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- spirometer
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noun,
an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- dime-store
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noun,
five-and-ten (def 1).
- trimeters
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noun,
a verse of three measures or feet.
- preterist
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noun,
a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled.
Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- preterits
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noun,
past (def 12).
- pretermit
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verb (used with object),
to let pass without notice; disregard.
- Potteries
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noun,
the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- postrider
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noun,
(formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- portieres
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noun,
a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- periderms
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noun,
Botany. the cork-producing tissue of stems together with the cork layers and other tissues derived from it.
- peristome
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noun,
Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- trimester
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noun,
a term or period of three months.
- misreport
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verb (used with object),
to report incorrectly or falsely.
- remitters
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noun,
Law.
the principle or operation by which a person who enters on an estate by a defective title, and who previously had an earlier and more valid title to it, is adjudged to hold it by the earlier and more valid one.
the act of remitting a case to another court for decision.
- dosimeter
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noun,
a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- reimports
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verb (used with object),
to import back into the country of exportation.
- distemper
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noun,
Veterinary Pathology.
Also called canine distemper. an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh, photophobia, and vomiting.
Also called colt distemper, equine distemper, strangles. an infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacillus Streptococcus equi and characterized by catarrh of the upper air passages and the formation of pus in the submaxillary and other lymphatic glands.
Also called cat distemper, feline agranulocytosis, feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis, feline panleukopenia. a usually fatal viral disease of cats, characterized by fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, leading to severe dehydration.
- trimeter
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noun,
a verse of three measures or feet.
- portiere
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noun,
a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- do-re-mi
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noun,
money.
- miterers
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noun,
a machine or tool for making miters.
- termites
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- dopester
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noun,
a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- moperies
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noun,
mopish behavior.
- portside
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adjective, adverb,
on a waterfront or near a port.
- poetries
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noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- tempters
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noun,
a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
- diopters
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noun,
Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- rimester
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noun,
rhymester.
- pierrots
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noun,
a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- importee
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noun,
an imported person or thing.
- Desterro
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noun,
former name of Florianópolis.
- destrier
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noun,
a war-horse; charger.
- premorse
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adjective,
having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
- peridots
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noun,
a green transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem.
- strepto-
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- periderm
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noun,
Botany. the cork-producing tissue of stems together with the cork layers and other tissues derived from it.
- dimeters
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noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- Dempster
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noun,
deemster.
- roperies
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noun,
a place where ropes are made.
- pterido-
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- triremes
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noun,
a galley with three rows or tiers of oars on each side, one above another, used chiefly as a warship.
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- tetrodes
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noun,
a vacuum tube containing four electrodes, usually a plate, two grids, and a cathode.
- promisee
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noun,
a person to whom a promise is made.
- epidotes
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noun,
a mineral, calcium aluminum iron silicate, Ca 2 (Al, Fe) 3 Si 3 O 12 (OH), occurring in green prismatic crystals.
- Primrose
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noun,
any plant of the genus Primula, as P. vulgaris (English primrose) of Europe, having yellow flowers, or P. sinensis (Chinese primrose) of China, having flowers in a variety of colors.
Compare primrose family.
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- emitters
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noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- primeros
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noun,
a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- pretties
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noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- red-rose
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noun,
the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- epsomite
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noun,
the natural form of Epsom salt, Mg 2 SO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, found as a crust in caves and lake deposits.
- demerits
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noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- epitomes
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noun,
a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
- preterit
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noun,
past (def 12).
- demireps
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noun,
a demimondaine.
- reimport
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verb (used with object),
to import back into the country of exportation.
- prestore
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verb (used with object),
Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
- remitter
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noun,
Law.
the principle or operation by which a person who enters on an estate by a defective title, and who previously had an earlier and more valid title to it, is adjudged to hold it by the earlier and more valid one.
the act of remitting a case to another court for decision.
- mitered
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noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- steroid
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noun,
any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- Meropes
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noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- topside
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noun,
the upper side.
- stereo-
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- Steptoe
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noun,
an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- metiers
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- emperor
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noun,
the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire:
- emprise
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noun,
an adventurous enterprise.
- metopes
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noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- miterer
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noun,
a machine or tool for making miters.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- spotted
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noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stertor
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noun,
a heavy snoring sound accompanying respiration in certain diseases.
- emitter
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noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- sporter
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noun,
a person or thing that sports, as a participant in a sport.
- Edomite
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noun,
a descendant of Esau or Edom. Num. 20:14–21.
- tetrode
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noun,
a vacuum tube containing four electrodes, usually a plate, two grids, and a cathode.
- striped
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noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- storied
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noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- impedes
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verb (used with object),
to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- terries
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noun,
the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- terrets
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noun,
one of the round loops or rings on the saddle of a harness, through which the driving reins pass.
- termors
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noun,
a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- spitter
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noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- epitome
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noun,
a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
- termers
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noun,
a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination):
- teredos
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noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- episome
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noun,
bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal and that may replicate autonomously as a plasmid or become incorporated into the chromosome and replicate with it.
- Tempter
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noun,
a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
- impers.
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- empties
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noun,
Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can:
- episode
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noun,
an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
- epimers
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noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- imports
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noun,
something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
- TEMPEST
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noun,
a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
- tempers
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noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- striper
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noun,
Military.
a naval officer whose uniform sleeve displays stripes:
an enlisted person of any of the armed services whose sleeve displays stripes denoting years of service:
- stridor
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noun,
a harsh, grating, or creaking sound.
- epidote
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noun,
a mineral, calcium aluminum iron silicate, Ca 2 (Al, Fe) 3 Si 3 O 12 (OH), occurring in green prismatic crystals.
- tipster
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noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- termite
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- imprest
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noun,
an advance of money; loan.
- modiste
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noun,
Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- re-sort
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verb (used with object),
to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- respite
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- respire
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verb (used with object),
to breathe; inhale and exhale.
- premeds
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noun,
a program of premedical study or training.
- premier
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noun,
the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- premise
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noun,
Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- preside
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verb (used without object),
to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presort
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verb (used with object),
to sort (letters, packages, etc.) by zip code or class before collection or delivery to a post office.
- preter-
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- pretest
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- pretors
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noun,
praetor.
- primero
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noun,
a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- primers
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noun,
an elementary book for teaching children to read.
- promise
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noun,
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one:
- restore
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verb (used with object),
to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish:
- prostie
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noun,
a prostitute.
- protest
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noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- protist
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noun,
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- reredos
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noun,
a screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church.
- reprise
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noun,
Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- reposit
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verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- reports
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noun,
an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.:
- redtops
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noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Agrostis having reddish panicles, as A. gigantea, widely cultivated for lawns and pasturage.
- remotes
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remorse
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noun,
deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
- remiped
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noun,
a remiped animal.
- potties
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noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- porters
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noun,
a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.
- spireme
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noun,
the threadlike chromatin of a cell nucleus, present during early meiosis or mitosis.
- rompers
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noun,
a person or thing that romps.
- spermo-
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- mortise
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- sidero-
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- oersted
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noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- serried
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adjective,
pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows:
- septime
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noun,
the seventh of eight defensive positions.
- semipro
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adjective, noun,
semiprofessional.
- optimes
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noun,
(formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos.
Compare wrangler (def 2).
- oreides
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noun,
oroide.
- rotters
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noun,
a thoroughly bad, worthless, or objectionable person.
- Rosette
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noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- torpids
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noun,
an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term.
- roister
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verb (used without object),
to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- retired
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noun,
a place of withdrawal; retreat:
- roemers
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noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- Peridot
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noun,
a green transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem.
- perries
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noun,
a fermented beverage similar to cider, made from the juice of pears.
- Perseid
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noun,
any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- ritters
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noun,
a knight.
- petites
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- petitor
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noun,
a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- riposte
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noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- Pierrot
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noun,
a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- podites
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noun,
an arthropod limb.
- retorts
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noun,
a severe, incisive, or witty reply, especially one that counters a first speaker's statement, argument, etc.
- retires
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noun,
a place of withdrawal; retreat:
- Dreiser
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noun,
Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.
- metrist
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noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- distort
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verb (used with object),
to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed:
- trimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of three identical, simpler molecules.
- dormers
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noun,
Also called dormer window. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.
- triodes
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noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- dimeter
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noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- diptote
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noun,
a substantive declined in only two cases, especially when occurring in a language in which this is less than the normal number.
- Detroit
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noun,
a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- deports
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verb (used with object),
to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- trompes
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noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- deperms
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verb (used with object),
to reduce the permanent magnetism of (a vessel) by wrapping an electric cable around it vertically athwartships and energizing the cable.
- treetop
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noun,
the top or uppermost branches of a tree.
- diopter
-
noun,
Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- derries
-
noun,
a meaningless refrain or chorus in old songs.
- disport
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noun,
diversion; amusement; play; sport.
- dorpers
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noun,
one of a breed of sheep having a black face and white body, developed in South Africa from the Dorset Horn and black-headed Persian breeds and raised for meat.
- demerit
-
noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- deposit
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noun,
money placed in a bank account or an instance of placing money in a bank account.
- demirep
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noun,
a demimondaine.
- despite
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noun,
contemptuous treatment; insult.
- tripods
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noun,
a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- tropism
-
noun,
an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- trireme
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noun,
a galley with three rows or tiers of oars on each side, one above another, used chiefly as a warship.
- demotes
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verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- dereism
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noun,
autism.
- diester
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noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- Trieste
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noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- tremor
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noun,
involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
- spider
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noun,
any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- pedros
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noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- mopeds
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noun,
a motorized bicycle that has pedals in addition to a low-powered gasoline engine designed for low-speed operation.
- Porter
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noun,
a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.
- stride
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noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- strode
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noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Street
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- tripod
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noun,
a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- tripos
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noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- tremie
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noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- stript
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noun,
a striptease.
- temper
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Domett
-
noun,
Alfred, 1811–87, British government official and poet: prime minister of New Zealand 1862.
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- romper
-
noun,
a person or thing that romps.
- sperm-
-
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- tempts
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verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- trimer
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noun,
a molecule composed of three identical, simpler molecules.
- demote
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- impede
-
verb (used with object),
to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- deperm
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verb (used with object),
to reduce the permanent magnetism of (a vessel) by wrapping an electric cable around it vertically athwartships and energizing the cable.
- imper.
-
- import
-
noun,
something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
- potted
-
noun,
a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
- premed
-
noun,
a program of premedical study or training.
- impose
-
Verb phrases,
impose on/upon,
to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude.
to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.).
to defraud; cheat; deceive:
- impost
-
noun,
a tax; tribute; duty.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- Morris
-
noun,
Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack [muh-kwig slak] /məˈkwɪg ˈslæk/ (Show IPA), 1814–1902, U.S. suffragist.
- deport
-
verb (used with object),
to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- spired
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- depose
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from office or position, especially high office:
- Potter
-
noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- perdie
-
adverb, interjection,
pardi.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- permit
-
noun,
an authoritative or official certificate of permission; license:
- dittos
-
noun,
the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do.
Compare ditto mark.
- Metope
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- detest
-
verb (used with object),
to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- metro-
-
- metros
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noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- Mettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- petro-
-
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- Pierre
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noun,
a city in and the capital of South Dakota, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- sprier
-
adjective,
a comparative of spry.
- despot
-
noun,
a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.
- Petite
-
noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- Perret
-
noun,
Auguste [oh-gyst] /oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1874–1954, French architect.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- triers
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- Ritter
-
noun,
a knight.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- roemer
-
noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- retire
-
noun,
a place of withdrawal; retreat:
- distr.
-
- Medit.
-
- poised
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- spiro-
-
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- retort
-
noun,
a severe, incisive, or witty reply, especially one that counters a first speaker's statement, argument, etc.
- dermo-
-
- trepid
-
adjective,
fearful or apprehensive, especially trembling from fear.
- podite
-
noun,
an arthropod limb.
- retro-
-
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- pitted
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- riders
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- Merope
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- period
-
noun,
a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics:
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- Derris
-
noun,
any East Indian plant belonging to the genus Derris, of the legume family, especially D. elliptica, the roots of which contain rotenone and are used as an insecticide.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- demits
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- termer
-
noun,
a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination):
- ormers
-
noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- ptero-
-
- orders
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- resort
-
noun,
a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- sirree
-
noun,
(used as an intensive with no or yes):
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- editor
-
noun,
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- proser
-
noun,
a person who talks or writes in prose.
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- dorter
-
noun,
a dormitory, especially in a monastery.
- dopers
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- dorsi-
-
- Empire
-
noun,
a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- simper
-
noun,
a silly, self-conscious smile.
- repros
-
noun,
Informal. reproduction (def 3).
- emptor
-
noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- torrid
-
adjective,
subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area:
- septi-
-
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- torpid
-
noun,
an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- redtop
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Agrostis having reddish panicles, as A. gigantea, widely cultivated for lawns and pasturage.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- report
-
noun,
an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.:
- tromps
-
verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- Odette
-
noun,
a female given name.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- trompe
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- optime
-
noun,
(formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos.
Compare wrangler (def 2).
- dorser
-
noun,
dosser1 .
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- prides
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- sotted
-
adjective,
drunken; besotted.
- mottes
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- primer
-
noun,
an elementary book for teaching children to read.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- roster
-
noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- priers
-
noun,
a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- motets
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- dormer
-
noun,
Also called dormer window. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- primes
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- Terris
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- pretor
-
noun,
praetor.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- terret
-
noun,
one of the round loops or rings on the saddle of a harness, through which the driving reins pass.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- speedo
-
noun,
speedometer.
- termor
-
noun,
a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- tiered
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- epimer
-
noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- epodes
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- tiptoe
-
noun,
the tip or end of a toe.
- primos
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- rotter
-
noun,
a thoroughly bad, worthless, or objectionable person.
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- priors
-
noun,
Informal. a prior conviction.
- Dottie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
- dorper
-
noun,
one of a breed of sheep having a black face and white body, developed in South Africa from the Dorset Horn and black-headed Persian breeds and raised for meat.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- oste-
-
- OPers
-
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Sept.
-
- pedi-
-
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- Pedro
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- ormer
-
noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- pedo-
-
- peri-
-
- orris
-
noun,
an iris, Iris germanica florentina, having a fragrant rootstock.
- semi-
-
- PEDir
-
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- prod.
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- pros.
-
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- prom.
-
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prods
-
noun,
the act of prodding; a poke or jab.
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- PRISM
-
noun,
Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- Prior
-
noun,
Informal. a prior conviction.
- prims
-
noun,
privet.
- Primo
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- prime
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Prot.
-
- prier
-
noun,
a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- 30-30
-
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trop-
-
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- deeps
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- repro
-
noun,
Informal. reproduction (def 3).
- rept.
-
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- prim.
-
- resp.
-
- pert.
-
- riots
-
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.
- derm-
-
- poet.
-
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- Rider
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- petri
-
- petr-
-
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- riser
-
noun,
a person who rises, especially from bed:
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- 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.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Pride
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prem.
-
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- demi-
-
- demit
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- pret.
-
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- demo-
-
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- Pres.
-
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pred.
-
- post-
-
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- depot
-
noun,
a railroad station.
- restr
-
- dept.
-
- Port.
-
- retd.
-
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- temp.
-
- Tempe
-
noun,
Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- treed
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- tempi
-
noun,
a plural of tempo.
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- tempt
-
verb (used with object),
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- toti-
-
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- tepid
-
adjective,
moderately warm; lukewarm:
- ideo-
-
- doper
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- term.
-
- dopes
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- terr.
-
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- meso-
-
- ster.
-
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- mero-
-
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- Terri
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- edit.
-
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- dropt
-
noun,
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- dript
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- drier
-
noun,
a person or thing that dries.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- epode
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- Epist
-
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- Epis.
-
- dorps
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- dorrs
-
noun,
dor1 .
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- step-
-
- stome
-
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- moped
-
noun,
a motorized bicycle that has pedals in addition to a low-powered gasoline engine designed for low-speed operation.
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Spode
-
noun,
Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- dist.
-
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- MPers
-
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- speed
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- sito-
-
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spor-
-
- mitts
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- dipso
-
noun,
a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- seti-
-
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- Trier
-
noun,
a person or thing that tries or tests; tester.
- metr-
-
- Ditto
-
noun,
the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do.
Compare ditto mark.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- sero-
-
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- miso-
-
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- std.
-
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- Tit.
-
- rpt.
-
- SMTP
-
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- trit
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- 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.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- repr
-
- Sem.
-
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- top-
-
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- simp
-
noun,
a fool; simpleton.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- PIMS
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- Rep.
-
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- Todt
-
noun,
Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1891–1942, German military engineer.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- TODS
-
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- TDRS
-
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- str.
-
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rit.
-
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- Ste.
-
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- tri-
-
- 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.
- trid
-
- 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.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- SpEd
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- 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.
- 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.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Rom.
-
- SPIM
-
noun,
a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- ter.
-
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- 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.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- 1080
-
- mes-
-
- epi-
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Emp.
-
- MSPE
-
- MSIE
-
- MSEE
-
- epit
-
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- 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).
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- MOpt
-
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- dope
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- dorp
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- dpt.
-
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- ord.
-
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- drip
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- OSRD
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- mdse
-
- MDES
-
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- ette
-
- med.
-
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Imp.
-
- imps
-
noun,
a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
- iod-
-
- iso-
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- mod.
-
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mis-
-
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- met.
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- MIPS
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Esd.
-
- eso-
-
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- Mid.
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- OPer
-
- Ire.
-
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- dep.
-
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- depr
-
- der.
-
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- 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.
- DERP
-
noun,
a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- 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.
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- dim.
-
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- Dem.
-
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- deep
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- Dom.
-
- PTSD
-
- pts.
-
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- psid
-
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- prs.
-
- pro-
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pre-
-
- pot.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pos.
-
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- 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.
- Pers
-
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- peds
-
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- pede
-
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- dips
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- per.
-
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- ped.
-
- dipt
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- dir.
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- dis-
-
- DMSO
-
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- DMT
-
- ETO
-
- Tro
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ESR
-
- Doi
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- de-
-
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- DMS
-
- ETR
-
- ETS
-
- EDT
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- ier
-
- Ir.
-
- IPS
-
- ipr
-
- IPO
-
- IPM
-
- IOT
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ior
-
- TPM
-
- TPI
-
- tpd
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- do.
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- IDP
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- DOP
-
noun,
a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
- TSP
-
- ide
-
- io-
-
- id.
-
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- trp
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- DPI
-
- EOE
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- EPT
-
- EPS
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EMT
-
- ed.
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMR
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- EDP
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EIS
-
- TMO
-
- eir
-
- Tpr
-
- ETD
-
- ese
-
- DSP
-
- DPM
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ERT
-
- DPS
-
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- EEO
-
- Dr.
-
- DRE
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- IRO
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- DSR
-
- TID
-
- DST
-
- eo-
-
- ERP
-
- EOM
-
- DET
-
- di.
-
- tr.
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- Rs.
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
-
- sd.
-
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- ose
-
- SDI
-
- RPO
-
- RPM
-
- OSP
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- pd.
-
- SRO
-
- SDR
-
- pm.
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- Om.
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- IRS
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPM
-
- se-
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- SED
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Pr.
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- POR
-
- 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.
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- PTT
-
- PMT
-
- Rd.
-
- Re.
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RPS
-
- RDS
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Ps.
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- pt.
-
- ROP
-
- PTO
-
- PDT
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PID
-
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- pim
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- 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.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- oid
-
- TTS
-
- OEM
-
- MIP
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- St.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- spt
-
- MIE
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MEP
-
- SPR
-
- ODT
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOI
-
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOR
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- mi.
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MPE
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ise
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- ite
-
- Md.
-
- STI
-
- Me.
-
- STP
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MDT
-
- STM
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MIT
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- MST
-
- MTI
-
- SMD
-
- MTO
-
- MTP
-
- MTS
-
- OED
-
- MSI
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- op.
-
- ode
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noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- OSD
-
- SIP
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noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- sod
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noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- Mt.
-
- MRP
-
- MRE
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- MRI
-
- MSE
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- MSD
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- D.
-
- TT
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- DP
-
- R.
-
- t.
-
- RI
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IP
-
- T1
-
- TD
-
- EI
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- 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.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- ee
-
- SM
-
- TP
-
- 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.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- DM
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- S.
-
- RO
-
- M.
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- O.
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- RP
-
- i.
-
- MP
-
- TM
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.