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- somatotype
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noun,
(of humans) physical type; physique.
- carpostome
-
noun,
the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- type-cast
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adjective,
(of text to be printed) having the type already cast.
- Spectator
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noun,
a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- corotates
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verb (used without object),
to rotate jointly, as with another rotating object or field.
- stateroom
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noun,
a private room or compartment on a ship, train, etc.
- astrocyte
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noun,
a star-shaped neuroglial cell of ectodermal origin.
- topectomy
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noun,
excision of part of the cerebral cortex for the relief of unmanageable pain or especially as a treatment for certain mental disorders.
- sporocyte
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noun,
a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- cytostome
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noun,
the mouth of a protozoan.
- optometry
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noun,
the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
- asymptote
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noun,
a straight line approached by a given curve as one of the variables in the equation of the curve approaches infinity.
- spermato-
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- metacryst
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noun,
a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- Caporetto
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noun,
Italian name of Kobarid.
- ostectomy
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noun,
excision of part or all of a bone.
- comports
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noun,
Obsolete. comportment.
- cytosome
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noun,
the cytoplasmic part of a cell.
- Prescott
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noun,
Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
- corotate
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verb (used without object),
to rotate jointly, as with another rotating object or field.
- compares
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noun,
comparison:
- comparts
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verb (used with object),
to separate or mark out in parts; subdivide.
- costmary
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noun,
a composite plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, that has silvery, fragrant leaves and is used in salads and as a flavoring.
- cytaster
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noun,
aster.
- comatose
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adjective,
affected with or characterized by coma.
- strepto-
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- protects
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verb (used with object),
to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- amoretto
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noun,
a little cupid.
- taprooms
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noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- attempts
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noun,
an effort made to accomplish something:
- temporo-
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- stomato-
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- tapestry
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noun,
a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- sea-room
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noun,
unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- potatoes
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noun,
Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- cryostat
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noun,
an apparatus, usually automatic, maintaining a very low constant temperature.
- testator
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noun,
a person who makes a will.
- tomatoes
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noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- potatory
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adjective,
of, relating to, or given to drinking.
- tearooms
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noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- promotes
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verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- mesocarp
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noun,
the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- compotes
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noun,
fruit stewed or cooked in a syrup, usually served as a dessert.
- spectro-
-
- mycostat
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noun,
a substance or preparation that prevents or inhibits the growth of molds.
- acrosome
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noun,
an organelle covering the head of animal sperm and containing enzymes that digest the egg cell coating, thus permitting the sperm to enter the egg.
- myoscope
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noun,
an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
- topcoats
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noun,
a lightweight overcoat.
- Sycamore
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noun,
Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- pyrostat
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noun,
a thermostat for high temperatures.
- artotype
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noun,
collotype.
- prostate
-
noun,
prostate gland.
- typecast
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adjective,
(of text to be printed) having the type already cast.
- composer
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noun,
a person or thing that composes.
- compost
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noun,
a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for fertilizing soil.
- compote
-
noun,
fruit stewed or cooked in a syrup, usually served as a dessert.
- otocyst
-
noun,
a statocyst.
- osteoma
-
noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- comport
-
noun,
Obsolete. comportment.
- compose
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verb (used with object),
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements:
- scotoma
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noun,
loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- compart
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verb (used with object),
to separate or mark out in parts; subdivide.
- Patmore
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noun,
Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- toyotas
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noun,
a city on S Honshu, in Japan.
- toecaps
-
noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- campers
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noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- toaster
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noun,
an instrument or appliance for toasting bread, muffins, etc.
- capotes
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noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- carpets
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noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- patters
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noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- cattery
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noun,
a place where cats are kept and bred.
- compare
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noun,
comparison:
- cerato-
-
- testacy
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noun,
the state of being testate.
- coopery
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noun,
the work of a cooper.
- prosect
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verb (used with object),
to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- coaster
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noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- comates
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noun,
a mate or companion.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- compar.
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- cystoma
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noun,
a cystic tumor.
- rotates
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adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- coopers
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- mottoes
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noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- Esparto
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noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- stomate
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noun,
stoma (def 1).
- stomat-
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- steato-
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- stearo-
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- Sectary
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noun,
a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.
- stamper
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noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- yatters
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noun,
chatter; idle talk.
- smatter
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noun,
slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- strato-
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- spermo-
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- spectra
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noun,
a plural of spectrum.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- spatter
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noun,
the act or the sound of spattering:
- Mayotte
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noun,
one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- Mercast
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noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- Socotra
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noun,
an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- somato-
-
- Maspero
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noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- mastery
-
noun,
command or grasp, as of a subject:
- seaport
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noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- streamy
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adjective,
abounding in streams or watercourses:
- tearoom
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noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- cotters
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noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- rootcap
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noun,
the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- teapots
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noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- teapoys
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noun,
a small three-legged table or stand.
- copters
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noun,
helicopter.
- Rosetta
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noun,
a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- Coryate
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noun,
Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- tattoos
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noun,
a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
- tatters
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noun,
a torn piece hanging loose from the main part, as of a garment or flag.
- costate
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adjective,
Anatomy. having ribs.
- cotypes
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noun,
a syntype.
- oocytes
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noun,
an immature egg cell of the animal ovary; in humans, one oocyte matures during the menstrual cycle, becoming an ootid and then an ovum, while several others partially mature and then disintegrate.
- stretta
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noun,
a concluding passage played at a faster tempo.
- crypto-
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- cryptos
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noun,
a person who secretly supports or adheres to a group, party, or belief.
- scamper
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noun,
a scampering; a quick run.
- tapster
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noun,
a bartender.
- taproot
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noun,
a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.
- taproom
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noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- tampers
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noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- scatter
-
noun,
the act of scattering.
- scooter
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- stretto
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noun,
the close overlapping of statements of the subject in a fugue, each voice entering immediately after the preceding one.
- tomcats
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noun,
a male cat.
- matters
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- attempt
-
noun,
an effort made to accomplish something:
- totters
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noun,
the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.
- topmost
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adjective,
highest; uppermost.
- pomaces
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noun,
the pulpy residue from apples or similar fruit after crushing and pressing, as in cider making.
- pteroma
-
noun,
pteron.
- armscye
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noun,
the armhole opening in a garment.
- Potomac
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noun,
a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- pottery
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noun,
ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- Petsamo
-
noun,
Finnish name of Pechenga.
- protest
-
noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- topcoat
-
noun,
a lightweight overcoat.
- protect
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verb (used with object),
to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- precast
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adjective,
(of a building or section) cast before being transported to the site of installation:
- try-pot
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noun,
See under tryworks.
- prosoma
-
noun,
an anterior body region, especially the arthropod cephalothorax.
- trompes
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noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- procto-
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- promote
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verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- topmast
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noun,
the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.
- tottery
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adjective,
tottering; shaky.
- Atropos
-
noun,
the Fate who cuts the thread of life.
- tomtate
-
noun,
a grunt, Haemulon aurolineatum, inhabiting waters off the West Indies and Florida.
- crapes
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noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- creasy
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adjective,
full of creases.
- creams
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noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creamy
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adjective,
containing cream.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- sarco-
-
- oyster
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noun,
any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- tarso-
-
- proto-
-
- sapro-
-
- sapote
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noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- oocyst
-
noun,
the encysted zygotic stage in the life cycle of some sporozoans.
- oocyte
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noun,
an immature egg cell of the animal ovary; in humans, one oocyte matures during the menstrual cycle, becoming an ootid and then an ovum, while several others partially mature and then disintegrate.
- taster
-
noun,
a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- octets
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- compts
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- cottas
-
noun,
a surplice.
- tamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- ectomy
-
- scatty
-
adjective,
scatterbrained.
- AmerSp
-
- scato-
-
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- tramps
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- tomcat
-
noun,
a male cat.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- tarots
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- cryst.
-
- crypts
-
noun,
a subterranean chamber or vault, especially one beneath the main floor of a church, used as a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc.
- crypt-
-
- sacro-
-
- scoto-
-
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- copter
-
noun,
helicopter.
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- copro-
-
- copras
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- teapot
-
noun,
a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- Potter
-
noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- coopts
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- Osprey
-
noun,
Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- potato
-
noun,
Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Cooper
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- teapoy
-
noun,
a small three-legged table or stand.
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- cotype
-
noun,
a syntype.
- cosmo-
-
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- taters
-
noun,
potato.
- costo-
-
- tomato
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- Cosyra
-
noun,
ancient name of Pantelleria.
- pottos
-
noun,
any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- tatter
-
noun,
a torn piece hanging loose from the main part, as of a garment or flag.
- totter
-
noun,
the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- tattoo
-
noun,
a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- rotate
-
adjective,
wheel-shaped: applied especially to a gamopetalous short-tubed corolla with a spreading limb.
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- emptor
-
noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- cooeys
-
noun,
cooee.
- sperm-
-
- metro-
-
- macro-
-
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- smeary
-
adjective,
showing smears; smeared.
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- tromps
-
verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- sporo-
-
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- smarty
-
noun,
a smart aleck.
- sporty
-
adjective,
flashy; showy.
- spotty
-
adjective,
full of, having, or occurring in spots:
- aceto-
-
- mayest
-
verb,
2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- trotty
-
adjective,
resembling a trot.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- mattes
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- mateys
-
noun,
comrade; chum; buddy.
- masto-
-
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- somat-
-
- promos
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- spacey
-
adjective,
spaced-out (def 2).
- tropo-
-
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- attest
-
noun,
Archaic. witness; testimony; attestation.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- mopery
-
noun,
mopish behavior.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- treats
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- Searcy
-
noun,
a city in central Arkansas.
- mottes
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- eroto-
-
- mottos
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- Storey
-
noun,
story2 .
- Stormy
-
adjective,
affected, characterized by, or subject to storms; tempestuous:
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scroop
-
noun,
a scrooping sound.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- scrape
-
noun,
an act or instance of scraping.
- epacts
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- Scotty
-
noun,
(often lowercase) Informal. a Scot; Scotsman or Scotswoman.
- treaty
-
noun,
a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
- escarp
-
noun,
Fortification. the inner slope or wall of the ditch surrounding a rampart.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Stacey
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- stater
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
- stacte
-
noun,
one of the sweet spices used in the holy incense of the ancient Hebrews. Ex. 30:34.
- morays
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- trompe
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- yatter
-
noun,
chatter; idle talk.
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- petro-
-
- Troyes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Aube, in NE France, on the Seine: truce treaty in Hundred Year's War.
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- stator
-
noun,
Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine.
Compare rotor (def 1).
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- steamy
-
adjective,
consisting of or resembling steam.
- pretty
-
noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- estray
-
noun,
a person or animal that has strayed.
- motets
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- osteo-
-
- Cotter
-
noun,
a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
- ptero-
-
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- carpos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek goddess of summer fruit, considered by Athenians as one of the Horae.
- carpo-
-
- tootsy
-
noun,
a foot.
- cysto-
-
- poetry
-
noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- tempts
-
verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- Carpet
-
noun,
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- aspect
-
noun,
appearance to the eye or mind; look:
- cytost
-
noun,
any cellular substance liberated because of injury to the cell or cells.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- rectos
-
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- cymose
-
adjective,
bearing a cyme or cymes.
- coapts
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- pacers
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- careys
-
noun,
male given name, form of Carew.
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- pomace
-
noun,
the pulpy residue from apples or similar fruit after crushing and pressing, as in cider making.
- coyote
-
noun,
Also called prairie wolf. a buffy-gray, wolflike canid, Canis latrans, of North America, distinguished from the wolf by its relatively small size and its slender build, large ears, and narrow muzzle.
- Tempyo
-
adjective,
of or relating to the period of Japanese art history, a.d. 725–794, characterized by the flowering of Buddhist architecture and statuary: combined T'ang Chinese influences and emerging native traits.
- captor
-
noun,
a person who has captured a person or thing.
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- cymars
-
noun,
simar (def 1).
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- Ramsey
-
noun,
Arthur Michael (Baron Ramsey of Canterbury) 1904–1988, English clergyman and scholar: archbishop of Canterbury 1961–74.
- pastry
-
noun,
a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- astro-
-
- tetras
-
noun,
any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums.
- tetra-
-
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- cerat-
-
- ostomy
-
noun,
any of various surgical procedures, as a colostomy, in which an artificial opening is made so as to permit the drainage of waste products either into an appropriate organ or to the outside of the body.
- patter
-
noun,
a rapid succession of light tapping sounds:
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- Casper
-
noun,
a city in central Wyoming.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Patmos
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- repays
-
verb (used with object),
to pay back or refund, as money.
- cartop
-
adjective,
of a size and shape suitable for carrying on the top of an automobile.
- terat-
-
- parsec
-
noun,
a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- caryo-
-
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- ottars
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- matter
-
noun,
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed:
- capers
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- toasty
-
adjective,
comfortably or cozily warm.
- Toyota
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in Japan.
- recaps
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- Capote
-
noun,
a long cloak with a hood.
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- compos
-
noun,
composition material.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- camper
-
noun,
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- toecap
-
noun,
a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- Campos
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Patmo
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- pros.
-
- sooey
-
interjection,
(a shout used in calling pigs.)
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- patr-
-
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- pert.
-
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- repay
-
verb (used with object),
to pay back or refund, as money.
- Patsy
-
noun,
a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- sect.
-
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- MOTOS
-
- ratty
-
adjective,
full of rats.
- Matty
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- pret.
-
- matts
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Matthew.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- sooty
-
adjective,
covered, blackened, or smirched with soot.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- mosey
-
verb (used without object),
to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- meaty
-
adjective,
of or like meat.
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- pyro-
-
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- Percy
-
noun,
Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- rect.
-
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- meta-
-
- myco-
-
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- Peary
-
noun,
Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- recpt
-
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- prom.
-
- raspy
-
adjective,
harsh; grating; rasping.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- peaty
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- promo
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- metr-
-
- metry
-
- meso-
-
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Moray
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- pyres
-
noun,
a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- Sepoy
-
noun,
(formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Sept.
-
- soapy
-
adjective,
containing or impregnated with soap:
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- mopey
-
adjective,
languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- sero-
-
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- 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.
- recap
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- Mercy
-
noun,
compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
- mero-
-
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Patty
-
noun,
any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked:
- proc.
-
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- Pres.
-
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- opto-
-
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Pomos
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ottos
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- OPers
-
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- 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.
- prae-
-
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- Royce
-
noun,
Josiah, 1855–1916, U.S. philosopher and educator.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- pacer
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sarc-
-
- paces
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- prays
-
verb (used with object),
to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- rcpt.
-
- rooty
-
noun,
bread.
- post-
-
- oste-
-
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- roomy
-
noun,
roomie.
- Petty
-
noun,
Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- osmo-
-
- potsy
-
noun,
hopscotch.
- ottar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- 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.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- posey
-
adjective,
characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- petr-
-
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- potty
-
noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- potto
-
noun,
any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Port.
-
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- oracy
-
noun,
the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.
- ryots
-
noun,
a peasant.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- motto
-
noun,
a maxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.
- prem.
-
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scoop
-
noun,
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- Prot.
-
- scopa
-
noun,
pollen brush.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- scopy
-
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- Pasco
-
noun,
a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- preys
-
noun,
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- Scot.
-
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- part.
-
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Scott
-
noun,
Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- poesy
-
noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- scrap
-
noun,
a small piece or portion; fragment:
- pasty
-
noun,
pasties, a pair of small, cuplike coverings for the nipples of a stripper, nude model, etc.
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- seamy
-
adjective,
unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable:
- MPers
-
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- party
-
noun,
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
- scatt
-
noun,
scat5 .
- payer
-
noun,
a person who pays.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- oyers
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- peta-
-
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- satyr
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- octo-
-
- payt.
-
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- poet.
-
- resp.
-
- octet
-
noun,
a company of eight singers or musicians.
- octa-
-
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- SCAMP
-
noun,
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- scat-
-
- scape
-
noun,
Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Pratt
-
noun,
Edwin John, 1883–1964, Canadian poet.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- rept.
-
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- scary
-
adjective,
causing fright or alarm.
- scarp
-
noun,
a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- matte
-
noun,
a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- cymas
-
noun,
Architecture. either of two moldings having a partly convex and partly concave curve for an outline: used especially in classical architecture.
Compare cyma recta, cyma reversa.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- cert.
-
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- term.
-
- cymar
-
noun,
simar (def 1).
- tera-
-
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- cymes
-
noun,
an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single central or terminal flower that blooms first.
- Cypro
-
- cyst-
-
- cyto-
-
- tempt
-
verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- Coamo
-
noun,
a city in S central Puerto Rico.
- coapt
-
verb (used with object),
to bring close together:
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- cero-
-
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- tyres
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- carp-
-
- carps
-
noun,
a peevish complaint.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- testy
-
adjective,
irritably impatient; touchy.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- typos
-
noun,
typographical error.
- Casey
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “brave.”.
- typo-
-
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Catty
-
noun,
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to about 1½ pounds (680 grams) avoirdupois.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- temp.
-
- tyros
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- copr-
-
- copra
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Corey
-
noun,
Elias James, born 1928, U.S. chemist and educator: Nobel Prize 1990.
- cores
-
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- corp.
-
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- tatty
-
noun,
(in India) a screen, usually made of coarse, fragrant fibers, placed over a window or door and kept moistened with water in order to cool and deodorize the room.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- tater
-
noun,
potato.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- teary
-
adjective,
of or like tears.
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- comps
-
noun,
a compositor.
- tecta
-
noun,
a rooflike structure.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- comp.
-
- compo
-
noun,
composition material.
- compt
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- Comr.
-
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- cooey
-
noun,
cooee.
- Matt.
-
- coop.
-
- co-op
-
noun,
a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
- coopt
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooty
-
noun,
cootie1 .
- Carey
-
noun,
male given name, form of Carew.
- Capt.
-
- tasty
-
adjective,
good-tasting; savory:
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- TREAT
-
noun,
entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- treas
-
- Amer.
-
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- tramp
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- AMORC
-
- Amory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Tract
-
noun,
an expanse or area of land, water, etc.; region; stretch.
- treys
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- Tracy
-
noun,
Spencer, 1900–67, U.S. film actor.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- apery
-
noun,
apish behavior; mimicry.
- Apoc.
-
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- Ayres
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- acpt.
-
- 30-30
-
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- tropy
-
- acet-
-
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trop-
-
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- tryma
-
noun,
a nut having an outer shell that becomes tough and dry and eventually splits open, as in the walnut and hickory.
- acro-
-
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- actos
-
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- troys
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- aero-
-
- tryst
-
noun,
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- caps.
-
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- atopy
-
noun,
an allergy, involving an inherited immunoglobulin of the IgE type, that predisposes a person to certain allergic responses, as atopic dermatitis.
- atory
-
- atty.
-
- atto-
-
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Cayes
-
noun,
Les. Les Cayes.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- Campy
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characterized by camp:
- atomy
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- Campo
-
noun,
(in South America) an extensive, nearly level grassland plain.
- camps
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- caper
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- capes
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- Capet
-
noun,
Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- capos
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- capot
-
noun,
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
- toots
-
noun,
an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
- atmo-
-
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- areo-
-
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- artsy
-
adjective,
arty.
- asco-
-
- astr.
-
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- topo-
-
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- cotta
-
noun,
a surplice.
- tears
-
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- empty
-
noun,
Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can:
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- 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.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- spor-
-
- epact
-
noun,
the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
- stray
-
noun,
a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- spoom
-
noun,
a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Emory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- eyras
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- Srta.
-
- ecto-
-
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- spec.
-
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- tacet
-
verb (imperative),
be silent (directing an instrument or voice not to play or sing).
- Mayer
-
noun,
Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- Story
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- spray
-
noun,
water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
- Yeats
-
noun,
William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- yeast
-
noun,
any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- Stacy
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- prosy
-
adjective,
of the nature of or resembling prose.
- Yetta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- stamp
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- yetts
-
noun,
gate.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- start
-
noun,
a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- stat.
-
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- step-
-
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- ster.
-
- yores
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- Ypres
-
noun,
a town in W Belgium: battles 1914–18.
- YPSCE
-
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- stome
-
- stomy
-
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- stroy
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy.
- Mayor
-
noun,
the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- cramp
-
noun,
Often, cramps.
a sudden, involuntary, spasmodic contraction of a muscle or group of muscles, especially of the extremities, sometimes with severe pain.
a piercing pain in the abdomen.
an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruation or of labor.
- tarot
-
noun,
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- mast-
-
- Marys
-
noun,
Also called Virgin Mary. the mother of Jesus.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- cryo-
-
- tarty
-
adjective,
tart; somewhat sour.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- masc.
-
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- crape
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- space
-
noun,
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- craps
-
noun,
a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tarts
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- tacts
-
noun,
a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
- mayos
-
noun,
mayonnaise.
- matr-
-
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- mayst
-
verb,
2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- tamps
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Marcy
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in NE New York: highest peak of the Adirondack Mountains, 5344 feet (1629 meters).
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- matey
-
noun,
comrade; chum; buddy.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- racy
-
adjective,
slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Sra.
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- top-
-
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- spry
-
adjective,
active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- sym.
-
- syce
-
noun,
(in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- SMTP
-
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- Tray
-
noun,
a flat, shallow container or receptacle made of wood, metal, etc., usually with slightly raised edges, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles of food, glass, china, etc.
- SPCA
-
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- psec
-
- PSAT
-
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- spay
-
noun,
a three-year-old male red deer.
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Tory
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- RCMP
-
- Troy
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- prs.
-
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- pts.
-
- Syr.
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Trey
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- SRAM
-
- Styr
-
noun,
a river in NW Ukraine, flowing N to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- tamp
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- tact
-
noun,
a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
- Rom.
-
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- 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.
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- tart
-
noun,
a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- stay
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- rpt.
-
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ropy
-
adjective,
resembling a rope or ropes:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Rosy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Sat.
-
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- sec.
-
- Tyro
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Tasm
-
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- secy
-
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Ste.
-
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- toey
-
adjective,
touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- toys
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Sem.
-
- tomy
-
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- toot
-
noun,
an act or sound of tooting.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- ryot
-
noun,
a peasant.
- ryes
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- ryas
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ter.
-
- scr.
-
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- str.
-
- Rep.
-
- scry
-
verb (used without object),
to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- typ.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- type
-
noun,
a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category:
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Tyre
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- Sam.
-
- 1080
-
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Yser
-
noun,
a river flowing from N France through NW Belgium into the North Sea: battles 1914–18. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- yams
-
noun,
the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- yaps
-
noun,
a sharp, shrill, or snappish bark; yelp.
- yare
-
adjective,
quick; agile; lively.
- year
-
noun,
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year)
Compare common year, leap year.
- yeas
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- yett
-
noun,
gate.
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- yrs.
-
- acr-
-
- YMCA
-
- pro-
-
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- Mac-
-
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Macy
-
noun,
R(owland) H(ussey) [roh-luh nd huhs-ee] /ˈroʊ lənd ˈhʌs i/ (Show IPA), 1823–77, U.S. retail merchant.
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- Mays
-
noun,
Willie (Howard) born 1931, U.S. baseball player.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- eco-
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- ect-
-
- aery
-
noun,
aerie.
- eyas
-
noun,
a nestling, usually a hawk.
- eyot
-
noun,
ait.
- eyra
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- Emp.
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- etym
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- eso-
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- Espy
-
noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- est.
-
- aer-
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- etc.
-
- Mayo
-
noun,
mayonnaise.
- Mar.
-
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mopy
-
adjective,
mopey.
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOpt
-
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MSAE
-
- MSCE
-
- MSCP
-
- msec
-
- MSPE
-
- OAPC
-
- oary
-
adjective,
oarlike.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- MEPA
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- MCPO
-
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- meas
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- 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.
- mes-
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- met.
-
- myc-
-
- myo-
-
- Myra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Lycia.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- easy
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- ASTM
-
- att.
-
- atm.
-
- ates
-
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- ator
-
- atry
-
adjective,
lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- cays
-
noun,
a small low island; key.
- CAMP
-
noun,
a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- cap.
-
- Cape
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- capo
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- ayre
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- ASME
-
- asc-
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- Amoy
-
noun,
Xiamen.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- amp.
-
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- amt.
-
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- apo-
-
- Apr.
-
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- Arty
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Arm.
-
- army
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- cat.
-
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Coty
-
noun,
René Jules Gustave [ruh-ney zhyl gys-tav] /rəˈneɪ ʒül güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1882–1962, president of France 1954–59.
- Cory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- ayes
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- Ayer
-
noun,
Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Cort
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- cosy
-
noun,
a padded covering for a teapot, chocolate pot, etc., to retain the heat.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- cray
-
adjective,
crazy.
- Cor.
-
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- crat
-
- Cres
-
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- ctr.
-
- cts.
-
- aet.
-
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- Catt
-
noun,
Carrie Chapman Lane, 1859–1947, U.S. leader in women's suffrage movements.
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- cet-
-
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- Ceto
-
- Ayme
-
noun,
Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, French novelist and short-story writer.
- Cyma
-
noun,
Architecture. either of two moldings having a partly convex and partly concave curve for an outline: used especially in classical architecture.
Compare cyma recta, cyma reversa.
- cyme
-
noun,
an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single central or terminal flower that blooms first.
- cyte
-
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- copy
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- coys
-
adjective,
artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- Com.
-
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Mary
-
noun,
Also called Virgin Mary. the mother of Jesus.
- Oct.
-
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Pers
-
- pat.
-
- 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.
- oory
-
adjective,
ourie.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- pyre
-
noun,
a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- opsy
-
- Pomo
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- OPer
-
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- 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.
- oto-
-
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- 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.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- per.
-
- Otto
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- poco
-
adverb,
somewhat; rather:
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- paty
-
adjective,
(of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée:
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- pam.
-
- pct.
-
- pre-
-
- pacs
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- pos.
-
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- PACT
-
noun,
an agreement, covenant, or compact:
- oro-
-
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- PAYE
-
- pays
-
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- pyes
-
noun,
pie4 .
- pyas
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of Burma, the 100th part of a kyat.
- par.
-
- pyr-
-
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- posy
-
noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- pot.
-
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- pyo-
-
- pray
-
verb (used with object),
to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).
- prey
-
noun,
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- PACE
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- Pet.
-
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- prec
-
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- Coy
-
adjective,
artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- REA
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- CPA
-
- TCS
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- CTA
-
- cte
-
- aye
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- eo-
-
- EOM
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ea.
-
- EAM
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- rya
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Tay
-
noun,
a river flowing through central Scotland into the Firth of Tay. 118 miles (190 km) long.
- CST
-
- CSR
-
- TCA
-
- CPM
-
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- PCS
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- PCM
-
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- py-
-
- CPO
-
- CSO
-
- CPR
-
- CPS
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- CRP
-
- CRS
-
- CRT
-
- CSA
-
- RCT
-
- CEO
-
- CMA
-
- ASM
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- PTT
-
- TTY
-
- ase
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- at.
-
- RCP
-
- RCS
-
- ATC
-
- Re.
-
- ary
-
adjective,
any; anyone.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- AME
-
- Pry
-
noun,
an impertinently inquisitive person.
- PRC
-
- AMS
-
- aor
-
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPM
-
- APC
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- PSA
-
- APS
-
- PSC
-
- PSE
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- PRA
-
- RMA
-
- RPS
-
- RCA
-
- CEA
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- Tyr
-
noun,
the god of strife.
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- POC
-
- POA
-
- PMT
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Ayr
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Scotland.
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- Pym
-
noun,
John, 1584–1643, English statesman.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- pye
-
noun,
pie4 .
- Cym
-
- pya
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of Burma, the 100th part of a kyat.
- CYO
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- TMO
-
- ATP
-
- cr.
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- POR
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ca.
-
- AMC
-
- ays
-
- Co.
-
- cp.
-
- cs.
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ct.
-
- cay
-
noun,
a small low island; key.
- TOY
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Ray
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ROA
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- ac-
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- SMA
-
- RTS
-
- ap-
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- my-
-
- Ar.
-
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- 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.
- SRO
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- 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).
- MOR
-
- 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.
- RSE
-
- RSA
-
- 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.
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- MCP
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- MCR
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- OPA
-
- Rs.
-
- OOT
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- soy
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- MEP
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- trp
-
- RPM
-
- RPO
-
- SAE
-
- oo-
-
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- OAO
-
- MTS
-
- acy
-
- Oc.
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- op.
-
- OSA
-
- OTC
-
- SCM
-
- OAP
-
- MTO
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OAS
-
- OEO
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OEM
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- sc.
-
- OCR
-
- MTP
-
- Mt.
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MRE
-
- 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.
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- MPA
-
- MPE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- MRP
-
- MST
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- MSA
-
- SAR
-
- Om.
-
- Oys
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- MSE
-
- SCP
-
- Oyo
-
noun,
a city in W Nigeria.
- TTS
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- OPM
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- ESR
-
- PTO
-
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- Esc
-
- pt.
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- Ps.
-
- Pr.
-
- ERP
-
- pm.
-
- TSE
-
- STM
-
- pc.
-
- sty
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- ety
-
- Pa.
-
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Am.
-
- EMR
-
- ec-
-
- ECA
-
- ECM
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- Tro
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RMC
-
- TSP
-
- OCS
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- EMT
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Ep.
-
- EPA
-
- STP
-
- EPS
-
- EPT
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ery
-
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- ETS
-
- AEC
-
- MSC
-
- SPR
-
- ose
-
- ROP
-
- ACP
-
- Mc-
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- 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.
- ACS
-
- ory
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- May
-
noun,
a maiden.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Mao
-
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- OSO
-
- OSP
-
- ae.
-
- yet
-
Idioms,
as yet. as1 (def 31).
- OTS
-
- Yam
-
noun,
the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- Yao
-
noun,
Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun) was a paragon of good government.
- Yap
-
noun,
a sharp, shrill, or snappish bark; yelp.
- yar
-
adjective,
yare (defs 1, 2).
- ote
-
- yas
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- yea
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- Amy
-
noun,
a vial of amyl nitrate.
- OTA
-
- ot-
-
- Yeo
-
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- yep
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- yer
-
- yes
-
noun,
an affirmative reply.
- Sr.
-
- spt
-
- TT
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- AO
-
- MP
-
- TP
-
- S.
-
- sy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OA
-
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- SM
-
- SA
-
- RP
-
- M.
-
- 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.
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- RO
-
- ry
-
- RC
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- yr
-
- CE
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- CM
-
- TM
-
- ty
-
- cy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Cyrus.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- TC
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- T1
-
- t.
-
- ey
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- Y.
-
- YT
-
- YA
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ye
-
pronoun,
Archaic, except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose Literary, or British Dialect.
(used nominatively as the plural of thou especially in rhetorical, didactic, or poetic contexts, in addressing a group of persons or things):
(used nominatively for the second person singular, especially in polite address):
(used objectively in the second person singular or plural):
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.