Anagrams of pseudo-hieroglyphic
Word pseudo-hieroglyphic has
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that can be made by using the letters of pseudo-hieroglyphic.
- hydrophilous
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adjective,
pollinated by the agency of water.
- upper-school
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noun,
a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- high-colored
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adjective,
deep in color; vivid.
- hieroglyphic
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noun,
Also, hieroglyph. a hieroglyphic symbol.
- high-priced
-
adjective,
expensive; costly:
- philosopher
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noun,
a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- chiropodies
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noun,
podiatry.
- erysipeloid
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noun,
a disease of humans contracted by contact with the bacillus Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which causes erysipelas in swine, characterized by a painful local ulcer, generally on one of the hands.
- euchologies
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noun,
euchologion.
- clodhoppers
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noun,
a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.
- hydrophilic
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noun,
soft lens.
- householder
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noun,
a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
- copyholders
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noun,
a person or thing that holds copy.
- suicidology
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noun,
the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- ophicleide
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noun,
a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- copyholder
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noun,
a person or thing that holds copy.
- ideologies
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noun,
the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
- hidey-hole
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noun,
a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- rheologies
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noun,
the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- hyperploid
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noun,
a hyperploid cell or organism.
- hypergolic
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adjective,
(especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hydroscope
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noun,
an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- clodhopper
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noun,
a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.
- geophilous
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adjective,
Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
- higher-ups
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noun,
a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- discophile
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noun,
a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- hygroscope
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noun,
an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- prodigious
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adjective,
extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.:
- high-speed
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adjective,
designed to operate or operating at a high speed:
- philosophe
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noun,
any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- logperches
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noun,
a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- prophecies
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noun,
the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- pedologies
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noun,
soil science.
- Procopius
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noun,
a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- preschool
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noun,
a school or nursery for preschool children.
- glyceride
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noun,
any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- hierodule
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noun,
a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.
- prodigies
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noun,
a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability:
- gelechiid
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noun,
any of numerous small moths of the family Gelechiidae, including many crop pests, as the Angoumois grain moth and potato tuberworm.
- high-rise
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noun,
Also, high rise, high-riser. a high-rise apartment or office building.
- hierology
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noun,
literature or learning regarding sacred things.
- cupholder
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noun,
a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- guildship
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noun,
guild (defs 1, 2).
- ideologue
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noun,
a person who zealously advocates an ideology.
- decouples
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verb (used with object),
to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- dioecious
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adjective,
(especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- gyroscope
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noun,
an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- glucoside
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noun,
any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- hog-score
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noun,
a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- prie-dieu
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noun,
a piece of furniture for kneeling on during prayer, having a rest above, as for a book.
- pereiopod
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noun,
(in a crustacean) an appendage of the thorax.
- Choephori
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noun,
a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- delirious
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adjective,
Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- coryphees
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noun,
a member of a ballet company who dances usually as part of a small group and who ranks below the soloists.
- Delicious
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noun,
(initial capital letter) a red or yellow variety of apple, cultivated in the U.S.
- d-glucose
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noun,
See under glucose (def 1).
- Pergolesi
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noun,
Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- groupoids
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noun,
an algebraic system closed under a binary operation.
Also called monoid.
Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- higher-up
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noun,
a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- chiropody
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noun,
podiatry.
- pericopes
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noun,
a selection or extract from a book.
- deciphers
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verb (used with object),
to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.):
- religious
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noun,
a member of a religious order, congregation, etc.; a monk, friar, or nun.
- lecherous
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adjective,
given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- religiose
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adjective,
characterized by religiosity.
- gooseherd
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noun,
a person who tends geese.
- dispeople
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of people; depopulate.
- pelecypod
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noun,
any mollusk of the class Pelecypoda (Lamellibranchiata), characterized by a bivalve shell enclosing the headless body and lamellate gills, comprising the oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- dry-gulch
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verb (used with object),
to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling:
- chop-suey
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noun,
a Chinese-style American dish consisting of small pieces of meat, chicken, etc., cooked together with bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, or other vegetables and seasoning, in a gravy, often served with rice and soy sauce.
- horsehide
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noun,
the hide of a horse.
- supercool
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adjective,
very cool in temperature, especially of the maximum coolness possible: used as a setting on air conditioners.
- pedicures
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noun,
professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- duopolies
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noun,
the market condition that exists when there are only two sellers.
Compare monopoly (def 1), oligopoly.
- periscope
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noun,
an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- regicides
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noun,
the killing of a king.
- sepulcher
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noun,
a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- isopropyl
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adjective,
containing the isopropyl group.
- echiuroid
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noun,
any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- sepulchre
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noun,
a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- urologies
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noun,
the scientific, clinical, and especially surgical aspects of the study of the urine and the genitourinary tract in health and disease.
- ecologies
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noun,
the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- prolicide
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noun,
the killing of one's child.
- sheep-dip
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noun,
a lotion or wash applied to the fleece or skin of sheep to kill vermin, usually applied by immersing the animals in vats.
- household
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noun,
the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
- clupeoids
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noun,
a clupeoid fish.
- prologues
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noun,
a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- epilogues
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noun,
a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.
- Coleridge
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noun,
Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834, English poet, critic, and philosopher.
- gold-rush
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noun,
a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- Richelieu
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noun,
Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
- ridicules
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noun,
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- copyholds
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noun,
(formerly) a type of ownership of land in England, evidenced by a copy of the manor roll establishing the title.
- chlorides
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noun,
a salt of hydrochloric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is chlorine, as sodium chloride, NaCl.
- Euripides
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noun,
c480–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- hydrocele
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noun,
an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.
- ridgepole
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noun,
the horizontal timber or member at the top of a roof, to which the upper ends of the rafters are fastened.
- hypoploid
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noun,
a hypoploid cell or organism.
- Hiroshige
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noun,
Ando [ahn-daw] /ˈɑnˈdɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Tokube") 1797–1858, Japanese painter.
- cooperies
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noun,
the work of a cooper.
- doorpiece
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noun,
an architecturally treated doorframe.
- euchology
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noun,
euchologion.
- scorpioid
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adjective,
resembling a scorpion.
- hedgehops
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verb (used without object),
to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.
- prophesy
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verb (used with object),
to foretell or predict.
- speed-up
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noun,
an increasing of speed.
- gospeler
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noun,
a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- cripples
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noun,
Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal.
Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way:
- prophecy
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noun,
the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- pledgors
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noun,
a person who deposits personal property as a pledge.
- propolis
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noun,
a reddish resinous cement collected by bees from the buds of trees, used to stop up crevices in the hives, strengthen the cells, etc.
- spheroid
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noun,
a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- Culpeper
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noun,
Thomas (2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway) 1635–89, English colonial governor of Virginia 1680–83.
- spherule
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noun,
a small sphere or spherical body.
- pishogue
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noun,
sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- phospho-
-
- Iphicles
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noun,
a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- heirship
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noun,
the position or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
- clupeoid
-
noun,
a clupeoid fish.
- Pierides
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plural noun,
the Muses.
- purplish
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adjective,
of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- Respighi
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noun,
Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- Hercules
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noun,
Also, Heracles. Also called Alcides. Classical Mythology. a celebrated hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, possessing exceptional strength: among his many adventures were the twelve labors for his cousin Eurystheus, performed in order to gain immortality.
Compare labors of Hercules.
- pedology
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noun,
soil science.
- rheology
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noun,
the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- heliodor
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noun,
a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- pedicure
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noun,
professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pedicles
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noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- pedicels
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noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- helicoid
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noun,
Geometry. a warped surface generated by a straight line moving so as to cut or touch a fixed helix.
- coloreds
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noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- hedgehop
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verb (used without object),
to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.
- grouches
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noun,
a sulky, complaining, or morose person.
- copepods
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noun,
any of numerous tiny marine or freshwater crustaceans of the order (or subclass) Copepoda, lacking compound eyes or a carapace and usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax, some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish.
- copyhold
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noun,
(formerly) a type of ownership of land in England, evidenced by a copy of the manor roll establishing the title.
- copihues
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noun,
Chile-bells.
- ridicule
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noun,
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- coryphee
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noun,
a member of a ballet company who dances usually as part of a small group and who ranks below the soloists.
- corodies
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noun,
a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, especially the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house.
- psychro-
-
- Guelders
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noun,
Gelderland.
- psychol.
-
- couloirs
-
noun,
a steep gorge or gully on the side of a mountain, especially in the Alps.
- pirogues
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noun,
piragua (def 1).
- couplers
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noun,
a person or thing that couples or links together.
- groupoid
-
noun,
an algebraic system closed under a binary operation.
Also called monoid.
Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- guilders
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noun,
a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of the Netherlands until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 cents; florin. Abbreviation: Gld., f., fl.
- decorous
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adjective,
characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- orchido-
-
- polypore
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noun,
a woody pore fungus, Laetiporus (Polyporus) sulphureus, that forms large, brightly colored, shelflike growths on old logs and tree stumps.
- poolside
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noun,
the lounging area around a swimming pool.
- preclude
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verb (used with object),
to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible:
- precools
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verb (used with object),
to cool in advance; cool artificially, as meat or fresh produce, before shipping.
- Escudero
-
noun,
Vicente [bee-then-te] /biˈθɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892?–1980, Spanish dancer.
- polished
-
noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- poli-sci
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noun,
political science:
- eulogies
-
noun,
a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person.
- euphoric
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adjective,
intensely happy or confident:
- episodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of an episode.
- Eurydice
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noun,
Also called Agriope. the wife of Orpheus.
- dogshore
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noun,
any of several shores for holding the hull of a small or moderate-sized vessel in place after keel blocks and other shores are removed and until the vessel is launched.
- dog-rose
-
noun,
an Old World wild rose, Rosa canina, having pink or white flowers.
- doghouse
-
noun,
a small shelter for a dog.
- leporide
-
noun,
a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.
- policies
-
noun,
a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.:
- scleroid
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adjective,
hard or indurated.
- sclereid
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noun,
a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- epispore
-
noun,
the principal outer covering of a spore.
- episcope
-
noun,
epidiascope.
- Schuyler
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noun,
Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- poperies
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noun,
the Roman Catholic Church, especially its doctrines, ceremonies, and system of government.
- sheepdog
-
noun,
a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.
- logperch
-
noun,
a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- Popsicle
-
- serology
-
noun,
the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- Eclogues
-
noun,
a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil.
- echiurid
-
noun,
any of various unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Echiura, comprising the spoonworms.
- porpoise
-
noun,
any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- Seleucid
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noun,
a member of a Macedonian dynasty, 312–64 b.c., that ruled an empire that included much of Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Bactria, and Babylonia.
- duperies
-
noun,
an act, practice, or instance of duping.
- precious
-
noun,
a dearly beloved person; darling.
- Lordship
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
- shopgirl
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noun,
a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shoulder
-
noun,
the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- Eohippus
-
noun,
the earliest known horse, a member of the extinct genus Hyracotherium (Eohippus), from the early Eocene Epoch of the Northern Hemisphere; a terrier-sized herbivore having four hoofed toes on each forefoot and three on each hind foot, and low-crowned teeth.
- epicures
-
noun,
a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur.
- epigeous
-
adjective,
growing on or close to the ground.
- epilepsy
-
noun,
a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- epilogue
-
noun,
a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.
- sciuroid
-
adjective,
sciurine.
- schoolie
-
noun,
a fish that swims within a school.
- prologue
-
noun,
a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- Phosphor
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noun,
any of a number of substances that exhibit luminescence when struck by light of certain wavelengths, as by ultraviolet.
- decuries
-
noun,
a division, company, or body of ten men.
- glochids
-
noun,
a short hair, bristle, or spine having a barbed tip.
- decuples
-
noun,
a tenfold quantity or multiple.
- decouple
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verb (used with object),
to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- decolors
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- glorious
-
adjective,
delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable:
- decipher
-
verb (used with object),
to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.):
- produces
-
noun,
something that is produced; yield; product.
- Goidelic
-
noun,
Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- old-rose
-
noun,
rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
- oosphere
-
noun,
an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- pleuroid
-
- cuspidor
-
noun,
a large bowl, often of metal, serving as a receptacle for spit, especially from chewing tobacco: in wide use during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- pleurisy
-
noun,
inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- isologue
-
noun,
one of two or more isologous compounds.
- isochore
-
noun,
Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- pleopods
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noun,
a swimmeret.
- Goodrich
-
noun,
Samuel Griswold [griz-wuh ld,, -wohld,, -wawld] /ˈgrɪz wəld,, -woʊld,, -wɔld/ (Show IPA), ("Peter Parley") 1793–1860, U.S. author and publisher.
- ploidies
-
noun,
the number of homologous chromosome sets present in a cell or organism.
- proceeds
-
noun,
proceeds.
something that results or accrues.
the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction:
the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.
- schooler
-
noun,
a person who attends school, especially a child (usually used in combination):
- Presidio
-
noun,
a garrisoned fort; military post.
- discolor
-
verb (used with object),
to change or spoil the color of; fade or stain.
- schedule
-
noun,
a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion:
- disciple
-
noun,
Religion.
one of the 12 personal followers of Christ.
one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1.
any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- slippery
-
adjective,
tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.:
- leisured
-
adjective,
having leisure:
- prepuces
-
noun,
the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- geodesic
-
noun,
geodesic line.
- Dioscuri
-
plural noun,
Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda.
- Ghiordes
-
noun,
a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- soldiery
-
noun,
soldiers collectively.
- ghoulish
-
adjective,
strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous:
- diecious
-
adjective,
dioecious.
- gyplures
-
noun,
a synthetic form of the sex pheromone of the female gypsy moth, used in traps to attract males.
- roughish
-
adjective,
rather rough:
- dhoolies
-
noun,
dooly.
- girlhood
-
noun,
the state or time of being a girl.
- deschool
-
verb (used with object),
to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- deplores
-
verb (used with object),
to regret deeply or strongly; lament:
- clupeids
-
noun,
any of the Clupeidae, a family of chiefly marine, teleostean fishes, including the herrings, sardines, menhaden, and shad.
- Shepherd
-
noun,
a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- hypergol
-
noun,
any hypergolic agent.
- chorioid
-
adjective, noun,
choroid.
- perclose
-
noun,
parclose.
- chughole
-
noun,
chuckhole.
- hydrogel
-
noun,
a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- pericope
-
noun,
a selection or extract from a book.
- choroids
-
noun,
choroid coat.
- chloride
-
noun,
a salt of hydrochloric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is chlorine, as sodium chloride, NaCl.
- Choiseul
-
noun,
an island in the W central Pacific Ocean: part of the independent Solomon Islands. 1500 sq. mi. (3885 sq. km).
- Pericles
-
noun,
c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- hydropic
-
adjective,
dropsical.
- regicide
-
noun,
the killing of a king.
- chippers
-
noun,
a person or thing that chips or cuts.
- chlorous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent chlorine.
- clergies
-
noun,
the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
- superego
-
noun,
the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- surplice
-
noun,
a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- choregus
-
noun,
choragus.
- cheerios
-
noun,
a goodbye or farewell.
- Cheshire
-
noun,
Formerly Chester. a county in NW England. 899 sq. mi. (2328 sq. km).
- Chi-Rhos
-
noun,
the Christian monogram ( ☧ ) made from the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.
- churlish
-
adjective,
like a churl; boorish; rude:
- high-ups
-
noun,
a person holding a high position or rank; higher-up.
- chilopod
-
noun,
any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, comprising the centipedes.
- Herschel
-
noun,
Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- hydrosol
-
noun,
a colloidal suspension in water.
- cheliped
-
noun,
(in decapod crustaceans) either of the pair of appendages bearing a chela.
- icehouse
-
noun,
a building for storing ice.
- cheloids
-
noun,
keloid.
- ideology
-
noun,
the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
- redeploy
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- periodic
-
adjective,
recurring at intervals of time:
- perilous
-
adjective,
involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous:
- chiseled
-
noun,
a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- chiseler
-
noun,
a person who cheats or tricks; swindler.
- Perioeci
-
plural noun,
the inhabitants of ancient Laconia, constituting a dependent people of Sparta, who governed themselves and had a monopoly on trade and manufacture.
Compare Helot (def 1), Spartiate.
- precool
-
verb (used with object),
to cool in advance; cool artificially, as meat or fresh produce, before shipping.
- sylphid
-
noun,
a little or young sylph.
- glucose
-
noun,
a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- deciles
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- reduces
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- gluside
-
noun,
saccharin.
- ologies
-
noun,
any science or branch of knowledge.
- Scudery
-
noun,
Magdeleine de [mag-duh-len duh] /mag dəˈlɛn də/ (Show IPA), 1607–1701, French novelist.
- scyphi-
-
- scrouge
-
verb (used with or without object),
to squeeze; crowd.
- glucide
-
noun,
any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- decries
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- gliders
-
noun,
a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.
- recluse
-
noun,
a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- poodles
-
noun,
one of a breed of very active dogs, probably originating in Germany but regarded as the national dog of France, having long, thick, frizzy or curly hair usually trimmed in standard patterns, occurring in three varieties (standard, miniature, and toy) differing only in size, and originally used as a water retriever.
- glochid
-
noun,
a short hair, bristle, or spine having a barbed tip.
- silurid
-
noun,
any of numerous Old World freshwater fishes of the family Siluridae, comprising the catfishes.
- decuple
-
noun,
a tenfold quantity or multiple.
- replies
-
noun,
an answer or response in words or writing.
- scruple
-
noun,
a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- ceriphs
-
noun,
serif.
- ergodic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the condition that, in an interval of sufficient duration, a system will return to states that are closely similar to previous ones: the assumption of such a condition underlies statistical methods used in modern dynamics and atomic theory.
- produce
-
noun,
something that is produced; yield; product.
- chloro-
-
- glories
-
noun,
very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown:
- decolor
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- godship
-
noun,
the rank, character, or condition of a god.
- operose
-
adjective,
industrious, as a person.
- prolegs
-
noun,
one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- Philips
-
noun,
Ambrose, 1675?–1749, English poet and dramatist.
- chorogi
-
noun,
Chinese artichoke.
- choroid
-
noun,
choroid coat.
- propels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward:
- Cepheus
-
noun,
Astronomy. a northern circumpolar constellation between Cassiopeia and Draco.
- orchils
-
noun,
a violet coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, chiefly species of Roccella.
- redupl.
-
- gophers
-
noun,
any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- roguish
-
adjective,
pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- choughs
-
noun,
any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.
- re-pose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- Lourdes
-
noun,
a city in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures.
- sidero-
-
- propyls
-
adjective,
containing a propyl group.
- hurdies
-
plural noun,
the buttocks.
- iridous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent iridium.
- pledgor
-
noun,
a person who deposits personal property as a pledge.
- pledges
-
noun,
a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something:
- drogues
-
noun,
a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- choriso
-
noun,
chorizo.
- hopples
-
verb (used with object),
to hobble; tether.
- lycopod
-
noun,
any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
- goldeye
-
noun,
a silvery, herringlike game fish, Hiodon alosoides, found in the fresh waters of central North America.
- cholers
-
noun,
irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
- lycosid
-
noun,
a spider of the family Lycosidae, comprising the wolf spiders.
- precise
-
adjective,
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:
- pleuro-
-
- opercle
-
noun,
an operculum, especially the posterior bone of the operculum of a fish.
- dehisce
-
verb (used without object),
to burst open, as capsules of plants; gape.
- pushrod
-
noun,
a rod in an overhead-valve engine that is part of the linkage used to open and close the valves.
- scupper
-
noun,
Nautical. a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges.
Compare freeing port.
- chopped
-
noun,
an act or instance of chopping.
- goodish
-
adjective,
rather good; fairly good.
- isopyre
-
noun,
an impure variety of opal, containing alumina, lime, and iron sesquioxide.
- chopper
-
noun,
a person or thing that chops.
- chordee
-
noun,
a downward bowing of the penis, of a congenital nature or caused by gonorrhea.
- opioids
-
noun,
any opiumlike substance.
- Goodhue
-
noun,
Bertram Grosvenor [grohv-ner,, groh-vuh-] /ˈgroʊv nər,, ˈgroʊ və-/ (Show IPA), 1869–1924, U.S. architect.
- cereous
-
adjective,
waxlike.
- pleopod
-
noun,
a swimmeret.
- episode
-
noun,
an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
- curdles
-
Idioms,
curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:
- soliped
-
noun,
solidungulate.
- Proclus
-
noun,
a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- Soleure
-
noun,
French name of Solothurn.
- preside
-
verb (used without object),
to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- geodesy
-
noun,
the branch of applied mathematics that deals with the measurement of the shape and area of large tracts of country, the exact position of geographical points, and the curvature, shape, and dimensions of the earth.
- hurleys
-
noun,
the game of hurling.
- huipils
-
noun,
a richly embroidered cotton blouse worn by women in Mexico and Central America, often very wide and low-cut.
- holdups
-
noun,
a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- chields
-
noun,
a young man; fellow.
- Geordie
-
noun,
a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- leprosy
-
noun,
a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- leprous
-
adjective,
Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- dipoles
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- euphroe
-
noun,
a suspended batten or plate of wood or brass pierced with holes through which the cords of a crowfoot are rove to suspend an awning.
- doilies
-
noun,
any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
- holders
-
noun,
something that holds or secures:
- slouchy
-
adjective,
of or relating to a slouch or to a slouching manner, posture, etc.
- Presley
-
noun,
Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- childes
-
noun,
a youth of noble birth.
- polyped
-
noun,
a being or object having many legs:
- cheders
-
noun,
heder.
- syrphid
-
noun,
syrphid fly.
- cheerio
-
noun,
a goodbye or farewell.
- prepuce
-
noun,
the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- gilders
-
noun,
a person or thing that gilds.
- piceous
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- lepido-
-
- cheiro-
-
- hooches
-
noun,
alcoholic liquor.
- sclero-
-
- cheloid
-
noun,
keloid.
- cheeros
-
interjection, noun,
cheerio.
- redlegs
-
noun,
a member of a secret organization, formed in Kansas in 1862, that engaged in guerrilla activities during the Civil War.
- Lepidus
-
noun,
Marcus Aemilius [ee-mil-ee-uh s] /iˈmɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 13 b.c, Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.
- leporid
-
noun,
an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- hurdles
-
noun,
a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
- Oedipus
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
- cheerly
-
adverb,
Archaic. cheerily; cheeringly.
- prepose
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a grammatical form) before a related grammatical form: .
- slipper
-
noun,
any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc.
Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
- Cherish
-
verb (used with object),
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for:
- ochroid
-
adjective,
yellow as ocher.
- slip-up
-
noun,
a mistake, blunder, or oversight:
- polders
-
noun,
a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- leprose
-
adjective,
leprous.
- leisure
-
noun,
freedom from the demands of work or duty:
- Rudolph
-
noun,
Paul (Marvin) 1918–97, U.S. architect.
- Dolores
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”.
- Scrooge
-
noun,
Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
- scourge
-
noun,
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- lechery
-
noun,
unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire.
- deluges
-
noun,
a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
- lurches
-
noun,
an act or instance of swaying abruptly.
- Delphic
-
adjective,
of or relating to Delphi.
- girosol
-
noun,
girasol.
- delouse
-
verb (used with object),
to free of lice; remove lice from.
- oilseed
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- Delores
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Chi-Rho
-
noun,
the Christian monogram ( ☧ ) made from the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.
- deploys
-
verb (used with object),
Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- proceed
-
noun,
proceeds.
something that results or accrues.
the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction:
the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.
- ploughs
-
noun,
an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- soldier
-
noun,
a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- pooches
-
noun,
a dog.
- gourdes
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
- Perseid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- re-coil
-
verb (used with or without object),
to coil again.
- deicers
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- prodigy
-
noun,
a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability:
- chipper
-
noun,
a person or thing that chips or cuts.
- deplore
-
verb (used with object),
to regret deeply or strongly; lament:
- gyplure
-
noun,
a synthetic form of the sex pheromone of the female gypsy moth, used in traps to attract males.
- prelude
-
noun,
a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- euchres
-
noun,
Cards. a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.
- hoopers
-
noun,
a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.
- euchred
-
noun,
Cards. a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.
- relishy
-
- girdles
-
noun,
a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- ledgers
-
noun,
Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded.
- Hoosier
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Indiana (used as a nickname).
- sociol.
-
- rehouse
-
verb (used with object),
to house again.
- oilcups
-
noun,
a closed cup or can supplying lubricant to a bearing or bearings.
- upholds
-
verb (used with object),
to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism:
- despoil
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- Scorpio
-
noun,
Astronomy. Scorpius.
- recoups
-
noun,
an act of recouping.
- girlish
-
adjective,
of, like, or befitting a girl or girlhood:
- derecho
-
noun,
a widespread and severe windstorm that moves rapidly along a fairly straight path and is associated with bands of rapidly moving thunderstorms.
- girl-os
-
noun,
a girl or young woman.
- Doppler
-
noun,
Christian Johann, 1803–53, Austrian physicist: discovered the Doppler effect.
- soilure
-
noun,
a stain.
- lechers
-
noun,
a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- epicure
-
noun,
a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur.
- sphecid
-
noun,
a sphecid wasp.
- clipped
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- guppies
-
noun,
a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
- puerile
-
adjective,
of or relating to a child or to childhood.
- pileous
-
adjective,
hairy or furry.
- coydogs
-
noun,
the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
- residue
-
noun,
something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used; remainder; rest; remnant.
- ridleys
-
noun,
Also called Atlantic ridley, bastard ridley, bastard turtle. a gray sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, about 24 inches (61 cm) long, previously thought to be a hybrid of the loggerhead and green turtles: an endangered species.
- Heloise
-
noun,
1101?–64, French abbess: pupil of and secretly married to Pierre Abélard.
Compare Abélard.
- Cordele
-
noun,
a city in SW Georgia.
- popeyed
-
adjective,
marked by bulging, staring eyes:
- splurge
-
verb (used without object),
to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one:
- philous
-
- pedlery
-
noun,
peddlery.
- lopseed
-
noun,
a weedy plant, Phryma leptostachya, of Asia and North America, having spikes of whitish paired flowers.
- pierced
-
adjective,
punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design:
- coppery
-
adjective,
of, resembling, or containing copper.
- gulches
-
noun,
a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.
- Sergipe
-
noun,
a state in NE Brazil. 8490 sq. mi. (21,990 sq. km). Capital: Aracajú.
- hosiery
-
noun,
stockings or socks of any kind.
- horsily
-
adverb,
in a horsy manner.
- shopper
-
noun,
a person who shops.
- helpers
-
noun,
a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- perches
-
noun,
a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- spiroid
-
adjective,
more or less spiral; resembling a spiral.
- colored
-
noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- pouches
-
noun,
a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
- guilder
-
noun,
a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of the Netherlands until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 cents; florin. Abbreviation: Gld., f., fl.
- splicer
-
noun,
a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.
- repulse
-
noun,
the act of repelling.
- pouched
-
noun,
a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
- cyphers
-
noun,
zero.
- duopoly
-
noun,
the market condition that exists when there are only two sellers.
Compare monopoly (def 1), oligopoly.
- philos.
-
- ceilidh
-
noun,
a party, gathering, or the like, at which dancing, singing, and storytelling are the usual forms of entertainment.
- hydrous
-
adjective,
containing water.
- lodgers
-
noun,
a person who lives in rented quarters in another's house; roomer.
- copious
-
adjective,
large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful:
- physiol
-
- helices
-
noun,
a plural of helix.
- clipper
-
noun,
a person or thing that clips or cuts.
- hideous
-
adjective,
horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly:
- pelorus
-
noun,
a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pylorus
-
noun,
the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- helico-
-
- hedgers
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs hedges.
- Shirley
-
noun,
James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.
- clerisy
-
noun,
learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.
- physio-
-
- heliced
-
adjective,
decorated with spirals.
- pileups
-
noun,
a massive collision of several or many moving vehicles.
- Rhoecus
-
noun,
flourished 6th century b.c, Greek sculptor and architect.
- shipper
-
noun,
a person who ships goods or makes shipments.
- Rhodope
-
noun,
a mountain range in SW Bulgaria. Highest peak, Mus Allah, 9595 feet (2925 meters).
- Ehrlich
-
noun,
Paul [poul] /paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1915, German physician, bacteriologist, and chemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1908.
- coopery
-
noun,
the work of a cooper.
- coopers
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- loppers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lops.
- pugrees
-
noun,
a light turban worn in India.
- eclogue
-
noun,
a pastoral poem, often in dialogue form.
- copihue
-
noun,
Chile-bells.
- pedicle
-
noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- hydrops
-
noun,
(formerly) edema.
- pierces
-
noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- superl.
-
- copiers
-
noun,
a person or thing that copies; copyist.
- sporule
-
noun,
a spore, especially a small one.
- eclipse
-
noun,
Astronomy.
the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse)
a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.
the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- pedicel
-
noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- colugos
-
noun,
flying lemur.
- loopers
-
noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- eyecups
-
noun,
a device for applying eyewash to the eye, consisting of a cup or glass with a rim shaped to fit snugly around the orbit of the eye.
- copepod
-
noun,
any of numerous tiny marine or freshwater crustaceans of the order (or subclass) Copepoda, lacking compound eyes or a carapace and usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax, some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish.
- spoiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that spoils.
- grushie
-
adjective,
healthy; thriving.
- psycho-
-
- ecology
-
noun,
the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- phorous
-
- seclude
-
verb (used with object),
to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- phosph-
-
- orioles
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- closure
-
noun,
the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- heroics
-
noun,
Usually, heroics. heroic verse.
- pierogi
-
noun,
a small dough envelope filled with mashed potato, meat, cheese, or vegetables, crimped to seal the edge and then boiled or fried, typically served with sour cream or onions.
- codgers
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- high-up
-
noun,
a person holding a high position or rank; higher-up.
- phoresy
-
noun,
(among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- spicery
-
noun,
spice.
- lipoids
-
noun,
a fat or fatlike substance, as lecithin or wax.
- purpose
-
noun,
the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- grippes
-
noun,
influenza.
- peepuls
-
noun,
pipal.
- creosol
-
noun,
a colorless oily liquid, C 8 H 10 O 2 , having an agreeable odor and a burning taste, obtained from wood tar and guaiacum resin: used as a disinfectant, in the manufacture of resins, and in ore flotation.
- cripple
-
noun,
Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal.
Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way:
- prosody
-
noun,
the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- gripple
-
adjective,
miserly; avaricious.
- porches
-
noun,
an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
- sphero-
-
- chryso-
-
- suicide
-
noun,
the intentional taking of one's own life.
- chroous
-
- propose
-
verb (used with object),
to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action:
- urology
-
noun,
the scientific, clinical, and especially surgical aspects of the study of the urine and the genitourinary tract in health and disease.
- clupeid
-
noun,
any of the Clupeidae, a family of chiefly marine, teleostean fishes, including the herrings, sardines, menhaden, and shad.
- greyish
-
adjective,
grayish.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- edicule
-
noun,
aedicule.
- croppie
-
noun,
crappie.
- Hershey
-
noun,
Alfred Day, 1908–97, U.S. biologist: helped lay the foundation of modern molecular genetics; Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- ligures
-
noun,
a precious stone, probably the jacinth. Ex. 28:19.
- epeiric
-
adjective,
extending inland from a continental margin:
- ripples
-
noun,
a small wave or undulation, as on water.
- creoles
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- closeup
-
noun,
a photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens, on a relatively large scale.
- coulees
-
noun,
Chiefly Western U.S. and Western Canada. a deep ravine or gulch, usually dry, that has been formed by running water.
- pye-dog
-
noun,
an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- coheirs
-
noun,
a joint heir.
- Orpheus
-
noun,
Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- hospice
-
noun,
a house of shelter or rest for pilgrims, strangers, etc., especially one kept by a religious order.
- coheres
-
verb (used without object),
to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass:
- porgies
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- couples
-
noun,
two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- coupler
-
noun,
a person or thing that couples or links together.
- Spieler
-
noun,
a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- poorish
-
adjective,
somewhat poor; rather poor.
- ureides
-
noun,
an acyl urea.
- uropods
-
noun,
an abdominal limb of an arthropod, especially one of those on either side of the telson, as in a lobster.
- pirogue
-
noun,
piragua (def 1).
- percoid
-
adjective,
belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
- couloir
-
noun,
a steep gorge or gully on the side of a mountain, especially in the Alps.
- lippers
-
noun,
a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- oroides
-
noun,
an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- groupie
-
noun,
a young person, especially a teenage girl, who is an ardent admirer of rock musicians and may follow them on tour.
- prudish
-
adjective,
excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- spidery
-
adjective,
like a spider or a spider's web.
- clypeus
-
noun,
the area of the facial wall of an insect's head between the labrum and the frons, usually separated from the latter by a groove.
- Phorcys
-
noun,
a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- purples
-
noun,
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- colours
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- duchies
-
noun,
the territory ruled by a duke or duchess.
- phugoid
-
adjective,
of or relating to long-period oscillation in the longitudinal motion of an aircraft, rocket, or missile.
- Gropius
-
noun,
Walter [wawl-ter;; German vahl-tuh r] /ˈwɔl tər;; German ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.
- pyropes
-
noun,
a mineral, magnesium-aluminum garnet, Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in crystals of varying shades of red, and frequently used as a gem.
- herdics
-
noun,
a low-hung carriage with two or four wheels, having the entrance at the back and the seats at the sides.
- loudish
-
adjective,
somewhat loud.
- Grouchy
-
noun,
Emmanuel [e-ma-ny-el] /ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), Marquis de, 1766–1847, French general.
- spicule
-
noun,
a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- serpigo
-
noun,
(formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- pseudo-
-
- colures
-
noun,
either of two great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting each other at the poles, one passing through both equinoxes and the other through both solstices.
- eulogy
-
noun,
a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person.
- ephors
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- huipil
-
noun,
a richly embroidered cotton blouse worn by women in Mexico and Central America, often very wide and low-cut.
- lodger
-
noun,
a person who lives in rented quarters in another's house; roomer.
- lodges
-
noun,
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
- hooeys
-
noun,
silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense; bunk:
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- Europe
-
noun,
a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and Caspian seas on the SE. In British usage, Europe sometimes contrasts with England. About 4,017,000 sq. mi. (10,404,000 sq. km).
- educes
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- scler-
-
- hoodie
-
noun,
Also, hoody. Informal. a hooded sweatshirt, sweater, or jacket.
- reduce
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- Euclid
-
noun,
flourished c300 b.c, Greek geometrician and educator at Alexandria.
- regius
-
adjective,
of or belonging to a king.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sculp.
-
- Lidice
-
noun,
a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.
- epodes
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- lipper
-
noun,
a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- precis
-
noun,
a concise summary.
- epochs
-
noun,
a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.:
- Hopper
-
noun,
a person or thing that hops.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- hopple
-
verb (used with object),
to hobble; tether.
- lipped
-
noun,
either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- Epirus
-
noun,
an ancient district in NW Greece and S Albania.
- liches
-
noun,
the body; the trunk.
- lipoid
-
noun,
a fat or fatlike substance, as lecithin or wax.
- Epiph.
-
- eludes
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade:
Synonyms: shun, dodge.
- Horsey
-
adjective,
horsy.
- lipids
-
noun,
any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- secure
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- ligure
-
noun,
a precious stone, probably the jacinth. Ex. 28:19.
- reechy
-
adjective,
smoky or sooty.
- ligers
-
noun,
the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- ephods
-
noun,
a richly embroidered, apronlike vestment having two shoulder straps and ornamental attachments for securing the breastplate, worn with a waistband by the high priest. Ex. 28:6, 7, 25–28.
- horol.
-
- reecho
-
noun,
a repeated echo.
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- seduce
-
verb (used with object),
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- Hooper
-
noun,
a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.
- leuco-
-
- euchre
-
noun,
Cards. a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.
- hosier
-
noun,
a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- Hughie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Hugh.
- Hughes
-
noun,
Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- lesche
-
noun,
an arcade or other public place in ancient Greece.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- housel
-
noun,
the Eucharist.
- eyecup
-
noun,
a device for applying eyewash to the eye, consisting of a cup or glass with a rim shaped to fit snugly around the orbit of the eye.
- Locris
-
noun,
either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- eyelid
-
noun,
the movable lid of skin that serves to cover and uncover the eyeball.
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- seiche
-
noun,
an occasional and sudden oscillation of the water of a lake, bay, estuary, etc., producing fluctuations in the water level and caused by wind, earthquakes, changes in barometric pressure, etc.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- pouchy
-
adjective,
possessing or resembling a pouch:
- escudo
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
- lochus
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a subdivision of an army.
- lieges
-
noun,
a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- Hoples
-
noun,
a son of Ion.
- scroop
-
noun,
a scrooping sound.
- posole
-
noun,
a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chili peppers, and coriander leaves: traditionally served at Christmas and often favored as a hangover remedy.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- lycees
-
noun,
a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- lyrics
-
noun,
a lyric poem.
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- herpes
-
noun,
any of several diseases caused by herpesvirus, characterized by eruption of blisters on the skin or mucous membranes.
Compare chickenpox, genital herpes, oral herpes, shingles.
- glides
-
noun,
a gliding movement, as in dancing.
- Scipio
-
noun,
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major [puhb-lee-uh s kawr-neel-yuh s,, af-ri-key-nuh s,, -kan-uh s,, -kahn-] /ˈpʌb li əs kɔrˈnil yəs,, ˌæf rɪˈkeɪ nəs,, -ˈkæn əs,, -ˈkɑn-/ (Show IPA), ("Scipio the Elder") 237–183 b.c, Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
- guides
-
noun,
a person who guides, especially one hired to guide travelers, tourists, hunters, etc.
- groups
-
noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- grouse
-
noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- psych-
-
- gruels
-
noun,
a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- Psyche
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.
- Guelph
-
noun,
a member of the political party in medieval Italy and Germany that supported the sovereignty of the papacy against the German emperors: opposed to the Ghibellines.
- Guesde
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Mathieu Basile) 1845–1922, French socialist leader, editor, and writer.
- iodous
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the trivalent state.
- yodles
-
noun,
a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
- grouch
-
noun,
a sulky, complaining, or morose person.
- hiero-
-
- guilds
-
noun,
an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
- Hyeres
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the French Riviera.
- guiles
-
noun,
insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- Hydrus
-
noun,
the Water Snake, a southern constellation between Eridanus and Octans.
- yodels
-
noun,
a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
- psocid
-
noun,
any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- Ilheus
-
noun,
a seaport in E Brazil.
- highly
-
adverb,
in or to a high degree; extremely:
- pseud.
-
- Gursel
-
noun,
Cemal [je-mahl] /dʒɛˈmɑl/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Turkish army officer and statesman: president 1961–66.
- ripped
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- irides
-
noun,
a plural of iris.
- gourde
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
- gourds
-
noun,
the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally.
Compare gourd family.
- Greco-
-
- ripply
-
adjective,
characterized by ripples; rippling.
- greedy
-
adjective,
excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious:
- greeds
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- Greely
-
noun,
Adolphus Washington, 1844–1935, U.S. general and arctic explorer.
- grides
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- gropes
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- grilse
-
noun,
a young Atlantic salmon as it returns from the sea to fresh water for the first time.
- Ripley
-
noun,
George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.
- gripey
-
adjective,
gripy.
- gripes
-
noun,
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- grippe
-
noun,
influenza.
- grippy
-
adjective,
afflicted with the grippe.
- prudes
-
noun,
a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- grisly
-
adjective,
causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome:
- Ridley
-
noun,
Also called Atlantic ridley, bastard ridley, bastard turtle. a gray sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, about 24 inches (61 cm) long, previously thought to be a hybrid of the loggerhead and green turtles: an endangered species.
- Gusher
-
noun,
a flowing oil well, usually of large capacity.
- hygric
-
adjective,
of or relating to moisture.
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- reship
-
verb (used with object),
to ship again.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- Helios
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens; identified by the Romans with Sol.
- Helper
-
noun,
a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- H-hour
-
noun,
the time, usually unspecified, set for the beginning of a planned attack.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- purges
-
noun,
the act or process of purging.
- reused
-
adjective,
noting wool that previously has been spun, woven, and used.
- herdic
-
noun,
a low-hung carriage with two or four wheels, having the entrance at the back and the seats at the sides.
- rescue
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- purple
-
noun,
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- heresy
-
noun,
opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
- Hesiod
-
noun,
fl. 8th century b.c., Greek poet.
- heroes
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- heroic
-
noun,
Usually, heroics. heroic verse.
- Herold
-
noun,
Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1791–1833, French composer.
- Hersey
-
noun,
John Richard, 1914–93, U.S. journalist, novelist, and educator.
- idlers
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- idiocy
-
noun,
utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.:
- helio-
-
- pugree
-
noun,
a light turban worn in India.
- heders
-
noun,
(especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- hydros
-
noun,
Informal. hydroelectric power.
- hydro-
-
- yippie
-
noun,
a member of a group of radical, politically active hippies.
- yippee
-
interjection,
(an exclamation used to express joy, exultation, or the like.)
- Richie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Richard.
- riches
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) rich persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- hydric
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing hydrogen.
- yields
-
noun,
something yielded.
- hedger
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs hedges.
- helic-
-
- Hedges
-
noun,
a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow:
- igloos
-
noun,
an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
- Rhodos
-
noun,
Greek name of Rhodes.
- rhodo-
-
- rhodic
-
adjective,
of or containing rhodium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- Rhodes
-
noun,
Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
- purees
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- purely
-
adverb,
in a pure manner; without admixture.
- irido-
-
- Gospel
-
noun,
the teachings of Jesus and the apostles; the Christian revelation.
- lepers
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- roughs
-
noun,
something that is rough, especially rough ground.
- legers
-
noun,
ledger (def 4).
- Gilder
-
noun,
a person or thing that gilds.
- relish
-
noun,
liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- pricey
-
adjective,
expensive or unduly expensive:
- Gilroy
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- prices
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- hoyles
-
noun,
Edmond, 1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.
- ledges
-
noun,
a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
- girdle
-
noun,
a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- ghouls
-
noun,
an evil demon, originally of Muslim legend, supposed to feed on human beings, and especially to rob graves, prey on corpses, etc.
- roughy
-
noun,
a small marine fish, Arripis georgianus, of New Zealand and Australia.
- recuse
-
verb (used with object),
to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- Ledger
-
noun,
Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded.
- rouges
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- prides
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- girlie
-
noun,
Offensive. a term of address used for a girl or woman.
- girl-o
-
noun,
a girl or young woman.
- leches
-
noun,
a lecherous desire or craving.
- rugose
-
adjective,
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- Holder
-
noun,
something that holds or secures:
- lecher
-
noun,
a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- geyser
-
noun,
a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
- schrod
-
noun,
scrod.
- schorl
-
noun,
Mineralogy. a black tourmaline.
- School
-
noun,
an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age:
- schlep
-
noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- Schley
-
noun,
Winfield Scott [win-feeld] /ˈwɪnˌfild/ (Show IPA), 1839–1911, U.S. rear admiral.
- hurdle
-
noun,
a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
- holies
-
noun,
a place of worship; sacred place; sanctuary.
- Geisel
-
noun,
Theodor Seuss [soos] /sus/ (Show IPA), ("Dr. Seuss") 1904–91, U.S. humorist, illustrator, and author of children's books.
- rushee
-
noun,
a college student who is rushed by a fraternity or sorority.
- Lehigh
-
noun,
a river in E Pennsylvania, flowing SW and SE into the Delaware River. 103 miles (165 km) long.
- Redleg
-
noun,
a member of a secret organization, formed in Kansas in 1862, that engaged in guerrilla activities during the Civil War.
- Hurley
-
noun,
the game of hurling.
- geodes
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- geoids
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- holdup
-
noun,
a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- gerous
-
- rupees
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- gyrose
-
adjective,
marked with wavy lines.
- recoup
-
noun,
an act of recouping.
- rodeos
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- goodie
-
noun,
Usually, goodies. something especially attractive or pleasing, especially cake, cookies, or candy.
- ichors
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- isopor
-
noun,
an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting points of equal annual change in the declination, inclination, or other components of the earth's magnetic field.
- isopod
-
noun,
any freshwater, marine, or terrestrial crustacean of the order or suborder Isopoda, having seven pairs of legs typically adapted for crawling, and a dorsoventrally flattened body, and including wood lice, several aquatic parasites of crabs and shrimps, and numerous swimming or bottom-dwelling species.
- golosh
-
noun,
galosh.
- Isolde
-
noun,
German name of Iseult.
- isohel
-
noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- proles
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- hyper-
-
- goodly
-
adjective,
of good or substantial size, amount, etc.:
- goyish
-
adjective,
being, pertaining to, or characteristic of a goy or goys:
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- Isidor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- propel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward:
- gopher
-
noun,
any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- hyoids
-
noun,
the hyoid bone.
- pusher
-
noun,
a person or thing that pushes.
- hygro-
-
- propyl
-
adjective,
containing a propyl group.
- hipped
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- hippie
-
noun,
a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.
- rosily
-
adverb,
with a rosy color.
- glyphs
-
noun,
a pictograph or hieroglyph.
- gleeds
-
noun,
a glowing coal.
- repels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- Hodges
-
noun,
John Cornelius ("Johnny"; "Rabbit"; "Jeep") 1906–70, U.S. jazz saxophonist.
- glyco-
-
- recoil
-
noun,
an act of recoiling.
- glider
-
noun,
a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- Gliere
-
noun,
Reinhold Moritzovich [rahyn-hawlt maw-ryi-tsuh-vyich] /ˈraɪn hɔlt ˈmɔ ryɪ tsə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1956, Russian composer.
- hispid
-
adjective,
rough with stiff hairs, bristles, or minute spines.
- hippo-
-
- Hirsch
-
noun,
John Stephen, 1930–1989, Canadian stage director, born in Hungary.
- gloppy
-
adjective,
marked by or full of glop.
- recipe
-
noun,
a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish:
- hypso-
-
- hippus
-
noun,
spasmodic contraction of the pupil of the eye.
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- yuppie
-
noun,
a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.
- hippos
-
noun,
hippopotamus.
- proleg
-
noun,
one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- ripple
-
noun,
a small wave or undulation, as on water.
- houris
-
noun,
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- Peleus
-
noun,
a king of the Myrmidons, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles.
- closer
-
noun,
a person or thing that closes.
- closed
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- Piercy
-
noun,
Marge, born 1936, U.S. poet and novelist.
- Sophie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- oodles
-
noun,
a large quantity:
- Cloris
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- decile
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- Decius
-
noun,
(Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius) a.d. c201–251, emperor of Rome 249–251.
- super-
-
- Superi
-
plural noun,
(in ancient Rome) the gods.
- Peirce
-
noun,
Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- peloid
-
noun,
mud used therapeutically.
- oligo-
-
- Pelops
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.
- decury
-
noun,
a division, company, or body of ten men.
- Sopher
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- ploidy
-
noun,
the number of homologous chromosome sets present in a cell or organism.
- deeply
-
adverb,
at or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface.
- supper
-
noun,
the evening meal, often the principal meal of the day.
- Supple
-
adjective,
bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible:
- sulph-
-
- cloudy
-
adjective,
full of or overcast by clouds:
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- Curley
-
noun,
James M(ichael) 1874–1958, U.S. politician.
- cupro-
-
- specie
-
noun,
coined money; coin.
- pleio-
-
- curdle
-
Idioms,
curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:
- codger
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- oppose
-
verb (used with object),
to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- pleur-
-
- curios
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- opioid
-
noun,
any opiumlike substance.
- Clouds
-
noun,
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- pierid
-
noun,
Also called pieridine [pahy-er-i-dahyn, -din] /paɪˈɛr ɪˌdaɪn, -dɪn/ (Show IPA). any member of the butterfly family Pieridae.
- cursed
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- souple
-
noun,
silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- Peipus
-
noun,
a lake in the N Europe, on the border between Estonia and the W Russian Federation. 93 miles (150 km) long; 356 sq. mi. (920 sq. km).
- cusped
-
adjective,
having a cusp or cusps; cusplike.
- cuspid
-
noun,
(in humans) a tooth with a single projection point or elevation; canine.
- sorgho
-
noun,
sorgo.
- sorely
-
adverb,
in a painful manner.
- Clough
-
noun,
Arthur Hugh, 1819–61, English poet.
- plyers
-
noun,
plier.
- oldish
-
adjective,
somewhat old:
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- cupper
-
noun,
a person who performs the procedure of cupping.
- perdie
-
adverb, interjection,
pardi.
- Cypris
-
noun,
an epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “Lady of Cyprus.”.
- dholes
-
noun,
a wild Asian dog, Cuon alpinus, that hunts in packs: an endangered species.
- dhooly
-
noun,
dooly.
- cippus
-
noun,
(in classical architecture) a stele.
- cypher
-
noun,
zero.
- cipher
-
noun,
zero.
- Perche
-
noun,
a former division of N France.
- cyders
-
noun,
cider.
- podous
-
- ciders
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- dicho-
-
- Cyprus
-
noun,
cypress2 .
- pieces
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- churls
-
noun,
a rude, boorish, or surly person.
- sluice
-
noun,
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- pogeys
-
noun,
Slang.. Also, pogy.
a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc.
candy or a treat.
- Dieppe
-
noun,
a seaport in N France, on the English Channel: raided by an Allied expeditionary force August 1942.
- pogies
-
noun,
a porgy.
- sludgy
-
adjective,
of or relating to sludge.
- sludge
-
noun,
mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- chrys-
-
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- socio-
-
- oilcup
-
noun,
a closed cup or can supplying lubricant to a bearing or bearings.
- clergy
-
noun,
the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
- Delius
-
noun,
Frederick, 1862–1934, English composer.
- clepes
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- Plough
-
noun,
an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- people
-
noun,
persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general:
- supply
-
noun,
the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.:
- solder
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- cleoid
-
noun,
a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- cisele
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- peplos
-
noun,
a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- peplus
-
noun,
peplos.
- plushy
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling plush.
- Delphi
-
noun,
an ancient city in central Greece, in Phocis: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- deuces
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- Deluge
-
noun,
a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- deploy
-
verb (used with object),
Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- depose
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from office or position, especially high office:
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Pierce
-
noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- sodio-
-
- surely
-
adverb,
firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc.
- descry
-
verb (used with object),
to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy:
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- orchid
-
noun,
any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers.
Compare orchid family.
- cupped
-
noun,
a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- Slough
-
noun,
an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
- colors
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- colugo
-
noun,
flying lemur.
- splice
-
noun,
a joining of two ropes or parts of a rope by splicing.
- spiro-
-
- cosher
-
verb (used with object),
to treat with special fondness; pamper.
- sporo-
-
- spired
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- colous
-
- colour
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- coughs
-
noun,
the act or sound of coughing.
- coulee
-
noun,
Chiefly Western U.S. and Western Canada. a deep ravine or gulch, usually dry, that has been formed by running water.
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- coulis
-
noun,
a sauce made with puréed vegetables or fruit and used as a base or garnish.
- coupes
-
noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- cologs
-
noun,
cologarithm.
- couple
-
noun,
two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- Orphic
-
adjective,
of or relating to Orpheus.
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- oroide
-
noun,
an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- pyrope
-
noun,
a mineral, magnesium-aluminum garnet, Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in crystals of varying shades of red, and frequently used as a gem.
- spider
-
noun,
any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- corpus
-
noun,
a large or complete collection of writings:
- Osprey
-
noun,
Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- creels
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- copro-
-
- Cooper
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- pilous
-
adjective,
pilose.
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- coolie
-
noun,
an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
- pileus
-
noun,
Mycology. the horizontal portion of a mushroom, bearing gills, tubes, etc., on its underside; a cap.
- copier
-
noun,
a person or thing that copies; copyist.
- copies
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- Copley
-
noun,
John Singleton [sing-guh l-tuh n] /ˈsɪŋ gəl tən/ (Show IPA), 1738–1815, U.S. painter.
- copper
-
noun,
a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Symbol: Cu; atomic weight: 63.54; atomic number: 29; specific gravity: 8.92 at 20°C.
- cooler
-
noun,
a container or apparatus, as an insulated chest, in which something may be cooled or kept cool.
- Cooley
-
noun,
Charles Horton [hawr-tn] /ˈhɔr tn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1929, U.S. author and pioneer in the field of sociology.
- colure
-
noun,
either of two great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting each other at the poles, one passing through both equinoxes and the other through both solstices.
- pipers
-
noun,
a person who plays on a pipe.
- cordis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the heart.
- cooeys
-
noun,
cooee.
- ouphes
-
noun,
an elf or goblin.
- pileup
-
noun,
a massive collision of several or many moving vehicles.
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- corgis
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- splore
-
noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- corody
-
noun,
a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, especially the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house.
- ouches
-
noun,
a clasp, buckle, or brooch, especially one worn for ornament.
- orlops
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- Orlich
-
noun,
Francisco J [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–69, Costa Rican engineer and statesman: president 1962–66.
- cupids
-
noun,
Also called Amor. the ancient Roman god of love and the son of either Mars or Mercury and Venus, identified with Eros and commonly represented as a winged, naked, infant boy with a bow and arrows.
- peepul
-
noun,
pipal.
- coheir
-
noun,
a joint heir.
- pedros
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- crudes
-
noun,
crude oil.
- pledge
-
noun,
a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something:
- cruise
-
noun,
the act of cruising.
- sphery
-
adjective,
having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- sphere
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 .
the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
- Speyer
-
noun,
a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine.
- croups
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- spurge
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.
- edgers
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- cudgel
-
noun,
a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- speedo
-
noun,
speedometer.
- speedy
-
adjective,
characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- Orchis
-
noun,
any orchid.
- cuirie
-
noun,
a hardened leather piece for protecting the breast, worn over mail.
- speech
-
noun,
the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture:
- orchil
-
noun,
a violet coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, chiefly species of Roccella.
- cupels
-
noun,
a small, cuplike, porous container, usually made of bone ash, used in assaying, as for separating gold and silver from lead.
- cohere
-
verb (used without object),
to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass:
- croupy
-
adjective,
pertaining to or resembling croup.
- colies
-
noun,
any of several slender, fruit-eating, African birds constituting the family Coliidae, having grayish-brown plumage and a long, pointed tail.
- Creuse
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2165 sq. mi. (5605 sq. km). Capital: Guéret.
- Coleus
-
noun,
any of several tropical Asian or African plants belonging to the genus Coleus, of the mint family, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy, colored foliage and blue flowers.
- creepy
-
adjective,
having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear:
- creeps
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
- pisci-
-
- Creole
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- crepey
-
adjective,
(especially of the skin) having a wrinkled surface:
- crepes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- spruce
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
- cresyl
-
adjective,
tolyl.
- cresol
-
noun,
any of three isomeric compounds having the formula C 7 H 8 O, usually derived from coal tar and wood tar, and used chiefly as a disinfectant.
- sprucy
-
adjective,
spruce2 (def 1).
- orgies
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- Oriole
-
noun,
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World.
Compare golden oriole.
- coydog
-
noun,
the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
- spicey
-
adjective,
spicy.
- cohosh
-
noun,
either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- cripes
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath or an exclamation of astonishment.)
- Cripps
-
noun,
Sir Stafford, 1889–1952, British statesman and socialist leader.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Cohoes
-
noun,
a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
- Crispi
-
noun,
Francesco [frahn-che-skaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1819–1910, prime minister of Italy 1887–91, 1893–96.
- crispy
-
adjective,
(especially of food) brittle; crisp.
- period
-
noun,
a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics:
- podsol
-
noun,
spodosol.
- slouch
-
noun,
a drooping or bending forward of the head and shoulders; an awkward, drooping posture or carriage.
- dreigh
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- Sigurd
-
noun,
the son of Sigmund and Hjordis and the husband of Gudrun. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of Andvari, wins Brynhild for Gunnar, and is finally killed at the behest of Brynhild, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to Siegfried of the Nibelungenlied.
- Sigrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “victory.”.
- Chihli
-
noun,
former name of Hebei.
- sloppy
-
adjective,
muddy, slushy, or very wet:
- chigoe
-
noun,
a flea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.
- pooped
-
noun,
a superstructure at the stern of a vessel.
- chield
-
noun,
a young man; fellow.
- chides
-
verb (used with object),
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach:
- Phedre
-
noun,
a tragedy (1677) by Racine.
- Shiloh
-
noun,
a national park in SW Tennessee: Civil War battle 1862.
- Phelps
-
noun,
William Lyon [lahy-uh n] /ˈlaɪ ən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
- uppers
-
noun,
the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
- driech
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- driegh
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- Cheryl
-
noun,
a female given name.
- drippy
-
adjective,
dripping or tending to drip:
- drogue
-
noun,
a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- celure
-
noun,
an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- loupes
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- celery
-
noun,
a plant, Apium graveolens, of the parsley family, whose leafstalks are eaten raw or cooked.
- looper
-
noun,
a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- ureide
-
noun,
an acyl urea.
- dorso-
-
- piculs
-
noun,
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).
- ceriph
-
noun,
serif.
- chilo-
-
- peruse
-
verb (used with object),
to read through with thoroughness or care:
- poodle
-
noun,
one of a breed of very active dogs, probably originating in Germany but regarded as the national dog of France, having long, thick, frizzy or curly hair usually trimmed in standard patterns, occurring in three varieties (standard, miniature, and toy) differing only in size, and originally used as a water retriever.
- chyles
-
noun,
a milky fluid containing emulsified fat and other products of digestion, formed from the chyme in the small intestine and conveyed by the lacteals and the thoracic duct to the veins.
- Dorsey
-
noun,
Tommy, 1905–56, U.S. jazz trombonist and bandleader.
- dorsi-
-
- Chiles
-
noun,
chili.
- Childe
-
noun,
a youth of noble birth.
- douche
-
noun,
a jet or current of water, sometimes with a dissolved medicating or cleansing agent, applied to a body part, organ, or cavity for medicinal or hygienic purposes.
- silure
-
plural noun,
a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
- shield
-
noun,
a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- doughy
-
adjective,
of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby:
- doughs
-
noun,
flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
- lucres
-
noun,
monetary reward or gain; money.
- picro-
-
- douser
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- echoes
-
noun,
a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- drooly
-
adjective,
drooling, tending to drool, or covered with drool.
- Cherie
-
noun,
dear; sweetheart: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl.
- chippy
-
noun,
Also, chippie. Slang.
a promiscuous woman.
a prostitute.
- poorly
-
adverb,
in a poor manner or way:
- pooris
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- louche
-
adjective,
dubious; shady; disreputable.
- should
-
auxiliary verb,
simple past tense of shall.
- lopers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- cheder
-
noun,
heder.
- uppish
-
adjective,
arrogant; condescending; uppity.
- uprise
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- shoppe
-
noun,
shop (used chiefly for quaint effect).
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- Philip
-
noun,
one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- ceruse
-
noun,
a pigment composed of white lead.
- philic
-
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- lopper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lops.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- upside
-
noun,
the upper side or part.
- dupery
-
noun,
an act, practice, or instance of duping.
- popery
-
noun,
the Roman Catholic Church, especially its doctrines, ceremonies, and system of government.
- Cereus
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Cereus, of the cactus family, having large, usually white, funnel-shaped flowers.
- shroud
-
noun,
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- durocs
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- drools
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- drupes
-
noun,
any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.
- Cheops
-
noun,
flourished early 26th century b.c, king of Egypt: builder of the great pyramid at Giza (father of Khafre).
- hourly
-
adverb,
every hour; hour by hour.
- droopy
-
adjective,
hanging down; sagging.
- droops
-
noun,
a sagging, sinking, bending, or hanging down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- dropsy
-
noun,
(formerly) edema.
- Popish
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Sicily
-
noun,
an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- cheesy
-
adjective,
of or like cheese:
- phylo-
-
- loughs
-
noun,
a lake.
- cheers
-
noun,
a shout of encouragement, approval, congratulation, etc.:
- Louise
-
noun,
Lake, a glacial lake in W Canada, in SW Alberta in the Canadian Rockies: resort. 5670 feet (1728 meters) above sea level.
- cheero
-
interjection, noun,
cheerio.
- cheery
-
adjective,
in good spirits; cheerful; happy.
- ceorls
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- louies
-
noun,
looie.
- philo-
-
- phyco-
-
- cheeps
-
noun,
a chirp.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- chylo-
-
- chiro-
-
- polers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- piecer
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- physo-
-
- choppy
-
adjective,
(of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- disco-
-
- diseur
-
noun,
a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- odious
-
adjective,
deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- shicer
-
noun,
Slang. a swindler.
- dispel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
- Diuril
-
- slippy
-
adjective,
Informal. slippery.
- upheld
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of uphold.
- choosy
-
adjective,
hard to please, particular; fastidious, especially in making a selection:
- choose
-
Idioms,
cannot choose but, cannot do otherwise than; is or are obliged to:
- slider
-
noun,
a person or thing that slides.
- slicer
-
noun,
a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food:
- chiros
-
noun,
the ladyfish, Elops saurus.
- police
-
noun,
Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- Docile
-
adjective,
easily managed or handled; tractable:
- perish
-
Idioms,
perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.
- chores
-
noun,
a small or odd job; routine task.
- sleigh
-
noun,
a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
- diplo-
-
- sloper
-
noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- chouse
-
noun,
a swindle.
- chough
-
noun,
any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.
- Sheryl
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Shirley.
- chorus
-
noun,
Music.
a group of persons singing in unison.
(in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers.
a piece of music for singing in unison.
a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- poised
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- chorio
-
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- sheugh
-
noun,
a furrow, ditch, or trench.
- dirigo
-
- diploe
-
noun,
the cancellate bony tissue between the hard inner and outer walls of the bones of the cranium.
- chori-
-
- phooey
-
interjection,
(an exclamation indicating rejection, contempt, or disgust):
- dipole
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dipper
-
noun,
a person or thing that dips.
- Phocis
-
noun,
an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- uropod
-
noun,
an abdominal limb of an arthropod, especially one of those on either side of the telson, as in a lobster.
- polder
-
noun,
a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- odours
-
noun,
odor.
- oculo-
-
- physic
-
noun,
a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- ecoles
-
noun,
school1 .
- Perlis
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- dolors
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- doolie
-
noun,
a first-year cadet in the U.S. Air Force Academy.
- lusher
-
noun,
lush2 (def 1).
- sipper
-
noun,
a person who sips.
- chlor-
-
- Chiusi
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, in Tuscany; Etruscan tombs.
- chole-
-
- chisel
-
noun,
a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- uphold
-
verb (used with object),
to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism:
- dopers
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- looped
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- chirps
-
noun,
a chirping sound.
- chirpy
-
adjective,
chirping or tending to chirp:
- sypher
-
verb (used with object),
to join (boards having beveled edges) so as to make a flush surface.
- polyps
-
noun,
Zoology.
a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates.
an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- Polish
-
noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- polios
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- ochers
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- policy
-
noun,
a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.:
- sleepy
-
adjective,
ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- sledge
-
noun,
a vehicle of various forms, mounted on runners and often drawn by draft animals, used for traveling or for conveying loads over snow, ice, rough ground, etc.
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- dogeys
-
noun,
dogie.
- ochres
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- looies
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- Cholos
-
- choler
-
noun,
irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
- sirupy
-
adjective,
syrupy.
- cholee
-
noun,
choli.
- Purdy
-
noun,
James, 1914–2009, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- phyle
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a tribe or clan, based on supposed kinship.
- Hours
-
noun,
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
- House
-
noun,
a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- pulpy
-
adjective,
pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling pulp; fleshy or soft.
- purge
-
noun,
the act or process of purging.
- phys.
-
- Pylos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- pupil
-
noun,
a person, usually young, who is learning under the close supervision of a teacher at school, a private tutor, or the like; student.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- yelps
-
noun,
a quick, sharp bark or cry.
- pulse
-
noun,
the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- igloo
-
noun,
an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
- phyre
-
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- phore
-
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- pulps
-
noun,
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- Reedy
-
adjective,
full of reeds:
- hurly
-
noun,
commotion; hurly-burly.
- Hugel
-
noun,
Baron Friedrich von, 1852–1925, English theologian and writer.
- icily
-
adverb,
in an icy manner:
- Picus
-
noun,
an ancient Italian god of agriculture.
- Icel.
-
- piece
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- idio-
-
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- Perle
-
noun,
a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- recip
-
- Pepys
-
noun,
Samuel, 1633–1703, English diarist and naval official.
- ichor
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- pepos
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of plants of the gourd family, having a fleshy, many-seeded interior and a hard or firm rind, as the gourd, melon, and cucumber.
- perch
-
noun,
a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- pushy
-
adjective,
obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- Percy
-
noun,
Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- pulis
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- Perdu
-
noun,
Obsolete. a soldier assigned to a very dangerous mission or position.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- ideo-
-
- peri-
-
- peril
-
noun,
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger:
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- Pusey
-
noun,
Edward Bouverie [boo-vuh-ree] /ˈbu və ri/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, English clergyman.
- pursy
-
adjective,
short-winded, especially from corpulence or fatness.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- phile
-
- puris
-
noun,
poori.
- phyl-
-
- piled
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- Hugli
-
noun,
a river in NE India, in W Bengal: the westernmost channel by which the Ganges enters the Bay of Bengal. 160 miles (258 km) long.
- pedi-
-
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- PEDir
-
- Phil.
-
- pedo-
-
- redly
-
adverb,
with a red color or glow:
- Hupeh
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Hubei.
- Pedro
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- picul
-
noun,
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).
- purls
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- pilch
-
noun,
an infant's wrapper worn over a diaper.
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- peeps
-
noun,
a quick or furtive look or glance.
- hurds
-
plural noun,
hards.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- pico-
-
- hurls
-
noun,
a forcible or violent throw; fling.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- logue
-
- Irish
-
noun,
the inhabitants of Ireland and their descendants elsewhere.
- yield
-
noun,
something yielded.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- preys
-
noun,
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- polos
-
noun,
a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- leuc-
-
- lurch
-
noun,
an act or instance of swaying abruptly.
- Pregl
-
noun,
Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1869–1930, Austrian chemist: Nobel prize 1923.
- pooch
-
noun,
a dog.
- leuds
-
noun,
a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
- luges
-
noun,
a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
- pred.
-
- lurid
-
adjective,
gruesome; horrible; revolting:
- Luger
-
- lycee
-
noun,
a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- poods
-
noun,
a Russian weight equal to about 36 pounds avoirdupois (16 kg).
- ludic
-
adjective,
playful in an aimless way:
- ludes
-
noun,
Quaalude.
- lucre
-
noun,
monetary reward or gain; money.
- lucid
-
adjective,
easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible:
- poohs
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pooh.”.
- luces
-
noun,
plural of lux.
- Poole
-
noun,
a port in Dorset, in S England.
- pools
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- LeRoy
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- lushy
-
adjective,
lush1 .
- poops
-
noun,
a superstructure at the stern of a vessel.
- prep.
-
- poilu
-
noun,
a French common soldier.
- lehrs
-
noun,
an oven used to anneal glass.
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Pres.
-
- Leigh
-
noun,
Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) 1913–67, English actress.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- preps
-
noun,
preparatory school.
- odour
-
noun,
odor.
- Poler
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- odyls
-
noun,
od.
- Lepus
-
noun,
the Hare, a small southern constellation south of Orion.
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- poly-
-
- leper
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- ocul-
-
- leppy
-
noun,
an unbranded or motherless calf; maverick.
- ochre
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- ocher
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- polio
-
noun,
poliomyelitis.
- lepsy
-
- polyp
-
noun,
Zoology.
a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates.
an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- lidos
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- lousy
-
Idioms,
lousy with, Slang. well supplied with or filled with, often to excess:
- Legis
-
- loopy
-
adjective,
full of loops.
- lochs
-
noun,
a lake.
- loppy
-
adjective,
hanging limply; lopping:
- locos
-
noun,
locoweed.
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- loper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- popes
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- locus
-
noun,
a place; locality.
- LOOPS
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- Lodge
-
noun,
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
- posey
-
adjective,
characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- popsy
-
noun,
a girl or young woman.
- porgy
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- looie
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- loges
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- logic
-
noun,
the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
- logis
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- logo-
-
- Logos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
- porch
-
noun,
an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- loche
-
noun,
the North American burbot.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- Louie
-
noun,
looie.
- Liege
-
noun,
a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- loury
-
adjective,
lowery.
- loups
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- liger
-
noun,
the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- poori
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- lipid
-
noun,
any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- Louys
-
noun,
Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1870–1925, French poet and novelist.
- lipo-
-
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- Lippe
-
noun,
a former state in NW Germany: now part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- lyso-
-
- Louhi
-
noun,
a sorceress, the mistress of Pohjola and an enemy of the Finns, eventually defeated by Vainamoinen.
- Lough
-
noun,
a lake.
- Lippi
-
noun,
Filippino [fil-uh-pee-noh;; Italian fee-leep-pee-naw] /ˌfɪl əˈpi noʊ;; Italian ˌfi lipˈpi nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1457–1504, and his father, Fra Filippo [frah fi-lip-oh;; Italian frah fee-leep-paw] /frɑ fɪˈlɪp oʊ;; Italian frɑ fiˈlip pɔ/ (Show IPA) or Fra Lippo [frah lip-oh;; Italian frah leep-paw] /frɑ ˈlɪp oʊ;; Italian frɑ ˈlip pɔ/ (Show IPA) 1406?–69, Italian painters.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- lippy
-
adjective,
having large or prominent lips.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- lyres
-
noun,
a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
- lyric
-
noun,
a lyric poem.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- pouch
-
noun,
a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
- Lords
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- ogles
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- leges
-
noun,
plural of lex.
- pules
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- orlop
-
noun,
the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- Prus.
-
- yours
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- youse
-
pronoun,
you (usually used in addressing two or more people).
- prude
-
noun,
a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- pisco
-
noun,
a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- orig.
-
- Proud
-
Idioms,
do one proud,
to be a source of pride or credit to a person:
to treat someone or oneself generously or lavishly:
- prosy
-
adjective,
of the nature of or resembling prose.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- YPSCE
-
- pros.
-
- props
-
noun,
proper or due respect or recognition; credit:
- Oreg.
-
- irid-
-
- ordos
-
noun,
a desert plateau in the S Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in N China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- irids
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- prop.
-
- yores
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- yo-ho
-
interjection,
(used as a call or shout to attract attention, accompany effort, etc.)
- orch.
-
- ilio-
-
- pilus
-
noun,
a hair or hairlike structure.
- pyoid
-
adjective,
pertaining to pus; puslike.
- pious
-
adjective,
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- yirds
-
noun,
earth.
- Pu-yi
-
noun,
Henry, 1906–67, as Hsüan T'ung, last emperor of China 1908–12; as K'ang Tê, puppet emperor of Manchukuo 1934–45.
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- ileo-
-
- Piper
-
noun,
a person who plays on a pipe.
- ileus
-
noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- pipes
-
noun,
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- ouphe
-
noun,
an elf or goblin.
- yogis
-
noun,
a person who practices yoga.
- pudgy
-
adjective,
short and fat or thick:
- puces
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- yodel
-
noun,
a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
- iodic
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the pentavalent state.
- pyres
-
noun,
a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- yodle
-
noun,
a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
- pyric
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resulting from burning.
- iodo-
-
- pyro-
-
- yoghs
-
noun,
the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly).
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- pleo-
-
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- podo-
-
- plush
-
noun,
a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- prigs
-
noun,
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- poche
-
noun,
the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- oiled
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- ledge
-
noun,
a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
- pocul
-
- oyers
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- podgy
-
adjective,
pudgy.
- OIcel
-
- proc.
-
- ledgy
-
adjective,
having ledges.
- Pride
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- pricy
-
adjective,
pricey.
- leech
-
noun,
any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- poesy
-
noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- leery
-
adjective,
wary; suspicious (usually followed by of):
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- pogey
-
noun,
Slang.. Also, pogy.
a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc.
candy or a treat.
- Price
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- Leger
-
noun,
ledger (def 4).
- prius
-
noun,
a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- plur.
-
- Islip
-
noun,
a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- plods
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- Ophir
-
noun,
a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon. I Kings 10:11.
- OPers
-
- plier
-
noun,
pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- plyer
-
noun,
plier.
- plio-
-
- Prole
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- ploce
-
noun,
the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: “I am that I am.”.
- loupe
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- Prog.
-
- yules
-
noun,
Christmas, or the Christmas season.
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- ology
-
noun,
any science or branch of knowledge.
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- ploid
-
- prods
-
noun,
the act of prodding; a poke or jab.
- olig-
-
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- oleo-
-
- oleic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- plops
-
noun,
a plopping sound or fall.
- prod.
-
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- progs
-
noun,
food or victuals.
- Ypres
-
noun,
a town in W Belgium: battles 1914–18.
- houri
-
noun,
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- Sligo
-
noun,
a county in Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 694 sq. mi. (1795 sq. km).
- doges
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dogey
-
noun,
dogie.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- slice
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- syrup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- dishy
-
adjective,
Chiefly British. very attractive; pretty or beautiful:
- slype
-
noun,
a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house.
- disc.
-
- dirls
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- dirge
-
noun,
a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- dipso
-
noun,
a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- dippy
-
adjective,
somewhat mad or foolish:
- dogie
-
noun,
a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- Doyle
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Conan [kaw-nuh n,, koh-] /ˈkɔ nən,, ˈkoʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.
- sloid
-
noun,
sloyd.
- dopey
-
adjective,
stupid; inane:
- dorps
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- Doric
-
noun,
a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
- sipid
-
adjective,
having a pleasing taste or flavor.
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- dopes
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- doper
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- dooly
-
noun,
(in India) a simple litter, often used to transport sick or wounded persons.
- doily
-
noun,
any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
- dolus
-
noun,
fraud; deceit, especially involving or evidencing evil intent (distinguished from culpa):
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- dolor
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- dolce
-
noun,
an instruction to the performer that the music is to be executed softly and sweetly.
- sirup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- Doisy
-
noun,
Edward Adelbert [ad-l-bert,, uh-del-] /ˈæd l bərt,, əˈdɛl-/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943.
- dipl.
-
- sloyd
-
noun,
a system of manual training based on experience gained in woodworking, originally developed in Sweden.
- douce
-
adjective,
sedate; modest; quiet.
- decry
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- solid
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- sooey
-
interjection,
(a shout used in calling pigs.)
- deeps
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- soldo
-
noun,
a former copper coin of Italy, the twentieth part of a lira, equal to five centesimi.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- decoy
-
noun,
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
- Sophi
-
noun,
Sophy.
- decl.
-
- decyl
-
noun,
a group of isomeric univalent radicals, C 10 H 21 , derived from the decanes by removing one hydrogen atom.
- deci-
-
- sophy
-
noun,
any of the Safavid rulers of Persia: used as a title.
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- diols
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- Soche
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Shache.
- sloop
-
noun,
a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails.
Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- dilis
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- dich-
-
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- dicey
-
adjective,
unpredictable; risky; uncertain.
- slurp
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- Sochi
-
noun,
a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea: resort.
- Delhi
-
noun,
a union territory in N India. 574 sq. mi. (1487 sq. km).
- dhole
-
noun,
a wild Asian dog, Cuon alpinus, that hunts in packs: an endangered species.
- socle
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- deuce
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- desc.
-
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- dough
-
noun,
flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
- soppy
-
adjective,
soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- Seric
-
- sero-
-
- educe
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- educ.
-
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- sheep
-
noun,
any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- sheer
-
noun,
a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile.
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- Sheol
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- edges
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- edger
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- sherd
-
noun,
shard.
- shied
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- shiel
-
noun,
shieling.
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- Sepoy
-
noun,
(formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.
- ecol.
-
- seepy
-
adjective,
(especially of ground, a plot of land, or the like) soaked or oozing with water; not drained.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Elihu
-
noun,
a young man who entered into discourse with Job. Job. 32–37.
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- seedy
-
adjective,
abounding in seed.
- Seely
-
adjective,
insignificant or feeble; poor.
- elegy
-
noun,
a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- Elche
-
noun,
a city in E Spain.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- eyrie
-
noun,
aerie.
- eyres
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- segue
-
noun,
an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- Ecole
-
noun,
school1 .
- shier
-
noun,
a horse having a tendency to shy.
- sylph
-
noun,
a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- shrug
-
noun,
the movement of raising and contracting the shoulders.
- sycee
-
noun,
fine uncoined silver in lumps of various sizes usually bearing a banker's or assayer's stamp or mark, formerly used in China as a medium of exchange.
- Druse
-
noun,
an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral.
- drupe
-
noun,
any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.
- droop
-
noun,
a sagging, sinking, bending, or hanging down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drool
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- drily
-
adverb,
dryly.
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- duchy
-
noun,
the territory ruled by a duke or duchess.
- siege
-
noun,
the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- dregs
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- Siepi
-
noun,
Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- sigil
-
noun,
a seal or signet.
- douse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- Douro
-
noun,
a river in SW Europe, flowing W from N Spain through N Portugal to the Atlantic. About 475 miles (765 km) long.
- duces
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- shred
-
noun,
a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- Shilh
-
noun,
a member of a mountain people of Morocco.
- Dupre
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1812–89, French painter.
- Shire
-
noun,
one of the counties of Great Britain.
- shlep
-
noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- Shluh
-
noun,
plural of Shilh.
- duros
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- Duroc
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- dures
-
verb (used with or without object),
endure.
- shoer
-
noun,
a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- dupes
-
noun,
a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
- duels
-
noun,
a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- shogi
-
noun,
the Japanese version of chess.
- shoyu
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- dulse
-
noun,
a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata.
- Dulcy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Dulce.
- Dulce
-
noun,
a female given name: from the Latin word meaning “sweet.”.
- Shore
-
noun,
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
- Duero
-
noun,
Spanish name of Douro.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- surge
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- clepe
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- Cyrus
-
noun,
("the Elder"or"the Great") c600–529 b.c, king of Persia 558?–529: founder of the Persian empire.
- Cyril
-
noun,
Saint ("Apostle of the Slavs") a.d. 827–869, Greek missionary to the Moravians.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Cypro
-
- surg.
-
- surgy
-
adjective,
billowy; surging or swelling.
- Suppe
-
noun,
Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1819–95, Austrian composer.
- surly
-
adjective,
churlishly rude or bad-tempered:
Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- cyder
-
noun,
cider.
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- chuse
-
verb (used with or without object),
Archaic. choose.
- churl
-
noun,
a rude, boorish, or surly person.
- uglis
-
- chugs
-
noun,
a short, dull, explosive sound:
- Clyde
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a stupid, inept, or boorish person.
- supp.
-
- ulcer
-
noun,
Pathology. a sore on the skin or a mucous membrane, accompanied by the disintegration of tissue, the formation of pus, etc.
- coel-
-
- sprig
-
noun,
a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- coypu
-
noun,
a large, South American, aquatic rodent, Myocastor (or Myopotamus) coypus, yielding the fur nutria.
- coils
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- cohos
-
noun,
coho salmon.
- coele
-
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- cloys
-
verb (used with object),
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- suede
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- codes
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- CLOUD
-
noun,
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- Close
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- clops
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- Ugric
-
noun,
a branch of the Uralic family of languages, consisting of Hungarian and two languages, Khanty and Mansi, spoken in western Siberia.
- Chris
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Christopher.
- colds
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- ceils
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- cero-
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- Uredo
-
noun,
a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
- ceorl
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- Urgel
-
noun,
a town in NE Spain, SSW of Andorra: cathedral.
- cheer
-
noun,
a shout of encouragement, approval, congratulation, etc.:
- urges
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Uriel
-
noun,
one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- Ursid
-
noun,
any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.
- Usher
-
noun,
a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
- 30-30
-
- cheep
-
noun,
a chirp.
- Chere
-
adjective,
dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl.
- updos
-
noun,
a hairdo that is combed or brushed up, away from the face.
- Chloe
-
noun,
the lover of Daphnis in a Greek pastoral romance.
- chose
-
noun,
a thing; an article of personal property.
- chore
-
noun,
a small or odd job; routine task.
- chord
-
noun,
a feeling or emotion:
- chops
-
noun,
an act or instance of chopping.
- choli
-
noun,
a short-sleeved blouse or bodice, often one exposing part of the midriff, worn by Hindu women in India.
- chol-
-
- choir
-
noun,
a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
- chiru
-
noun,
a goat antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, of Tibet, the male of which has very long, straight horns.
- upper
-
noun,
the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
- chirp
-
noun,
a chirping sound.
- Chios
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Aegean, near the W coast of Turkey. 322 sq. mi. (834 sq. km).
- chili
-
noun,
Also called chili pepper. the pungent pod of any of several species of Capsicum, especially C. annuum longum: used in cooking for its pungent flavor.
- chyle
-
noun,
a milky fluid containing emulsified fat and other products of digestion, formed from the chyme in the small intestine and conveyed by the lacteals and the thoracic duct to the veins.
- Chile
-
noun,
chili.
- Child
-
noun,
a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl:
- chide
-
verb (used with object),
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach:
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- Coles
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- sorgo
-
noun,
any of several varieties of sorghum grown chiefly for the sweet juice yielded by the stems, used in making sugar and syrup and also for fodder.
- CRISP
-
noun,
Chiefly British. potato chip.
- cruel
-
adjective,
willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruds
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- crude
-
noun,
crude oil.
- croup
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- spice
-
noun,
any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- Crius
-
noun,
a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- crips
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crush
-
noun,
the act of crushing; state of being crushed.
- cryo-
-
- Crile
-
noun,
George Washington, 1864–1943, U.S. surgeon.
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- Curie
-
noun,
a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 10 10 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226. Abbreviation: Ci.
- sough
-
noun,
a sighing, rustling, or murmuring sound.
- soupy
-
adjective,
resembling soup in consistency:
- cushy
-
adjective,
involving little effort for ample rewards; easy and profitable:
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curls
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- curly
-
adjective,
curling or tending to curl:
- curio
-
noun,
any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- spec.
-
- curds
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- curdy
-
adjective,
like curd; full of or containing curd; coagulated.
- cuppy
-
adjective,
cup-shaped; hollow.
- Cupid
-
noun,
Also called Amor. the ancient Roman god of love and the son of either Mars or Mercury and Venus, identified with Eros and commonly represented as a winged, naked, infant boy with a bow and arrows.
- cupel
-
noun,
a small, cuplike, porous container, usually made of bone ash, used in assaying, as for separating gold and silver from lead.
- speed
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- spicy
-
adjective,
seasoned with or containing spice:
- Colo.
-
- coop.
-
- copr-
-
- Spohr
-
noun,
Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), or Louis [loo-ee] /ˈlu i/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, German violinist and composer.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- spool
-
noun,
any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- co-op
-
noun,
a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
- cools
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- Spode
-
noun,
Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- cooly
-
noun,
coolie.
- spor-
-
- cooey
-
noun,
cooee.
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- 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.
- color
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- colog
-
noun,
cologarithm.
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- could
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- Cousy
-
noun,
Robert Joseph ("Bob") born 1928, U.S. basketball player.
- coups
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- coupe
-
noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- cough
-
noun,
the act or sound of coughing.
- Corey
-
noun,
Elias James, born 1928, U.S. chemist and educator: Nobel Prize 1990.
- spiry
-
adjective,
having the form of a spire, slender shoot, or tapering pointed body; tapering up to a point like a spire.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- 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.
- Corpl
-
- corp.
-
- corgi
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- cores
-
- Elyse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- duple
-
adjective,
having two parts; double; twofold.
- Elroy
-
noun,
a male given name.
- greys
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- GRIPS
-
noun,
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- gripy
-
adjective,
resembling or causing gripes.
- gripe
-
noun,
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- gride
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- grice
-
noun,
a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Riley
-
noun,
James Whitcomb [hwit-kuh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt kəm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1849–1916, U.S. poet.
- greed
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- rishi
-
noun,
an inspired sage or poet.
- sedgy
-
adjective,
abounding, covered, or bordered with sedge.
- gourd
-
noun,
the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally.
Compare gourd family.
- Gould
-
noun,
Chester, 1900–85, U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”.
- Goudy
-
noun,
Frederic William, 1865–1947, U.S. designer of printing types.
- GROPE
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- group
-
noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- guile
-
noun,
insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- gulps
-
noun,
the act of gulping:
- gules
-
noun,
the tincture red.
- gulch
-
noun,
a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.
- Guise
-
noun,
general external appearance; aspect; semblance:
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- guiro
-
noun,
a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- Guild
-
noun,
an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
- gruel
-
noun,
a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- Guido
-
noun,
a male given name.
- GUIDE
-
noun,
a person who guides, especially one hired to guide travelers, tourists, hunters, etc.
- Rigel
-
noun,
a first-magnitude star in the constellation Orion.
- gudes
-
noun,
God.
- rigid
-
adjective,
stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard:
- Grues
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- rodeo
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- gorps
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- gursh
-
noun,
qirsh.
- glops
-
noun,
unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- godly
-
adjective,
conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devout; pious.
- Godel
-
noun,
Kurt [kurt] /kɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1906–78, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Austria-Hungary.
- Godey
-
noun,
Louis Antoine [an-twahn] /ˈæn twɑn/ (Show IPA), 1804–78, U.S. publisher: founded the first women's magazine in the U.S. 1830.
- glues
-
noun,
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- gluey
-
adjective,
like glue; viscid; sticky.
- Glory
-
noun,
very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown:
- glyph
-
noun,
a pictograph or hieroglyph.
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- glide
-
noun,
a gliding movement, as in dancing.
- glyc-
-
- gleys
-
noun,
a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- roshi
-
noun,
the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- glees
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- gleed
-
noun,
a glowing coal.
- 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.
- roods
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- goops
-
noun,
a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.
- Gorey
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- rogue
-
noun,
a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- Gordy
-
noun,
Berry, Jr, born 1929, U.S. music and record producer: founder of Motown records.
- goosy
-
adjective,
like a goose; foolish or giddy.
- goose
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- Royce
-
noun,
Josiah, 1855–1916, U.S. philosopher and educator.
- goopy
-
adjective,
characteristic of goop; sticky, viscous.
- Goldi
-
noun,
Nanay.
- gooey
-
adjective,
like or covered with goo; sticky; viscid.
- goods
-
noun,
profit or advantage; worth; benefit:
- Goody
-
noun,
Usually, goodies. something especially attractive or pleasing, especially cake, cookies, or candy.
- roily
-
adjective,
turbid; muddy.
- Gooch
-
noun,
George Peabody, 1873–1968, English historian.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- golds
-
noun,
a precious yellow metallic element, highly malleable and ductile, and not subject to oxidation or corrosion. Symbol: Au; atomic weight: 196.967; atomic number: 79; specific gravity: 19.3 at 20°C.
- guppy
-
noun,
a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
- gushy
-
adjective,
given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- relig
-
- hoods
-
noun,
a soft or flexible covering for the head and neck, either separate or attached to a cloak, coat, or the like.
- Hooch
-
noun,
alcoholic liquor.
- holo-
-
- relic
-
noun,
a surviving memorial of something past.
- holes
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- Holds
-
noun,
an act of holding fast by a grasp of the hand or by some other physical means; grasp; grip:
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- Hoogh
-
noun,
Pieter de [Dutch pee-ter duh] /Dutch ˈpi tər də/ (Show IPA), Hooch, Pieter de.
- Hoyle
-
noun,
Edmond, 1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.
- Hogue
-
noun,
La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- repel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repic
-
noun,
the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- hocus
-
verb (used with object),
to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
- reply
-
noun,
an answer or response in words or writing.
- hooey
-
noun,
silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense; bunk:
- hooly
-
adverb,
cautiously; gently.
- hippy
-
noun,
hippie.
- horde
-
noun,
a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd:
- Hough
-
noun,
Scot. hock1 (defs 1, 2).
- hosp.
-
- hosel
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- Horus
-
noun,
a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- horsy
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of a horse.
- horse
-
noun,
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Reich
-
noun,
(with reference to Germany) empire; realm; nation.
- Hoppe
-
noun,
Willie (William Frederick) 1887–1959, U.S. billiards player.
- Hopis
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- regle
-
noun,
a groove or channel for guiding a sliding door.
- hopes
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Hopeh
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Hebei.
- hoops
-
noun,
a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.
- HIRES
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- hipp-
-
- ridgy
-
adjective,
rising in a ridge or ridges.
- heeds
-
noun,
careful attention; notice; observation (usually with give or take).
- Heyse
-
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.
- rhod-
-
- heigh
-
interjection,
(an exclamation used to call attention, give encouragement, etc.)
- Heidi
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Hegel
-
noun,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [gey-awrk vil-helm free-drikh] /ˈgeɪ ɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1831, German philosopher.
- heels
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- hedgy
-
adjective,
abounding in hedges.
- helps
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- hedge
-
noun,
a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow:
- heder
-
noun,
(especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- ricey
-
adjective,
pertaining to, resembling, or containing rice.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- ridge
-
noun,
a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- heli-
-
- herds
-
noun,
a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock:
- hypos
-
noun,
a hypodermic syringe or injection.
- repps
-
noun,
rep1 .
- Hypo-
-
- hypes
-
noun,
exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- hyoid
-
noun,
the hyoid bone.
- hylo-
-
- highs
-
noun,
Automotive. high gear:
- hier-
-
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- hydr-
-
- hides
-
noun,
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- herp.
-
- Heros
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- Herod
-
noun,
("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- resp.
-
- herls
-
noun,
a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Yugo.
-
- scopy
-
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- Epis.
-
- Schul
-
noun,
shul.
- scold
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scoop
-
noun,
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- gilds
-
noun,
guild.
- Giles
-
noun,
Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- ephor
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- scelp
-
noun,
a slap, smack, or blow, especially one given with the open hand.
- ruche
-
noun,
a strip of pleated lace, net, muslin, or other material for trimming or finishing a dress, as at the collar or sleeves.
- geod.
-
- ephod
-
noun,
a richly embroidered, apronlike vestment having two shoulder straps and ornamental attachments for securing the breastplate, worn with a waistband by the high priest. Ex. 28:6, 7, 25–28.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- scrip
-
noun,
a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- Euro-
-
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- scrog
-
noun,
any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
- ghoul
-
noun,
an evil demon, originally of Muslim legend, supposed to feed on human beings, and especially to rob graves, prey on corpses, etc.
- eury-
-
- epode
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- geoid
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- epulo
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a member of a body of priests who performed sacred rites during sacrificial banquets in honor of the gods.
- gelid
-
adjective,
very cold; icy.
- geol.
-
- Erech
-
noun,
Biblical name of Uruk.
- ergo-
-
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- scudo
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
- epoch
-
noun,
a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.:
- gelds
-
noun,
a payment; tax.
- Eridu
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city near the Euphrates in S Iraq: center for the worship of Ea; partially excavated.
- rushy
-
adjective,
abounding with rushes or their stems.
- Episc
-
- ghees
-
noun,
a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Ephes
-
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- Gyppo
-
noun,
a logger who operates on a small budget and typically gleans the timberlands already cut by larger companies.
- giros
-
noun,
autogiro.
- ESPEC
-
- rough
-
noun,
something that is rough, especially rough ground.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- girly
-
noun,
Offensive. a term of address used for a girl or woman.
- rouge
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- gyro-
-
- gyros
-
noun,
gyrocompass.
- sedge
-
noun,
any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places.
Compare sedge family.
- girsh
-
noun,
qirsh.
- elude
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade:
Synonyms: shun, dodge.
- gyrus
-
noun,
a convolution, especially of the brain.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- Euler
-
noun,
Leonhard [German ley-awn-hahrt] /German ˈleɪ ɔnˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1707–83, Swiss mathematician.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- gyres
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- geode
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- girds
-
noun,
a gibe.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- Eolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- Gipsy
-
noun,
Gypsy.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- roupy
-
adjective,
affected with the disease roup.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- supr
-
- shee
-
noun,
sídh.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- repp
-
noun,
rep1 .
- SPUD
-
noun,
Informal. a potato.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- sur-
-
- spry
-
adjective,
active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- pili
-
noun,
a Philippine tree, Canarium ovatum, the edible seeds of which taste like a sweet almond.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- scr.
-
- SCUD
-
noun,
the act of scudding.
- shod
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- purl
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- ship
-
noun,
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- pil-
-
- purs
-
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- resh
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- such
-
Idioms,
as such. as1 (def 28).
- pyes
-
noun,
pie4 .
- prey
-
noun,
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- Rhys
-
noun,
Jean (Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams) 1890–1979, English novelist, born in Dominica.
- Rhee
-
noun,
Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- scry
-
verb (used without object),
to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- spp.
-
- sugh
-
noun, verb (used with object),
sough2 .
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- sugi
-
noun,
Japan cedar.
- Pyle
-
noun,
Ernest ("Ernie") 1900–45, U.S. war correspondent and journalist.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- sld.
-
- surd
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Pich
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub or small tree, Calliandra portoricensis, of the legume family, having numerous leaflets and white, night-blooming, flowers.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- posh
-
adjective,
sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
- posy
-
noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- secy
-
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- urds
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Urey
-
noun,
Harold Clayton [kleyt-n] /ˈkleɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1893–1981, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1934.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- urge
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- pice
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.
Compare pie5 .
- urgy
-
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- uric
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- Reg.
-
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- uro-
-
- phr.
-
- USCG
-
- used
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- USPO
-
- PICS
-
noun,
a movie.
- Edge
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- rcd.
-
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- sgd.
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- scup
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- repl
-
- udos
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- shoe
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- ughs
-
noun,
the sound of a cough, grunt, or the like.
- ugli
-
- ugly
-
adjective,
very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- Rep.
-
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- ppd.
-
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- Uhde
-
noun,
Fritz Karl Hermann von [frits kahrl her-mahn fuh n] /frɪts kɑrl ˈhɛr mɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1848–1911, German painter.
- prec
-
- pre-
-
- updo
-
noun,
a hairdo that is combed or brushed up, away from the face.
- sec.
-
- PPLO
-
- sech
-
- rely
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- pos.
-
- rel.
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Uele
-
noun,
a river in central Africa flowing W from the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Ubangi River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- pyre
-
noun,
a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- rhos
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- poco
-
adverb,
somewhat; rather:
- Sol.
-
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- plus
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- plug
-
noun,
a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- Rude
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1784–1855, French sculptor.
- Pooh
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pooh.”.
- Rudy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Rudolf.
- plop
-
noun,
a plopping sound or fall.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- syph
-
noun,
syphilis (often preceded by the).
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- syli
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Guinea, equal to 100 cauris: replaced the franc in 1972.
- Soph
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- Pool
-
noun,
a small body of standing water; pond.
- sigh
-
noun,
the act or sound of sighing.
- Sig.
-
- ploy
-
noun,
a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- Poop
-
noun,
a superstructure at the stern of a vessel.
- plod
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- SOHO
-
noun,
a district in London, England, including Soho Square: a predominantly foreign section since 1685; noted for its restaurants.
- pood
-
noun,
a Russian weight equal to about 36 pounds avoirdupois (16 kg).
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- ropy
-
adjective,
resembling a rope or ropes:
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- prig
-
noun,
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- pro-
-
- Rosy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- sley
-
noun,
the reed of a loom.
- SLIC
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- slog
-
noun,
a long, tiring walk or march.
- Pol.
-
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Syr.
-
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Polo
-
noun,
a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- POGO
-
noun,
Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- pogy
-
noun,
a porgy.
- slug
-
noun,
any of various snaillike terrestrial gastropods having no shell or only a rudimentary one, feeding on plants and a pest of leafy garden crops.
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- 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.
- rood
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- puds
-
noun,
pudding.
- Pugh
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of disgust, as at an offensive odor.)
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- pop-
-
- shop
-
noun,
a retail store, especially a small one.
- Pope
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- shoo
-
interjection,
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
- pugs
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- pule
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- psig
-
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- pyr-
-
- pips
-
noun,
one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
- pipy
-
adjective,
pipelike; tubular.
- pipi
-
noun,
an edible bivalve of eastern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides.
- Rich
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) rich persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- puli
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- regd
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- shog
-
noun,
a shake; jolt.
- pulp
-
noun,
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pipe
-
noun,
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- puls
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- pyo-
-
- puce
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- scil
-
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- prs.
-
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- SpEd
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- psec
-
- Rush
-
noun,
the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- Ryle
-
noun,
Sir Martin, 1918–84, British astronomer: Nobel Prize in physics 1974.
- sci.
-
- syce
-
noun,
(in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- shul
-
noun,
a synagogue.
- Rigi
-
noun,
a mountain in central Switzerland, near the Lake of Lucerne. 5906 feet (1800 meters).
- spic
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- pled
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- psid
-
- Pish
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- ryes
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- sch.
-
- shr.
-
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- 1080
-
- Grey
-
noun,
Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764–1845, British statesman: prime minister 1830–34.
- Ice.
-
- HUGE
-
adjective,
extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent:
- Hugh
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “heart, mind.”.
- Hugi
-
noun,
a young man, a personification of thought, who defeated Thialfi in a race.
- Hugo
-
noun,
Victor (Marie, Viscount) [vik-ter muh-ree;; French veek-tawr ma-ree] /ˈvɪk tər məˈri;; French vikˈtɔr maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1802–85, French poet, novelist, and dramatist.
- hugs
-
noun,
a tight clasp with the arms; embrace.
- huly
-
adverb,
cautiously; gently.
- Hurd
-
plural noun,
hards.
- hurl
-
noun,
a forcible or violent throw; fling.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- hush
-
noun,
silence or quiet, especially after noise.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- dlr.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- dogy
-
noun,
dogie.
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- dish
-
noun,
an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- ichs
-
noun,
a disease of tropical fishes, characterized by small, white nodules on the fins, skin, and eyes, caused by a ciliate protozoan, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
- dys-
-
- dis-
-
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dir.
-
- dips
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- dioc
-
- Dili
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- ICSH
-
- Doge
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- Huey
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Hugh.
- dig.
-
- holp
-
verb,
a simple past tense of help.
- hype
-
noun,
exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- Dory
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- dope
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- hods
-
noun,
a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- door
-
noun,
a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- hoys
-
noun,
a heavy barge used in harbors.
- hol-
-
- HOLC
-
- hold
-
noun,
an act of holding fast by a grasp of the hand or by some other physical means; grasp; grip:
- Hole
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- Holi
-
noun,
the Hindu spring festival.
- holy
-
noun,
a place of worship; sacred place; sanctuary.
- hols
-
plural noun,
Sometimes, hol. British Informal. holiday (def 5).
- hued
-
adjective,
having the hue or color as specified (usually used in combination):
- hood
-
noun,
a soft or flexible covering for the head and neck, either separate or attached to a cloak, coat, or the like.
- hoop
-
noun,
a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- hops
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- hor.
-
- Hos.
-
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- hour
-
noun,
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
- dol.
-
- HRIP
-
- DOHC
-
- digs
-
noun,
thrust; poke:
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- dorp
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- Yolo
-
interjection,
You only live once! (used especially to rationalize impulsive or reckless behavior):
- deg.
-
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- deep
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- your
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- ious
-
- yous
-
noun,
plural of you.
- Dec.
-
- DChE
-
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- Ire.
-
- Cusp
-
noun,
a point or pointed end.
- yogh
-
noun,
the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly).
- yrs.
-
- Cush
-
noun,
money, especially when reserved for some special use.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Yser
-
noun,
a river flowing from N France through NW Belgium into the North Sea: battles 1914–18. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- curl
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- iso-
-
- curd
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- cur.
-
- yuch
-
interjection,
yuck1 .
- Yule
-
noun,
Christmas, or the Christmas season.
- cule
-
- Cuyp
-
noun,
Aelbert [ahl-buh rt] /ˈɑl bərt/ (Show IPA), 1620–91, Dutch painter.
- Yogi
-
noun,
a person who practices yoga.
- yods
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- dyes
-
noun,
a coloring material or matter.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- Dyer
-
noun,
John, 1700–58, British poet.
- yech
-
interjection,
yuck1 .
- Yedo
-
noun,
a former name of Tokyo.
- yeld
-
adjective,
barren; sterile.
- yelp
-
noun,
a quick, sharp bark or cry.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- Dyce
-
noun,
Alexander, 1798–1869, Scottish editor.
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- Deus
-
noun,
God. Abbreviation: D.
- DERP
-
noun,
a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- yids
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.
- yipe
-
interjection,
(an expression or exclamation of fright, surprise, pain, etc.)
- degu
-
noun,
a rat-sized New World burrowing rodent, Octodon degus, having long, smooth fur and a black-tipped, tufted tail.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- ergs
-
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- deys
-
noun,
the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
- Del.
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- dely
-
- yips
-
noun,
a sharp bark; yelp.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- ile-
-
- dep.
-
- depr
-
- der.
-
- yird
-
noun,
earth.
- hyp.
-
- Hilo
-
noun,
a seaport on E Hawaii island, in SE Hawaii.
- cuds
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- gips
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- Ger.
-
- Gerd
-
noun,
the daughter of a giant and the consort of Frey, who wooed her through his servant Skirnir.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- EEOC
-
- ghee
-
noun,
a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- Gide
-
noun,
André (Paul Guillaume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pɔl giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.
- gids
-
- gild
-
noun,
guild.
- gils
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- edhs
-
noun,
eth.
- Gyor
-
noun,
a city in NW Hungary.
- edgy
-
adjective,
nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Gyps
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- geld
-
noun,
a payment; tax.
- gyr-
-
- gird
-
noun,
a gibe.
- gyre
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- gyri
-
noun,
plural of gyrus.
- girl
-
noun,
a female child, from birth to full growth.
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- Gish
-
noun,
Dorothy, 1898–1968, and her sister Lillian, 1896–1993, U.S. film actresses.
- Glee
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- gley
-
noun,
a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- glop
-
noun,
unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- glue
-
noun,
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- geo-
-
- eery
-
adjective,
eerie.
- Gold
-
noun,
a precious yellow metallic element, highly malleable and ductile, and not subject to oxidation or corrosion. Symbol: Au; atomic weight: 196.967; atomic number: 79; specific gravity: 19.3 at 20°C.
- eous
-
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Esd.
-
- epic
-
noun,
an epic poem.
- eso-
-
- epi-
-
- 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.
- Eph.
-
- Eur.
-
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- gds.
-
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- eyed
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- eyes
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- geds
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Eyre
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- elhi
-
adjective,
elementary and high-school:
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Elys
-
noun,
Isle of, a former administrative county in E England: now part of Cambridgeshire.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- goys
-
noun,
a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
- golp
-
noun,
a roundel purpure.
- High
-
noun,
Automotive. high gear:
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- ducs
-
noun,
duke.
- gush
-
noun,
a sudden, copious outflow of a fluid.
- Duce
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- Drug
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
- drys
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- drip
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- Hedy
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pleasing.”.
- dreg
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- heed
-
noun,
careful attention; notice; observation (usually with give or take).
- heel
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- Heep
-
noun,
Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- Heer
-
noun,
an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- hehs
-
noun,
he2 .
- drch
-
- gulp
-
noun,
the act of gulping:
- Held
-
noun,
John, Jr. 1889–1958, U.S. cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
- help
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- her.
-
- herd
-
noun,
a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock:
- Here
-
noun,
this place:
- herl
-
noun,
a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- hers
-
noun,
Slang. a female:
- dour
-
adjective,
sullen; gloomy:
- doup
-
noun,
the bottom, end, or butt of something.
- Doug
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Douglas.
- hide
-
noun,
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- Hyde
-
noun,
Douglas, 1860–1949, Irish author and statesman: president of Ireland. 1938–45.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- guls
-
noun,
a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
- duel
-
noun,
a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- eco-
-
- dup.
-
- Good
-
noun,
profit or advantage; worth; benefit:
- Goop
-
noun,
a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.
- goos
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- Echo
-
noun,
a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- gory
-
adjective,
covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- gorp
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- gosh
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation or mild oath):
- gpcd
-
- Duse
-
noun,
Eleonora [el-ee-uh-nawr-uh;; Italian e-le-aw-naw-rah] /ˌɛl i əˈnɔr ə;; Italian ˌɛ lɛ ɔˈnɔ rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, Italian actress.
- duro
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- dure
-
adjective,
hard; severe.
- dups
-
verb (used with object),
to open.
- dupe
-
noun,
a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
- duos
-
noun,
Music. duet.
- Guys
-
noun,
Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- dues
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- dugs
-
noun,
the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.
- Gude
-
noun,
God.
- dulc
-
- Grus
-
noun,
the Crane, a southern constellation between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
- grue
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- gro.
-
- duo-
-
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- grip
-
noun,
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- grid
-
noun,
a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
- gres
-
- duly
-
adverb,
in a due manner; properly; fittingly.
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- iod-
-
- Orly
-
noun,
a suburb SE of Paris, France: international airport.
- clog
-
noun,
anything that impedes motion or action; an encumbrance; a hindrance.
- clue
-
noun,
anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- clou
-
noun,
a major point of interest or attention.
- Ochs
-
noun,
Adolph Simon, 1858–1935, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- clop
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- cloy
-
verb (used with object),
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- odyl
-
noun,
od.
- odor
-
noun,
the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell:
- Odus
-
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- OECD
-
- OEEC
-
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- clod
-
noun,
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- ogle
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- clip
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- OGPU
-
noun,
(in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- Ohio
-
noun,
a state in the NE central United States: a part of the Midwest. 41,222 sq. mi. (106,765 sq. km). Capital: Columbus.
Abbreviation: OH (for use with zip code), O.
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- Cody
-
noun,
William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") 1846–1917, U.S. Army scout and showman.
- clep
-
- Lucy
-
noun,
the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominid found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- loud
-
Idioms,
out loud, aloud; audibly:
- Loup
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- coho
-
noun,
coho salmon.
- cogs
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- cog.
-
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- peep
-
noun,
a quick or furtive look or glance.
- Chip
-
noun,
a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
- Luce
-
noun,
a pike, especially when fully grown.
- lude
-
noun,
Quaalude.
- ped.
-
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- luge
-
noun,
a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
- Lugo
-
noun,
a city in NW Spain.
- lugs
-
noun,
an act or instance of lugging; a forcible pull; haul.
- Cdr.
-
- peds
-
- codo
-
noun,
a city in NE Brazil.
- Lupe
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pede
-
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lush
-
noun,
drunkard; alcoholic; sot.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- ord.
-
- Chur
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Grisons, in E Switzerland.
- OSRD
-
- chug
-
noun,
a short, dull, explosive sound:
- chg.
-
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- opp.
-
- chs.
-
- opsy
-
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- ordo
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
- oory
-
adjective,
ourie.
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Chr.
-
- Chou
-
noun,
a cabbage-shaped decoration, as a rosette or knot on a woman's dress, hat, etc.
- chop
-
noun,
an act or instance of chopping.
- org.
-
- orgy
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- chis
-
noun,
the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- oro-
-
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- 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.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- cis-
-
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- cir.
-
- oily
-
adverb,
in an oily manner.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- Cels
-
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- cyl.
-
- CIGS
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- oldy
-
noun,
oldie.
- oohs
-
noun,
the exclamation “ooh.”.
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- ole-
-
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- ouds
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- Oudh
-
noun,
a former part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in N India: now part of Uttar Pradesh.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- cide
-
- ouch
-
noun,
a clasp, buckle, or brooch, especially one worn for ornament.
- Cher
-
noun,
a river in central France, flowing NW to the Loire River. 220 miles (355 km) long.
- Lory
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- leg.
-
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Cor.
-
- copy
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- per.
-
- Cory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- cool
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- lyes
-
noun,
a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- USRC
-
- lip-
-
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- peps
-
noun,
lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- Peul
-
noun,
Fulani.
- Lech
-
noun,
a lecherous desire or craving.
- leud
-
noun,
a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
- leys
-
noun,
leu.
- PERL
-
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Lehr
-
noun,
an oven used to anneal glass.
- perh
-
- cpd.
-
- legs
-
noun,
either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- coup
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- cosy
-
noun,
a padded covering for a teapot, chocolate pot, etc., to retain the heat.
- LEGO
-
noun,
one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- cosh
-
noun,
a blackjack; bludgeon.
- Pers
-
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- lich
-
noun,
the body; the trunk.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- lych
-
noun,
British Obsolete. lich.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pepo
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of plants of the gourd family, having a fleshy, many-seeded interior and a hard or firm rind, as the gourd, melon, and cucumber.
- lieu
-
noun,
place; stead.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- crud
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- log-
-
- Pegu
-
noun,
a city in central Burma: pagodas.
- loge
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- lyre
-
noun,
a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
- Logi
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- logy
-
adjective,
lacking physical or mental energy or vitality; sluggish; dull; lethargic.
- Col.
-
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- coys
-
adjective,
artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- loop
-
noun,
a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Cold
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- phis
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- Cres
-
- coly
-
noun,
any of several slender, fruit-eating, African birds constituting the family Coliidae, having grayish-brown plumage and a long, pointed tail.
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- crip
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- lys-
-
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lyse
-
verb (used with object),
to cause dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- perp
-
noun,
the perpetrator of a crime.
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Loco
-
noun,
locoweed.
- pehs
-
noun,
pe.
- Loch
-
noun,
a lake.
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- CGS
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Ep.
-
- ChE
-
noun,
Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- USR
-
- shy
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- se-
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- USP
-
- ch.
-
- USC
-
- ed.
-
- CHI
-
noun,
the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
- Co.
-
- UPI
-
- SDI
-
- SDR
-
- USO
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- 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.
- shh
-
interjection,
sh.
- EEO
-
- EEG
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- EIS
-
- cp.
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- CED
-
- EEC
-
- eir
-
- cr.
-
- cs.
-
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- cl.
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- 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).
- Ehr
-
- Ely
-
noun,
Isle of, a former administrative county in E England: now part of Cambridgeshire.
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- EDC
-
- ure
-
- CGI
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- SED
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EOE
-
- ur-
-
- Urd
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CEO
-
- edh
-
noun,
eth.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- eye
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EDP
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- CSR
-
- cle
-
- ECG
-
- SLR
-
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- soy
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- dh-
-
- DHL
-
- di.
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- dye
-
noun,
a coloring material or matter.
- SPR
-
- SLP
-
- Dey
-
noun,
the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
- DIY
-
- DIL
-
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- DIU
-
noun,
part of the union territory of Daman and Diu (Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1961–87) in W India: a former Portuguese colony, comprising a small island and seaport at the extremity of Kathiawar peninsula.
- DLC
-
- DLO
-
- Coy
-
adjective,
artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- DLS
-
- Sly
-
Idioms,
on the sly, secretly; furtively:
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- Sr.
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- do.
-
- CSO
-
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- Cui
-
noun,
César [French sey-zar] /French seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), Antonovich [Russian uhn-taw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ʌnˈtɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1918, Russian composer.
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- CRS
-
- cup
-
noun,
a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- CRP
-
- CPU
-
- DCL
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- CPS
-
- DPH
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- DSC
-
- DSO
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DCS
-
- de-
-
- CPR
-
- CPO
-
- CPL
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- CPI
-
- dog
-
noun,
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- SLE
-
- ec-
-
- due
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- DRG
-
- Dry
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- CIE
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- DSP
-
- DSR
-
- Du.
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- Duc
-
noun,
duke.
- Shu
-
noun,
the Confucian principle of refraining from actions toward others that would be disagreeable if done to oneself.
- ugh
-
noun,
the sound of a cough, grunt, or the like.
- Cyd
-
noun,
a female given name.
- UDC
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- shp
-
- dug
-
noun,
the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.
- DUI
-
- Chu
-
noun,
a river in SE Kazakhstan, flowing NE from the Tian Shan, near the Kyrgyz border, into the desert. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- up-
-
- UPC
-
- sho
-
- Eg.
-
- eo-
-
- udo
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- UCR
-
- doh
-
interjection,
(used to express dismay when one has said or done something stupid or when something has gone wrong.)
Compare duh.
- CLI
-
- Doi
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- SUG
-
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- CLU
-
- CLR
-
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- Clo
-
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- cig
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- Dou
-
noun,
Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- cud
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- DPC
-
- DPI
-
- DPP
-
- Syl
-
- DPS
-
- CIP
-
- CYO
-
- Dr.
-
- DRE
-
- EPS
-
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- LDC
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Ley
-
noun,
leu.
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Pry
-
noun,
an impertinently inquisitive person.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- LDP
-
- Ldg
-
- Ld.
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- LCI
-
- LCD
-
- LSD
-
- LDS
-
- IUS
-
- Yup
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- IUD
-
- ISR
-
- lep
-
- Les
-
- ish
-
- PPI
-
- Loy
-
noun,
a female given name.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LOC
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- PPC
-
- PPE
-
- pph
-
- ppl
-
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- ppr
-
- PPS
-
- PRC
-
- lye
-
noun,
a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- LHD
-
- lg.
-
- Isl
-
- ise
-
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- yip
-
noun,
a sharp bark; yelp.
- ILS
-
- ILP
-
- pug
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- ILO
-
- il-
-
- yis
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- Pul
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- Yid
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.
- IOC
-
- IHS
-
- IHP
-
- IGY
-
- PUP
-
noun,
a young dog; puppy.
- yes
-
noun,
an affirmative reply.
- yer
-
- ier
-
- yep
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- ery
-
- PUC
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- prp
-
- IRS
-
- IRO
-
- IRL
-
- IRC
-
- Ir.
-
- IPS
-
- ipr
-
- IPO
-
- iph
-
- yod
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- PSC
-
- PSE
-
- you
-
noun,
something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
- IOU
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- PSG
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- ior
-
- POR
-
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- yds
-
- oud
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- PIO
-
- pd.
-
- pc.
-
- PIP
-
noun,
one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- OSP
-
- Pg.
-
- OSO
-
- ose
-
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- ory
-
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- pl.
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- PLC
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- pp.
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- pye
-
noun,
pie4 .
- PhL
-
- py-
-
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- PhD
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PID
-
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- PEP
-
noun,
lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
- Pr.
-
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- Peg
-
noun,
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- pig
-
noun,
a young swine of either sex, especially a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 pounds (220 kg)
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- PDL
-
- PCS
-
- PCI
-
- Ps.
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- OSD
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEO
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- OCS
-
- OCR
-
- och
-
interjection,
(used as an expression of surprise, disapproval, regret, etc.)
- OCD
-
- op.
-
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- OED
-
- Oc.
-
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- LUG
-
noun,
an act or instance of lugging; a forcible pull; haul.
- LSI
-
- LSC
-
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LPG
-
- OGO
-
- OHG
-
- pli
-
- PLR
-
- ply
-
noun,
a thickness or layer.
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- PLO
-
- ooh
-
noun,
the exclamation “ooh.”.
- 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.
- oo-
-
- OLG
-
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- plu
-
noun,
plew.
- oho
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to express surprise, taunting, exultation, etc.)
- Oys
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- OIr
-
- Oyo
-
noun,
a city in W Nigeria.
- POC
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oid
-
- oic
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- Yeo
-
- PUD
-
noun,
pudding.
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- gph
-
- RLD
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- GPD
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROG
-
- ROI
-
- Gr.
-
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- goo
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- goy
-
noun,
a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- ROP
-
- God
-
noun,
the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- Gld
-
- gl.
-
- GPS
-
- gre
-
- gyp
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- HIH
-
- HDL
-
- hd.
-
- HCR
-
- HSH
-
- HRH
-
- hr.
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- GUS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- PHS
-
- Gur
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- gul
-
noun,
a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
- Guy
-
noun,
Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- GUI
-
noun,
graphical user interface.
- GSR
-
- IDP
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- gip
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- Hey
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to call attention or to express pleasure, surprise, bewilderment, etc.)
- gi.
-
- GCR
-
- GCI
-
- GCE
-
- GCD
-
- GPU
-
- GPO
-
noun,
the federal agency that prints and disseminates publications for other federal agencies. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- GOP
-
- eu-
-
- GDP
-
- ESU
-
- ESR
-
- SCP
-
- ESL
-
- ese
-
- Esc
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERP
-
- Gde
-
- GDR
-
- RPG
-
- Ges
-
- RPO
-
- Rs.
-
- RSE
-
- Gil
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- rug
-
noun,
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design.
Compare carpet.
- Gel
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- Ged
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- sd.
-
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- SRO
-
- sc.
-
- ScD
-
- gey
-
adverb,
Scot. considerably; very.
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- heh
-
noun,
he2 .
- GSC
-
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- HUD
-
noun,
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Hus
-
noun,
Jan [jan;; Czech yahn] /dʒæn;; Czech yɑn/ (Show IPA), Huss, John.
- huh
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of surprise, bewilderment, disbelief, contempt, or interrogation.)
- hug
-
noun,
a tight clasp with the arms; embrace.
- Hel
-
noun,
the goddess ruling Niflheim: a daughter of Loki and Angerboda.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Hue
-
noun,
a gradation or variety of a color; tint:
- hrs
-
- ics
-
- HRE
-
- HPD
-
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- Hoy
-
noun,
a heavy barge used in harbors.
- hog
-
noun,
a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- id.
-
- hod
-
noun,
a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- RCP
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ide
-
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- YCL
-
- icy
-
adjective,
made of, full of, or covered with ice:
- Rd.
-
- RCS
-
- io-
-
- Re.
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RPS
-
- RDC
-
- RDS
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- ich
-
noun,
a disease of tropical fishes, characterized by small, white nodules on the fins, skin, and eyes, caused by a ciliate protozoan, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
- Hoe
-
noun,
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- DOP
-
noun,
a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
- HIS
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- HIC
-
interjection,
(an onomatopoeic word used to imitate or represent a hiccup.)
- HHD
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- hip
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- hid
-
noun,
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- hyd
-
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- RI
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- RH
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- HH
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- GD
-
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- sy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
- yl
-
- ey
-
- 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.
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- HP
-
- Hy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Hiram.
- GC
-
- HG
-
- IG
-
- 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):
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- ry
-
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- CE
-
- yd
-
noun,
a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
- PH
-
- le
-
- rg
-
- ly
-
- G.
-
- R.
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- DG
-
- GP
-
- RC
-
- Yi
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- GU
-
- SL
-
- PU
-
- L2
-
- SG
-
- YU
-
noun,
a legendary Chinese emperor who drained the land and made the mountains.
- L.
-
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- yr
-
- DP
-
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- LR
-
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- D.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- EI
-
- LC
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- SU
-
- OG
-
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- HL
-
- O.
-
- dl
-
- LH
-
- h.
-
- L1
-
- S.
-
- RO
-
- UL
-
- UI
-
- ic
-
- UH
-
interjection,
(used to indicate hesitation, doubt, or a pause).
- GH
-
- Y.
-
- cy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Cyrus.
- i.
-
- RP
-
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- RU
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- Ud
-
- IP
-
- UC
-
- CU
-
- ol
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- U.
-