
any plant of the legume family, especially those used for feed, food, or as a soil-improving crop.
- Munsee
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noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- proems
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noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- grumes
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noun,
blood when viscous.
- grumps
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noun,
a person given to constant complaining.
- Gursel
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noun,
Cemal [je-mahl] /dʒɛˈmɑl/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Turkish army officer and statesman: president 1961–66.
- selen-
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- lemurs
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noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- sermon
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noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- gunsel
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noun,
a criminal armed with a gun.
- Negros
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noun,
an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- proles
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noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- Lenore
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noun,
a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- Morgen
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noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- promos
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noun,
promotion (def 5).
- Molopo
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noun,
a river in S Africa, flowing SW along the S Botswana-N South Africa border to the Orange River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- lumpen
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noun,
a lumpen individual or group.
- lumper
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noun,
a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber.
- lungee
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noun,
lungi.
- lunger
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noun,
a person who has chronic lung disease, especially tuberculosis.
- lunges
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noun,
a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- mongos
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noun,
mungo.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Mongol
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noun,
a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia.
- monger
-
noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- resume
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noun,
résumé.
- resole
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verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- repugn
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verb (used with object),
to oppose or refute.
- MElEng
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- Romulo
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noun,
Carlos Pena [kahr-laws pe-nah] /ˈkɑr lɔs ˈpɛ nɑ/ (Show IPA), 1901–85, Philippine diplomat, journalist, and educator.
- moguls
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noun,
a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope.
- repose
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noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- relume
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verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- repels
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verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- Remsen
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noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- merges
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verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- reopen
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- merles
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noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- merlon
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noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- Merope
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noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- Merops
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- merous
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- lumens
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noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- Monroe
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noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- rupees
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- loosen
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verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- prongs
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noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- prunes
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noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- mouser
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noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- loners
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noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- purges
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noun,
the act or process of purging.
- mourns
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verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- longes
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noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- rumple
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noun,
a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.
- pugree
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noun,
a light turban worn in India.
- rumens
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noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- looper
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noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- morsel
-
noun,
a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- morose
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adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- purees
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noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- rugose
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adjective,
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- lopers
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noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- morons
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noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- Lorens
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noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- morgue
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noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- gropes
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noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- morels
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noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- Lounge
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noun,
a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.
- rouges
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noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- loupes
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noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- Moreen
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- pumelo
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noun,
pomelo.
- rouens
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- nerols
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noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- groups
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noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- sporo-
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- glomus
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noun,
a small globular body.
- Oregon
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noun,
a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem.
Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).
- Orense
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noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- Sumner
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noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- plenum
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noun,
the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- Sooner
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noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- enures
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verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- pomelo
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noun,
the very large, yellow or orange citrus fruit of a tree, Citrus maxima, of southeastern Asia.
- orlops
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- ensoul
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verb (used with object),
to endow with a soul.
- ormolu
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noun,
Also called mosaic gold. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold.
- spurge
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- glooms
-
noun,
total or partial darkness; dimness.
- peruse
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verb (used with object),
to read through with thoroughness or care:
- super-
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- opener
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- glumes
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noun,
one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- Engels
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noun,
Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- Oeneus
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noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- gluons
-
noun,
an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Gesner
-
noun,
Konrad von [kon-rad von;; German kawn-raht fuh n] /ˈkɒn ræd vɒn;; German ˈkɔn rɑt fən/ (Show IPA), 1516–65, Swiss naturalist.
- gerous
-
- gnomes
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noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- plumes
-
noun,
a feather.
- plunge
-
noun,
act of plunging.
- oolong
-
noun,
a brown or amber tea grown in China and Taiwan and partially fermented before being dried.
- Europe
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noun,
a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and Caspian seas on the SE. In British usage, Europe sometimes contrasts with England. About 4,017,000 sq. mi. (10,404,000 sq. km).
- sponge
-
noun,
any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- operon
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- splore
-
noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- splen-
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- spleen
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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.
- sperm-
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- one-up
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adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- Gerome
-
noun,
Jean Léon [zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1824–1904, French painter and sculptor.
- Sprung
-
noun,
a leap, jump, or bound.
- genome
-
noun,
a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- genous
-
- pogrom
-
noun,
an organized massacre, especially of Jews.
- pleur-
-
- souple
-
noun,
silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- Olonos
-
noun,
Erymanthus.
- polers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- oleums
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- germen
-
noun,
a germ.
- pongee
-
noun,
silk of a slightly uneven weave made from filaments of wild silk woven in natural tan color.
- orogen
-
noun,
an extensive belt of rocks deformed by orogeny, associated in places with plutonic and metamorphic rocks.
- Gospel
-
noun,
the teachings of Jesus and the apostles; the Christian revelation.
- goners
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- unpegs
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the pegs from.
- posole
-
noun,
a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chili peppers, and coriander leaves: traditionally served at Christmas and often favored as a hangover remedy.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- unreel
-
verb (used with object),
to unwind from or as if from a reel:
- Peneus
-
noun,
ancient name of Salambria.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- unmoor
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- pengos
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- ugsome
-
adjective,
horrid; loathsome.
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- greens
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- neuro-
-
- grooms
-
noun,
a bridegroom.
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- golems
-
noun,
Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
- Osorno
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- Peleus
-
noun,
a king of the Myrmidons, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles.
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- solemn
-
adjective,
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood:
- neurol
-
- pulse
-
noun,
the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- mools
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- pungs
-
noun,
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- pengo
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- pules
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPers
-
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- meso-
-
- pene-
-
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Monge
-
noun,
Gaspard [gas-par] /gasˈpar/ (Show IPA), Comte de Péluse [pey-lyz] /peɪˈlüz/ (Show IPA), 1746–1818, French mathematician.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- mono-
-
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- purge
-
noun,
the act or process of purging.
- osmo-
-
- Mongo
-
noun,
mungo.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- Orono
-
noun,
a town in S Maine.
- Oromo
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic, pastoral people of Ethiopia and Kenya.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- purls
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- Perle
-
noun,
a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- orlop
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- Mogul
-
noun,
a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope.
- Orlon
-
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- mogos
-
noun,
a stone hatchet used by the Aborigines.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- MNurs
-
- pleo-
-
- regle
-
noun,
a groove or channel for guiding a sliding door.
- Oreg.
-
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- pleon
-
noun,
the abdomen of a crustacean.
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- Plume
-
noun,
a feather.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nomo-
-
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- 30-30
-
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Prole
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- noso-
-
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- pools
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- Poole
-
noun,
a port in Dorset, in S England.
- pongs
-
noun,
an unpleasant smell; stink.
- nurls
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- nolos
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- progs
-
noun,
food or victuals.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neur-
-
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Pres.
-
- Pregl
-
noun,
Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1869–1930, Austrian chemist: Nobel prize 1923.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- Negus
-
noun,
a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Prog.
-
- no-go
-
adjective,
inoperative; canceled:
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- prom.
-
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- Morel
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- oleum
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Poler
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- Mosul
-
noun,
a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- MPers
-
- Olson
-
noun,
Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- prem.
-
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- plur.
-
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Prus.
-
- oleo-
-
- mungs
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- Pomos
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- Mungo
-
noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- munge
-
verb (used with or without object),
to manipulate (raw data), especially to convert (data) from one format to another:
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- promo
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- ogles
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- polos
-
noun,
a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- pron.
-
- Msgr.
-
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- prong
-
noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- pros.
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gorps
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- goose
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- goops
-
noun,
a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.
- goons
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- gono-
-
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- slung
-
noun,
a device for hurling stones or other missiles that consists, typically, of a short strap with a long string at each end and that is operated by placing the missile in the strap, and, holding the ends of the strings in one hand, whirling the instrument around in a circle and releasing one of the strings to discharge the missile.
- Gomer
-
noun,
an undesirable hospital patient.
- Gomel
-
noun,
a city in SE Byelorussia (Belarus), on a tributary of the Dnieper.
- golem
-
noun,
Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Solon
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- gnome
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- solum
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- gluon
-
noun,
an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
- glume
-
noun,
one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- glues
-
noun,
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- glops
-
noun,
unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- gloom
-
noun,
total or partial darkness; dimness.
- slurp
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- glees
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- sero-
-
- segue
-
noun,
an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
- lemur
-
noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- Lemon
-
noun,
the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- leges
-
noun,
plural of lex.
- Leger
-
noun,
ledger (def 4).
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- gulps
-
noun,
the act of gulping:
- gules
-
noun,
the tincture red.
- sloop
-
noun,
a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails.
Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- grump
-
noun,
a person given to constant complaining.
- grume
-
noun,
blood when viscous.
- Grues
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- gruel
-
noun,
a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- group
-
noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- GROPE
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- groom
-
noun,
a bridegroom.
- Slump
-
noun,
an act or instance of slumping.
- gloms
-
noun,
a look or glimpse.
- Soong
-
noun,
Charles Jones, 1866–1918, Chinese merchant (father of Ai-ling, Ch'ing-ling, Mei-ling, and Tse-ven Soong).
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- engr.
-
- epulo
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a member of a body of priests who performed sacred rites during sacrificial banquets in honor of the gods.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Engle
-
noun,
Paul (Hamilton) 1908–91, U.S. poet and educator.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Engel
-
noun,
Lehman [ley-muh n] /ˈleɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1910–1982, U.S. conductor and composer.
- emuls
-
- surg.
-
- surge
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- Elmer
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”.
- Elgon
-
noun,
an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the boundary between Uganda and Kenya. 14,176 feet (4321 meters).
- elem.
-
- unpeg
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the pegs from.
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- Urgel
-
noun,
a town in NE Spain, SSW of Andorra: cathedral.
- urges
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- ergo-
-
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- geums
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- sorgo
-
noun,
any of several varieties of sorghum grown chiefly for the sweet juice yielded by the stems, used in making sugar and syrup and also for fodder.
- geom.
-
- geol.
-
- genus
-
noun,
Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- genre
-
noun,
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like:
- Genl.
-
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- 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.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- spume
-
noun,
foam, froth, or scum.
- Euro-
-
- spool
-
noun,
any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- Euler
-
noun,
Leonhard [German ley-awn-hahrt] /German ˈleɪ ɔnˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1707–83, Swiss mathematician.
- spoom
-
noun,
a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- spor-
-
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- Green
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- rogue
-
noun,
a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- loper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- LOOPS
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- loons
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- looms
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- longe
-
noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- meno-
-
- Luger
-
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Meges
-
noun,
a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.
- melon
-
noun,
the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- loupe
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- resp.
-
- Rugen
-
noun,
an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- loups
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- rouge
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- Melun
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-et-Marne, in N France.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- Longs
-
- rumps
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- lunes
-
noun,
Archaic. fits of madness.
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- luges
-
noun,
a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
- leper
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- Lepus
-
noun,
the Hare, a small southern constellation south of Orion.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- mero-
-
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- Lumen
-
noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Merle
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- lumps
-
noun,
a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- merge
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- repel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- logue
-
- Logos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
- logo-
-
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- lungs
-
noun,
either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- lunge
-
noun,
a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- loges
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- plus
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- Rom.
-
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- plug
-
noun,
a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- plum
-
noun,
the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone.
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- purl
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- umps
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- PERL
-
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- per.
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- repl
-
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- urge
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- Pen.
-
- uro-
-
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- USPO
-
- Uele
-
noun,
a river in central Africa flowing W from the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Ubangi River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- rel.
-
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- purs
-
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- Peul
-
noun,
Fulani.
- sump
-
noun,
a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Sung
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, a.d. 960–1279, characterized by a high level of achievement in painting, ceramics, and philosophy: overthrown by the Mongols.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Reg.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- supr
-
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- sur-
-
- Pers
-
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prs.
-
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- slug
-
noun,
any of various snaillike terrestrial gastropods having no shell or only a rudimentary one, feeding on plants and a pest of leafy garden crops.
- slum
-
noun,
Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- rump
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- pre-
-
- pro-
-
- smog
-
noun,
smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- smug
-
adjective,
contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pos.
-
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- slog
-
noun,
a long, tiring walk or march.
- snug
-
noun,
British. a small, secluded room in a tavern, as for private parties.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Sem.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- sepn
-
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Rus.
-
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- SGML
-
- rung
-
noun,
one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- pugs
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- POGO
-
noun,
Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory.
- pung
-
noun,
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Polo
-
noun,
a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- Pol.
-
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- Pomo
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- Sol.
-
- Pool
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pule
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- puls
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- soln
-
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- pong
-
noun,
an unpleasant smell; stink.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Rep.
-
- 1080
-
- Pegu
-
noun,
a city in central Burma: pagodas.
- mogs
-
noun,
moggy.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- mong
-
noun,
mongrel, especially a mongrel dog.
- geo-
-
- Mon.
-
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- mol.
-
- Ger.
-
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Geum
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- mogo
-
noun,
a stone hatchet used by the Aborigines.
- mool
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- Glee
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- Glen
-
noun,
a small, narrow, secluded valley.
- Mngr
-
- glom
-
noun,
a look or glimpse.
- glop
-
noun,
unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- glue
-
noun,
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- glum
-
adjective,
sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- mes-
-
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- genu
-
noun,
the knee.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- MSEE
-
- mus.
-
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- MUNG
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- mun.
-
- mule
-
noun,
the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.
Compare hinny.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- MSPE
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Gen.
-
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- golp
-
noun,
a roundel purpure.
- Meng
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- LOOM
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- gulp
-
noun,
the act of gulping:
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- guls
-
noun,
a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
- gump
-
noun,
a foolish or stupid person.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- loop
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- Loon
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- Loup
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- leg.
-
- loge
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- log-
-
- LEGO
-
noun,
one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- legs
-
noun,
either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- 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.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- loun
-
noun,
loon2 .
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- men-
-
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- gon-
-
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- goon
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- Goop
-
noun,
a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.
- goos
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- gorp
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Lupe
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Grus
-
noun,
the Crane, a southern constellation between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
- gres
-
- lung
-
noun,
either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- Lune
-
noun,
anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
- lump
-
noun,
a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
- lugs
-
noun,
an act or instance of lugging; a forcible pull; haul.
- Lugo
-
noun,
a city in NW Spain.
- luge
-
noun,
a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
- gro.
-
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- grue
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- grum
-
adjective,
grim; glum; surly.
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- Eur.
-
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- ole-
-
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Emp.
-
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- OGPU
-
noun,
(in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).
- ogle
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- Eng.
-
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- enl.
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Ens.
-
- oro-
-
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- OPer
-
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- org.
-
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- nurl
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- Omoo
-
noun,
a novel (1847) by Herman Melville.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- ergs
-
- neo-
-
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- eous
-
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- nolo
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- nom.
-
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- neem
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Nor.
-
- nos-
-
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Gur
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- Gun
-
noun,
a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- ESL
-
- Gum
-
noun,
any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water.
- SLE
-
- SPR
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- lep
-
- 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).
- up-
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- Les
-
- gul
-
noun,
a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
- GSR
-
- uns
-
- EEO
-
- SLP
-
- SLR
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- GUS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- ur-
-
- EEG
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- USP
-
- ese
-
- USO
-
- USN
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- USM
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Eg.
-
- 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.
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- eo-
-
- EOM
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- ure
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- EPS
-
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- Sr.
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ERP
-
- GPU
-
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- Gel
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- GNU
-
noun,
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
- GNP
-
- EMR
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- gl.
-
- en-
-
- ene
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Ges
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- GPO
-
noun,
the federal agency that prints and disseminates publications for other federal agencies. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- Ulm
-
noun,
a city in E Baden-Württemberg, in S Germany, on the Danube.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Gr.
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- SUG
-
- unp
-
- UNO
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- ESR
-
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- ESU
-
- eu-
-
- gre
-
- GPS
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- GPM
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Ep.
-
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- ung
-
- SNU
-
- Une
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- GOP
-
- goo
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- ump
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- se-
-
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- ne-
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NES
-
- NMR
-
- mug
-
noun,
a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- NMU
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- POR
-
- NPR
-
- nr.
-
- NSU
-
- MUP
-
- MSN
-
- NUM
-
- pug
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- NOP
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOR
-
- Pul
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- PSG
-
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- SRO
-
- MPE
-
- MPG
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRE
-
- MRP
-
- MSE
-
- NUL
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- Re.
-
- OSP
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- 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.
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- ose
-
- OSO
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- PLO
-
- Pg.
-
- pm.
-
- PMG
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- OPM
-
- PLR
-
- op.
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- OEM
-
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OGO
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- OLG
-
- Om.
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- plu
-
noun,
plew.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- ONR
-
- ons
-
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- oon
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- PSE
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RPM
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROG
-
- Mo.
-
- Me.
-
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- LUG
-
noun,
an act or instance of lugging; a forcible pull; haul.
- ROP
-
- LSM
-
- Peg
-
noun,
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- LPN
-
- lpm
-
- LPG
-
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- RPG
-
- RPO
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Rs.
-
- RSE
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- rug
-
noun,
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design.
Compare carpet.
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- LON
-
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LNG
-
- lg.
-
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- USR
-
- MSL
-
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- RPS
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- MOG
-
noun,
moggy.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MNS
-
- MNE
-
- MLS
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- MLR
-
- ml.
-
- MGr
-
- MEP
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MLG
-
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- PU
-
- SU
-
- MN
-
- NM
-
- NL
-
- RO
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- NG
-
- ln
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- LM
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- L2
-
- rg
-
- S.
-
- SG
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- ee
-
- SL
-
- SM
-
- MP
-
- RN
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- le
-
- L1
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- RP
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- R.
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OG
-
- LR
-
- MG
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- GN
-
- G.
-
- ol
-
- U.
-
- M.
-
- GM
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- UL
-
- NP
-
- GP
-
- N.
-
- RU
-
- L.
-
- SN
-
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- GU
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.