Anagrams of sclerodermatous
Word sclerodermatous has
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- court-dress
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noun,
the formal costume required to be worn at a royal court on ceremonial and other occasions.
- Scleroderma
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noun,
a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- somersault
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noun,
an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- carrousels
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noun,
carousel.
- come-outer
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noun,
an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- cross-mate
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verb (used with or without object),
to crossbreed.
- Coldstream
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noun,
a town in SE Berwick, in SE Scotland, on the Tweed River.
- cold-store
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noun,
a refrigerated compartment or building for keeping foods, furs, etc., in cold storage.
- octamerous
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adjective,
consisting of or divided into eight parts.
- sclerotome
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noun,
Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
- decorators
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noun,
interior designer.
- latecomers
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noun,
a person who arrives late:
- coral-tree
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noun,
any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Erythrina, of the legume family, having large clusters of pealike flowers.
- correlates
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noun,
either of two related things, especially when one implies the other.
- aerodromes
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noun,
airdrome.
- toreadors
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noun,
a bullfighter; torero.
- ectoderms
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- screamers
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noun,
a person or thing that screams.
- cassoulet
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noun,
a white-bean stew of French origin, often containing pork, mutton, garlic sausage, and preserved goose or duck.
- customers
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noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- casserole
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noun,
a baking dish of glass, pottery, etc., usually with a cover.
- sororates
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noun,
subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
- retrousse
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adjective,
(especially of the nose) turned up.
- coelomate
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noun,
a coelomate animal.
- sea-mouse
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noun,
any of several large, marine annelids of the genus Aphrodite and related genera, having a covering of long, fine, hairlike setae.
- sorcerous
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adjective,
of the nature of or involving sorcery.
- lecturers
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noun,
a person who lectures.
- sarcosome
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noun,
a mitochondrion occurring in a muscle fiber.
- sarcomere
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noun,
any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.
- castoreum
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noun,
castor1 (def 1).
- salesroom
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noun,
a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- treasures
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noun,
wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- salometer
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noun,
salinometer.
- carrousel
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noun,
carousel.
- Marruecos
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noun,
Spanish name of Morocco.
- restorals
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noun,
restoration.
- recourses
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- muscatels
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noun,
a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- Colosseum
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noun,
an ancient amphitheater in Rome, begun a.d. c70 by Vespasian, having the form of an oval 617 by 512 feet (188 by 156 meters).
- secateurs
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noun,
scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- muscadels
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noun,
muscatel.
- rest-cure
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noun,
a treatment for nervous disorders, consisting of a complete rest, usually combined with systematic diet, massage, etc., especially at a spa or sanitorium.
- coatdress
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noun,
a tailored dress of medium or heavy fabric, styled like a coat and worn in place of a suit or similar outfit.
- salerooms
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noun,
Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- ostracods
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noun,
seed shrimp.
- autocross
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noun,
gymkhana (def 2).
- staumrels
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noun,
a stupid person.
- osculates
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verb (used with object),
to bring into close contact or union.
- dermatous
-
- decussate
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verb (used with or without object),
to cross in the form of an X ; intersect.
- lodestars
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noun,
a star that shows the way.
- Decretals
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noun,
a papal decree authoritatively determining some point of doctrine or church law.
- Claremore
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noun,
a town in NE Oklahoma.
- orometers
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noun,
an aneroid barometer with a scale giving elevations above sea level, used to determine land-surface altitudes.
- latecomer
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noun,
a person who arrives late:
- closeouts
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noun,
a sale on all goods in liquidating a business.
- Descartes
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noun,
René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
- Ceratodus
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noun,
a lungfish of either of two genera, Ceratodus or Neoceratodus, having hornlike ridges on the teeth.
- demurrals
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noun,
an act or instance of demurring; a demur.
- decorates
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verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- oleasters
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noun,
an ornamental shrub or small tree, Elaeagnus angustifolia, of Eurasia, having fragrant yellow flowers and an olivelike fruit.
- streamers
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noun,
something that streams:
- scleromas
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noun,
a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- oleaceous
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adjective,
belonging to the Oleaceae, the olive family of plants.
- carousels
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noun,
merry-go-round (def 1).
- sclerosed
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adjective,
hardened or indurated, as by sclerosis.
- declarers
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noun,
a person or thing that declares.
- alumroots
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noun,
any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, especially H. americana, having mottled foliage and greenish-white flowers.
- desolates
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adjective,
barren or laid waste; devastated:
- traceless
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adjective,
having or leaving no trace:
- rosaceous
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adjective,
belonging to the plant family Rosaceae.
Compare rose family.
- odometers
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noun,
an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- decorator
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noun,
interior designer.
- doomsters
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noun,
a doomsayer.
- cremaster
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noun,
Entomology. a usually hooklike process on the posterior tip of a chrysalis, for attaching the pupa to a stem, twig, etc.
- ulcerates
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verb (used with object),
to cause an ulcer on or in:
- elastomer
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noun,
an elastic substance occurring naturally, as natural rubber, or produced synthetically, as butyl rubber or neoprene.
- moraceous
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adjective,
belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- urceolate
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adjective,
shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like the body of a pitcher and contracted at the orifice, as a corolla.
- cremators
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noun,
a person who cremates.
- corelates
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verb (used with object),
to correlate.
- remoulade
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noun,
a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil, and tarragon.
- mercurate
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noun,
Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- meteorol.
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- setaceous
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adjective,
bristlelike; bristle-shaped.
- moderates
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noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- smoulders
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noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- correlate
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noun,
either of two related things, especially when one implies the other.
- mesoscale
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adjective,
pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- mouse-ear
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noun,
any of various plants having small, hairy leaves, as the hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella, or the forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris.
- costumers
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- ultrareds
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noun,
(not in technical use) infrared.
- mesorecta
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noun,
the mesentery of the rectum.
- acrosomes
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noun,
an organelle covering the head of animal sperm and containing enzymes that digest the egg cell coating, thus permitting the sperm to enter the egg.
- Mescalero
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noun,
a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- electrums
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noun,
an amber-colored alloy of gold and silver used in ancient times.
- creosotes
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- serrulate
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adjective,
finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.
- adulterer
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noun,
a person who commits adultery.
- aerodrome
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noun,
airdrome.
- crusadoes
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noun,
an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.
- caroluses
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noun,
any of various coins issued under monarchs named Charles, especially the broad of Charles I of England.
- astrodome
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noun,
a transparent dome on top of the fuselage of an aircraft, through which observations are made for celestial navigation.
- croustade
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noun,
a shell of bread or pastry, sometimes of noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes, baked or fried and filled with ragout or the like.
- Massorete
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noun,
Masorete.
- crosstree
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noun,
Nautical. either of a pair of timbers or metal bars placed athwart the trestletrees at a masthead to spread the shrouds leading to the mast above, or on the head of a lower mast to support the platform or top.
- murrelets
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noun,
any of several small, chunky diving birds of the family Alcidae, of North Pacific coasts.
- reductase
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noun,
any enzyme acting as a reducing agent.
- remolades
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noun,
rémoulade.
- crossroad
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noun,
a road that crosses another road, or one that runs transversely to main roads.
- cross-out
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noun,
a word, line, etc., that has been crossed out.
- autosomes
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noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- McAlester
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noun,
a city in E Oklahoma.
- modulates
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verb (used with object),
to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- escaroles
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noun,
a broad-leaved form of Cichorium endivia, used in salads.
Compare endive (def 1).
- relocates
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verb (used with object),
to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location:
- corselets
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noun,
Also, corselette. a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.
- moderator
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noun,
a person or thing that moderates.
- motorcade
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noun,
a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- remolade
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noun,
rémoulade.
- remodels
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verb (used with object),
to model again.
- celature
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noun,
the art of embossing metal.
- droseras
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noun,
any of several insectivorous plants of the genus Drosera, having leaves covered with sticky hairs, comprising the sundews.
- erasures
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noun,
an act or instance of erasing.
- remaster
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verb (used with object),
to make a new master tape or record from an old master tape, usually to improve the fidelity of an old recording.
- celestas
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noun,
a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
- rousters
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noun,
roustabout (def 1).
- Dressler
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noun,
Marie (Leila Koerber) 1869–1934, U.S. actress, born in Canada.
- dreamers
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noun,
a person who dreams.
- ruderals
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noun,
a ruderal plant.
- cerastes
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noun,
any of several small vipers of the genus Cerastes, including the horned viper, that have a sideways looping motion like that of a sidewinder and inhabit deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia.
- rustlers
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noun,
a cattle thief.
- dosseret
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noun,
a supplementary capital or thickened abacus, as in Byzantine architecture.
- saleroom
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noun,
Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- tameless
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adjective,
untamed or untamable.
- relocate
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verb (used with object),
to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location:
- dormouse
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noun,
any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- dormeuse
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noun,
mobcap.
- emulates
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adjective,
Obsolete. emulous.
- carousel
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noun,
merry-go-round (def 1).
- roulades
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noun,
a musical embellishment consisting of a rapid succession of tones sung to a single syllable.
- re-trace
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verb (used with object),
to trace again, as lines in writing or drawing.
- earldoms
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noun,
Also called earlship. the rank or title of an earl.
- surcease
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noun,
cessation; end.
- cardroom
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noun,
a room equipped for playing cards:
- careless
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adjective,
not paying enough attention to what one does:
- roadster
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noun,
an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- re-tread
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verb (used with or without object),
to tread again.
- eductors
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noun,
ejector (def 3).
- roasters
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noun,
a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
- resolute
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adjective,
firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion:
- ectoderm
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- educator
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noun,
a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- educates
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verb (used with object),
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- doormats
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noun,
a mat, usually placed before a door or other entrance, for people arriving to wipe their shoes on before entering.
- restores
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verb (used with object),
to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish:
- restoral
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noun,
restoration.
- eardrums
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noun,
a membrane in the ear canal between the external ear and the middle ear; tympanic membrane.
- surcoats
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noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- streamer
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noun,
something that streams:
- strudels
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noun,
a pastry, usually consisting of a fruit, cheese, or other mixture, rolled in a paper-thin sheet of dough and baked.
- rosulate
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adjective,
forming a rosette or rosettes.
- calumets
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noun,
a long-stemmed, ornamented tobacco pipe used by North American Indians on ceremonial occasions, especially in token of peace.
- rescales
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verb (used with object),
to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest:
- streusel
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noun,
a topping for coffeecake, consisting of crumbs of blended sugar, cinnamon, flour, butter, and chopped nutmeats.
- roseolas
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noun,
a kind of rose-colored rash.
- resource
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noun,
a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
- Rosedale
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noun,
a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- electrum
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noun,
an amber-colored alloy of gold and silver used in ancient times.
- strumose
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adjective,
having a struma or strumae.
- electros
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noun,
electrotype.
- electro-
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- rootless
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adjective,
having no roots.
- duressor
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noun,
a person who subjects another to duress.
- caterers
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noun,
one whose business is to provide food, supplies, and sometimes service at social gatherings.
- durmasts
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noun,
a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- roosters
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noun,
the male of domestic fowl and certain game birds; cock.
- Rosemead
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- scleroma
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noun,
a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- doorcase
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noun,
the finish frame of a doorway.
- crustose
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adjective,
forming a crusty, tenaciously fixed mass that covers the surface on which it grows, as certain lichens.
- creosote
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- comrades
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noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- serrates
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adjective,
Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw:
- serrated
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adjective,
having a notched edge or sawlike teeth, especially for cutting; serrate:
- crosslet
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noun,
a small cross, as one used as a heraldic charge.
- comatose
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adjective,
affected with or characterized by coma.
- Crusades
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusados
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noun,
an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.
- seculars
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noun,
a layperson.
- Comtesse
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noun,
countess.
- secludes
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verb (used with object),
to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- Colossae
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noun,
an ancient city in SW Phrygia: seat of an early Christian church to which Paul wrote the Epistle to the Colossians.
- coloreds
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noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- somedeal
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adverb,
somewhat.
- curators
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noun,
the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc.
- coleuses
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noun,
any of several tropical Asian or African plants belonging to the genus Coleus, of the mint family, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy, colored foliage and blue flowers.
- sea-room
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noun,
unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- Somerset
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noun,
a city in SE Massachusetts.
- seamster
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noun,
a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.
- creosols
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noun,
a colorless oily liquid, C 8 H 10 O 2 , having an agreeable odor and a burning taste, obtained from wood tar and guaiacum resin: used as a disinfectant, in the manufacture of resins, and in ore flotation.
- cremator
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noun,
a person who cremates.
- custards
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noun,
a dessert made of eggs, sugar, and milk, either baked, boiled, or frozen.
- corrades
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verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- costards
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noun,
a large English variety of apple.
- corslets
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noun,
corselet (def 2).
- costrels
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noun,
a flask made of leather, earthenware, or wood, usually with an ear or ears by which to suspend it, as from the waist.
- corselet
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noun,
Also, corselette. a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.
- smelters
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noun,
a person or thing that smelts.
- corrodes
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verb (used with object),
to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- costumer
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- costumes
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noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- smolders
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noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- cremates
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- Coulters
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noun,
colter.
- coursers
-
noun,
a person or thing that courses.
- corelate
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verb (used with object),
to correlate.
- smoulder
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noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- cordless
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adjective,
lacking a cord.
- creamers
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noun,
a person or thing that creams.
- creature
-
noun,
an animal, especially a nonhuman:
- setulose
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adjective,
having or covered with setulae.
- Socrates
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noun,
469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- seadrome
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noun,
a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- custodes
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noun,
plural of custos.
- doomster
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noun,
a doomsayer.
- demersal
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adjective,
living or found near or in the deepest part of a body of water.
- decretal
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noun,
a papal decree authoritatively determining some point of doctrine or church law.
- stardoms
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noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- sclerema
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noun,
sclerosis, or hardening, especially of the skin.
- staumrel
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noun,
a stupid person.
- Delcasse
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noun,
Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1852–1923, French statesman.
- delouses
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verb (used with object),
to free of lice; remove lice from.
- scarlets
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noun,
a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- Delsarte
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noun,
François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- Democrat
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noun,
an advocate of democracy.
- decorums
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noun,
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- demurral
-
noun,
an act or instance of demurring; a demur.
- steamers
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noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- dermato-
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- desolate
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adjective,
barren or laid waste; devastated:
- Desterro
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noun,
former name of Florianópolis.
- deutero-
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- Sarcodes
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noun,
protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- cestodes
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noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- dolesome
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adjective,
doleful.
- closeout
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noun,
a sale on all goods in liquidating a business.
- decorous
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adjective,
characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- sororate
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noun,
subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
- dateless
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adjective,
without a date; undated.
- customer
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noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- scrotums
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noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- screamer
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noun,
a person or thing that screams.
- Damocles
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noun,
a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- scouters
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noun,
a person who scouts.
- coasters
-
noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- Dartmoor
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noun,
a rocky plateau in SW England, in Devonshire. About 20 miles (30 km) long.
- scourers
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noun,
a person who scours or cleanses.
- scotomas
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noun,
loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- closeted
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noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- scooters
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- sclerous
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adjective,
hard; firm; bony.
- clusters
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noun,
a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch:
- declarer
-
noun,
a person or thing that declares.
- declares
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verb (used with object),
to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms:
- declasse
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adjective,
reduced to or having low or lower status:
- clotures
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noun,
a method of closing a debate and causing an immediate vote to be taken on the question.
- decolors
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- decorate
-
verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- autosome
-
noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- carouses
-
noun,
carousal.
- relators
-
noun,
a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- reassure
-
verb (used with object),
to restore to assurance or confidence:
- masscult
-
noun,
the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- masseter
-
noun,
a short, thick, masticatory muscle, the action of which assists in closing the jaws by raising the mandible or lower jaw.
- outraces
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- lacteous
-
adjective,
milky; of the color of milk.
- outmodes
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (something) to go out of style or become obsolete.
- rearmost
-
adjective,
farthest in the rear; last.
- Lacrosse
-
noun,
a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- asserted
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- trousers
-
noun,
Sometimes, trouser. Also called pants. a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down.
Compare Bermuda shorts, breeches, knickers (def 1), short (def 29a), slacks.
- murrelet
-
noun,
any of several small, chunky diving birds of the family Alcidae, of North Pacific coasts.
- Madurese
-
noun,
a member of a people native to the island of Madura and also inhabiting the northeastern coast of Java.
- assorted
-
adjective,
consisting of different or various kinds; miscellaneous:
- Masorete
-
noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- tsardoms
-
noun,
czardom.
- traduces
-
verb (used with object),
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame:
- reclames
-
noun,
publicity; self-advertisement; notoriety.
- outdares
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- odometer
-
noun,
an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- maltoses
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 12 H 22 O 11 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- measures
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- recourse
-
noun,
access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection:
- Eurocrat
-
noun,
a member of the executive and technical staff at the headquarters of the European Common Market.
- euclases
-
noun,
a rare green or blue mineral, beryllium aluminum silicate, BeAlSiO 4 (OH), occurring in prismatic crystals.
- leotards
-
noun,
a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- meatuses
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- lactoses
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- muscadel
-
noun,
muscatel.
- oersteds
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- tremolos
-
noun,
a tremulous or vibrating effect produced on certain instruments and in the human voice, as to express emotion.
- treadles
-
noun,
a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- racemous
-
adjective,
racemose.
- treasure
-
noun,
wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- terraces
-
noun,
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- mustards
-
noun,
a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- racemose
-
adjective,
Botany.
having the form of a raceme.
arranged in racemes.
- ramulose
-
adjective,
having many small branches.
- outsoles
-
noun,
the outer sole of a shoe.
- malodors
-
noun,
an unpleasant or offensive odor; stench.
- treacles
-
noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- armrests
-
noun,
a projecting, often padded support for the forearm, as at the side of a chair or sofa or between seats in a theater, car, or airplane.
- Larousse
-
noun,
Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- maestros
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- maestoso
-
adjective, adverb,
with majesty; stately (used as a musical direction).
- muscatel
-
noun,
a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- Muscadet
-
noun,
a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- lecturer
-
noun,
a person who lectures.
- tressure
-
noun,
Heraldry. a narrower diminutive of the orle, usually ornamented with fleurs-de-lis at the edges and often doubled.
- termless
-
adjective,
not limited; unconditional.
- lamsters
-
noun,
a fugitive from the law.
- lectures
-
noun,
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject:
- orometer
-
noun,
an aneroid barometer with a scale giving elevations above sea level, used to determine land-surface altitudes.
- outsoars
-
verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- aerosols
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a system of colloidal particles dispersed in a gas; smoke or fog.
- realtors
-
- Asmodeus
-
noun,
an evil spirit.
- Eteoclus
-
noun,
one of the Seven against Thebes.
- measured
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- touracos
-
noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- redroots
-
noun,
a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (or L. tinctoria), having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
- re-dress
-
verb (used with object),
to dress again.
- moderate
-
noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- ossature
-
noun,
the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
- oleaster
-
noun,
an ornamental shrub or small tree, Elaeagnus angustifolia, of Eurasia, having fragrant yellow flowers and an olivelike fruit.
- ostracod
-
noun,
seed shrimp.
- tearless
-
adjective,
not weeping or shedding tears.
- oestrous
-
adjective,
estrous.
- aureoles
-
noun,
a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- Mercator
-
noun,
Gerhardus [jer-hahr-duh s] /dʒərˈhɑr dəs/ (Show IPA), (Gerhard Kremer) 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and geographer.
- lustered
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- red-rose
-
noun,
the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- ulcerate
-
verb (used with object),
to cause an ulcer on or in:
- tea-rose
-
noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- tearooms
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- Escudero
-
noun,
Vicente [bee-then-te] /biˈθɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892?–1980, Spanish dancer.
- osteomas
-
noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- toreador
-
noun,
a bullfighter; torero.
- acoelous
-
adjective,
without a true alimentary canal.
- moderato
-
adjective,
moderate; in moderate time.
- alumroot
-
noun,
any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, especially H. americana, having mottled foliage and greenish-white flowers.
- escarole
-
noun,
a broad-leaved form of Cichorium endivia, used in salads.
Compare endive (def 1).
- outclass
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior:
- oldsters
-
noun,
an old or elderly person.
- escolars
-
noun,
a snake mackerel, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum.
- modulate
-
verb (used with object),
to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- motorcar
-
noun,
Chiefly British. an automobile.
- lodestar
-
noun,
a star that shows the way.
- redcoats
-
noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- torsades
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- reductor
-
noun,
a tube with a stopcock at one end, usually filled with a metal, for reducing a constituent in a solution.
- leucomas
-
noun,
leukoma.
- lusterer
-
noun,
a person who puts a lustrous finish or gloss on textiles.
- ultrared
-
noun,
(not in technical use) infrared.
- acrosome
-
noun,
an organelle covering the head of animal sperm and containing enzymes that digest the egg cell coating, thus permitting the sperm to enter the egg.
- osculate
-
verb (used with object),
to bring into close contact or union.
- old-rose
-
noun,
rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
- reducers
-
noun,
a person or thing that reduces.
- outcross
-
noun,
a hybrid animal or plant so produced.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- oleates
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- Olmsted
-
noun,
Frederick Law, 1822–1903, U.S. landscape architect.
- scooter
-
noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- omelets
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- Lourdes
-
noun,
a city in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures.
- malodor
-
noun,
an unpleasant or offensive odor; stench.
- decorum
-
noun,
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- malteds
-
noun,
malted milk.
- custard
-
noun,
a dessert made of eggs, sugar, and milk, either baked, boiled, or frozen.
- ordeals
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- Maltese
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Malta.
- ordures
-
noun,
dung; manure; excrement.
- curtals
-
noun,
a 16th-century bassoon.
- lotuses
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- oestrus
-
noun,
estrus.
- customs
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- declare
-
verb (used with object),
to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms:
- dealers
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- scoters
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- scotoma
-
noun,
loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- lustres
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- oersted
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- decares
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- Decatur
-
noun,
Stephen, 1779–1820, U.S. naval officer.
- lusters
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- scourer
-
noun,
a person who scours or cleanses.
- Odoacer
-
noun,
a.d. 434?–493, first barbarian ruler of Italy 476–493.
- oculars
-
noun,
Optics. eyepiece.
- dartles
-
verb (used with or without object),
to dart or shoot forth repeatedly.
- darters
-
noun,
a person or thing that darts or moves swiftly.
- cutlass
-
noun,
a short, heavy, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge, formerly used by sailors.
- scouter
-
noun,
a person who scouts.
- MacLeod
-
noun,
Fiona, Sharp, William.
- macules
-
noun,
mackle.
- ocreate
-
adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- ocelots
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- screams
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- declass
-
verb (used with object),
to remove or degrade from one's social class, position, or rank; lower in status.
- screeds
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- scrotum
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- decolor
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- oldster
-
noun,
an old or elderly person.
- cutlers
-
noun,
a person who makes, sells, or repairs knives and other cutting instruments.
- sealers
-
noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- secular
-
noun,
a layperson.
- maltose
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 12 H 22 O 11 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- Melrose
-
noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- Mercast
-
noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- Mercado
-
noun,
a market.
- melters
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- cradles
-
noun,
a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- slaters
-
noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- craters
-
noun,
the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
- Creamer
-
noun,
a person or thing that creams.
- creases
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- courses
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- creates
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- Creator
-
noun,
a person or thing that creates.
- melders
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- motored
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- Medusas
-
noun,
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- medlars
-
noun,
a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- cremate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- mousers
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- couters
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- mercers
-
noun,
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
- creoles
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- morceau
-
noun,
piece; morsel.
- molests
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- costars
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- costers
-
noun,
costermonger.
- costrel
-
noun,
a flask made of leather, earthenware, or wood, usually with an ear or ears by which to suspend it, as from the waist.
- modular
-
noun,
something, as a house or piece of furniture, built or organized in self-contained units or sections.
- Modesto
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- morales
-
noun,
emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.:
- costume
-
noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- Morelos
-
noun,
a state in S central Mexico. 1916 sq. mi. (4960 sq. km). Capital: Cuernavaca.
- courser
-
noun,
a person or thing that courses.
- mescals
-
noun,
an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mortals
-
noun,
a human being.
- mortars
-
noun,
a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
- merlots
-
noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- couldst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- coulees
-
noun,
Chiefly Western U.S. and Western Canada. a deep ravine or gulch, usually dry, that has been formed by running water.
- Coulter
-
noun,
colter.
- morulas
-
noun,
the mass of cells resulting from the cleavage of the ovum before the formation of a blastula.
- medalet
-
noun,
a small medal, usually no larger than 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter.
- creosol
-
noun,
a colorless oily liquid, C 8 H 10 O 2 , having an agreeable odor and a burning taste, obtained from wood tar and guaiacum resin: used as a disinfectant, in the manufacture of resins, and in ore flotation.
- musters
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- curator
-
noun,
the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc.
- mascots
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- cuestas
-
noun,
a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other.
- secrets
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- seclude
-
verb (used with object),
to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- martele
-
adjective,
martellato.
- curares
-
noun,
a blackish, resinlike substance derived from tropical plants of the genus Strychnos, especially S. toxifera, and from the root of pareira, used by certain South American Indians for poisoning arrows and employed in physiological experiments, medicine, etc., for arresting the action of motor nerves.
- curates
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- muscats
-
noun,
a variety of grape having a pronounced sweet aroma and flavor, used for making wine and raisins.
- sedates
-
adjective,
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:
- muscles
-
noun,
a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- curdles
-
Idioms,
curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:
- mustard
-
noun,
a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- seaters
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- Marcuse
-
noun,
Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- mustees
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- marcels
-
noun,
a marcelling.
- curlers
-
noun,
a person or thing that curls.
- secures
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- seduces
-
verb (used with object),
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- measure
-
noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- crossed
-
noun,
a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- measles
-
noun,
(used with a singular or plural verb) Pathology.
an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots; rubeola.
any of certain other eruptive diseases. Compare German measles.
- measled
-
adjective,
(of swine or other livestock) affected with measles.
- mudcats
-
noun,
flathead catfish.
- cresols
-
noun,
any of three isomeric compounds having the formula C 7 H 8 O, usually derived from coal tar and wood tar, and used chiefly as a disinfectant.
- muletas
-
noun,
a red cloth similar to but smaller than a capa and manipulated by a stick set into one of the three holes in or near the center, for use by a matador in guiding the course of the bull's attack in the stage of the fight preparatory to the kill.
- cresset
-
noun,
a metal cup or basket often mounted on a pole or suspended from above, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin, etc., burned as a light or beacon.
- serrate
-
adjective,
Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw:
- Croesus
-
noun,
died 546 b.c, king of Lydia 560–546: noted for his great wealth.
- muraled
-
adjective,
decorated with a mural or murals.
- crusted
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- matures
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- murders
-
noun,
Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- masseur
-
noun,
a man who provides massage as a profession or occupation.
- selects
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- crusade
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusado
-
noun,
an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.
- crustal
-
adjective,
of or relating to a crust, as of the earth.
- Orestes
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena.
- Leuctra
-
noun,
a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Thebans defeated Spartans here 371 b.c.
- Osceola
-
noun,
1804–38, U.S. Indian leader: chief of the Seminole tribe.
- Eustace
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “steadfast.”.
- retools
-
verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- reclame
-
noun,
publicity; self-advertisement; notoriety.
- retards
-
noun,
a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.
- Ecuador
-
noun,
a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- resumes
-
noun,
résumé.
- recluse
-
noun,
a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- Records
-
noun,
an act of recording.
- results
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- restore
-
verb (used with object),
to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish:
- retread
-
noun,
a tire that has been retreaded.
- smaltos
-
noun,
colored glass or similar vitreous material used in mosaic.
- euclase
-
noun,
a rare green or blue mineral, beryllium aluminum silicate, BeAlSiO 4 (OH), occurring in prismatic crystals.
- recusal
-
noun,
the disqualification of a judge for a particular lawsuit or proceeding, especially due to some possible conflict of interest or prejudice.
- re-sort
-
verb (used with object),
to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- educate
-
verb (used with object),
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- redacts
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redcoat
-
noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- estrous
-
adjective,
pertaining to or involving the estrus.
- retrace
-
verb (used with object),
to trace backward; go back over:
- recasts
-
noun,
a recasting.
- resoles
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- roemers
-
noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- Realtor
-
- durmast
-
noun,
a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- Laertes
-
noun,
the father of Odysseus.
- reamers
-
noun,
any of various rotary tools, with helical or straight flutes, for finishing or enlarging holes drilled in metal.
- rooster
-
noun,
the male of domestic fowl and certain game birds; cock.
- roomers
-
noun,
a person who lives in a rented room; lodger.
- dusters
-
noun,
a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- dustoor
-
noun,
dastur.
- lactose
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- ecartes
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- roaster
-
noun,
a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
- eardrum
-
noun,
a membrane in the ear canal between the external ear and the middle ear; tympanic membrane.
- earldom
-
noun,
Also called earlship. the rank or title of an earl.
- Lacoste
-
noun,
René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- roadeos
-
noun,
a competition, usually held annually, for professional truck drivers testing driving skill.
- Reuters
-
noun,
a publicly owned international news and information company established in London, 1851.
- easters
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- retrude
-
verb (used with object),
to produce retrusion in.
- estrade
-
noun,
a slightly raised platform in a room or hall.
- eductor
-
noun,
ejector (def 3).
- readout
-
noun,
Computers. the output of information from a computer in readable form.
Compare printout.
- erasers
-
noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remorse
-
noun,
deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
- remoras
-
noun,
any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.
- emulate
-
adjective,
Obsolete. emulous.
- escolar
-
noun,
a snake mackerel, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum.
- reducer
-
noun,
a person or thing that reduces.
- remodel
-
verb (used with object),
to model again.
- relumes
-
verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- Erasmus
-
noun,
Desiderius [des-i-deer-ee-uh s] /ˌdɛs ɪˈdɪər i əs/ (Show IPA), 1466?–1536, Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.
- Emerald
-
noun,
a rare variety of beryl that is colored green by chromium and valued as a gem.
- Erastus
-
noun,
Thomas [tom-uh s;; German toh-mahs] /ˈtɒm əs;; German ˈtoʊ mɑs/ (Show IPA), 1524–83, Swiss-German theologian.
- erasure
-
noun,
an act or instance of erasing.
- reduces
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- relucts
-
verb (used without object),
to struggle (against something); rebel.
- erector
-
noun,
Also, erecter. a person or thing that erects.
- erratum
-
noun,
an error in writing or printing.
- related
-
adjective,
associated; connected.
- relates
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- escorts
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- remudas
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- resedas
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- elector
-
noun,
a person who elects or may elect, especially a qualified voter.
- resects
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- redouts
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- reseaus
-
noun,
a network.
- elaters
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- reseats
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- redress
-
noun,
the setting right of what is wrong:
- eldress
-
noun,
a laywoman who is a governing officer in certain Protestant churches.
- rescues
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- redroot
-
noun,
a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (or L. tinctoria), having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
- eluates
-
noun,
a liquid solution resulting from eluting.
- electr-
-
- Electra
-
noun,
Also, Elektra. Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
- escudos
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
- rescale
-
verb (used with object),
to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest:
- resales
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- elodeas
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- reredos
-
noun,
a screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church.
- rereads
-
noun,
the act of reading something again.
- rooters
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that roots, as with the snout.
- lamster
-
noun,
a fugitive from the law.
- oscular
-
adjective,
pertaining to an osculum.
- saucers
-
noun,
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- deserts
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- outcome
-
noun,
a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
- dessert
-
noun,
cake, pie, fruit, pudding, ice cream, etc., served as the final course of a meal.
- outdare
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in daring.
- destool
-
verb (used with object),
to remove (a West African ruler) from office.
- saurels
-
noun,
any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- detours
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- deuter-
-
- Docetae
-
plural noun,
early Christian adherents of Docetism.
- ousters
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- doctors
-
noun,
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- sarcous
-
adjective,
consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- leotard
-
noun,
a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- lemures
-
plural noun,
the ghosts of the dead of a family, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or propitiated; larvae.
- sarcode
-
noun,
protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- outdoes
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in execution or performance:
- outmode
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (something) to go out of style or become obsolete.
- Dolores
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”.
- desalts
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the salt from (especially sea water), usually to make it drinkable.
- dertrum
-
noun,
the extremity of the maxilla of a bird's bill, especially when hooked or differentiated from the rest of the bill, as in pigeons and plovers.
- samlets
-
noun,
a young salmon.
- osselet
-
noun,
a hard nodule on the leg of a horse, especially one on the inner side of the knee or the outer side of the fetlock.
- sclero-
-
- scleras
-
noun,
a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- delates
-
verb (used with object),
Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- locator
-
noun,
a person who locates something.
- Delores
-
noun,
a female given name.
- locates
-
verb (used with object),
to identify or discover the place or location of:
- Delorme
-
noun,
Philibert [fee-lee-ber] /fi liˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1515?–70, French architect.
- delouse
-
verb (used with object),
to free of lice; remove lice from.
- loaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- leucoma
-
noun,
leukoma.
- osteoma
-
noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- Scarlet
-
noun,
a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- Demerol
-
- scalers
-
noun,
a person or thing that scales.
- demotes
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- ostlers
-
noun,
hostler.
- dermat-
-
- relator
-
noun,
a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- Samoset
-
noun,
died 1653? North American Indian leader: aided Pilgrims during early years in New England.
- salutes
-
noun,
Military.
the special act of respect paid in saluting.
the position of the hand or rifle in saluting:
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- rasters
-
noun,
Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- Lautrec
-
noun,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri.
- ramrods
-
noun,
a rod for ramming down the charge of a muzzleloading firearm.
- rouster
-
noun,
roustabout (def 1).
- Roussel
-
noun,
Albert (Charles Paul Mari) [al-ber sharl pawl ma-ree] /alˈbɛr ʃarl pɔl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, French composer.
- Roulers
-
noun,
a city in NW Belgium: battles 1914, 1918.
- roulade
-
noun,
a musical embellishment consisting of a rapid succession of tones sung to a single syllable.
- Rotorua
-
noun,
a city on N central North Island, in New Zealand.
- Ducasse
-
noun,
Jean Jules Amable Roger- [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh raw-zhey] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), Roger-Ducasse, Jean Jules Amable.
- rasures
-
noun,
an erasure.
- Rameses
-
noun,
Ramses (def 1).
- rostrum
-
noun,
any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- larders
-
noun,
a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
- rostral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a rostrum.
- rosters
-
noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- reactor
-
noun,
a person or thing that reacts or undergoes reaction.
- roseola
-
noun,
a kind of rose-colored rash.
- dulcets
-
noun,
an organ stop resembling the dulciana but an octave higher.
- readers
-
noun,
a person who reads.
- Drosera
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous plants of the genus Drosera, having leaves covered with sticky hairs, comprising the sundews.
- dromous
-
- outrace
-
verb (used with object),
to race or run faster than:
- dorsers
-
noun,
dosser1 .
- doormat
-
noun,
a mat, usually placed before a door or other entrance, for people arriving to wipe their shoes on before entering.
- outsoar
-
verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- Salters
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- dormers
-
noun,
Also called dormer window. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.
- outsold
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of outsell.
- outsole
-
noun,
the outer sole of a shoe.
- dorsals
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dorsal speech sound.
- lecture
-
noun,
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject:
- lectors
-
noun,
a lecturer in a college or university.
- radomes
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- rustles
-
noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- racemes
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- rustler
-
noun,
a cattle thief.
- dousers
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- ruderal
-
noun,
a ruderal plant.
- dreamer
-
noun,
a person who dreams.
- leaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- routers
-
noun,
any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- Dresser
-
noun,
a person who dresses.
- costard
-
noun,
a large English variety of apple.
- molders
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- Euratom
-
noun,
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
- ulsters
-
noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- coatees
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- treadle
-
noun,
a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- astrol.
-
- coaster
-
noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- coarser
-
adjective,
of or relating to a topology on a topological space whose open sets are included among the open sets of a second specified topology on the space.
- soucars
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- acetous
-
adjective,
containing or producing acetic acid.
- teasers
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- coalers
-
noun,
a railroad, ship, etc., used mainly to haul or supply coal.
- teasels
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- tearoom
-
noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- aureole
-
noun,
a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- acerous
-
adjective,
acerose1 .
- Auslese
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a wine made in Germany from carefully selected ripe grapes.
- cluster
-
noun,
a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch:
- souters
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- cloture
-
noun,
a method of closing a debate and causing an immediate vote to be taken on the question.
- stardom
-
noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- closure
-
noun,
the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- closets
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- austere
-
adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- closers
-
noun,
a person or thing that closes.
- Austro-
-
- aldoses
-
noun,
a sugar containing the aldehyde group or its hemiacetal equivalent.
- assured
-
noun,
Insurance.
the beneficiary under a policy.
the person whose life or property is covered by a policy.
- treacle
-
noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- taluses
-
noun,
the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
- colours
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- armrest
-
noun,
a projecting, often padded support for the forearm, as at the side of a chair or sofa or between seats in a theater, car, or airplane.
- tessera
-
noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- comates
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- armures
-
noun,
a woolen or silk fabric woven with a small, raised pattern.
- arouses
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- traduce
-
verb (used with object),
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame:
- arrests
-
noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- colures
-
noun,
either of two great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting each other at the poles, one passing through both equinoxes and the other through both solstices.
- solutes
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- colters
-
noun,
a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.
- terrace
-
noun,
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- artless
-
adjective,
free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous:
- acerose
-
adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- colored
-
noun,
Older Use: Offensive.
a black person.
the colored, black people as a group.
- somato-
-
- colmars
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Haut-Rhin, in NE France.
- almuces
-
noun,
a furred hood or hooded cape with long ends hanging down in front, formerly worn by the clergy.
- termors
-
noun,
a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- termers
-
noun,
a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination):
- teredos
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- coeloms
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- sororal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterly.
- tercels
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- sorrels
-
noun,
light reddish-brown.
- assumed
-
adjective,
adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned:
- starred
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- cleomes
-
noun,
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
- armored
-
noun,
any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- castles
-
noun,
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- carters
-
noun,
Bennett Lester ("Benny") 1907–2003, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- cermets
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- cereous
-
adjective,
waxlike.
- sucrose
-
noun,
a crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.
- cerato-
-
- caseous
-
adjective,
of or like cheese.
- cerates
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- trouser
-
noun,
a leg of a pair of trousers.
- sucrase
-
noun,
invertase.
- cerated
-
adjective,
covered with wax.
- casters
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- stomous
-
- sterols
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- castors
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- strumas
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- caterer
-
noun,
one whose business is to provide food, supplies, and sometimes service at social gatherings.
- catouse
-
noun,
New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- caudles
-
noun,
a warm drink for the sick, as of wine or ale mixed with eggs, bread, sugar, spices, etc.
- Admetus
-
noun,
a Thessalian king, one of the Argonauts and husband of Alcestis.
- Celesta
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
- strudel
-
noun,
a pastry, usually consisting of a fruit, cheese, or other mixture, rolled in a paper-thin sheet of dough and baked.
- strouds
-
noun,
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- tsardom
-
noun,
czardom.
- trussed
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- cartels
-
noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- trocars
-
noun,
a sharp-pointed instrument enclosed in a cannula, used for withdrawing fluid from a cavity, as the abdominal cavity.
- talcose
-
adjective,
containing or composed largely of talc.
- camlets
-
noun,
a durable, waterproof cloth, especially for outerwear.
- tremolo
-
noun,
a tremulous or vibrating effect produced on certain instruments and in the human voice, as to express emotion.
- steamed
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- Alceste
-
noun,
an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- Calumet
-
noun,
a long-stemmed, ornamented tobacco pipe used by North American Indians on ceremonial occasions, especially in token of peace.
- sutlers
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- clarets
-
noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- surreal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- Camelot
-
noun,
the legendary site of King Arthur's palace and court, possibly near Exeter, England.
- stearo-
-
- clamors
-
noun,
a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people:
- surcoat
-
noun,
a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- carroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Aetolus
-
noun,
son of Endymion and founder of Aetolia.
- turacos
-
noun,
touraco.
- tressed
-
adjective,
(of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.
- Aerosol
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a system of colloidal particles dispersed in a gas; smoke or fog.
- actress
-
noun,
a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
- Carolus
-
noun,
any of various coins issued under monarchs named Charles, especially the broad of Charles I of England.
- sulcate
-
adjective,
having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- carouse
-
noun,
carousal.
- stereo-
-
- cesuras
-
noun,
caesura.
- carrels
-
noun,
Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
- cestode
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- armours
-
noun,
armor.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- tracers
-
noun,
a person or thing that traces.
- solders
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- comedos
-
noun,
a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- ureases
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- Ardmore
-
noun,
a city in S Oklahoma.
- uromere
-
noun,
any segment of the abdomen of an arthropod.
- Cordele
-
noun,
a city in SW Georgia.
- corrals
-
noun,
an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- tousles
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- tousled
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- Socotra
-
noun,
an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- correl.
-
- smolder
-
noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- corrode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- smelter
-
noun,
a person or thing that smelts.
- torulas
-
noun,
a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- toledos
-
noun,
Francisco de [frahn-sees-kaw th e] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1515–84? Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.
- traders
-
noun,
a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
- areoles
-
noun,
an areola.
- corslet
-
noun,
corselet (def 2).
- toreros
-
noun,
a bullfighter, especially a matador.
- ureters
-
noun,
a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- torsade
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- cormels
-
noun,
a small new corm that is vegetatively propagated by a fully mature corm.
- cordate
-
adjective,
heart-shaped:
- corrade
-
verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- amulets
-
noun,
a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.
- armless
-
adjective,
lacking an arm or arms:
- touraco
-
noun,
any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- amorous
-
adjective,
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love:
- armlets
-
noun,
an ornamental band worn on the arm, especially a bracelet worn high on the arm, rather than on the wrist.
- solaces
-
noun,
comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
- tomcods
-
noun,
either of two small cods, Microgadus tomcod, of the Atlantic Ocean, or M. proximus, of the Pacific Ocean.
- amerces
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- corsets
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- solates
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- Soleure
-
noun,
French name of Solothurn.
- comrade
-
noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- result
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- suedes
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- Carlos
-
noun,
Don [don;; Spanish dawn] /dɒn;; Spanish dɔn/ (Show IPA), (Carlos Maria Isidro de Borbón) 1788–1855, pretender to the Spanish throne.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- educts
-
noun,
something educed; eduction.
- ormolu
-
noun,
Also called mosaic gold. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- carrot
-
noun,
a plant, Daucus carota, of the parsley family, having pinnately decompound leaves and umbels of small white or yellow flowers, in its wild form a widespread, familiar weed, and in cultivation valued for its edible root.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- ormers
-
noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- Carmel
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain range in NW Israel, near the Mediterranean coast. Highest point, 1818 feet (554 meters). 14 miles (23 km) long.
- resort
-
noun,
a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:
- edemas
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- trocar
-
noun,
a sharp-pointed instrument enclosed in a cannula, used for withdrawing fluid from a cavity, as the abdominal cavity.
- educes
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- carrom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Edessa
-
noun,
an ancient city in NW Mesopotamia, on the modern site of Urfa: an early center of Christianity; the capital of a principality under the Crusaders.
- Carrel
-
noun,
Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
- Carole
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lurcat
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- tousle
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mascle
-
noun,
a lozenge represented as having a lozenge-shaped hole at the center.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- eluate
-
noun,
a liquid solution resulting from eluting.
- surras
-
noun,
an often fatal infectious disease of horses, camels, elephants, and dogs caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by the bite of horseflies, characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- oscars
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- Elodea
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- torses
-
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.
- resale
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- sutler
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- Eluard
-
noun,
Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Eugène Grindel) 1895–1952, French poet.
- 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.
- rescue
-
noun,
the act of rescuing.
- reread
-
noun,
the act of reading something again.
- eludes
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade:
Synonyms: shun, dodge.
- lustre
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- amulet
-
noun,
a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.
- Martel
-
noun,
a hammerlike, shafted weapon having a head with a point at one end and a blunt face at the other.
- elutes
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- remuda
-
noun,
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- sutras
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- tremor
-
noun,
involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- elects
-
noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- eldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- elated
-
adjective,
very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits:
- elater
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- caress
-
noun,
an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- elates
-
adjective,
elated.
- reseau
-
noun,
a network.
- carses
-
noun,
bottom land.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- career
-
noun,
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
- camlet
-
noun,
a durable, waterproof cloth, especially for outerwear.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- looses
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- elect.
-
- torsos
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- luster
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- Ortler
-
noun,
a range of the Alps in N Italy.
- Muscat
-
noun,
a variety of grape having a pronounced sweet aroma and flavor, used for making wine and raisins.
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- tracer
-
noun,
a person or thing that traces.
- retard
-
noun,
a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.
- Carter
-
noun,
Bennett Lester ("Benny") 1907–2003, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- torula
-
noun,
a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- lucres
-
noun,
monetary reward or gain; money.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- rooter
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that roots, as with the snout.
- rooted
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- roosts
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- duress
-
noun,
compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- strums
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- durocs
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- rooses
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- durras
-
noun,
a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- Duster
-
noun,
a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- roomer
-
noun,
a person who lives in a rented room; lodger.
- Romulo
-
noun,
Carlos Pena [kahr-laws pe-nah] /ˈkɑr lɔs ˈpɛ nɑ/ (Show IPA), 1901–85, Philippine diplomat, journalist, and educator.
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- caudle
-
noun,
a warm drink for the sick, as of wine or ale mixed with eggs, bread, sugar, spices, etc.
- murras
-
noun,
a mineral or stone used in ancient Rome for making fine vases, cups, etc.: believed to have been fluorite.
- Stroud
-
noun,
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- ductor
-
noun,
the roller that conveys ink in a press from the ink reservoir to the distributor.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- rostra
-
noun,
a plural of rostrum.
- causes
-
noun,
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:
- roster
-
noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- Rosser
-
noun,
a logger who peels the bark from, and often smooths one side of, a log so that it may be dragged easily.
- murder
-
noun,
Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- rosets
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- dulcet
-
noun,
an organ stop resembling the dulciana but an octave higher.
- duomos
-
noun,
cathedral, especially in Italy.
- omelet
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- caulds
-
adjective, noun,
cold.
- dulses
-
noun,
a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata.
- oleate
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- oodles
-
noun,
a large quantity:
- louses
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- oracle
-
noun,
(especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- murres
-
noun,
either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
- ecoles
-
noun,
school1 .
- Caruso
-
noun,
Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1921, Italian operatic tenor.
- retro-
-
- eclats
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- orders
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- retral
-
adjective,
at or toward the back; posterior.
- oldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- touses
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- ordure
-
noun,
dung; manure; excrement.
- retool
-
verb (used with object),
to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- losers
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Aeolus
-
noun,
the ruler of the winds.
- cartel
-
noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- sudser
-
noun,
a soap opera.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- sucres
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- roemer
-
noun,
a German wineglass having a body with a globular top and a cylindrical bottom often decorated with prunts, supported by a conical foot.
- amoles
-
noun,
the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
- rodeos
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- roasts
-
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.
- Castle
-
noun,
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- castes
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- masto-
-
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- Cassel
-
noun,
Kassel.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- orator
-
noun,
a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence:
- roadeo
-
noun,
a competition, usually held annually, for professional truck drivers testing driving skill.
- r-less
-
adjective,
r-dropping.
- easels
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- ordeal
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- Reuter
-
noun,
Paul Julius, Baron de, 1816–99, English founder of an international news agency, born in Germany.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- reuses
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- reused
-
adjective,
noting wool that previously has been spun, woven, and used.
- Calder
-
noun,
Alexander, 1898–1976, U.S. sculptor; originator of mobiles.
- ocular
-
noun,
Optics. eyepiece.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- termor
-
noun,
a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- MAeroE
-
- lameds
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- ocelot
-
noun,
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- termer
-
noun,
a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination):
- tomcod
-
noun,
either of two small cods, Microgadus tomcod, of the Atlantic Ocean, or M. proximus, of the Pacific Ocean.
- ascots
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- Reader
-
noun,
a person who reads.
- reamer
-
noun,
any of various rotary tools, with helical or straight flutes, for finishing or enlarging holes drilled in metal.
- Toluca
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Mexico state, in S central Mexico.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- maduro
-
adjective,
strong and darkly colored.
- almuce
-
noun,
a furred hood or hooded cape with long ends hanging down in front, formerly worn by the clergy.
- larder
-
noun,
a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
- madres
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Laredo
-
noun,
a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- raters
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- larees
-
noun,
lari.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- Lesser
-
noun,
a small amount, quantity, or degree:
- Madero
-
noun,
Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- assoc.
-
- assure
-
verb (used with object),
to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to:
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- ardors
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- record
-
noun,
an act of recording.
- assume
-
verb (used with object),
to take for granted or without proof:
Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- Temuco
-
noun,
a city in S Chile.
- recess
-
noun,
temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- assort
-
verb (used with object),
to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- lessor
-
noun,
a person, group, etc., who grants a lease.
- rearms
-
verb (used with object),
to arm again.
- tercel
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- trader
-
noun,
a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
- lacto-
-
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- almost
-
adverb,
very nearly; all but:
- almous
-
noun,
alms.
- areole
-
noun,
an areola.
- ratels
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- McAdoo
-
noun,
William Gibbs, 1863–1941, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1913–18.
- to-dos
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- oculo-
-
- radome
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- leader
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- racers
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- Maced.
-
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- teslas
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- arrest
-
noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- leases
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- raceme
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- leasts
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- armure
-
noun,
a woolen or silk fabric woven with a small, raised pattern.
- lector
-
noun,
a lecturer in a college or university.
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- armlet
-
noun,
an ornamental band worn on the arm, especially a bracelet worn high on the arm, rather than on the wrist.
- Armour
-
noun,
armor.
- armors
-
noun,
any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- Aloeus
-
noun,
a son of Poseidon, husband of Iphimedia, and foster father of Otus and Ephialtes.
- macles
-
noun,
chiastolite.
- larums
-
noun,
alarum.
- octads
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- lemurs
-
noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- Rasure
-
noun,
an erasure.
- rastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- artels
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- raster
-
noun,
Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- rassle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- Tralee
-
noun,
a city in and the county seat of Kerry, in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- macule
-
noun,
mackle.
- Toledo
-
noun,
Francisco de [frahn-sees-kaw th e] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1515–84? Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- terras
-
noun,
earth; land.
- Lemass
-
noun,
Seán Francis [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1899–1971, prime minister of Ireland 1959–66.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- Odessa
-
noun,
a seaport in S Ukraine, on the Black Sea.
- macro-
-
- ramrod
-
noun,
a rod for ramming down the charge of a muzzleloading firearm.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- Lauder
-
noun,
Sir Harry (MacLennan) [muh-klen-uh n] /məˈklɛn ən/ (Show IPA), 1870–1950, Scottish balladeer and composer.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ousels
-
noun,
ouzel.
- rectal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- locust
-
noun,
Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
- relate
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- tarso-
-
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- luteo-
-
- eroto-
-
- austr-
-
- locate
-
verb (used with object),
to identify or discover the place or location of:
- amused
-
adjective,
pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted.
- lutose
-
adjective,
covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- treasr
-
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Marcus
-
noun,
Saint. Also, Mark. died a.d. 336, pope 336.
- Alecto
-
noun,
one of the Furies.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- Tarsus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
- reduct
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce.
- eructs
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- osteal
-
adjective,
osseous.
- osteo-
-
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- tassel
-
noun,
a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- eraser
-
noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- Caelum
-
noun,
the Sculptor's Tool, or Chisel, a small southern constellation between Columba and Eridanus.
- remora
-
noun,
any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.
- Tadmor
-
noun,
Biblical name of Palmyra.
- cadres
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- muscle
-
noun,
a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- Cadmus
-
noun,
Paul, 1904–1999, U.S. painter and etcher.
- cadets
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- alders
-
- relume
-
verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- talers
-
noun,
thaler.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- locums
-
noun,
locum tenens.
- erases
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Talmud
-
noun,
the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.
- mussel
-
noun,
any bivalve mollusk, especially an edible marine bivalve of the family Mytilidae and a freshwater clam of the family Unionidae.
- Musset
-
noun,
(Louis Charles) Alfred de [lwee sharl al-fred duh] /lwi ʃarl alˈfrɛd də/ (Show IPA), 1810–57, French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
- osmose
-
noun,
osmosis.
- aldose
-
noun,
a sugar containing the aldehyde group or its hemiacetal equivalent.
- reluct
-
verb (used without object),
to struggle (against something); rebel.
- marled
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- alters
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- loader
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- Euless
-
noun,
a city in N Texas.
- recurs
-
verb (used without object),
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- estral
-
adjective,
estrous.
- alerts
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- estrus
-
noun,
Also, estrum [es-truh m] /ˈɛs trəm/ (Show IPA), oestrus. the period of heat or rut; the period of maximum sexual receptivity of the female.
- astro-
-
- redact
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- recuse
-
verb (used with object),
to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- Aletes
-
noun,
a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- teledu
-
noun,
a small, dark-brown, badgerlike mammal, Mydaus javensis, of the mountains of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, having a white stripe down the back, and ejecting a foul-smelling secretion when alarmed.
- leuco-
-
- estocs
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- rectus
-
noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- etudes
-
noun,
a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique.
- Leucas
-
noun,
Levkas.
- rectum
-
noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- teleo-
-
- malted
-
noun,
malted milk.
- Eudora
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rectos
-
- Rector
-
noun,
a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- tauro-
-
- Escaut
-
noun,
French name of Scheldt.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- Marcel
-
noun,
a marcelling.
- escudo
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- reduce
-
verb (used with object),
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
- Esdras
-
noun,
either of the first two books of the Apocrypha, I Esdras or II Esdras.
- alerce
-
noun,
the wood of the sandarac tree.
- esters
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- ceases
-
noun,
cessation:
- torero
-
noun,
a bullfighter, especially a matador.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- oedema
-
noun,
edema.
- redout
-
noun,
a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Tooele
-
noun,
a town in NW Utah.
- odours
-
noun,
odor.
- teasel
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- rouses
-
noun,
a rousing.
- oleums
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- coelom
-
noun,
the body cavity of higher metazoans, between the body wall and intestine, lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- urases
-
noun,
urease.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- cursed
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curses
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- cursor
-
noun,
Digital Technology. a movable, sometimes blinking, symbol that indicates the position on a display screen where the next character entered from the keyboard will appear, or where user action is needed.
- sealer
-
noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- curtal
-
noun,
a 16th-century bassoon.
- sorels
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- cussed
-
noun,
curse word; oath.
- metal.
-
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- Custer
-
noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- sorrel
-
noun,
light reddish-brown.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- custos
-
noun,
(italics) Latin. a custodian.
- morels
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- scutes
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- Cutler
-
noun,
a person who makes, sells, or repairs knives and other cutting instruments.
- ultras
-
noun,
an extremist, as in politics, religion, fashion, etc.
- Searle
-
noun,
Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- curler
-
noun,
a person or thing that curls.
- scrums
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- morass
-
noun,
a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- sedate
-
adjective,
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:
- secure
-
adjective,
free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- colter
-
noun,
a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.
- cuesta
-
noun,
a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- metro-
-
- culets
-
noun,
Jewelry. a small face forming the bottom of a faceted gem.
- somat-
-
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- colous
-
- Somers
-
- colour
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- Curare
-
noun,
a blackish, resinlike substance derived from tropical plants of the genus Strychnos, especially S. toxifera, and from the root of pareira, used by certain South American Indians for poisoning arrows and employed in physiological experiments, medicine, etc., for arresting the action of motor nerves.
- colors
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- curate
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- curdle
-
Idioms,
curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:
- Colmar
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Haut-Rhin, in NE France.
- Coleus
-
noun,
any of several tropical Asian or African plants belonging to the genus Coleus, of the mint family, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy, colored foliage and blue flowers.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- curets
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- aceous
-
- mescal
-
noun,
an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- seders
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- ultra-
-
- merlot
-
noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- scoto-
-
- coaler
-
noun,
a railroad, ship, etc., used mainly to haul or supply coal.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- merles
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- scores
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- dealer
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- source
-
noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- scoots
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- morula
-
noun,
the mass of cells resulting from the cleavage of the ovum before the formation of a blastula.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- Scotus
-
noun,
John Duns, Duns Scotus, John.
- scolds
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- decals
-
noun,
a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- soused
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- Ulster
-
noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- Mercer
-
noun,
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
- clouts
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- stades
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- Clouds
-
noun,
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- datums
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- aceto-
-
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scrods
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- screes
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- morsel
-
noun,
a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- mortal
-
noun,
a human being.
- merous
-
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- scrams
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- scours
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- damsel
-
noun,
a young woman or girl; a maiden, originally one of gentle or noble birth.
- scouts
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- coated
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- sotols
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- darter
-
noun,
a person or thing that darts or moves swiftly.
- coasts
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- dartle
-
verb (used with or without object),
to dart or shoot forth repeatedly.
- soucar
-
noun,
a Hindu banker.
- mortar
-
noun,
a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
- Scouse
-
noun,
a baked dish or stew made usually with meat and hardtack.
- dastur
-
noun,
a Parsee chief priest.
- colure
-
noun,
either of two great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting each other at the poles, one passing through both equinoxes and the other through both solstices.
- seduce
-
verb (used with object),
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- Merced
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- utero-
-
- corers
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- modulo
-
adverb,
with respect to a modulus:
- cradle
-
noun,
a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- slates
-
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.
- Slater
-
noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- module
-
noun,
a separable component, frequently one that is interchangeable with others, for assembly into units of differing size, complexity, or function.
- Crater
-
noun,
the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- corals
-
noun,
the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
- Soares
-
noun,
Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- socles
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- setula
-
noun,
a short, blunt seta.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- smolts
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- cormel
-
noun,
a small new corm that is vegetatively propagated by a fully mature corm.
- sesame
-
noun,
a tropical, herbaceous plant, Sesamum indicum, whose small oval seeds are edible and yield an oil.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- cosets
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- cosmo-
-
- COSMOS
-
noun,
the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.
- molars
-
noun,
Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- cosset
-
noun,
a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
- smalts
-
noun,
a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- costal
-
adjective,
Anatomy. pertaining to the ribs or the upper sides of the body:
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- costo-
-
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- corses
-
noun,
corpse.
- smalto
-
noun,
colored glass or similar vitreous material used in mosaic.
- corral
-
noun,
an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- molest
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- cotula
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a measure.
- Slocum
-
noun,
Joshua, 1844–c1910, U.S. mariner, author, and lecturer, born in Nova Scotia.
- sleets
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- coulee
-
noun,
Chiefly Western U.S. and Western Canada. a deep ravine or gulch, usually dry, that has been formed by running water.
- smelts
-
noun,
any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
- creels
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- cooler
-
noun,
a container or apparatus, as an insulated chest, in which something may be cooled or kept cool.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- select
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- moodle
-
- seracs
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- moolas
-
noun,
money.
- crudes
-
noun,
crude oil.
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- Comdr.
-
- cruors
-
noun,
coagulated blood, or the portion of the blood that forms the clot.
- crural
-
adjective,
of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
- soleus
-
noun,
a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- comals
-
noun,
a griddle made from sandstone or earthenware.
- seldom
-
adverb,
on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often:
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- solums
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- solute
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- morale
-
noun,
emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.:
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- sedums
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- morals
-
noun,
the moral teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc.
- Comdt.
-
- comedo
-
noun,
a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- sodoms
-
noun,
an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- solder
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- solace
-
noun,
comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- Cremer
-
noun,
Sir William Randal, 1838–1908, English union organizer: Nobel Peace Prize 1903.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- Creole
-
noun,
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- solate
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- cresol
-
noun,
any of three isomeric compounds having the formula C 7 H 8 O, usually derived from coal tar and wood tar, and used chiefly as a disinfectant.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- crests
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- ureter
-
noun,
a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- Creusa
-
noun,
the bride to be of Jason, slain by Medea.
- Creuse
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2165 sq. mi. (5605 sq. km). Capital: Guéret.
- serous
-
adjective,
resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- Cromer
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Evelyn Baring.
- serosa
-
noun,
Embryology, Zoology.
the chorion.
a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.
- crores
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- cross-
-
- Crosse
-
noun,
a long-handled racket used in the game of lacrosse.
- Solera
-
noun,
(especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- stadle
-
noun,
staddle.
- acetum
-
noun,
a preparation having vinegar or dilute acetic acid as the solvent.
- stales
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- cestas
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- Tumaco
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Colombia.
- Sardou
-
noun,
Victorien [veek-taw-ryen] /vik tɔˈryɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1831–1908, French dramatist.
- medlar
-
noun,
a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- cesura
-
noun,
caesura.
- cestus
-
noun,
a girdle or belt, especially as worn by women of ancient Greece.
- sarco-
-
- dolmas
-
noun,
a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.
- Admete
-
noun,
a daughter of Eurystheus for whom Hercules took the golden girdle of Ares from Hippolyte.
- closet
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- sarees
-
noun,
sari.
- dolors
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- Samuel
-
noun,
a judge and prophet of Israel. I Sam. 1–3; 8–15.
- steres
-
- mouses
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- mudcat
-
noun,
flathead catfish.
- samlet
-
noun,
a young salmon.
- rulers
-
noun,
a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
- ceruse
-
noun,
a pigment composed of white lead.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- steles
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- acutes
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- dreamt
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- Cetura
-
noun,
Keturah.
- deuto-
-
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- sauces
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- stools
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- saucer
-
noun,
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- sauced
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Dreams
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- Doctor
-
noun,
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- celure
-
noun,
an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- Sartre
-
noun,
Jean-Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ˈpɔl/ (Show IPA), 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.
- moults
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- mudras
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- sarods
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- ceorls
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- Medusa
-
noun,
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- salute
-
noun,
Military.
the special act of respect paid in saluting.
the position of the hand or rifle in saluting:
- mousse
-
noun,
Cookery.
a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold:
an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish:
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- sacro-
-
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- dorso-
-
- dorsum
-
noun,
the back, as of the body.
- measle
-
noun,
singular of measles (def 3).
- dorter
-
noun,
a dormitory, especially in a monastery.
- adeems
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- Tulare
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- sacrum
-
noun,
a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- dossal
-
noun,
Also, dorsal. an ornamental hanging placed at the back of an altar or at the sides of the chancel.
- Tulear
-
noun,
a city on SW Madagascar.
- dosser
-
noun,
a basket for carrying objects on the back; pannier.
- douras
-
noun,
durra.
- sacred
-
adjective,
devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- russet
-
noun,
yellowish brown, light brown, or reddish brown.
- Russo-
-
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- doumas
-
noun,
duma.
- cerat-
-
- stomas
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- dorser
-
noun,
dosser1 .
- rumors
-
noun,
a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts:
- Dracut
-
noun,
a city in NE Massachusetts.
- stolas
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- saltus
-
noun,
oscillation (def 5b).
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- mucosa
-
noun,
mucous membrane.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- mucors
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- douter
-
noun,
an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- Dorcas
-
noun,
a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for the poor. Acts 9:36–41.
- cereal
-
noun,
any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn.
- Salter
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- douses
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- salted
-
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.
- dormer
-
noun,
Also called dormer window. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- Cereus
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Cereus, of the cactus family, having large, usually white, funnel-shaped flowers.
- douser
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- Salome
-
noun,
Also, Salomé. the daughter of Herodias, who is said to have danced for Herod Antipas and so pleased him that he granted her mother's request for the head of John the Baptist. Matt. 14:6–11 (not mentioned by name here).
- dorsal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dorsal speech sound.
- celto-
-
- router
-
noun,
any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- mulcts
-
noun,
a fine, especially for a misdemeanor.
- stours
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- cleats
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- steads
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- Straus
-
noun,
Isidor, 1845–1912, U.S. retail merchant and politician, born in Bavaria: congressman 1894–95 (brother of Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus).
- clears
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- sumacs
-
noun,
any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- steals
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- scares
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- melter
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- Duarte
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- clause
-
noun,
Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- McLeod
-
- Scales
-
noun,
Zoology.
one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.
one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- Claude
-
noun,
Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
- clasts
-
noun,
a grain of sediment, silt, sand, gravel, etc., especially as a constituent fragment of a clastic rock formation, as distinguished from a chemical or biogenic component of such a formation.
- demote
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- scaler
-
noun,
a person or thing that scales.
- demure
-
adjective,
characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- class.
-
- Cedars
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- Cleome
-
noun,
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
- scaled
-
noun,
Zoology.
one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.
one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- murals
-
noun,
a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- closes
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- closer
-
noun,
a person or thing that closes.
- molder
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- closed
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- ducats
-
noun,
any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, especially that first issued in Venice in 1284.
Compare sequin (def 2).
- Cloots
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (Show IPA), Baron de ("Anacharsis Clootz") 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Cloete
-
noun,
Stuart, 1897–1976, South African novelist, born in France.
- tussle
-
noun,
a rough physical contest or struggle; scuffle.
- scarts
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- sclera
-
noun,
a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- scler-
-
- tussal
-
adjective,
pertaining to tussis.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- scato-
-
- delate
-
verb (used with object),
Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- Cletus
-
noun,
Anacletus.
- rotors
-
noun,
Electricity. a rotating member of a machine.
Compare stator (def 1).
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- demurs
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- scalds
-
noun,
a burn caused by the action of hot liquid or steam.
- Dessau
-
noun,
a city in NE central Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the capital of Anhalt.
- celoms
-
noun,
coelom.
- stores
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- dromos
-
noun,
Archaeology. a passageway into an ancient subterranean tomb.
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- rousts
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- muleta
-
noun,
a red cloth similar to but smaller than a capa and manipulated by a stick set into one of the three holes in or near the center, for use by a matador in guiding the course of the bull's attack in the stage of the fight preparatory to the kill.
- clamor
-
noun,
a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people:
- turco-
-
- steeds
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- clado-
-
- Melder
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- steels
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- detour
-
noun,
a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarily when the main route is closed.
- turaco
-
noun,
touraco.
- saurel
-
noun,
any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- deuces
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- saults
-
noun,
a waterfall or rapid.
- drools
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- sautes
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- desalt
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the salt from (especially sea water), usually to make it drinkable.
- storms
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- across
-
adverb,
from one side to another.
- dermal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the skin.
- dermas
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- claros
-
noun,
such a cigar.
- claret
-
noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- Storrs
-
noun,
a town in NE Connecticut.
- dermo-
-
- rustle
-
noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- clares
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- molet
-
noun,
mullet2 .
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- murre
-
noun,
either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
- molds
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- truss
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- mulct
-
noun,
a fine, especially for a misdemeanor.
- mudra
-
noun,
Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- oleo-
-
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- USLTA
-
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- Truro
-
noun,
a town in central Nova Scotia, in SE Canada.
- murra
-
noun,
a mineral or stone used in ancient Rome for making fine vases, cups, etc.: believed to have been fluorite.
- USSCt
-
- mural
-
noun,
a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- molto
-
adverb,
very:
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- octal
-
noun,
octonary (def 6).
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- Morel
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- moror
-
noun,
maror.
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- treed
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- ulcer
-
noun,
Pathology. a sore on the skin or a mucous membrane, accompanied by the disintegration of tissue, the formation of pus, etc.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- treas
-
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- mosso
-
adjective,
rapid; fast.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Mosul
-
noun,
a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- musts
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- muted
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- turds
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- motel
-
noun,
a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- MOTOS
-
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- molts
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- odour
-
noun,
odor.
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- Tudor
-
noun,
Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- Uredo
-
noun,
a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
- odeum
-
noun,
a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- moola
-
noun,
money.
- mools
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- tules
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- muco-
-
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- moult
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- octa-
-
- octad
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- ocul-
-
- Tulsa
-
noun,
a city in NE Oklahoma: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Musca
-
noun,
the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.
- moral
-
noun,
the moral teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc.
- octo-
-
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- oleum
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- sates
-
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.
- sauce
-
noun,
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- Sauls
-
noun,
the first king of Israel. I Sam. 9.
- Sault
-
noun,
a waterfall or rapid.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- scads
-
noun,
any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- scald
-
noun,
a burn caused by the action of hot liquid or steam.
- scale
-
noun,
Zoology.
one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.
one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scams
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- Sarre
-
noun,
French name of Saar.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- scat-
-
- scats
-
noun,
scat singing.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- Starr
-
noun,
Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 1848–89, U.S. outlaw and folk hero.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- Srta.
-
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- scold
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- Sousa
-
noun,
John Philip, 1854–1932, U.S. band conductor and composer.
- 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.
- Saros
-
noun,
the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- rusts
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stood
-
noun,
the act of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position.
- Rudra
-
noun,
father of the storm gods and controller of the powers of nature.
- ruler
-
noun,
a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- rumal
-
noun,
a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- Rumor
-
noun,
a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts:
- rural
-
noun,
a person who lives in a rural area.
- stome
-
- Sadoc
-
noun,
Zadok.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Salus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of health and prosperity: identified with the Greek goddess Hygeia.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- sards
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- ster.
-
- sarc-
-
- SAMOS
-
noun,
a Greek island in the E Aegean. 194 sq. mi. (502 sq. km).
- salud
-
interjection,
(used after a person has sneezed or as a toast.)
- Salem
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Massachusetts: founded 1626; execution of persons accused of being witches 1692; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- salts
-
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.
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- stola
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- Salto
-
noun,
a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- 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).
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- sours
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Scot.
-
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- solar
-
noun,
Informal. solar energy.
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- solus
-
adjective,
(referring to a man) alone; by oneself (used formerly in stage directions).
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- solum
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- Selma
-
noun,
a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- sero-
-
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- soldo
-
noun,
a former copper coin of Italy, the twentieth part of a lira, equal to five centesimi.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- seeds
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Sodom
-
noun,
an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- sodas
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- socle
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- soars
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Smuts
-
noun,
Jan Christiaan [Dutch yahn kris-tee-ahn] /Dutch yɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1870–1950, South African statesman and general: prime minister 1919–24, 1939–48.
- slams
-
noun,
a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- 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.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- smolt
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- slues
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- sluts
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- smalt
-
noun,
a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Sedum
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- scuta
-
noun,
plural of scutum.
- SCOTS
-
noun,
Also called Scottish. the English language as spoken in Scotland.
Compare Scots Gaelic.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- so-so
-
adverb,
in an indifferent or passable manner; indifferently; tolerably.
- sorus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- scrum
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- scudo
-
noun,
any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
- scuds
-
noun,
the act of scudding.
- scums
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- soots
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- somas
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- sect.
-
- secos
-
noun,
sekos.
- seats
-
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.
- 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.
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- soras
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- sords
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- seals
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- scuts
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- rares
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- Tolar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- to-do
-
noun,
bustle; fuss:
- racer
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Radom
-
noun,
a city in E Poland.
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- 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.
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- terr.
-
- rater
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- realm
-
noun,
a royal domain; kingdom:
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- term.
-
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- rearm
-
verb (used with object),
to arm again.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outdo
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in execution or performance:
- rears
-
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- orals
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ordos
-
noun,
a desert plateau in the S Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in N China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- 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:
- orlos
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- ormer
-
noun,
an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- Oruro
-
noun,
a city in W Bolivia: a former capital, over 12,000 feet (3660 meters) high.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- ousts
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- oste-
-
- ORuss
-
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- osmo-
-
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- 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.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Reaum
-
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- stums
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- suras
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- sural
-
adjective,
of or relating to the calf of the leg.
- sumos
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- Sumac
-
noun,
any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- suets
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- restr
-
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- suede
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- retd.
-
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Sudra
-
noun,
Shudra.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- surds
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- rotor
-
noun,
Electricity. a rotating member of a machine.
Compare stator (def 1).
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- 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.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- roars
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- roods
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- rodeo
-
noun,
a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- 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.
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- surra
-
noun,
an often fatal infectious disease of horses, camels, elephants, and dogs caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by the bite of horseflies, characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- tera-
-
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- telo-
-
- rect.
-
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- recur
-
verb (used without object),
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- tele-
-
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- tears
-
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- Talos
-
noun,
a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- talcs
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- talus
-
noun,
the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- 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.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Russ.
-
abbreviation,
Russia.
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- lasts
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- Altus
-
noun,
a city in SW Oklahoma.
- lards
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- larum
-
noun,
alarum.
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- alto-
-
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- 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.
- lases
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- lasso
-
noun,
a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- currs
-
verb (used without object),
to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- curls
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- alums
-
noun,
Also called potash alum, potassium alum. a crystalline solid, aluminum potassium sulfate, K 2 SO 4 ⋅Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ⋅24H 2 O, used in medicine as an astringent and styptic, in dyeing and tanning, and in many technical processes.
- lated
-
adjective,
belated.
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- lauds
-
noun,
a song or hymn of praise.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- aloud
-
adverb,
with the normal tone and volume of the speaking voice, as distinguished from whisperingly:
- Alost
-
noun,
a city in central Belgium, NW of Brussels.
- curds
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- Cumae
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.
- culms
-
noun,
coal dust; slack.
- leads
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- culet
-
noun,
Jewelry. a small face forming the bottom of a faceted gem.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- lease
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- alum.
-
- alure
-
noun,
a passageway, as the walk along one side of a cloister.
- almes
-
noun,
almah.
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- dauts
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- datum
-
noun,
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- dates
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- AMORC
-
- etude
-
noun,
a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique.
- Euler
-
noun,
Leonhard [German ley-awn-hahrt] /German ˈleɪ ɔnˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1707–83, Swiss mathematician.
- darts
-
- Euro-
-
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Lamut
-
noun,
Even.
- Aust.
-
- Lamus
-
noun,
a son of Hercules and Omphale.
- lames
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- lamed
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- auto.
-
- daces
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- lades
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- lact-
-
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- laces
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- AMEDS
-
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- Amer.
-
- dames
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- amole
-
noun,
the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- Aleut
-
noun,
Also, Aleutian. a member of a people native to the Aleutian Islands and the western Alaska Peninsula who are related physically and culturally to the Eskimos.
- dealt
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- locum
-
noun,
locum tenens.
- locus
-
noun,
a place; locality.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- adsum
-
interjection,
I am present.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- looms
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- adult
-
noun,
a person who is fully grown or developed or of age.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- costs
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- lotas
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- could
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lords
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- crass
-
adjective,
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid:
- Lorca
-
noun,
García Lorca.
- locos
-
noun,
locoweed.
- adust
-
adjective,
dried or darkened as by heat.
- Aleus
-
noun,
a king of Tegea and the father of Amphidamas, Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus.
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- Cades
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- alecs
-
noun,
a herring.
- lect.
-
- Cadet
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lemur
-
noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- Alcor
-
- cruor
-
noun,
coagulated blood, or the portion of the blood that forms the clot.
- cress
-
noun,
any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
- calms
-
noun,
freedom from motion or disturbance; stillness.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- loams
-
noun,
a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- loads
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- crore
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- leuds
-
noun,
a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
- aero-
-
- leuc-
-
- crude
-
noun,
crude oil.
- cruds
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- cruel
-
adjective,
willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- deals
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- Dumas
-
noun,
Alexandre [a-lek-sahn-druh] /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə/ (Show IPA), ("Dumas père") 1802–70, and his son, Alexandre, (“Dumas fils”), 1824–95, French dramatists and novelists.
- duomo
-
noun,
cathedral, especially in Italy.
- dural
-
adjective,
of or relating to the dura mater.
- duras
-
noun,
dura mater.
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- Durer
-
noun,
Albrecht [ahl-brekht] /ˈɑl brɛxt/ (Show IPA), 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.
- dures
-
verb (used with or without object),
endure.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- Duroc
-
noun,
one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- duros
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- durra
-
noun,
a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- Durst
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- dorrs
-
noun,
dor1 .
- dusts
-
noun,
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- dulse
-
noun,
a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata.
- asco-
-
- atmo-
-
- dooms
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- Artur
-
noun,
a male given name.
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- domal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a domal sound.
- dolus
-
noun,
fraud; deceit, especially involving or evidencing evil intent (distinguished from culpa):
- dolts
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- dolor
-
noun,
sorrow; grief.
- dolma
-
noun,
a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.
- doses
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- Dulce
-
noun,
a female given name: from the Latin word meaning “sweet.”.
- dolce
-
noun,
an instruction to the performer that the music is to be executed softly and sweetly.
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- Assur
-
noun,
the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.
- asst.
-
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- drear
-
adjective,
dreary.
- drams
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- dress
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- drool
-
noun,
saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.
- dross
-
noun,
waste matter; refuse.
- Druse
-
noun,
an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral.
- duets
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- douce
-
adjective,
sedate; modest; quiet.
- Duero
-
noun,
Spanish name of Douro.
- duels
-
noun,
a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- Ascus
-
noun,
the sac in ascomycetes in which the sexual spores are formed.
- ducts
-
noun,
any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- duces
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- ducat
-
noun,
any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, especially that first issued in Venice in 1284.
Compare sequin (def 2).
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- douma
-
noun,
duma.
- Ducal
-
adjective,
of or relating to a duke or dukedom.
- duals
-
noun,
the dual number.
- doura
-
noun,
durra.
- Douro
-
noun,
a river in SW Europe, flowing W from N Spain through N Portugal to the Atlantic. About 475 miles (765 km) long.
- douse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- deca-
-
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- derm-
-
- elude
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade:
Synonyms: shun, dodge.
- Elura
-
noun,
Ellora.
- elute
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- arcus
-
noun,
a dense, horizontal, roll-shaped cloud sometimes occurring at the lower front portion of a cumulonimbus.
- demur
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- demo-
-
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- emuls
-
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- Delta
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ, δ).
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- decal
-
noun,
a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decl.
-
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- Errol
-
noun,
a male given name.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- derma
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- Elmer
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”.
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- armed
-
noun,
Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- armor
-
noun,
any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- molas
-
noun,
any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- eclat
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- ecol.
-
- Ecole
-
noun,
school1 .
- ectad
-
adverb,
outward.
- ectal
-
adjective,
external; outer; on the surface of.
- ecto-
-
- Ecua.
-
- edema
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- elem.
-
- ardor
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- desc.
-
- aulos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek wind instrument, a double pipe played with a double reed.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- deuce
-
noun,
Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- Deut.
-
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- areo-
-
- educt
-
noun,
something educed; eduction.
- educe
-
verb (used with object),
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- educ.
-
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- Dream
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- masc.
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- mast-
-
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matr-
-
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- mauds
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- mauls
-
noun,
a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- carls
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- Carol
-
noun,
a song, especially of joy.
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Meade
-
noun,
George Gordon, 1815–72, Union general in the American Civil War.
- Meads
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- clout
-
noun,
a blow, especially with the hand; cuff:
- CLOUD
-
noun,
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- clots
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- Close
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- cloot
-
noun,
a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
- cleat
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- clear
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- clast
-
noun,
a grain of sediment, silt, sand, gravel, etc., especially as a constituent fragment of a clastic rock formation, as distinguished from a chemical or biogenic component of such a formation.
- Cmdr.
-
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- claro
-
noun,
such a cigar.
- codes
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- color
-
noun,
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- Colo.
-
- Colet
-
noun,
John, 1467?–1519, English educator and clergyman.
- Coles
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Camus
-
noun,
Albert [al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
- colds
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- colat
-
- Colas
-
noun,
a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- male-
-
- coele
-
- acet-
-
- coel-
-
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- codas
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- Card.
-
- malts
-
noun,
germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- cards
-
noun,
a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder:
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- Coamo
-
noun,
a city in S central Puerto Rico.
- marls
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- maror
-
noun,
a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
- coals
-
noun,
a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.
Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- clase
-
- Clare
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- cases
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- ceorl
-
noun,
churl (def 4).
- meta-
-
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- Metol
-
- metr-
-
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- celom
-
noun,
coelom.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- meso-
-
- cause
-
noun,
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:
- modal
-
noun,
modal auxiliary.
- caus.
-
- cauls
-
noun,
a part of the amnion sometimes covering the head of a child at birth.
- model
-
noun,
a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- cauld
-
adjective, noun,
cold.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- Modoc
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people belonging to the Lutuamian group and ranging from southern Oregon to northern California.
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- molar
-
noun,
Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- mesas
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- 30-30
-
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- clads
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
- medal
-
noun,
a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like:
- clade
-
noun,
a taxonomic group of organisms classified together on the basis of homologous features traced to a common ancestor.
- Medea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children.
- Medoc
-
noun,
a wine-growing region in Gironde, in SW France.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Ceuta
-
noun,
a seaport and enclave of Spain in N Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Melas
-
noun,
a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- melds
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- cert.
-
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- melts
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- Cerro
-
noun,
a hill or peak.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Merle
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- mero-
-
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- cero-
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- madre
-
noun,
mother1 .
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- comal
-
noun,
a griddle made from sandstone or earthenware.
- adeem
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- Adler
-
noun,
Alfred, 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- corer
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- Adele
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- actos
-
- Lucas
-
noun,
George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- cores
-
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- Coral
-
noun,
the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- ludes
-
noun,
Quaalude.
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- luces
-
noun,
plural of lux.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- lucre
-
noun,
monetary reward or gain; money.
- Camel
-
noun,
either of two large, humped, ruminant quadrupeds of the genus Camelus, of the Old World.
Compare Bactrian camel, dromedary.
- Comr.
-
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- cools
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- Colum
-
noun,
Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- acold
-
adjective,
being cold or chilled.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- acute
-
noun,
the acute accent.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- macle
-
noun,
chiastolite.
- lusts
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- acro-
-
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- corr.
-
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- cet-
-
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- suds
-
noun,
soapy water.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- Sam.
-
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Saml
-
- dolt
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- dol.
-
- Aude
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2449 sq. mi. (6345 sq. km). Capital: Carcassonne.
- 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.
- ator
-
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- 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.
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- aud.
-
- Cres
-
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- Sat.
-
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- dlr.
-
- clam
-
noun,
any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species.
Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- clar
-
- auld
-
adjective,
old.
- Saud
-
noun,
(Saud ibn Abdul-Aziz), 1901?–69, king of Saudi Arabia 1953–64 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).
- Saul
-
noun,
the first king of Israel. I Sam. 9.
- sers
-
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).
- SASE
-
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- CALS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Calvin.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- Ceto
-
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- Cor.
-
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- 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.
- DMSO
-
- clad
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- COLT
-
noun,
a young male animal of the horse family.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- 1080
-
- Cass
-
noun,
Lewis, 1782–1866, U.S. statesman.
- dour
-
adjective,
sullen; gloomy:
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- Cdr.
-
- Susa
-
noun,
a ruined city in W Iran: the capital of ancient Elam; palaces of Darius and Artaxerxes I; stele containing the Code of Hammurabi discovered here.
- 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.
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- str.
-
- tel-
-
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- cat.
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- slum
-
noun,
Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- caul
-
noun,
a part of the amnion sometimes covering the head of a child at birth.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- DRAM
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- Cort
-
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- doom
-
noun,
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
- 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.
- sld.
-
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- crat
-
- sals
-
noun,
salt1 .
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- 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.
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- SLAM
-
noun,
a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- door
-
noun,
a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- SMSA
-
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- ates
-
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- std.
-
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Cela
-
noun,
Camilo José [kah-mee-law haw-se] /kɑˈmi lɔ hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2001, Spanish writer.
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- Cels
-
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Doss
-
noun,
a place to sleep, especially in a cheap lodging house.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Sacs
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- atm.
-
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- Ste.
-
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- cts.
-
- 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.
- talc
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- Dom.
-
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- SCUD
-
noun,
the act of scudding.
- codo
-
noun,
a city in NE Brazil.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- ctr.
-
- aut-
-
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- cads
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- scr.
-
- Dame
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- comd
-
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Tasm
-
- dals
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Dale
-
noun,
a valley, especially a broad valley.
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- coal
-
noun,
a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.
Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- cule
-
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- Com.
-
- 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.
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- curd
-
noun,
Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- sec.
-
- cur.
-
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- cult
-
noun,
a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- Culm
-
noun,
coal dust; slack.
- curl
-
noun,
a coil or ringlet of hair.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- Col.
-
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- stud
-
noun,
a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- cuss
-
noun,
curse word; oath.
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- Cuda
-
noun,
a barracuda.
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- COLA
-
noun,
a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- cuds
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Cold
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Curr
-
verb (used without object),
to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- Aus.
-
- dat.
-
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- calm
-
noun,
freedom from motion or disturbance; stillness.
- Sol.
-
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- crud
-
noun,
Slang.
a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:
any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
venereal disease, especially syphilis.
Vulgar. dried semen.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- clou
-
noun,
a major point of interest or attention.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Dem.
-
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- SScD
-
- der.
-
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- Clea
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- Deus
-
noun,
God. Abbreviation: D.
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- saur
-
- Clem
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clement.
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- clod
-
noun,
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- cool
-
noun,
something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
- SCAD
-
noun,
any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- clot
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- surd
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- aur-
-
- deal
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- taur
-
- coss
-
noun,
kos.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- daut
-
verb (used with object),
to caress.
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- coml
-
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- cml.
-
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Cal.
-
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- Carl
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- sur-
-
- Del.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Sem.
-
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- Dec.
-
- TDRS
-
- SRAM
-
- Sra.
-
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- clue
-
noun,
anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- 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.
- ASTM
-
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- Ltd.
-
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- tule
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Tula
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Tues
-
- tude
-
noun,
an arrogant attitude.
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- loud
-
Idioms,
out loud, aloud; audibly:
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- ord.
-
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Adm.
-
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- ordo
-
noun,
Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- Acus
-
noun,
Surgery. a needle, especially one used in a surgical operation.
- Luce
-
noun,
a pike, especially when fully grown.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- odor
-
noun,
the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell:
- made
-
noun,
the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- Mac-
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- acr-
-
- Uele
-
noun,
a river in central Africa flowing W from the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Ubangi River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- udos
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- med.
-
- ole-
-
- Odus
-
- OECD
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- OEEC
-
- turd
-
noun,
a piece of excrement.
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- lude
-
noun,
Quaalude.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- mads
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- Rude
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1784–1855, French sculptor.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- out-
-
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- Ald.
-
- Aldm
-
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- aet.
-
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Leda
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the mother, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra and, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Pollux and Helen.
- Alec
-
noun,
a herring.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- alme
-
noun,
almah.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- ouds
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Loma
-
noun,
a hill or ridge having a broad top.
- 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:
- orlo
-
noun,
a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- oro-
-
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- LOOM
-
noun,
a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- OSRD
-
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- Loco
-
noun,
locoweed.
- loca
-
noun,
a plural of locus.
- loam
-
noun,
a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- load
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- leud
-
noun,
a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
- aer-
-
- oto-
-
- Oct.
-
- MAEd
-
- Lead
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- Mela
-
noun,
a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- USMC
-
- USMA
-
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- melt
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- MELD
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mes-
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- mout
-
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- used
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- MSAE
-
- MScD
-
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- USDA
-
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- MOLA
-
noun,
any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- mol.
-
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- molt
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- mood
-
noun,
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:
- mool
-
noun,
soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- mod.
-
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- USTC
-
- USSR
-
noun,
a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- USRC
-
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- met.
-
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- MSCE
-
- msec
-
- OCDM
-
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- Marl
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Mar.
-
- urds
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- malt
-
noun,
germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- Ural
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation, flowing S from the S Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. 1575 miles (2535 km) long.
- acle
-
noun,
the hard, durable wood of a Philippine leguminous tree, Albizzia acle, used for making fine furniture.
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- MALS
-
- ACLS
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- MALD
-
- ulto
-
- mal-
-
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Mael
-
noun,
a son of Ronan, unjustly killed by him.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ACLU
-
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- muss
-
noun,
a state of disorder or untidiness.
- MusD
-
- MSEE
-
- muds
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- MSSc
-
- USCA
-
- MSTS
-
- USAR
-
- uro-
-
- muc-
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meas
-
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- uret
-
- meal
-
noun,
the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper.
- Mead
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- mule
-
noun,
the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.
Compare hinny.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- mdse
-
- MDES
-
- mult
-
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- maul
-
noun,
a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- Maud
-
noun,
a gray woolen plaid worn by shepherds and others in S Scotland.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- mus.
-
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Alco
-
- rad.
-
- ect-
-
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- told
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- Arm.
-
- Edam
-
noun,
a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- 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.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- EDTA
-
- eco-
-
- TODS
-
- 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.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- toad
-
noun,
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
Compare frog1 (def 1).
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- 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.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- EEOC
-
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- rel.
-
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- eous
-
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- Elam
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom E of Babylonia and N of the Persian Gulf. Capital: Susa.
- EMet
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- RADM
-
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- ELAS
-
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- duet
-
noun,
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- dues
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- duel
-
noun,
a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- duct
-
noun,
any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- ducs
-
noun,
duke.
- 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.
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Duce
-
noun,
a leader or dictator.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Duma
-
noun,
(in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
- dual
-
noun,
the dual number.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ASME
-
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- drum
-
noun,
a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- ASSR
-
- ter.
-
- dulc
-
- duo-
-
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- asc-
-
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- arr.
-
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- Rom.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- rood
-
noun,
a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Dust
-
noun,
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- Duse
-
noun,
Eleonora [el-ee-uh-nawr-uh;; Italian e-le-aw-naw-rah] /ˌɛl i əˈnɔr ə;; Italian ˌɛ lɛ ɔˈnɔ rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, Italian actress.
- duro
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- dure
-
adjective,
hard; severe.
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- dura
-
noun,
dura mater.
- duos
-
noun,
Music. duet.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- lacs
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- lams
-
noun,
a hasty escape; flight.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- lame
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- Lam.
-
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- lads
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- lade
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- amdt
-
- lace
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- RdAc
-
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- AMLS
-
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Eur.
-
- Eula
-
noun,
End-User License Agreement: a contract between the manufacturer of computer software and the person who installs and uses it:
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- LARC
-
noun,
long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception):
- rcd.
-
- etc.
-
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- lea.
-
- alms
-
noun,
money, food, or other donations given to the poor or needy; anything given as charity:
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- mold
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- Laue
-
noun,
Max Theodor Felix von [mahks tey-oh-dohr fey-liks fuh n] /mɑks ˈteɪ oʊˌdoʊr ˈfeɪ lɪks fən/ (Show IPA), 1879–1960, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1914.
- Laud
-
noun,
a song or hymn of praise.
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- Lat.
-
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- alt.
-
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- LASS
-
noun,
a girl or young woman, especially one who is unmarried.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- lard
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- eso-
-
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Torr
-
noun,
a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- amt.
-
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- amus
-
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- Esd.
-
- ALC
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- USO
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- at.
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- UAM
-
- UCR
-
- UDC
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- cl.
-
- udo
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Tro
-
- cr.
-
- UAE
-
- cs.
-
- ct.
-
- USM
-
- ATC
-
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- USA
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- ast
-
- aor
-
- ALM
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ACS
-
- ASR
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- 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.
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ASM
-
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- UTC
-
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- TAL
-
- AOU
-
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- UAR
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- TCS
-
- USR
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- ASU
-
- ase
-
- USS
-
- ALU
-
- ARU
-
- tra
-
- 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.
- tlr
-
- TMO
-
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- Ulm
-
noun,
a city in E Baden-Württemberg, in S Germany, on the Danube.
- TSS
-
- ure
-
- ard
-
- AME
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- ult
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- Urd
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- TLC
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- Sus
-
- 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.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- Ar.
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- AUC
-
- TSE
-
- ur-
-
- UMT
-
- AMS
-
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- tlo
-
- al.
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- AEC
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- tr.
-
- ae.
-
- Co.
-
- AMU
-
- USC
-
- tue
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- ARS
-
- Am.
-
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- TCA
-
- ca.
-
- ac-
-
- ad-
-
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- Tu.
-
- AMC
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- ADC
-
- CAD
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Ld.
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RMA
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- LDC
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- LCT
-
- LCM
-
- LCD
-
- LCA
-
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- RCS
-
- 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.
- RCA
-
- RCT
-
- RDA
-
- RDC
-
- RDS
-
- REA
-
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- Re.
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- OTS
-
- ose
-
- OSO
-
- OSS
-
- LOC
-
- LMT
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- ote
-
- oud
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- Rd.
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Les
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- Lad
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EOE
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- EMT
-
- CDT
-
- EMR
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- EEO
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- EEC
-
- EDT
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- LAC
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- ETO
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- Lt.
-
- LSD
-
- LDS
-
- La.
-
- eu-
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ESU
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESR
-
- ESL
-
- ese
-
- Esc
-
- ESA
-
- ERT
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- MTO
-
- MTS
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- mud
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MDT
-
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- MCR
-
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MST
-
- Mao
-
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- Oc.
-
- OED
-
- OSA
-
- OSD
-
- OTC
-
- OAO
-
- Mt.
-
- MSE
-
- OAS
-
- MLA
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- MOR
-
- MLS
-
- MLR
-
- MLD
-
- ml.
-
- MSD
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- MSA
-
- 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.
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- LSC
-
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- ltr
-
- LTA
-
- LST
-
- LSS
-
- Om.
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- LSM
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- Ola
-
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- OOT
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- 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.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OAU
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- OCD
-
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- OCR
-
- OCS
-
- MAD
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- MSC
-
- OEO
-
- MSL
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Mo.
-
- Me.
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ODT
-
- Md.
-
- Mc-
-
- OEM
-
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EDC
-
- cud
-
noun,
the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- SDR
-
- SDS
-
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- SED
-
- cte
-
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- CTA
-
- CST
-
- CSR
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- CSO
-
- CSA
-
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- 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).
- SDA
-
- DCL
-
- CRT
-
- DAR
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- SCM
-
- DEA
-
- de-
-
- DCS
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- dau
-
noun,
dhow.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- Dam
-
noun,
a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
- SCS
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- DAE
-
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- DSC
-
- DOA
-
- do.
-
- DCM
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- CRS
-
- sc.
-
- CLR
-
- SSC
-
- SSD
-
- SSE
-
- SSM
-
- SSR
-
- SST
-
- St.
-
- Sta
-
- Clo
-
- ss.
-
- cle
-
- STL
-
- STM
-
- CEO
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CED
-
- CEA
-
- SSA
-
- CLU
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- SLA
-
- SLE
-
- SLR
-
- SMA
-
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- SMD
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- SMS
-
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- SRS
-
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- CMD
-
- CMA
-
- Sr.
-
- ScD
-
- Dal
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- DET
-
- Rs.
-
- due
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Duc
-
noun,
duke.
- Du.
-
- DST
-
- DSS
-
- DSR
-
- DSA
-
- RSA
-
- EOM
-
- DLC
-
- RSS
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- DRE
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- eo-
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Dou
-
noun,
Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- 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.
- ed.
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- ECM
-
- ECA
-
- ec-
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- RLD
-
- RMC
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROA
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- 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.
- EAM
-
- ead
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- ea.
-
- ETD
-
- Dr.
-
- RSE
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- So.
-
- DLO
-
- DLS
-
- DMA
-
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- DML
-
- DMS
-
- DMT
-
- SAR
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- SAE
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- SRO
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- sd.
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- dl
-
- Ud
-
- S.
-
- RC
-
- RU
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- ol
-
- TL
-
- CU
-
- RO
-
- SL
-
- 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.
- TC
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- UC
-
- LM
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- DM
-
- M.
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- U.
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- SU
-
- TM
-
- SA
-
- D.
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- TD
-
- t.
-
- LC
-
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- L.
-
- SM
-
- OA
-
- L1
-
- UL
-
- L2
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- AO
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- O.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- CM
-
- CE
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- le
-
- LR
-