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- proteinuria
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noun,
the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- hereinafter
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adverb,
afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- apoferritin
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noun,
a homogeneous protein, found especially in the intestinal mucosa and the liver, that interacts with a ferric hydroxide-ferric phosphate complex to form ferritin.
- perineuria
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noun,
the sheath of connective tissue that encloses a bundle of nerve fibers.
- heart-free
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adjective,
not in love.
- featherier
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- pinfeather
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noun,
an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- euphoriant
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noun,
a euphoriant substance.
- fire-eater
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noun,
an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
- fourteener
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noun,
a line, especially an iambic line, consisting of 14 syllables.
- quantifier
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noun,
Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition.
Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- pereirine
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noun,
Pharmacology. an alkaloid, C 19 H 24 ON 2 , obtained from pereira bark and formerly used as a quinine substitute.
- either-or
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adjective,
allowing no equivocation; being limited in choice to two options:
- irruption
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noun,
a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- far-point
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noun,
the point farthest from the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is completely relaxed.
- Portinari
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noun,
Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- therefore
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adverb,
in consequence of that; as a result; consequently:
- tree-fern
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noun,
any of various ferns, mostly tropical and chiefly of the family Cyatheaceae, that attain the size of trees, sending up a straight trunklike stem with foliage at the summit.
- par-three
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adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a small-scale golf course, usually having 18 holes of 150 yards (137 meters) in length from tee to cup on 7 to 40 acres (3 to 16 hectares) of land.
- retrainee
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noun,
a person who is being retrained.
- perforate
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adjective,
perforated.
- phanerite
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noun,
any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- routineer
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noun,
a person who follows or adheres to routine or a routine.
- fioritura
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noun,
the ornamentation of a melody, often extemporized by the performer, as in Italian opera during the 18th century.
- enrapture
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verb (used with object),
to move to rapture; delight beyond measure:
- thereupon
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adverb,
immediately following that.
- fire-iron
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- firethorn
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noun,
any of several evergreen, thorny Asian shrubs belonging to the genus Pyracantha, of the rose family, many species of which are cultivated for their foliage and ornamental fruits.
- panetiere
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noun,
a small, decorative livery cupboard, made especially in Provence in the 18th century.
- interfere
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Verb phrases,
interfere with, Chiefly British. to molest sexually.
- Poriferan
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noun,
any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- eutherian
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noun,
a eutherian animal.
- infuriate
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adjective,
Archaic. infuriated.
- profiteer
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noun,
a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- Ethiopian
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noun,
a native of Ethiopia.
- rent-free
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adverb,
without payment of rent:
- epuration
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noun,
a purification or purge, as of government officials considered disloyal or treacherous.
- hereafter
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noun,
a life or existence after death; the future beyond mortal existence.
- Queretaro
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noun,
a state in central Mexico. 4432 sq. mi. (11,480 sq. km).
- inheritor
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noun,
a person who inherits; heir.
- epineuria
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noun,
the dense sheath of connective tissue that surrounds the trunk of a nerve.
- euphoria
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noun,
a state of intense happiness and self-confidence:
- atherine
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noun,
an atherine fish.
- fire-pot
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noun,
the part of a household furnace in which the fire is made.
- euphonia
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noun,
any of several small tanagers of the genus Euphonia, having a melodious song, most species of which have yellow and glossy black plumage.
- firetrap
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noun,
a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- perorate
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verb (used without object),
to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- quartern
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noun,
a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- Tenerife
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noun,
the largest of the Canary Islands, off the NW Coast of Africa. 794 sq. mi. (2055 sq. km). . Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- perianth
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noun,
the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- arterio-
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- proturan
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noun,
a proturan insect; telsontail.
- Ruthenia
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noun,
a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- Quintero
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noun,
Álvarez Quintero.
- forepart
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noun,
the first, front, or early part.
- prurient
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adjective,
having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- terrapin
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noun,
any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- fourteen
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noun,
a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- Ethiopia
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noun,
Formerly Abyssinia. a republic in E Africa: formerly a monarchy. 409,266 sq. mi. (1,060,000 sq. km). Present boundaries include Eritrea. Capital: Addis Ababa.
- equation
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noun,
the act of equating or making equal; equalization:
- pratique
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noun,
license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- European
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Europe.
- retainer
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noun,
a person or thing that retains.
- reorient
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adjective,
Rare. rising anew.
- prehnite
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noun,
a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 10 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- repartee
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noun,
a quick, witty reply.
- repeater
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noun,
a person or thing that repeats.
- renature
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verb (used with object),
to restore (a denatured substance) to its former, natural state.
- portiere
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noun,
a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- Pretoria
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noun,
a city in and the administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the NE part: also the capital of Transvaal.
- priorate
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noun,
the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- Porifera
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noun,
an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- retepore
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noun,
any bryozoan of the family Reteporidae which forms colonies that have a networklike structure.
- atropine
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- referent
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noun,
the object or event to which a term or symbol refers.
- earphone
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noun,
a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- Pinafore
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noun,
a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- returnee
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noun,
a person who has returned, as from travels or a long absence.
- ferritin
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noun,
an amber-colored, crystalline protein, found in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, that consists of apoferritin combined with a ferric hydroxide-ferric phosphate complex and that stores iron for use in metabolism.
- Rinehart
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noun,
Mary Roberts, 1876–1958, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- Photinia
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noun,
any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- Rotifera
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noun,
the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- reopener
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noun,
an act or instance of reopening negotiations, as on the provisions of a contract.
- therefor
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adverb,
for or in exchange for that or this; for it:
- hereupon
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adverb,
upon or on this.
- paroquet
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noun,
parakeet.
- trephine
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noun,
a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- frontier
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noun,
the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- anthrop.
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- fruition
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noun,
attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment:
- anterior
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adjective,
situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
- open-air
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noun,
the outdoors.
- Northrup
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noun,
a male given name.
- Touraine
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noun,
a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- nephrite
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noun,
Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- triforia
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noun,
(in a church) the wall at the side of the nave, choir, or transept, corresponding to the space between the vaulting or ceiling and the roof of an aisle, often having a blind arcade or an opening in a gallery.
- antiquer
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noun,
a person who takes a special interest in antiques; a collector of antiquities; antiquary.
- hapteron
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noun,
a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- Interior
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noun,
the internal or inner part; inside.
- inferior
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noun,
a person inferior to another or others, as in rank or merit.
- unrepair
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noun,
lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation:
- aequorin
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noun,
a protein, secreted by certain jellyfish, that produces a blue light upon binding with calcium.
- urethane
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noun,
any derivative of carbamic acid having the formula CH 2 NO 2 R.
- urethro-
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- herniate
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verb (used without object),
to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hereinto
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adverb,
into this place.
- antihero
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noun,
a protagonist who lacks the attributes that make a heroic figure, as nobility of mind and spirit, a life or attitude marked by action or purpose, and the like.
- Traherne
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noun,
Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.
- thurifer
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noun,
a person who carries the thurible in religious ceremonies.
- aperient
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noun,
a medicine or food that acts as a mild laxative.
- 11-point
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- Freeport
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noun,
a village on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- thiourea
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noun,
a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- aperture
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noun,
an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
- aperitif
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noun,
a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
- eruption
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noun,
an issuing forth suddenly and violently; outburst; outbreak.
- frequent
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adjective,
happening or occurring at short intervals:
- Hurrian
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noun,
a member of an ancient people, sometimes identified with the Horites, who lived in the Middle East during the 2nd and 3rd millenniums b.c. and who established the Mitanni kingdom about 1400 b.c.
- horrent
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adjective,
bristling; standing erect like bristles.
- Eutopia
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noun,
a place in which human society, natural conditions, etc., are so ideally perfect that there is complete contentment.
- hot-air
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noun,
empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing:
- profert
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noun,
an exhibition of a record or paper in open court.
- profane
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adjective,
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prithee
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interjection,
(I) pray thee.
- Fourier
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noun,
François Marie Charles [frahn-swa ma-ree sharl] /frɑ̃ˈswa maˈri ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1772–1837, French socialist, writer, and reformer.
- hearten
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verb (used with object),
to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- Printer
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noun,
a person or thing that prints, especially a person whose occupation is printing.
- preter-
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- Euterpe
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noun,
the Muse of music and lyric poetry.
- inertia
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noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- preteen
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noun,
Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- faitour
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noun,
impostor; fake.
- Fortune
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noun,
position in life as determined by wealth:
- inherit
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verb (used with object),
to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir:
- preheat
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verb (used with object),
to heat before using or before subjecting to some further process:
- inquiet
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verb (used with object),
to destroy the peace of; disturb; disquiet.
- inquire
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Verb phrases,
inquire after, to ask about the state of health or condition of:
- Harriet
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noun,
a female given name, form of Harry.
- hoptree
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noun,
any of several North American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Ptelea, of the citrus family, especially P. trifoliata, having trifoliate leaves and roundish, waferlike fruit.
- ornith-
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- perique
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noun,
a strong, rich-flavored tobacco produced in Louisiana, usually blended with other tobaccos.
- heroine
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noun,
a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- Pahouin
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noun,
Fang (def 1).
- quarter
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noun,
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided:
- heritor
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noun,
inheritor.
- Puritan
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noun,
a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- partier
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noun,
partyer.
- hernio-
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- pterion
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noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- partner
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noun,
a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- Etruria
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noun,
an ancient country located between the Arno and Tiber rivers, roughly corresponding to modern Tuscany in W Italy.
- heptane
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noun,
any of nine isomeric hydrocarbons, C 7 H 16 , of the alkane series, some of which are obtained from petroleum: used in fuels as solvents, and as chemical intermediates.
- hit-run
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adjective,
hit-and-run (defs 1, 2, 4).
- Panther
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noun,
the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- hepato-
-
- Herriot
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noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1872–1957, French statesman, political leader, and author.
- heparin
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noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- euphroe
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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.
- hetero-
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- protein
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- prorate
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verb (used with object),
to divide, distribute, or calculate proportionately.
- pronate
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- prairie
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noun,
an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west.
Compare pampas, savanna, steppe.
- praetor
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noun,
(in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- Painter
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noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- phorate
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noun,
a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 17 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- ferrate
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noun,
a salt of the hypothetical ferric acid, H 2 FeO 4 .
- Pierian
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adjective,
of or relating to the Muses.
- ferrite
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noun,
Chemistry. a compound, as NaFeO 2 , formed when ferric oxide is combined with a more basic metallic oxide.
- Fuehrer
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noun,
Führer.
- piefort
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noun,
piedfort.
- phreno-
-
- phrenia
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- firepan
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noun,
a metal grate for holding hot coals.
- fronter
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noun,
a person who belongs to a group or organization, especially a political one, that is or is presumed to be a cover or disguise for another activity:
- phonate
-
verb (used with or without object),
Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.
- Pierrot
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noun,
a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- frenate
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adjective,
having a frenum or frenulum.
- fruiter
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noun,
a cargo vessel carrying fruit.
- phaeton
-
noun,
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- operant
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- Petunia
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noun,
any garden plant belonging to the genus Petunia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having funnel-shaped flowers of various colors.
- operate
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verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- Petrine
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adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- Freneau
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noun,
Philip, 1752–1832, U.S. poet and editor.
- pertain
-
verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- Pereira
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noun,
Irene Rice, 1907–71, U.S. artist.
- norther
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noun,
Chiefly Texas and Oklahoma. a cold gale from the north, formed during the winter by a vigorous outbreak of continental polar air behind a cold front.
- potheen
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noun,
poteen.
- Oriente
-
noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- Fortuna
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of fortune, identified with the Greek goddess Tyche.
- Iphinoe
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noun,
a daughter of Antia and Proetus who was inflicted with madness for her irreverence toward the gods.
Compare Iphianassa (def 2).
- Perrine
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noun,
a town in S Florida.
- neither
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pronoun,
not either; not one person or the other; not one thing or the other:
- FORTRAN
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noun,
a high-level programming language used mainly for solving problems in science and engineering.
- hairpin
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noun,
a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- forerun
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verb (used with object),
to run in front of; come before; precede.
- farther
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Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- Utopian
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noun,
an inhabitant of Utopia.
- pointer
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- pereion
-
noun,
(in a crustacean) the thorax.
- nephro-
-
- feather
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noun,
one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- neutro-
-
- parquet
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noun,
a floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes with inlays of other woods or other materials.
- feature
-
noun,
a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic:
- piquant
-
adjective,
agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart:
- Pioneer
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- pinfire
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adjective,
of or relating to a cartridge fitted with a pin that, when struck by the hammer of the firearm, causes the cartridge to explode.
- Niteroi
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- further
-
Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- far-out
-
adjective,
unconventional; offbeat; avant-garde.
- reprint
-
noun,
a reproduction in print of matter already printed.
- protean
-
adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- airport
-
noun,
a tract of land or water with facilities for the landing, takeoff, shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft, especially one used for receiving or discharging passengers and cargo at regularly scheduled times.
- rotifer
-
noun,
any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
- Tourane
-
noun,
former name of Danang.
- Tournai
-
noun,
a city in W Belgium, on the Scheldt River.
- ripieno
-
noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- Rhetian
-
noun,
Raetic.
- Reuther
-
noun,
Walter Philip, 1907–70, U.S. labor leader: president of the UAW 1946–70; president of the CIO 1952–55.
- Trainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that trains.
- reunite
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unite again, as after separation.
- retrain
-
verb (used with object),
to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.
- ruinate
-
adjective,
ruined.
- earthen
-
adjective,
composed of earth.
- Tripura
-
noun,
a state in E India. 4033 sq. mi. (10,445 sq. km). Capital: Agartala.
- retiree
-
noun,
a person who has retired from an occupation or profession.
- retinue
-
noun,
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- tropine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- requite
-
verb (used with object),
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- require
-
verb (used with object),
to have need of; need:
- trouper
-
noun,
an actor, especially a member of a touring company.
- repaint
-
noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- enquire
-
verb (used with or without object),
inquire.
- routine
-
noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- Another
-
pronoun,
one more; an additional one:
- entero-
-
- terrain
-
noun,
a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.
- aquifer
-
noun,
any geological formation containing or conducting ground water, especially one that supplies the water for wells, springs, etc.
- thereof
-
adverb,
of that or it.
- thereon
-
adverb,
on or upon that or it.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- therian
-
noun,
a therian animal.
- Thoreau
-
noun,
Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- terrine
-
noun,
a casserole dish made of pottery.
- Terrene
-
noun,
the earth.
- terrane
-
noun,
any rock formation or series of formations or the area in which a particular formation or group of rocks is predominant.
- terpene
-
noun,
(originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- Terhune
-
noun,
Albert Payson [pey-suh n] /ˈpeɪ sən/ (Show IPA), 1872–1942, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- terefah
-
noun,
tref.
- antique
-
noun,
any work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, created or produced in a former period, or, according to U.S. customs laws, 100 years before date of purchase.
- arteri-
-
- Teheran
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- arthro-
-
- tee-hee
-
interjection, noun, verb (used without object),
te-hee.
- tone-up
-
noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- taurine
-
noun,
a neutral crystalline substance, C 2 H 7 NO 3 S, obtained from bile.
- antero-
-
- unearth
-
verb (used with object),
to dig or get out of the earth; dig up.
- therein
-
adverb,
in or into that place or thing.
- rentier
-
noun,
a person who has a fixed income, as from lands or bonds.
- Eritrea
-
noun,
a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: Italian colony 1890–1941; province of Ethiopia 1962–93; independent since 1993. 47,076 sq. mi. (121,927 sq. km). Capital: Asmara.
- rapture
-
noun,
ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- equator
-
noun,
the great circle on a sphere or heavenly body whose plane is perpendicular to the axis, equidistant everywhere from the two poles of the sphere or heavenly body.
- Rainier
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic peak in W Washington, in the Cascade Range. 14,408 feet (4392 meters).
- Quirite
-
plural noun,
the citizens of ancient Rome considered in their civil capacity.
- uranite
-
noun,
any of the uranium phosphates, as autunite or torbernite.
- urethr-
-
- urethra
-
noun,
the membranous tube that extends from the urinary bladder to the exterior and that in the male conveys semen as well as urine.
- referee
-
noun,
one to whom something is referred, especially for decision or settlement; arbitrator.
- urinate
-
verb (used without object),
to pass or discharge urine.
- uterine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the uterus or womb.
- quinate
-
adjective,
arranged in groups of five.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- quieten
-
verb (used with object),
to make quiet.
- Queenie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- errhine
-
noun,
a medicine to be snuffed up the nostrils to promote sneezing and increased discharges.
- reenter
-
verb (used with object),
to enter again:
- rainout
-
noun,
a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- unfaith
-
noun,
lack of faith, especially religious faith; unbelief.
- refrain
-
noun,
a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
- intra-
-
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orphan
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- Turner
-
noun,
a person or thing that turns or is employed in turning.
- tiepin
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- inpour
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- Herrin
-
noun,
a town in S Illinois.
- ureter
-
noun,
a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- tie-up
-
noun,
a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
- opiate
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- turnip
-
noun,
the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
- tip-in
-
noun,
tap-in.
- Ophite
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- urano-
-
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- Heroin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C 21 H 23 NO 5 , derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.
- ourari
-
noun,
curare.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- utero-
-
- unfair
-
adjective,
not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics:
- iatro-
-
- heriot
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- infra-
-
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- Turpin
-
noun,
Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
- thoria
-
noun,
a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- Utopia
-
noun,
an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- Thorpe
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jim") 1888–1953, U.S. track-and-field athlete and football and baseball player.
- inter.
-
- Paiute
-
noun,
a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- threap
-
noun,
an argument; quarrel.
- throne
-
noun,
the chair or seat occupied by a sovereign, bishop, or other exalted personage on ceremonial occasions, usually raised on a dais and covered with a canopy.
- hernia
-
noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- inhere
-
verb (used without object),
to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent:
- urino-
-
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- Herter
-
noun,
Christian Archibald, 1895–1966, U.S. politician: secretary of state 1959–61.
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- trophi
-
plural noun,
the mouthparts of an insect, including the labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx.
- Hotien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- nether
-
adjective,
lying or believed to lie beneath the earth's surface; infernal:
- hornet
-
noun,
any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- Hornie
-
noun,
Satan.
- uprear
-
verb (used with object),
to raise up; lift:
- nephr-
-
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- unripe
-
adjective,
not ripe; immature; not fully developed:
- Huerta
-
noun,
Victoriano [beek-taw-ryah-naw] /ˌbik tɔˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.
- Nethou
-
noun,
Pic de [French peek duh] /French pik də/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain: highest peak of the Pyrenees. 11,165 feet (3400 meters).
- panto-
-
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- Triune
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- irrupt
-
verb (used without object),
to break or burst in suddenly.
- Hunter
-
noun,
a person who hunts game or other wild animals for food or in sport.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- troph-
-
- intro.
-
- Uniate
-
noun,
a member of an Eastern church that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledges the Roman pope as supreme in matters of faith, but maintains its own liturgy, discipline, and rite.
- neuro-
-
- opaque
-
noun,
something that is opaque.
- infare
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- one-up
-
adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- torque
-
noun,
Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- nutria
-
noun,
the coypu.
- nother
-
adjective,
Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.
- hiero-
-
- unhair
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the hair from, as a hide in preparation for tanning.
- toupee
-
noun,
a man's wig.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- Horite
-
noun,
an ancient people of Edom living in the region of the Dead Sea, possibly identical with the Hurrians.
- no-hit
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team:
- nitro-
-
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- hieron
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a temple or a sacred place.
- uptear
-
verb (used with object),
to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- Hoenir
-
noun,
a god, one of the Aesir, companion of Odin and Loki, hostage to the Vanir.
- Niihau
-
noun,
an island in NW Hawaii, W of Kauai. 72 sq. mi. (186 sq. km).
- uproar
-
noun,
a state of violent and noisy disturbance, as of a multitude; turmoil.
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- quatre
-
noun,
the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- refine
-
Verb phrases,
refine on/upon, to improve by inserting finer distinctions, superior elements, etc.:
- refute
-
verb (used with object),
to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- pretor
-
noun,
praetor.
- Reiner
-
noun,
Fritz, 1888–1963, Hungarian conductor in the U.S.
- Renoir
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- renter
-
noun,
a person or organization that holds, or has the use of, property by payment of rent.
- prefer
-
verb (used with object),
to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than:
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- pother
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- repair
-
noun,
an act, process, or work of repairing:
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- profit
-
noun,
Often, profits.
pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit.
the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested.
returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- repine
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- report
-
noun,
an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.:
- repute
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- Portia
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- Porter
-
noun,
a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- pituri
-
noun,
a solanaceous shrub or small tree, Duboisia hopwoodi, of Australia.
- pitier
-
noun,
a person who pities.
- retene
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- reefer
-
noun,
Nautical. a person who reefs.
- Reaper
-
noun,
a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.
- piquet
-
noun,
a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.
- ptero-
-
- quarte
-
noun,
the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quart.
-
- quaint
-
adjective,
having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque:
- quaere
-
noun,
a query or question.
- qintar
-
noun,
a money of account of Albania, the 100th part of a lek.
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- purree
-
noun,
Indian yellow (defs 1, 2a).
- quino-
-
- purine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- quinoa
-
noun,
a tall crop plant, Chenopodium quinoa, of the amaranth family, cultivated mainly in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile for its small, ivory-colored seed, which is used as a food staple.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- quint-
-
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- prutah
-
noun,
a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.
- Quinta
-
noun,
an inn, especially one in the countryside.
- quinte
-
noun,
the fifth of eight defensive positions.
- quotha
-
interjection,
indeed! (used ironically or contemptuously in quoting another).
- Rafter
-
noun,
any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
- rapier
-
noun,
a small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- hereto
-
adverb,
to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point:
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- raptor
-
noun,
a raptorial bird.
- Rather
-
Idioms,
had / would rather, to prefer that or to:
Compare soon (def 8).
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- pirate
-
noun,
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- retire
-
noun,
a place of withdrawal; retreat:
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- quarto
-
noun,
a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
- teener
-
noun,
a teenager.
- Perrin
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- Perret
-
noun,
Auguste [oh-gyst] /oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1874–1954, French architect.
- teepee
-
noun,
tepee.
- pernor
-
noun,
a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- te-hee
-
noun,
a titter; snicker.
- perfin
-
noun,
a postage stamp having perforated initials punched into the paper: used by businesses to prevent unauthorized use of stamps.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- tephra
-
noun,
clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- Pequot
-
noun,
a member of a powerful tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut that was essentially destroyed in the Pequot War.
- penta-
-
- tauro-
-
- peanut
-
noun,
the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- peahen
-
noun,
the female peafowl.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patri-
-
- patine
-
noun,
patina.
- patho-
-
- theine
-
noun,
caffeine, especially in tea.
- parure
-
noun,
a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- theirn
-
pronoun,
theirs.
- thenar
-
noun,
the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
- parrot
-
noun,
any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- Perron
-
noun,
an outside platform upon which the entrance door of a building opens, with steps leading to it.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- phren.
-
- pinite
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- pineta
-
noun,
an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- retro-
-
- return
-
noun,
the act or fact of returning as by going or coming back or bringing, sending, or giving back:
- Pierre
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Dakota, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- Reuter
-
noun,
Paul Julius, Baron de, 1816–99, English founder of an international news agency, born in Germany.
- Rheita
-
noun,
a crater in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 42 miles (68 km) in diameter.
- Pieria
-
noun,
a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- rhetor
-
noun,
a master or teacher of rhetoric.
- rhino-
-
- roquet
-
noun,
an act or instance of roqueting.
- Taipei
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part.
- phonet
-
- Pherae
-
noun,
(in ancient geography) a town in SE Thessaly: the home of Admetus and Alcestis.
- pheno-
-
- router
-
noun,
any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- rrhoea
-
- petro-
-
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- Petofi
-
noun,
Sándor [shahn-dawr] /ˈʃɑn dɔr/ (Show IPA), (Sándor Petrovics) 1823–49, Hungarian poet and patriot.
- Rupert
-
noun,
Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
- Petain
-
noun,
Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- rupiah
-
noun,
an aluminum coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Indonesia, equal to 100 sen. Abbreviation: Rp.
- tahini
-
noun,
a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- pantie
-
noun,
panties.
- Herero
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of Namibia, Botswana, and Angola.
- ferine
-
adjective,
feral1 .
- hapten
-
noun,
a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- Harper
-
noun,
a person who plays the harp.
- hatpin
-
noun,
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- equant
-
adjective,
(of a crystal) having all axes of the same length (opposed to anisometric).
- equate
-
verb (used with object),
to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent:
- ferro-
-
- ferri-
-
- ferret
-
noun,
a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- equine
-
noun,
a horse.
- arthr-
-
- Fenrir
-
noun,
a wolflike monster, a son of Loki and Angerboda, chained by Gleipnir but destined to be released at Ragnarok to eat Odin and to be killed by Vidar.
- feirie
-
adjective,
healthy; strong.
- afreet
-
noun,
a powerful evil demon or monster.
- Erfurt
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Thuringia, in central Germany.
- Heater
-
noun,
any of various apparatus for heating, especially for heating water or the air in a room.
- aethon
-
noun,
triethyl orthoformate.
- aether
-
noun,
ether (defs 3–5).
- Father
-
noun,
a male parent.
- errant
-
adjective,
deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.
- finite
-
noun,
something that is finite.
- entree
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- heifer
-
noun,
a young cow over one year old that has not produced a calf.
- author
-
noun,
a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- Fuhrer
-
noun,
leader.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- Furiae
-
plural noun,
fury (def 3).
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- furnit
-
- Europa
-
noun,
Also, Europe. Classical Mythology. a sister of Cadmus who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to Crete, where she bore him Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Sarpedon.
- auntie
-
noun,
Informal. aunt.
- frater
-
noun,
a brother, as in a religious or fraternal order; comrade.
- fouter
-
noun,
something that has no value (used in expressions of contempt):
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- fourth
-
noun,
a fourth part, especially of one (¼).
- antiq.
-
- antho-
-
- forint
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- anther
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
- either
-
adverb,
also; too; as well; to the same degree (used after negative clauses coordinated by and, or, or nor, or after negative subordinate clauses):
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- enter-
-
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- Arthur
-
noun,
Chester Alan, 1830–86, 21st president of the U.S. 1881–85.
- ethion
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- ethine
-
noun,
acetylene.
- ethane
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, C 2 H 6 , of the methane series, present in natural gas, illuminating gas, and crude petroleum: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a fuel gas.
- hereat
-
adverb,
at this time; when this happened.
- Ethiop
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- 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).
- ethno-
-
- ethene
-
noun,
ethylene (def 2).
- hepat-
-
- hereon
-
adverb,
hereupon.
- herein
-
adverb,
in or into this place.
- hereof
-
adverb,
of this:
- Heinie
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.
- faerie
-
noun,
the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
- aeron.
-
- eterne
-
adjective,
eternal.
- hepta-
-
- pruta
-
noun,
prutah.
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- part.
-
- auto.
-
- pari-
-
- pareu
-
noun,
lavalava.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- pron.
-
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Freer
-
noun,
a person or thing that frees.
- Freon
-
- freq.
-
- paint
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- pant-
-
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- rhoea
-
- Forth
-
noun,
Firth of, an arm of the North Sea, in SE Scotland: estuary of Forth River. 48 miles (77 km) long.
- rerun
-
noun,
the act of rerunning.
- pene-
-
- eerie
-
adjective,
uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird:
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Peene
-
noun,
a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Earth
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- forte
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Rhein
-
noun,
the Rhine.
- rhet.
-
- patr-
-
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- rhin-
-
- patio
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- Fount
-
noun,
a spring of water; fountain.
- Roque
-
noun,
a form of croquet played on a clay or hard-surface court surrounded by a low wall off which the balls may be played.
- path-
-
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- rhine
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Frere
-
noun,
brother.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- frore
-
adjective,
frozen; frosty.
- Prot.
-
- 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.
- froth
-
noun,
an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- fruit
-
noun,
any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- Euro-
-
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- tapir
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- front
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- ation
-
- taupe
-
noun,
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- Taupo
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- often
-
adverb,
many times; frequently:
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- Artur
-
noun,
a male given name.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- Tahoe
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: resort. About 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km); 6225 feet (1897 meters) above sea level.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- auth.
-
- Othin
-
noun,
Odin.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- Routh
-
noun,
abundance; plenty.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- ouphe
-
noun,
an elf or goblin.
- rrhea
-
- Other
-
noun,
the other one:
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- Orth.
-
- atrip
-
adjective,
aweigh.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- friar
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- frier
-
noun,
fryer.
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- frith
-
noun,
firth.
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- fort.
-
- peri-
-
- fore-
-
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Quito
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ecuador, in the N part. 9348 feet (2849 meters) above sea level.
- quoin
-
noun,
an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- quoit
-
noun,
quoits, (used with a singular verb) a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
- quot.
-
- quota
-
noun,
the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
- pique
-
noun,
a feeling of irritation or resentment, as from a wound to pride or self-esteem:
- feint
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- Piqua
-
noun,
a city in W Ohio.
- quote
-
noun,
a quotation.
- quoth
-
verb,
said (used with nouns, and with first- and third-person pronouns, and always placed before the subject): .
- Pinta
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- quirt
-
noun,
a riding whip consisting of a short, stout stock and a lash of braided leather.
- equip
-
verb (used with object),
to furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army:
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- Fanti
-
noun,
a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- equi-
-
- feria
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- Pieta
-
noun,
a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- raphe
-
noun,
Anatomy. a seamlike union between two parts or halves of an organ or the like.
- quite
-
adverb,
completely, wholly, or entirely:
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- Quant
-
noun,
Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.
- Farro
-
noun,
emmer.
- quean
-
noun,
an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
- Queen
-
noun,
a female sovereign or monarch.
- Port.
-
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- queer
-
noun,
Slang.
Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a a person who is gay or lesbian.
a person whose sexual orientation or gender identity falls outside the heterosexual mainstream or the gender binary.
- quern
-
noun,
a primitive, hand-operated mill for grinding grain.
- faqir
-
noun,
fakir.
- quiet
-
noun,
freedom from noise, unwanted sound, etc.:
- quin-
-
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Faure
-
noun,
Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- prae-
-
- poet.
-
- Ethan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “strength.”.
- Piute
-
noun,
Paiute.
- prahu
-
noun,
proa.
- Piura
-
noun,
a city in N Peru.
- quire
-
noun,
a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
- Pitri
-
noun,
the legendary progenitor of any family.
- ether
-
noun,
Also called diethyl ether, diethyl oxide, ethyl ether, ethyl oxide, sulfuric ether. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, highly volatile, flammable liquid, C 4 H 10 O, having an aromatic odor and sweet, burning taste, derived from ethyl alcohol by the action of sulfuric acid: used as a solvent and, formerly, as an inhalant anesthetic.
- pref.
-
- rept.
-
- Firth
-
noun,
a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.
- faint
-
noun,
a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon:
- Renee
-
noun,
a female given name, French form of Renata.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- reni-
-
- peta-
-
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- Perth
-
noun,
Also called Perthshire. a historic county in central Scotland.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- pert.
-
- ento-
-
- prier
-
noun,
a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- petr-
-
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- foehn
-
noun,
a warm, dry wind descending a mountain, as on the north side of the Alps.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Prior
-
noun,
Informal. a prior conviction.
- erron
-
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- repro
-
noun,
Informal. reproduction (def 3).
- Fiona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- Piaui
-
noun,
a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
- 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.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- rater
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- rathe
-
adjective,
Archaic. growing, blooming, or ripening early in the year or season.
- feti-
-
- fetor
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- phot.
-
- phore
-
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- phone
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- phon.
-
- pheon
-
noun,
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- Faith
-
noun,
confidence or trust in a person or thing:
- Phene
-
noun,
any characteristic of an individual organism that is genetically determined.
- Pharr
-
noun,
a city in S Texas.
- phano
-
noun,
fanon.
- refer
-
verb (used with object),
to direct for information or anything required:
- phane
-
- pret.
-
- Finer
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- refit
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- petri
-
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Torah
-
noun,
the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
Compare Tanach.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- ante-
-
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- Inuit
-
noun,
a member of the Eskimo peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.
- intr.
-
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- Harte
-
noun,
(Francis) Bret [bret] /brɛt/ (Show IPA), 1839–1902, U.S. author, especially of short stories.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- input
-
noun,
something that is put in.
- init.
-
- hater
-
noun,
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination):
- haunt
-
noun,
Often, haunts. a place frequently visited:
- haute
-
adverb,
aloud; loudly.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- infer
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- Trier
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- toque
-
noun,
a brimless and close-fitting hat for women, in any of several shapes.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- inapt
-
adjective,
not apt or fitting.
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- Thira
-
noun,
Thera.
- neath
-
preposition,
beneath.
- Thorn
-
noun,
a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
- Thorp
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- naut.
-
- THREE
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 2 plus 1.
- throe
-
noun,
a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- Hanoi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- ition
-
- tonia
-
- ither
-
adjective, pronoun, adverb,
other.
- anti-
-
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- haori
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- anth-
-
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Iraqi
-
noun,
a native of Iraq.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- Nehru
-
noun,
Jawaharlal [juh-wah-her-lahl] /dʒəˈwɑ hər lɑl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).
- hi-fi
-
noun,
high fidelity.
- unrip
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- Hofer
-
noun,
Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs/ (Show IPA), 1767–1810, Tyrolese patriot.
- Hofei
-
noun,
Hefei.
- UNRRA
-
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- Hoare
-
noun,
Sir Samuel John Gurney [gur-nee] /ˈgɜr ni/ (Show IPA), 1st Viscount Templewood [tem-puh l-woo d] /ˈtɛm pəlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1959, British statesman.
- aeri-
-
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- uran-
-
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- Henie
-
noun,
Sonja, 1912–69, U.S. figure-skater and film actress, born in Norway.
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- Henri
-
noun,
Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- hier-
-
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- Uriah
-
noun,
Also, Douay Bible, Urias [yoo-rahy-uh s] /yʊˈraɪ əs/ (Show IPA). Also called Uriah the Hittite. the husband of Bathsheba, and an officer in David's army. II Sam. 11.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- herp.
-
- Heron
-
noun,
any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.
- Uther
-
noun,
king of Britain and father of Arthur.
- Herat
-
noun,
a city in NW Afghanistan.
- 30-30
-
- Herne
-
noun,
James A(hern) [uh-hurn] /əˈhɜrn/ (Show IPA), 1839–1901, U.S. actor and playwright.
- aero-
-
- Unit.
-
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- Huron
-
noun,
a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- trop-
-
- Hearn
-
noun,
Lafcadio [laf-kad-ee-oh] /læfˈkæd iˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Koizumi Yakumo") 1850–1904, U.S. journalist, novelist, and essayist, born in Greece; Japanese citizen after 1894.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Afro-
-
- afrit
-
noun,
afreet.
- Truro
-
noun,
a town in central Nova Scotia, in SE Canada.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- heart
-
noun,
Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- Hurri
-
noun,
Hurrian.
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- Horae
-
plural noun,
goddesses of the seasons, of cyclical death and rebirth, and sometimes of social order, usually given as three in number, with the names Dike (Justice), Eunomia (Order), and Irene (Peace).
- afore
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
before.
- afire
-
adjective,
on fire:
- unapt
-
adjective,
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable:
- houri
-
noun,
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- unfit
-
adjective,
not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable:
- Horta
-
noun,
Baron Victor, 1861?–1947, Belgian architect.
- hort.
-
- Heian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- Horne
-
noun,
Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- unhip
-
adjective,
ill-informed about or unsympathetic to current fads or trends.
- Heine
-
noun,
Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1797–1856, German lyric and satiric poet, journalist, and critic.
- thio-
-
- Iran.
-
- Tharp
-
noun,
Twyla [twahy-luh] /ˈtwaɪ lə/ (Show IPA), born 1941, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- furor
-
noun,
a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.
- Apure
-
noun,
a river flowing E from W Venezuela to the Orinoco. about 500 miles (805 km) long.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Neth.
-
- there
-
noun,
that state or condition:
- Thera
-
noun,
a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- neur-
-
- theor
-
- North
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, lying in the plane of the meridian and to the left of a person facing the rising sun. Abbreviation: N.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- terr.
-
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- neut.
-
- arith
-
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- theo-
-
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- areo-
-
- their
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- Terri
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- Furth
-
noun,
a city in S Germany, near Nuremberg.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- futon
-
noun,
a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, especially in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.
- nitr-
-
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Haiti
-
noun,
Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
- Thare
-
noun,
Terah.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- furan
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- Terah
-
noun,
the father of Abraham. Gen. 11:25–32.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- thine
-
pronoun,
the possessive case of thou1. used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- THIEF
-
noun,
a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; one guilty of theft or larceny.
- tera-
-
- tepee
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- Thane
-
noun,
Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- Thai
-
noun,
Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- tufa
-
noun,
Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like.
Compare travertine.
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- quit
-
noun,
any of various small tropical birds.
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Tupi
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- thae
-
pronoun, adjective,
those.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- thi-
-
- quip
-
noun,
a clever or witty remark or comment.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- aer-
-
- turf
-
noun,
a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- quor
-
- Ruth
-
noun,
pity or compassion.
- 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).
- tRNA
-
- ten.
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- Ahir
-
noun,
a member of the caste of cowherds and milkmen in India.
- purr
-
noun,
the low, vibrating sound made by a cat by the contracting of the laryngeal muscles and the diaphragm as it breathes.
- raft
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- arr.
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- tron
-
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- than
-
conjunction,
(used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison):
- taur
-
- Utah
-
noun,
a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City.
Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
- uro-
-
- ator
-
- Ptah
-
noun,
an ancient Egyptian deity, believed to be a universal creator and sometimes identified with other gods: worshiped especially at Memphis when it was the royal residence.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- tanh
-
- Quar
-
- uret
-
- Eth.
-
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- Thar
-
noun,
tahr.
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- qto.
-
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- qoph
-
noun,
koph.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- uni-
-
- afr-
-
- aet.
-
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- UNEF
-
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- quat
-
- ter.
-
- tahr
-
noun,
any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- uria
-
- Taif
-
noun,
a city in W Saudi Arabia.
- Urfa
-
noun,
a city in SE Turkey, E of the Euphrates River: on the site of ancient Edessa.
- Que.
-
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- puna
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- req.
-
- eath
-
adjective, adverb,
easy.
- tion
-
- tipi
-
noun,
tepee.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- RONA
-
- 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.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- efph
-
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- EFTA
-
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- 1080
-
- repr
-
- tofu
-
noun,
a soft, bland, white cheeselike food, high in protein content, made from curdled soybean milk: used in Asian and vegetarian cookery.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Rep.
-
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- apo-
-
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- RIIA
-
- rift
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- rife
-
adjective,
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use:
- thir
-
pronoun,
these.
- 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.
- THOR
-
noun,
Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
- Thin
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- aph-
-
- thou
-
noun,
one thousand dollars, pounds, etc.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- thru
-
preposition, adverb, adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of through.
- Thun
-
noun,
a city in central Switzerland, on the Aar River, near the Lake of Thun.
- Thur
-
- Rhee
-
noun,
Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- Rhea
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- ANTU
-
- Apr.
-
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- top-
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Thea
-
noun,
a female given name.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- epi-
-
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- the-
-
- epit
-
- rpt.
-
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Reef
-
noun,
a ridge of rocks or sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- eqpt
-
- Aire
-
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- tref
-
adjective,
Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- Ainu
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal population of northernmost Japan, having lighter skin and hairier bodies than other Japanese.
- tri-
-
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Ruhr
-
noun,
a river in W Germany, flowing NW and W into the Rhine. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- thee
-
pronoun,
the objective case of thou1 :
- Eph.
-
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Roth
-
noun,
Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- aut-
-
- aur-
-
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- ant.
-
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reif
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- reft
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- then
-
noun,
that time:
- Torr
-
noun,
a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- ref.
-
- ano-
-
- epee
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- art.
-
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- hair
-
noun,
any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- Fino
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- Ifni
-
noun,
a former Spanish enclave on the W coast of Morocco, ceded to Morocco 1969.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- fiqh
-
noun,
the system of jurisprudence: the legal foundation of Islamic religious, political, and civil life.
- Pet.
-
- 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.
- frit
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- firn
-
noun,
névé.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- inae
-
- pfui
-
interjection,
phooey.
- fohn
-
noun,
foehn.
- FOIA
-
- foin
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- perh
-
- hear
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the ear:
- Inf.
-
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- font
-
noun,
a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.
- perf
-
- HEAP
-
noun,
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
- for.
-
- Fini
-
adjective,
finished; done.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- phr.
-
- 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.
- Hupa
-
noun,
an Athabaskan Indian language of NW California.
- hurt
-
noun,
a blow that inflicts a wound; bodily injury or the cause of such injury.
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Piaf
-
noun,
Edith (Edith Giovanna Gassion) 1914–63, French singer.
- Eur.
-
- OPer
-
- feta
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- fete
-
noun,
a day of celebration; holiday:
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- frt.
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- opia
-
- fiat
-
noun,
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order:
Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- Neph
-
- neo-
-
- Neh.
-
- Fin.
-
- phat
-
noun,
Typesetting. fat (def 23).
- Phar
-
- FINE
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- IEEE
-
- fora
-
noun,
a plural of forum.
- per.
-
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- pat.
-
- FPHA
-
- Hapi
-
noun,
Apis.
- Parr
-
noun,
a young salmon, having dark crossbars on its sides.
- frae
-
preposition, adverb,
from.
- Fran
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- frap
-
verb (used with object),
to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
- frat
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- par.
-
- Four
-
noun,
a cardinal number, three plus one.
- Frau
-
noun,
a married woman; a wife.
- free
-
Idioms,
for free, Informal. without charge:
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- Frei
-
noun,
Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- Iraq
-
noun,
a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Capital: Baghdad.
- Ire.
-
- Pan.
-
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- HEAO
-
- info
-
noun,
information.
- Pen.
-
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- hate
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- INRI
-
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- naif
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- Nah.
-
- Fri.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- int.
-
- out-
-
- fret
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- Hart
-
noun,
a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- Paur
-
noun,
Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- Harp
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- Hare
-
noun,
any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- Fern
-
noun,
any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- haft
-
noun,
a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.
- heat
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- fut.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- HETP
-
noun,
a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- oath
-
noun,
a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.:
- prau
-
noun,
proa.
- Noah
-
noun,
the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- hint
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- hent
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- pouf
-
noun,
a high headdress with the hair rolled in puffs, worn by women in the late 18th century.
- hoar
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- Hunt
-
noun,
an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
- fare
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- Faro
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- pot.
-
- fart
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- fate
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- Nor.
-
- Oahu
-
noun,
an island in central Hawaii: third largest and most important island of the state; location of Honolulu. 589 sq. mi. (1525 sq. km).
- Faun
-
noun,
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- not-
-
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Here
-
noun,
this place:
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- NTIA
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- HERA
-
noun,
the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- Prof
-
noun,
professor.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- pro-
-
- her.
-
- fur.
-
- pre-
-
- Fahr
-
- prin
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Herr
-
noun,
the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
- fain
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- Fair
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- fane
-
noun,
a temple.
- Fano
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- NIRA
-
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- Ont.
-
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- 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.
- Heer
-
noun,
an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- feet
-
noun,
a plural of foot.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Heep
-
noun,
Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- hour
-
noun,
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
- HRIP
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- pita
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- opah
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- fth.
-
- huia
-
noun,
an apparently extinct, crowlike bird, Heteralocha acutirostris, of New Zealand, noted for the completely different bill shapes of the male and female.
- FERA
-
- fere
-
noun,
a companion; mate.
- haet
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- heft
-
noun,
weight; heaviness:
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- pith
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- Fear
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- 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.
- hor.
-
- pnea
-
- hora
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- Horn
-
noun,
one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- paho
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- feat
-
noun,
a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.:
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- AOU
-
- th-
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NIH
-
- NEA
-
- HAO
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the tenth part of a dong.
- hae
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- HAP
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- TIA
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- ne-
-
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- Han
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion.
Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- ARF
-
interjection,
(used to imitate the bark of a dog).
- hr.
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- nef
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- NOP
-
- aor
-
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- tha
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- NHA
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- NIA
-
- NHI
-
- tfr
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- ite
-
- ITA
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- trf
-
- IRO
-
- UIT
-
- 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.
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- unp
-
- UNO
-
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- HRE
-
- Une
-
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- UHF
-
- UPI
-
- UFO
-
noun,
any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin.
- Ufa
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe.
- UAE
-
- UAR
-
- ht.
-
- Hue
-
noun,
a gradation or variety of a color; tint:
- AFP
-
- Hun
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- up-
-
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- an.
-
- uti
-
- ap-
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- Af.
-
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- Ar.
-
- hit
-
noun,
an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
- hf.
-
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- ure
-
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- ae.
-
- AEF
-
- ur-
-
- 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.
- aeq
-
- HUT
-
noun,
a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- Ir.
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPI
-
- tph
-
- ANF
-
- IOF
-
- INH
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- ior
-
- IOT
-
- IOU
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- IPA
-
- iph
-
- IPO
-
- ipr
-
- HAT
-
noun,
a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- tue
-
- Tu.
-
- ITU
-
- trp
-
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- AFT
-
adverb,
at, close to, or toward the stern or tail:
- AHE
-
- ahi
-
noun,
yellowfin tuna, widely used in sashimi.
- ier
-
- NPR
-
- Ife
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- Tro
-
- IHP
-
- AHQ
-
- in.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- ahu
-
noun,
a stone heap or platform used by the Polynesians as a marker or memorial.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- TRH
-
- fun
-
noun,
something that provides mirth or amusement:
- eu-
-
- Npt
-
- EOF
-
- eir
-
- en-
-
- ene
-
- foh
-
interjection,
faugh.
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- FIT
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- FIR
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- FIO
-
- pf.
-
- EOE
-
- PHA
-
- EHF
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ep.
-
- EPA
-
- fie
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.)
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- REA
-
- Fia
-
- FHA
-
- Ehr
-
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- fou
-
adjective,
drunk.
- eo-
-
- FOT
-
- PAU
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in SW France: winter resort.
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- RFQ
-
- RFI
-
- RFE
-
- RFA
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- fop
-
noun,
a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.
- ea.
-
- nr.
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- EEE
-
- EEO
-
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- ef-
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- eft
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- EPT
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- RIF
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- QNP
-
- ERT
-
- FAR
-
Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- PRA
-
- FAQ
-
noun,
a document, in question and answer format, that introduces newcomers to a topic or answers common questions.
- FAO
-
- qua
-
adverb,
as; as being; in the character or capacity of:
- qu.
-
- qtr
-
- QRP
-
- qr.
-
plural,
farthing.
- qat
-
noun,
kat.
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- qaf
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing a uvular stop consonant sound.
- qt.
-
- QEF
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- Fan
-
noun,
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- prf
-
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- ETO
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- fo.
-
- ETR
-
- FAT
-
noun,
any of several white or yellowish greasy substances, forming the chief part of adipose tissue of animals and also occurring in plants, that when pure are colorless, odorless, and tasteless and are either solid or liquid esters of glycerol with fatty acids; fats are insoluble in water or cold alcohol but soluble in ether, chloroform, or benzene: used in the manufacture of soap, paints, and other protective coatings and in cooking.
- ERP
-
- eq.
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- 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:
- FET
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- rah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of encouragement to a player or team.)
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- RAF
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- POR
-
- Re.
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- PIO
-
- 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.
- Fee
-
noun,
a charge or payment for professional services:
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- POA
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- ean
-
- ft.
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ONR
-
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- OPA
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- FPO
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- ATP
-
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RTF
-
- ONI
-
- ONF
-
- rt.
-
- of-
-
- NRA
-
- Nth
-
Idioms,
the nth degree / power,
a high degree or power.
the utmost degree or extent:
- op.
-
- oaf
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- OAP
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OAU
-
- ARU
-
- FTP
-
noun,
File Transfer Protocol: a software protocol for exchanging information between computers over a network.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- at.
-
- OFr
-
- oft
-
adverb,
often.
- OIr
-
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- OIt
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- rte
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- ote
-
- ROI
-
- Pr.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- pah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of disgust or disbelief.)
- ROP
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Pa.
-
- ROA
-
- RNR
-
- RNA
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- Fra
-
noun,
a title of address for a friar or brother.
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- prn
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- RPO
-
- RPQ
-
- NF
-
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- AO
-
- RU
-
- QA
-
noun,
an exchange of questions and answers.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- RO
-
- qh
-
- QN
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- QP
-
- fn
-
- RP
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- QF
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- O.
-
- f.
-
noun,
(Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- IF
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- FI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- FP
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- QE
-
- PU
-
- FA
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- ee
-
- AH
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- OA
-
- EI
-
- Q.
-
- TP
-
- RF
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- RI
-
- UI
-
- AQ
-
- UH
-
interjection,
(used to indicate hesitation, doubt, or a pause).
- RN
-
- RQ
-
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- U.
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- NI
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- t.
-
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- N.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RH
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- PH
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- 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.
- NP
-
- IQ
-
- FE
-
- i.
-
- R.
-
- TN
-
- PQ
-
- NH
-
- h.
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- HP
-
- HQ
-
- IP
-