Anagrams of satin-flower
Word satin-flower has
1949 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of satin-flower.
- interflow
-
noun,
an interflowing.
- orientals
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.
- flatirons
-
noun,
a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- reflation
-
noun,
restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- serotinal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- sea-front
-
noun,
an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- relations
-
noun,
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
- Orleanist
-
noun,
a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- fleaworts
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noun,
a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- relation
-
noun,
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
- sea-wolf
-
noun,
any of several large, voracious, marine fishes, as the wolffish or sea bass.
- sea-lion
-
noun,
any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- low-rise
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noun,
a low-rise building.
- low-rate
-
verb (used with object),
to place a low value on:
- flatiron
-
noun,
a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- airflows
-
noun,
the air flowing past or through a moving body, as an airplane or automobile.
- flatwise
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adverb,
with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- fleawort
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noun,
a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- frontals
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar.
- elations
-
noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- foliates
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adjective,
covered with or having leaves.
- tinwares
-
noun,
articles made of tin plate.
- Tirolean
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the Tyrol.
- trefoils
-
noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
- foresail
-
noun,
the lowermost sail on a foremast.
- Lewiston
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- Oriental
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.
- toenails
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- lean-tos
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- inflates
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verb (used with object),
to distend; swell or puff out; dilate:
- software
-
noun,
Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them.
Compare hardware (def 5).
- ratlines
-
noun,
any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- insolate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- Lorestan
-
noun,
Luristan.
- floaters
-
noun,
a person or thing that floats.
- finestra
-
noun,
an aperture, especially a ventilator in the wall of a tomb.
- alienors
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- Trilafon
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- senorita
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- farinose
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adjective,
yielding farina.
- retinols
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noun,
vitamin A.
- farnesol
-
noun,
a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- towlines
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noun,
a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.
- notaries
-
noun,
notary public.
- retinals
-
noun,
an orange pigment, C 20 H 28 O, that is the active component of rhodopsin and is liberated upon the absorption of light in the vision cycle; vitamin A aldehyde.
- trenails
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noun,
treenail.
- twinleaf
-
noun,
a North American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla, having a single white blossom and leaves divided in two.
- entrails
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plural noun,
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
- ailerons
-
noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- fanworts
-
noun,
any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- oralist
-
noun,
an advocate of oralism.
- Salerno
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943.
- loaners
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- astrol.
-
- Loraine
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- folates
-
noun,
folic acid.
- foliate
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adjective,
covered with or having leaves.
- wastrel
-
noun,
a wasteful person; spendthrift.
- toenail
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- loiters
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- 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.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- finales
-
noun,
the last piece, division, or movement of a concert, opera, or composition.
- trefoil
-
noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
- fanwort
-
noun,
any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- frontal
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noun,
Ecclesiastical. a movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar.
- tinware
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noun,
articles made of tin plate.
- aristo-
-
- fowlers
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noun,
a hunter of birds.
- Loafers
-
noun,
a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
- arseno-
-
- forwent
-
verb,
simple past tense of forgo.
- fanwise
-
adverb,
spread out like an open fan:
- Weirton
-
noun,
a city in N West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- forties
-
noun,
a cardinal number, ten times four.
- safrole
-
noun,
a colorless or faintly yellow liquid, C 10 H 10 O 2 , obtained from sassafras oil or the like: used chiefly in perfumery, for flavoring, and in the manufacture of soaps.
- Forseti
-
noun,
the god of justice, the son of Balder and Nanna.
- forints
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- falters
-
noun,
the act of faltering; an unsteadiness of gait, voice, action, etc.
- Orleans
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loiret, in central France, SSW of Paris: English siege of the city raised by Joan of Arc 1428.
- salient
-
noun,
a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
- saltern
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noun,
a saltworks.
- warison
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noun,
a bugle call to assault.
- snifter
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noun,
Also called inhaler. a pear-shaped glass, narrowing at the top to intensify the aroma of brandy, liqueur, etc.
- frontis
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noun,
the front wall of a cancha or jai alai court.
Compare rebote (def 1).
- etalons
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noun,
an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
- estriol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- Estonia
-
noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- towline
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noun,
a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- nostril
-
noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- Seafowl
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noun,
seabird.
- trifles
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noun,
an article or thing of very little value.
- erasion
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noun,
the act of erasing.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- nailers
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noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- entrail
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plural noun,
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
- twofers
-
noun,
a card or ticket entitling the holder to purchase two tickets to a theatrical performance at a reduced price.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- entoils
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- elation
-
noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- elastin
-
noun,
a protein constituting the basic substance of elastic tissue.
- Flowers
-
noun,
the blossom of a plant.
- Falster
-
noun,
an island in SE Denmark. 198 sq. mi. (513 sq. km).
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- entails
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noun,
the act of entailing.
- florist
-
noun,
a retailer of flowers, ornamental plants, etc.
- saltier
-
noun,
saltire.
- florins
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin of Great Britain, formerly equal to two shillings or the tenth part of a pound and retained in circulation equal to 10 new pence after decimalization in 1971: first issued in 1849 as a silver coin.
- Walters
-
noun,
Barbara, born 1931, U.S. reporter and television interviewer.
- Nilotes
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- saltine
-
noun,
a crisp, salted cracker.
- Lorient
-
noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- florets
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noun,
a small flower.
- saltire
-
noun,
an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross.
- olefins
-
noun,
any member of the alkene series.
- transl.
-
- waiters
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noun,
a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- transf.
-
- floater
-
noun,
a person or thing that floats.
- trenail
-
noun,
treenail.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- isolate
-
noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- stearo-
-
- Rosalie
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- retails
-
noun,
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- lean-to
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- Rawlins
-
noun,
a town in S Wyoming.
- aileron
-
noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- Stalino
-
noun,
a former name of Donetsk.
- anisole
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, having a pleasant, aromatic odor, used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis, and as a vermicide.
- wintles
-
noun,
a rolling or staggering motion.
- Lawtons
-
noun,
a city in SW Oklahoma.
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- latrine
-
noun,
a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.
- ratline
-
noun,
any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- antero-
-
- sterno-
-
- Winters
-
noun,
Yvor [ahy-vawr] /ˈaɪ vɔr/ (Show IPA), 1900–68, U.S. poet and critic.
- infares
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- insofar
-
adverb,
to such an extent (usually followed by as):
- alerion
-
noun,
an eagle displayed, usually represented without a beak or legs.
- inflate
-
verb (used with object),
to distend; swell or puff out; dilate:
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- sternal
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adjective,
of or relating to the sternum.
- talions
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- inflows
-
noun,
something that flows in; influx.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- latinos
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- realist
-
noun,
a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- linters
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- tawnies
-
noun,
a shade of brown tinged with yellow; dull yellowish brown.
- rialtos
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- tailors
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- retinol
-
noun,
vitamin A.
- Antlers
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- wrastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- retinal
-
noun,
an orange pigment, C 20 H 28 O, that is the active component of rhodopsin and is liberated upon the absorption of light in the vision cycle; vitamin A aldehyde.
- lifters
-
noun,
a person or thing that lifts.
- alienor
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- in-laws
-
noun,
a relative by marriage.
- Linares
-
noun,
a city in S Spain.
- reliant
-
adjective,
having or showing dependence:
- airflow
-
noun,
the air flowing past or through a moving body, as an airplane or automobile.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tarso-
-
- finest
-
noun,
the police:
- strafe
-
noun,
a strafing attack.
- filets
-
noun,
fillet (defs 1, 10).
- filose
-
adjective,
threadlike.
- talons
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- Slater
-
noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Tarnow
-
noun,
a city in SE Poland, E of Cracow.
- finals
-
noun,
that which is last; that which forms an end or termination.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- filter
-
noun,
any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- nailer
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- Lawson
-
noun,
Robert, 1892–1957, U.S. illustrator and author, especially of children's books.
- finale
-
noun,
the last piece, division, or movement of a concert, opera, or composition.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- iowans
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Iowa.
- learnt
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- Sloane
-
noun,
Sir Hans, 1660–1753, English physician and naturalist.
- learns
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- finlet
-
noun,
a small, detached ray of a fin in certain fishes, as mackerels.
- Lawton
-
noun,
a city in SW Oklahoma.
- fronts
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- filate
-
adjective,
threadlike.
- Latino
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- Newari
-
noun,
a Sino-Tibetan language, the language of the Newar.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- trans.
-
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Lanier
-
noun,
Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- silane
-
noun,
Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- fasten
-
verb (used with object),
to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- sifter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sifts.
- trawls
-
noun,
Also called trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- latens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- itself
-
pronoun,
a reflexive form of it1 :
- Tailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- strife
-
noun,
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism:
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- Larine
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- trails
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- talion
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- Israel
-
noun,
a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- fiesta
-
noun,
any festival or festive celebration.
- towels
-
noun,
an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- Talien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- Towers
-
noun,
a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- fetors
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- fetial
-
adjective,
concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace:
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- talers
-
noun,
thaler.
- festal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or befitting a feast, festival, holiday, or gala occasion.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- feints
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- ferias
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- Towner
-
noun,
a person who lives in a town or city.
- Townes
-
noun,
Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
- Townie
-
noun,
a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.
- towser
-
noun,
a big dog.
- latins
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- felons
-
noun,
Law. a person who has committed a felony.
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- flairs
-
noun,
a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack:
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- lowers
-
noun,
a denture for the lower jaw.
- forint
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- lifter
-
noun,
a person or thing that lifts.
- fortes
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- lifers
-
noun,
a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- Fortas
-
noun,
Abe, 1910–1982, U.S. lawyer, government official, and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1965–69.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- loaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- iatro-
-
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Foster
-
noun,
Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- Stalin
-
noun,
Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- Forest
-
noun,
a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- solate
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- fontal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or coming from a fountain or spring.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- steno-
-
- fortis
-
noun,
a fortis consonant.
- loafer
-
noun,
a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
- foliar
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or having the nature of a leaf or leaves.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- frowns
-
noun,
a frowning look; scowl.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- Li-sao
-
noun,
a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- Fowler
-
noun,
a hunter of birds.
- Fresno
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- fraise
-
noun,
Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
- frails
-
noun,
Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used to refer to a girl or woman.
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- sol-fa
-
noun,
Music. the set of syllables, do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti, sung to the respective tones of the scale. All but do and ti are attributed to Guido d'Arezzo.
- Solera
-
noun,
(especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- linear
-
adjective,
of, consisting of, or using lines:
- infare
-
noun,
a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- flares
-
noun,
a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.
- softie
-
noun,
softy.
- instal
-
verb (used with object),
install.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- tolans
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- floats
-
noun,
something that floats, as a raft.
- instr.
-
- stifle
-
noun,
(in a horse or other quadruped) the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding anatomically to the human knee.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- flites
-
noun,
a dispute or wrangle; scolding.
- inter.
-
- Flores
-
noun,
flower (def 11).
- flirts
-
noun,
Also, flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
- flints
-
noun,
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- soften
-
verb (used with object),
to make soft or softer.
- fliers
-
noun,
something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- intra-
-
- intro.
-
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- inwale
-
noun,
(in an open boat) a horizontal timber binding together the frames along the top strake.
- floras
-
noun,
the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- floret
-
noun,
a small flower.
- folate
-
noun,
folic acid.
- lorans
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- infers
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- infest
-
verb (used with object),
to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do:
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- inflow
-
noun,
something that flows in; influx.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- infra-
-
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- in-law
-
noun,
a relative by marriage.
- Lorena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- TEFLON
-
adjective,
characterized by imperviousness to blame or criticism:
- Flower
-
noun,
the blossom of a plant.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Florin
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin of Great Britain, formerly equal to two shillings or the tenth part of a pound and retained in circulation equal to 10 new pence after decimalization in 1971: first issued in 1849 as a silver coin.
- flori-
-
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- lanose
-
adjective,
lanate.
- antler
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- Walton
-
noun,
Ernest Thomas Sinton [sin-tn] /ˈsɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1903–95, Irish physicist: Nobel prize 1951.
- olefin
-
noun,
any member of the alkene series.
- Winsor
-
noun,
Justin, 1831–97, U.S. librarian and historian.
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- walers
-
noun,
a horse bred in New South Wales, Australia, as a military saddle horse and exported in numbers during the 19th century to British India.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- Walter
-
noun,
Bruno [broo-noh] /ˈbru noʊ/ (Show IPA), (Bruno Schlesinger) 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
- altern
-
adjective,
alternate; following one another.
- saltie
-
noun,
an ocean-going sailor.
- Alston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Salter
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- Salten
-
noun,
Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- alters
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- saline
-
noun,
a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
- warsle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- waster
-
noun,
a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Waiter
-
noun,
a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- Winter
-
noun,
the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox).
- alwite
-
adjective,
white (def 11).
- refits
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- Wister
-
noun,
Owen, 1860–1938, U.S. novelist.
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- alerts
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- wisent
-
noun,
bison (def 2).
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- elfins
-
noun,
an elf.
- alines
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- Alison
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alice.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- rawins
-
noun,
a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- aloins
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- wintle
-
noun,
a rolling or staggering motion.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- Waters
-
noun,
Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- rowens
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- Rowena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rowels
-
noun,
a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- anoles
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- Wilson
-
noun,
Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.
- rowans
-
noun,
the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- answer
-
noun,
a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.:
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- Weston
-
noun,
Edward, 1886–1958, U.S. photographer.
- ariels
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- owlets
-
noun,
a young owl.
- owners
-
noun,
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- aniso-
-
- osteal
-
adjective,
osseous.
- ratels
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Watson
-
noun,
James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- aswirl
-
adjective, adverb,
moving in a swirling pattern or motion:
- astron
-
- astro-
-
- rastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- Wilton
-
noun,
a carpet woven like Brussels carpet, on a Jacquard loom but having the loops cut to form a velvet pile.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- arsen-
-
- sailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- sailer
-
noun,
a vessel propelled by a sail or sails.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- artels
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- A-line
-
noun,
(especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- aeron.
-
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- twines
-
noun,
a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Aeolis
-
noun,
an ancient coastal region and Greek colony in NW Asia Minor: settled by Aeolians.
- afters
-
- worsen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become worse.
- worset
-
noun, adjective,
worsted.
- resail
-
verb (used without object),
to sail back or again.
- afrits
-
noun,
afreet.
- twains
-
noun,
Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- trifle
-
noun,
an article or thing of very little value.
- trinal
-
adjective,
threefold; triple; trine.
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- trowel
-
noun,
any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- faints
-
noun,
the impure spirit produced in the first and last stages of the distillation of whiskey.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- wriest
-
adjective,
superlative of wry.
- etalon
-
noun,
an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
- writes
-
Verb phrases,
write down,
to set down in writing; record; note.
to direct one's writing to a less intelligent reader or audience:
- serial
-
noun,
anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- estral
-
adjective,
estrous.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- rewins
-
verb (used with object),
to win back or again.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- retail
-
noun,
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- rental
-
noun,
an amount received or paid as rent.
- nowise
-
adverb,
noway.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- falter
-
noun,
the act of faltering; an unsteadiness of gait, voice, action, etc.
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- falsie
-
noun,
either of a pair of shaped pads, made of rubber, fabric, or the like, for wearing inside a brassiere to give the breasts a larger or more shapely appearance.
- twofer
-
noun,
a card or ticket entitling the holder to purchase two tickets to a theatrical performance at a reduced price.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- rifles
-
noun,
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- nitro-
-
- Rialto
-
noun,
an exchange or mart.
- entail
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- twirls
-
noun,
an act or instance of twirling; spin; whirl.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- lifts
-
noun,
the act of lifting, raising, or rising:
- Lewis
-
noun,
a device for lifting a dressed stone, consisting of a number of pieces fitting together to fill a dovetailed recess cut into the stone.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- 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.
- strew
-
verb (used with object),
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle:
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- rafts
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- sware
-
verb,
simple past tense of swear.
- rewin
-
verb (used with object),
to win back or again.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- swarf
-
noun,
an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- Swart
-
noun,
Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- Lifar
-
noun,
Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- Laris
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- lifer
-
noun,
a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- swale
-
noun,
a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Swain
-
noun,
a male admirer or lover.
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- strow
-
verb,
strew.
- LASER
-
noun,
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- Rolfe
-
noun,
John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).
- Srta.
-
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- rails
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- 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.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- refit
-
noun,
an act of refitting.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- refl.
-
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- stola
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- rawin
-
noun,
a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- reni-
-
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- lefts
-
noun,
the left side or something that is on the left side.
- reifs
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- rifts
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- Latin
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- ster.
-
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- leafs
-
noun,
one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- straw
-
noun,
a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resaw
-
noun,
Lumbering. a machine for cutting logs into lumber.
- Lawes
-
noun,
Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Stowe
-
noun,
Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
- rifle
-
noun,
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- naso-
-
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Narew
-
noun,
a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- Nowel
-
noun,
Noel (def 2).
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- slate
-
noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- nails
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- self-
-
- naifs
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- Sloan
-
noun,
John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- sito-
-
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- Lower
-
noun,
a denture for the lower jaw.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Lowes
-
noun,
John Livingston, 1867–1945, U.S. scholar, critic, and teacher.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- lowse
-
adjective,
loose.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- lweis
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Angola, the 100th part of a kwanza.
- snail
-
noun,
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- slain
-
noun,
sley.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- sofar
-
noun,
a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- nitr-
-
- sewan
-
noun,
seawan.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- seti-
-
- serow
-
noun,
a goat antelope of the genus Capricornis, of eastern Asia, related to the goral: the Sumatran serow is endangered.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- sero-
-
- Newar
-
noun,
a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- sinal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Norw.
-
- natl.
-
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- 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.
- nears
-
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Sino-
-
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- sinew
-
noun,
a tendon.
- serif
-
noun,
a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- lowan
-
noun,
mallee fowl.
- Sofer
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- rowel
-
noun,
a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- Loewi
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- loans
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- loafs
-
verb (used with object),
to pass idly (usually followed by away):
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- oste-
-
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- liwan
-
noun,
iwan.
- Rowen
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- orial
-
- liras
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- owner
-
noun,
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- owlet
-
noun,
a young owl.
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Rowan
-
noun,
the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- Owens
-
noun,
Jesse (John Cleveland) 1913–80, U.S. athlete.
- litas
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- solar
-
noun,
Informal. solar energy.
- lotas
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sanit
-
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- softa
-
noun,
a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- SOFIA
-
noun,
Also, Sofiya [Bulgarian saw-fee-yuh] /Bulgarian ˈsɔ fi yə/ (Show IPA). a city in and the capital of Bulgaria, in the W part.
- often
-
adverb,
many times; frequently:
- OFris
-
noun,
the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- Salto
-
noun,
a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- solan
-
noun,
a gannet.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- orals
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- LORAN
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- salon
-
noun,
a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- Olwen
-
noun,
a princess, the daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief-giant.
- newts
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- rials
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- twine
-
noun,
a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Twain
-
noun,
Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- trows
-
verb (used with or without object),
to believe, think, or suppose.
- Erwin
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “boar” and “friend.”.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- ento-
-
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- fails
-
noun,
Slang.
an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance:
the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way:
a person who fails in this way.
- faint
-
noun,
a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon:
- trial
-
noun,
Law.
the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- fairs
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- twirl
-
noun,
an act or instance of twirling; spin; whirl.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- fanes
-
noun,
a temple.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- waits
-
noun,
an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt:
- Eilat
-
noun,
a seaport at the N tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, in S Israel.
- Waite
-
noun,
Morrison Remick [rem-ik] /ˈrɛm ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1816–88, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1874–88.
- waist
-
noun,
the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- wains
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- elfin
-
noun,
an elf.
- wails
-
noun,
the act of wailing.
- Elias
-
noun,
Douay Bible. Elijah (def 1).
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- waifs
-
noun,
a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- Elisa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- wafts
-
noun,
a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Elwin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- wafer
-
noun,
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- trews
-
noun,
close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
- fanos
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- filos
-
- fetas
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- feti-
-
- fetor
-
noun,
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- Tower
-
noun,
a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- fiats
-
noun,
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order:
Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- towel
-
noun,
an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- filar
-
adjective,
of or relating to a thread or threads.
- filet
-
noun,
fillet (defs 1, 10).
- 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.
- towie
-
noun,
a form of contract bridge for three players in which the players bid for the dummy hand after six of its cards have been turned up.
- final
-
noun,
that which is last; that which forms an end or termination.
- Finer
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- fines
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- finos
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Fiona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- fires
-
- firns
-
noun,
névé.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- fetal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or having the character of a fetus.
- Festa
-
noun,
a feast, festival, or holiday.
- Fanti
-
noun,
a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- fawns
-
noun,
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- fares
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- farls
-
noun,
a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- faros
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- Swati
-
noun,
Swat (def 2).
- Farsi
-
noun,
the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- farts
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- trawl
-
noun,
Also called trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
- Fates
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- fatso
-
noun,
a fat person (used as a term of address).
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- feria
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- fears
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- Feast
-
noun,
any rich or abundant meal:
- trail
-
noun,
a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- feint
-
noun,
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:
- feist
-
noun,
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- Felis
-
noun,
a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- felon
-
noun,
Law. a person who has committed a felony.
- felts
-
noun,
a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- feral
-
adjective,
existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
- Waler
-
noun,
a horse bred in New South Wales, Australia, as a military saddle horse and exported in numbers during the 19th century to British India.
- Wales
-
noun,
a division of the United Kingdom, in SW Great Britain. 8016 sq. mi. (20,760 sq. km).
- tonia
-
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- witan
-
noun,
the members of the national council or witenagemot.
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- Alfie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alfred.
- alien
-
noun,
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).
See also resident alien, illegal alien.
- alifs
-
noun,
the first letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- wires
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- alist
-
adjective,
inclined to one side; heeling or listing.
- aloft
-
adverb,
high up; far above the ground.
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- aisle
-
noun,
a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- Alost
-
noun,
a city in central Belgium, NW of Brussels.
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- alti-
-
- alto-
-
- Alton
-
noun,
a city in SW Illinois.
- Alwin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- winos
-
noun,
a person who is addicted to wine, especially a derelict.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- wines
-
noun,
the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- 30-30
-
- wrote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of write.
- write
-
Verb phrases,
write down,
to set down in writing; record; note.
to direct one's writing to a less intelligent reader or audience:
- wrist
-
noun,
the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
- wrest
-
noun,
a wresting; twist or wrench.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- aeri-
-
- aero-
-
- Wotan
-
- worts
-
noun,
the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
- wites
-
noun,
a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- afire
-
adjective,
on fire:
- afore
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
before.
- worst
-
noun,
that which is worst.
- afrit
-
noun,
afreet.
- Afro-
-
- afros
-
noun,
a hair style originating with black persons, in which the hair is allowed to grow naturally and to acquire a bushy appearance.
- worse
-
noun,
that which is worse.
- wolfs
-
noun,
any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- Wolfe
-
noun,
Charles, 1791–1823, Irish poet.
- Wilts
-
noun,
the act of wilting, or the state of being wilted:
- anils
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- weals
-
noun,
well-being, prosperity, or happiness:
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- wefts
-
noun,
Textiles. filling (def 5).
- wears
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- weans
-
Verb phrases,
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- astr.
-
- ation
-
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- water
-
noun,
a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- waste
-
noun,
useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting:
- awner
-
noun,
a machine for cutting the awns from grain.
- warns
-
verb (used with object),
to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable:
- awols
-
noun,
a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- wares
-
noun,
Usually, wares.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:
- wants
-
noun,
something wanted or needed; necessity:
- wanes
-
noun,
a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
- weirs
-
noun,
a small dam in a river or stream.
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- anis-
-
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- anole
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- Wilno
-
noun,
Polish name of Vilnius.
- Wiles
-
noun,
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- anti-
-
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- areo-
-
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- Ariel
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- arils
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- Arnel
-
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- welts
-
noun,
a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
- first
-
noun,
the person or thing that is first in time, order, rank, etc.
- treas
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Frans
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- frail
-
noun,
Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used to refer to a girl or woman.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- tera-
-
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Talos
-
noun,
a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- fowls
-
noun,
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken.
Compare domestic fowl.
- talon
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- IATSE
-
- inst.
-
- tears
-
- forte
-
noun,
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in:
Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
- fort.
-
- Forli
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, SE of Bologna.
- fores
-
noun,
the forepart of anything; front.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- forel
-
noun,
a slipcase for a book.
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- fore-
-
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- insol
-
- TOEFL
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- folie
-
noun,
madness; insanity.
- frats
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- tawie
-
adjective,
docile; easy to manage.
- frows
-
noun,
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- 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.
- frown
-
noun,
a frowning look; scowl.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- intr.
-
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Frost
-
noun,
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- front
-
noun,
the foremost part or surface of anything.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- frons
-
noun,
the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- Iowan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Iowa.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- Iowas
-
noun,
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines.
Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- Iran.
-
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Frits
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- frise
-
noun,
a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Fris.
-
- Fries
-
noun,
plural of fry1 .
- frets
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- Freon
-
- folia
-
noun,
plural of folium.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- flats
-
noun,
something flat.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- tolas
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- flirt
-
noun,
Also, flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
- Flint
-
noun,
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- flier
-
noun,
something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- flews
-
noun,
flue3 .
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- flaws
-
noun,
a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
- sworn
-
verb,
past participle of swear.
- tonal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having tonality.
- swore
-
verb,
a simple past tense of swear.
- swoln
-
adjective,
swollen.
- flits
-
noun,
a light, swift movement; flutter.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- swirl
-
noun,
a swirling movement; whirl; eddy.
- swine
-
noun,
any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products.
Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- SWIFT
-
noun,
any of numerous long-winged, swallowlike birds of the family Apodidae, related to the hummingbirds and noted for their rapid flight.
- flare
-
noun,
a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.
- telo-
-
- infer
-
verb (used with object),
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- flans
-
noun,
Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
- telia
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- flair
-
noun,
a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack:
- sweat
-
noun,
the process of sweating or perspiring.
- swear
-
Verb phrases,
swear by,
to name (a sacred being or thing) as one's witness or guarantee in swearing.
Informal. to have great confidence in; rely on:
to have certain knowledge of:
- flite
-
noun,
a dispute or wrangle; scolding.
- flies
-
noun,
a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
- Tolar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Foist
-
verb (used with object),
to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon):
- foins
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- Ital.
-
- foils
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- teno-
-
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- foals
-
noun,
a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- ileo-
-
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- flows
-
noun,
an act of flowing.
- flown
-
noun,
a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- tolan
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- infos
-
noun,
information.
- flor.
-
- Flora
-
noun,
the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- tails
-
noun,
tail1 (def 6).
- inlaw
-
noun,
a relative by marriage.
- float
-
noun,
something that floats, as a raft.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- welt
-
noun,
a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- West
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the left when facing north, corresponding to the point where the sun is seen to set. Abbreviation: W.
- wert
-
verb,
a 2nd person singular pt. indicative and subj. of be.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- taws
-
noun,
a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- tel-
-
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- went
-
noun,
the act of going:
- Wien
-
noun,
Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel prize 1911.
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- wens
-
noun,
Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, especially on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
- wife
-
noun,
a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
- wets
-
noun,
something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture:
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Stew
-
noun,
a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
- Rowe
-
noun,
Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- rows
-
noun,
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- wile
-
noun,
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rit.
-
- RONA
-
- tail
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- wite
-
noun,
a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- rift
-
noun,
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- Wolf
-
noun,
any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- rifs
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- wons
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of win1 .
- wore
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- worn
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- rife
-
adjective,
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use:
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Taif
-
noun,
a city in W Saudi Arabia.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- wort
-
noun,
the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- swot
-
noun,
a student who studies assiduously, especially to the exclusion of other activities or interests; grind.
- WRAF
-
- Wren
-
noun,
any of numerous small, active songbirds of the family Troglodytidae, especially Troglodytes troglodytes, of the Northern Hemisphere, having dark-brown plumage barred with black and a short, upright tail.
Compare house wren, marsh wren, rock wren, winter wren.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- writ
-
noun,
Law.
a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
(in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
- SWAN
-
noun,
any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult.
Compare mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
- WRNS
-
- wrnt
-
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- wist
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of wit2 .
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Wilt
-
noun,
the act of wilting, or the state of being wilted:
- Rolf
-
noun,
Also called Rolf the Ganger [gang-er] /ˈgæŋ ər/ (Show IPA). Rollo (def 1).
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- wine
-
noun,
the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- wino
-
noun,
a person who is addicted to wine, especially a derelict.
- WINS
-
noun,
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- 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.
- RNAS
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- wire
-
noun,
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- Stow
-
noun,
a city in NE Ohio.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- str.
-
- Wis.
-
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- wise
-
noun,
way of proceeding or considering; manner; fashion (usually used in combination or in certain phrases):
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- want
-
noun,
something wanted or needed; necessity:
- safe
-
noun,
a steel or iron box or repository for money, jewels, papers, etc.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Sol.
-
- sift
-
verb (used with object),
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- sial
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- sewn
-
noun,
the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- tref
-
adjective,
Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- tri-
-
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- tRNA
-
- tron
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- soln
-
- Trow
-
verb (used with or without object),
to believe, think, or suppose.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- serf
-
noun,
a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- tion
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- twi-
-
- twin
-
noun,
either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sofa
-
noun,
a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Snow
-
noun,
Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.
Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- slow
-
adverb,
in a slow manner; slowly:
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- slew
-
noun,
a large number or quantity:
- slaw
-
noun,
coleslaw.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- slat
-
noun,
a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- soft
-
noun,
something that is soft or yielding; the soft part.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Town
-
noun,
a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- tows
-
noun,
an act or instance of towing.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- tola
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Soni
-
- Safi
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
- WATS
-
noun,
bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller.
- Tewa
-
noun,
a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.
- Wane
-
noun,
a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
- wans
-
noun,
wide-area network.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Ware
-
noun,
Usually, wares.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:
- SALT
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- warn
-
verb (used with object),
to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable:
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- wart
-
noun,
a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
- Wast
-
verb,
a 2nd person singular pt. indicative of be.
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- ter.
-
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- weal
-
noun,
well-being, prosperity, or happiness:
- Sra.
-
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Staw
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
stall1 .
- wean
-
Verb phrases,
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
- Ste.
-
- Wear
-
noun,
the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- weft
-
noun,
Textiles. filling (def 5).
- ten.
-
- Weil
-
noun,
André, 1906–98, U.S. mathematician, born in France: brother of Simone Weil.
- Weir
-
noun,
a small dam in a river or stream.
- sail
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- 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.
- wale
-
noun,
a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
- waes
-
noun,
woe.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Seif
-
noun,
a long narrow sand dune parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- WAFS
-
noun,
a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- waft
-
noun,
a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
- sawn
-
noun,
a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- waif
-
noun,
a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Wal.
-
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Sat.
-
- wail
-
noun,
the act of wailing.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Wain
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- WAIS
-
noun,
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
See under Wechsler Scales.
- Wait
-
noun,
an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt:
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- sown
-
verb,
a past participle of sow1 .
- Swat
-
noun,
a smart blow; slap; smack.
- FOIA
-
- Ens.
-
- lows
-
noun,
something that is low, as ground or prices:
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Lowe
-
verb (used without object),
low3 .
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- lown
-
noun,
loon2 .
- file
-
noun,
a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- fowl
-
noun,
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken.
Compare domestic fowl.
- enow
-
adjective, adverb,
enough.
- lwei
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Angola, the 100th part of a kwanza.
- fils
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the 100th part of a dinar.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ire.
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enl.
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- loaf
-
noun,
a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- lit.
-
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- fiat
-
noun,
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order:
Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Lofn
-
noun,
a goddess who aids those having trouble winning the affections of their beloveds.
- LOFT
-
noun,
a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- filt
-
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- neo-
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Fino
-
noun,
a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- NEWS
-
noun,
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information:
- EFTA
-
- NEWT
-
noun,
any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- feat
-
noun,
a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.:
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Earl
-
noun,
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
- NEFS
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- efts
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- Nafl
-
noun,
a prayer, charitable act, etc., that goes beyond the requirements of one's religion.
- Iowa
-
noun,
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines.
Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- naif
-
noun,
a naive or inexperienced person.
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- ELAS
-
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Fin.
-
- FINE
-
noun,
fines.
Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e).
Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- LISA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- NIRA
-
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Felt
-
noun,
a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- Lat.
-
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- Fair
-
noun,
Archaic. something that is fair.
- fane
-
noun,
a temple.
- lawn
-
noun,
a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed, as near a house, on an estate, or in a park.
- fain
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- lea.
-
- Leaf
-
noun,
one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- left
-
noun,
the left side or something that is on the left side.
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- Leif
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Faro
-
noun,
a gambling game in which players place bets on a special board or layout, betting on each series of two cards as they are drawn from a box containing the dealer's or banker's pack.
- feal
-
adjective,
Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- Fawn
-
noun,
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- fats
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) cattle fattened and ready for market.
- fate
-
noun,
something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
- FAST
-
noun,
a fastening for a door, window, or the like.
- fart
-
noun,
a flatus expelled through the anus.
- Fars
-
noun,
a province in SW Iran. 51,466 sq. mi. (133,297 sq. km).
- Farl
-
noun,
a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- fare
-
noun,
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- itol
-
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- LAIS
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- Lani
-
- Fano
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fail
-
noun,
Slang.
an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance:
the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way:
a person who fails in this way.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- lift
-
noun,
the act of lifting, raising, or rising:
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- fest
-
noun,
an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination):
- Life
-
noun,
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- LIFO
-
noun,
last-in, first-out (def 1).
- eso-
-
- iso-
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- est.
-
- lin.
-
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- feta
-
noun,
a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Lief
-
adverb,
gladly; willingly:
- Lias
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- Ewan
-
noun,
a male given name, Welsh form of John.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- Fens
-
noun,
Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in E England, S of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- FERA
-
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Fern
-
noun,
any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- firn
-
noun,
névé.
- font
-
noun,
a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- fol.
-
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Owen
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- owes
-
verb (used with object),
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
- Fons
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- alif
-
noun,
the first letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- owns
-
Idioms,
come into one's own,
to take possession of that which is due or owed one.
to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit:
- owse
-
noun,
ox.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Aire
-
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- frt.
-
- ails
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- FRSL
-
- foin
-
noun,
a thrust with a weapon.
- Alis
-
- for.
-
- foal
-
noun,
a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- flow
-
noun,
an act of flowing.
- ano-
-
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- FLRA
-
- anew
-
adverb,
over again; again; once more:
- ALIT
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of alight1 .
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- 1080
-
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- alt.
-
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- foil
-
noun,
Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
- alow
-
adverb,
below decks.
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- raft
-
noun,
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- reif
-
noun,
plunder; booty; loot.
- Fri.
-
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- rel.
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- refs
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
referee.
- fret
-
noun,
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
- AWOL
-
noun,
a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Frei
-
noun,
Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- 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.
- frat
-
noun,
fraternity (def 1).
- Fran
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Francis.
- frae
-
preposition, adverb,
from.
- reft
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- ref.
-
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- aet.
-
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- Frs.
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- afr-
-
- frow
-
noun,
a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- froe
-
noun,
frow.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- fora
-
noun,
a plural of forum.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- frit
-
noun,
Ceramics.
a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels.
the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- aer-
-
- raws
-
noun,
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- ANSI
-
- Fear
-
noun,
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm.
Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- ates
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- inae
-
- oafs
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- FITS
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Fla.
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- Nor.
-
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Atli
-
noun,
Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.
- fist
-
noun,
the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nowt
-
noun,
an ox.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- int.
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- awns
-
noun,
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
- nows
-
noun,
the present time or moment:
- ins.
-
- ator
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- info
-
noun,
information.
- nos-
-
- awes
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- infl
-
- NTIA
-
- Inf.
-
- ile-
-
- Flan
-
noun,
Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- flea
-
noun,
any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ARIS
-
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- flew
-
noun,
flue3 .
- flit
-
noun,
a light, swift movement; flutter.
- Ont.
-
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- firs
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- floe
-
noun,
Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ant.
-
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- ole-
-
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- flat
-
noun,
something flat.
- art.
-
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- flaw
-
noun,
a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
- 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.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- intl
-
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- not-
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- tra
-
- FIR
-
noun,
any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- tr.
-
- FIO
-
- Fl.
-
- FOS
-
- FON
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- Flo
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Florence.
- FOE
-
noun,
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
- FET
-
- fie
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.)
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- TOW
-
noun,
an act or instance of towing.
- fil
-
noun,
fils.
- FIT
-
noun,
the manner in which a thing fits:
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- fer
-
preposition, conjunction,
for.
- tlr
-
- tlo
-
- Fia
-
- Fen
-
noun,
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- few
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) a small number or amount:
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- FAT
-
noun,
any of several white or yellowish greasy substances, forming the chief part of adipose tissue of animals and also occurring in plants, that when pure are colorless, odorless, and tasteless and are either solid or liquid esters of glycerol with fatty acids; fats are insoluble in water or cold alcohol but soluble in ether, chloroform, or benzene: used in the manufacture of soap, paints, and other protective coatings and in cooking.
- Wes
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Wesley.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ANF
-
- Win
-
noun,
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- aor
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ARF
-
interjection,
(used to imitate the bark of a dog).
- wet
-
noun,
something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture:
- wen
-
noun,
Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, especially on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
- Alf
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alfred.
- ARS
-
- ase
-
- ASI
-
- Wei
-
noun,
any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, especially one ruling a.d. 220–265 and one ruling a.d. 386–534.
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- ASW
-
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- Wat
-
noun,
a Buddhist temple or monastery in Thailand or Cambodia.
- wos
-
noun,
woe.
- Af.
-
- al.
-
- an.
-
- Ar.
-
- ae.
-
- AEF
-
- WRA
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- wot
-
verb,
first and third person singular present of wit2 .
- AFL
-
- WIT
-
noun,
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- AFS
-
- AFT
-
adverb,
at, close to, or toward the stern or tail:
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Won
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of North and South Korea, equal to 100 chon.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- woe
-
noun,
grievous distress, affliction, or trouble:
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- at.
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- FAR
-
Idioms,
a far cry (from). cry (def 27).
- ESL
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- TWA
-
noun,
a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 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.
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- ESR
-
- EOF
-
- Tro
-
- ETO
-
- ETR
-
- ETS
-
- FAS
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- fo.
-
- Fan
-
noun,
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- trf
-
- FAO
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- two
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
- awe
-
noun,
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- was
-
verb,
1st and 3rd person singular pt. indicative of be.
- AWL
-
noun,
a pointed instrument for piercing small holes in leather, wood, etc.
- awn
-
noun,
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
- eo-
-
- War
-
noun,
a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
-
- ean
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- wae
-
noun,
woe.
- ef-
-
- efl
-
- eft
-
noun,
a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
- eir
-
- EIS
-
- ELF
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, especially from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- en-
-
- WAF
-
noun,
a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- FOT
-
- WTF
-
- Fr.
-
abbreviation,
Father.
- NEA
-
- NSW
-
- NWT
-
- NSF
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- SLE
-
- SLA
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- ote
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- nef
-
noun,
a silver or gold table furnishing in the form of a ship, either for holding various utensils or for ornament.
- Fra
-
noun,
a title of address for a friar or brother.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- NES
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- New
-
noun,
something that is new; a new object, quality, condition, etc.:
- NFL
-
- NFS
-
- NIA
-
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- OTA
-
- OTS
-
- SLR
-
- sew
-
noun,
the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- Low
-
noun,
something that is low, as ground or prices:
- Sr.
-
- So.
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LON
-
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- SOF
-
- owe
-
verb (used with object),
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Re.
-
- LSI
-
- LST
-
- LTA
-
- ltr
-
- own
-
Idioms,
come into one's own,
to take possession of that which is due or owed one.
to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit:
- owl
-
noun,
any of numerous, chiefly nocturnal birds of prey, of the order Strigiformes, having a broad head with large, forward-directed eyes that are usually surrounded by disks of modified feathers: many populations are diminishing owing to loss of habitat.
- OWI
-
- ROW
-
noun,
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
- ot-
-
- Rs.
-
- St.
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- of-
-
- OFr
-
- oft
-
adverb,
often.
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- OIr
-
- SAR
-
- OIt
-
- Ola
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ONF
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ONI
-
- ONR
-
- ons
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ose
-
- SAE
-
- SWA
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OAS
-
- NLF
-
- NSA
-
- RSA
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- RSE
-
- 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).
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- now
-
noun,
the present time or moment:
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SAW
-
noun,
a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- RTF
-
- NWS
-
- RTS
-
- rtw
-
- OSA
-
- OSF
-
- oaf
-
noun,
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- SOW
-
noun,
an adult female swine.
- Sta
-
- 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.
- ILS
-
- in.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- RIF
-
noun,
Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- IOF
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- taw
-
noun,
a choice or fancy marble used as a shooter.
- ior
-
- IOT
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- Ir.
-
- IRL
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- IRO
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- ISA
-
- Lif
-
- ILO
-
- il-
-
- ISR
-
- FWA
-
- Frl
-
- fro
-
Idioms,
to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth:
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- FSA
-
- FSR
-
- ft.
-
- FTW
-
- RFE
-
- TIA
-
- tfr
-
- RFA
-
- Ife
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IFS
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- ial
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- ier
-
- 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.
- Isl
-
- ise
-
- ist
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RFI
-
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- Law
-
noun,
the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- ROI
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- STL
-
- STI
-
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- RAF
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- Les
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Lew
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lewis, Llewellyn, or Louis.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- Sw.
-
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- TAL
-
- ITA
-
- ite
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- Iwo
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- La.
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- Lt.
-
- REA
-
- raw
-
noun,
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- LaF
-
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- RNA
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROA
-
- SRO
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- SA
-
- RW
-
- RI
-
- AO
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- RO
-
- RF
-
- wt
-
- OW
-
interjection,
(used especially as an expression of intense or sudden pain.)
- RN
-
- S.
-
- NF
-
- SL
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- EW
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, or the like):
- f.
-
noun,
(Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- FI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
- FA
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- le
-
- L2
-
- L1
-
- LW
-
- t.
-
- T1
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- FE
-
- L.
-
- IW
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IF
-
noun,
a supposition; uncertain possibility:
- fn
-
- i.
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- FW
-
- TN
-
- TL
-
- LF
-
- ln
-
- ol
-
- SF
-
- OA
-
- we
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- O.
-
- NW
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- EI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- NL
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- NI
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- SN
-
- N.
-
- WO
-
noun,
woe.
- WL
-
- WI
-
- WF
-
- w/
-
- LR
-
- 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.