Anagrams of secretary-general
Word secretary-general has
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- regenerates
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adjective,
reconstituted or made over in a better form.
- clear-eyes
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noun,
the clary, Salvia sclarea.
- telescreen
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noun,
a television, screen, especially a large one suitable for viewing by large numbers of people.
- acetylenes
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noun,
a colorless gas, C 2 H 2 , having an etherlike odor, produced usually by the action of water on calcium carbide or by pyrolysis of natural gas: used especially in metal cutting and welding, as an illuminant, and in organic synthesis.
- regeneracy
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noun,
a regenerate state.
- regenerate
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adjective,
reconstituted or made over in a better form.
- steel-gray
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noun,
dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- crenelates
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adjective,
crenelated.
- carrageen
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noun,
Irish moss.
- re-create
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verb (used with object),
to create anew.
- ancestral
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adjective,
pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors:
- rectangle
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noun,
a parallelogram having four right angles.
- regelates
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verb (used without object),
to freeze by regelation.
- teenagers
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noun,
a person in his or her teens.
- elastance
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noun,
the reciprocal of capacitance.
- relegates
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verb (used with object),
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition:
- rerelease
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verb (used with object),
to release again:
- clear-eye
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noun,
the clary, Salvia sclarea.
- acrylates
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noun,
a salt or ester of an acrylic acid.
- lacerates
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adjective,
lacerated.
- crenelate
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adjective,
crenelated.
- Easterner
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of an eastern area, especially of the eastern U.S.
- greenlets
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noun,
any of various small vireos of the genus Hylophilus, having greenish plumage, found in Central and South America.
- elegances
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noun,
elegant quality:
- sergeanty
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noun,
serjeanty.
- enlargers
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noun,
an apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.
- secretary
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noun,
a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.:
- sea-green
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noun,
a clear, light, bluish green.
- sea-eagle
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noun,
any of several large eagles of the genus Haliaetus, that usually feed on fish.
- generalcy
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noun,
the office or tenure of a general.
- generates
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verb (used with object),
to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- recreants
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noun,
a coward.
- larceners
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noun,
a person who commits larceny.
- acetylene
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noun,
a colorless gas, C 2 H 2 , having an etherlike odor, produced usually by the action of water on calcium carbide or by pyrolysis of natural gas: used especially in metal cutting and welding, as an illuminant, and in organic synthesis.
- cartages
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noun,
the act or cost of carting.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- greenery
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noun,
green foliage or vegetation; verdure.
- greenlet
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noun,
any of various small vireos of the genus Hylophilus, having greenish plumage, found in Central and South America.
- estrange
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verb (used with object),
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of:
- segreant
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adjective,
(of a griffin) rampant.
- etageres
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noun,
a stand with a series of open shelves for small objects, bric-a-brac, etc.
- argental
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adjective,
of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling silver.
- reenters
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verb (used with object),
to enter again:
- teenager
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noun,
a person in his or her teens.
- eternals
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- arranges
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verb (used with object),
to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly:
- arrestee
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noun,
a person who is under arrest.
- regrates
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verb (used with object),
to buy up (grain, provisions, etc.) in order to sell again at a profit in or near the same market.
- sangaree
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noun,
sangría.
- regelate
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verb (used without object),
to freeze by regelation.
- elegance
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noun,
elegant quality:
- regreets
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noun,
regreets, Obsolete. greetings (def 3).
- generals
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noun,
Military.
U.S. Army and Air Force. an officer ranking above a lieutenant general and below a general of the army or general of the air force.
U.S. Army. an officer of any of the five highest ranks: a brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, or general of the army.
U.S. Marine Corps. an officer holding the highest rank in the corps.
(in numerous armies) an officer in the highest, second, or third highest rank, as one ranking immediately below a field marshal in the British army.
- serenata
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noun,
a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- Alegrete
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noun,
a city in SW Brazil.
- recreant
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noun,
a coward.
- recreate
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verb (used with object),
to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- Sergeant
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noun,
a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- generate
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verb (used with object),
to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- analects
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plural noun,
selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors.
- elegancy
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noun,
elegance.
- acylates
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verb (used with object),
to introduce the acyl group into (a compound).
- ancestry
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noun,
family or ancestral descent; lineage.
- narrates
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verb (used with object),
to give an account or tell the story of (events, experiences, etc.).
- greatens
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verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- telerans
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noun,
a navigational aid that uses radar to map the sky above an airfield, which, together with a map of the airfield itself, is transmitted by television to aircraft approaching the field.
- Anglesey
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noun,
an island and historic county in Gwynedd, in NW Wales.
- arsenate
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenic acid.
- tear-gas
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noun,
a gas that makes the eyes smart and water, thus producing a temporary blindness, used in modern warfare, to quell riots, etc.
- enlarges
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verb (used with object),
to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to:
- larcener
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noun,
a person who commits larceny.
- steerage
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noun,
a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- catenary
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noun,
Mathematics. the curve assumed approximately by a heavy uniform cord or chain hanging freely from two points not in the same vertical line. Equation: y = k cos h (x / k).
- caterans
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noun,
(formerly) a freebooter or marauder of the Scottish Highlands.
- caterers
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noun,
one whose business is to provide food, supplies, and sometimes service at social gatherings.
- Celanese
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- strangle
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verb (used with object),
to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- Stranger
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noun,
a person with whom one has had no personal acquaintance:
- treacles
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noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- cleanser
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noun,
a preparation for cleansing, as a liquid or powder for scouring sinks, bathtubs, etc., or a cream for cleaning the face.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- centrals
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noun,
a main telephone exchange.
a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- Cesarean
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noun,
Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- clangers
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noun,
a person or thing that clangs.
- cyanates
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noun,
a salt or ester of cyanic acid.
- lacerate
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adjective,
lacerated.
- carnages
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noun,
the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
- Sancerre
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noun,
a dry white wine from the Loire valley region of France.
- relegate
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verb (used with object),
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition:
- Easterly
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noun,
a wind that blows from the east.
- asternal
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adjective,
not reaching to or connected with the sternum.
- sea-gate
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noun,
a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- legatees
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noun,
a person to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
- re-lease
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noun,
a contract for re-leasing land or property.
- releaser
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noun,
a person or thing that releases.
- tanagers
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noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- stealage
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noun,
the act of stealing.
- Canarese
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noun,
one of a Dravidian people living mainly in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India.
- lecterns
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- sea-lane
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noun,
a standard navigational route for ships traversing an ocean or sea.
- yestreen
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noun,
yesterday evening; last evening.
- re-trace
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verb (used with object),
to trace again, as lines in writing or drawing.
- learners
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noun,
a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
- enlarger
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noun,
an apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.
- arrester
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noun,
Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
- Terrence
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noun,
a male given name.
- acrylate
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noun,
a salt or ester of an acrylic acid.
- Erlanger
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noun,
Joseph, 1874–1965, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
- agrestal
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adjective,
of or relating to plants growing wild in fields and uncultivated areas.
- terraces
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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.
- selenate
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noun,
a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- terranes
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noun,
any rock formation or series of formations or the area in which a particular formation or group of rocks is predominant.
- neglects
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noun,
an act or instance of neglecting; disregard; negligence:
- entrelac
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noun,
a decorative border of interlaced garlands and leaves.
- escalate
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verb (used with or without object),
to increase in intensity, magnitude, etc.:
- acreages
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noun,
extent or area in acres; acres collectively.
- errantry
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noun,
conduct or performance like that of a knight-errant.
- reagents
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noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- selectee
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noun,
one selected by draft for service in one of the armed forces.
- terrenes
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noun,
the earth.
- grantees
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noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- Terylene
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- realgars
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noun,
arsenic disulfide, As 2 S 2 , found in nature as an orange-red mineral and also produced artificially: used in pyrotechnics.
- gentles
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adjective,
kindly; amiable:
- gearset
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noun,
a combination of gears that mesh to provide a particular gear ratio.
- cateran
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noun,
(formerly) a freebooter or marauder of the Scottish Highlands.
- ergates
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noun,
a worker ant.
- laryng-
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- scalare
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noun,
any of three deep-bodied, cichlid fishes, Pterophyllum scalare, P. altum, and P. eimekei, inhabiting northern South American rivers, often kept in aquariums.
- saltern
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noun,
a saltworks.
- Eastern
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adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- Saracen
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noun,
History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- reneges
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noun,
Cards. an act or instance of reneging.
- lactase
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noun,
an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- astylar
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adjective,
without columns.
- lactary
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adjective,
of, relating to, or of the nature of milk.
- steerer
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noun,
a person or thing that steers.
- teenage
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adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of a teenager.
- strange
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adverb,
in a strange manner.
- release
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noun,
a freeing or releasing from confinement, obligation, pain, emotional strain, etc.
- Caserta
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noun,
a city in S Italy, near Naples.
- Senegal
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noun,
a republic in W Africa: independent member of the French Community; formerly part of French West Africa. 76,084 sq. mi. (197,057 sq. km). Capital: Dakar.
- earnest
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- arylate
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verb (used with object),
to introduce one or more aryl groups into (a compound).
- caterer
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noun,
one whose business is to provide food, supplies, and sometimes service at social gatherings.
- tracery
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noun,
ornamental work consisting of ramified ribs, bars, or the like, as in the upper part of a Gothic window, in panels, screens, etc.
- regrate
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verb (used with object),
to buy up (grain, provisions, etc.) in order to sell again at a profit in or near the same market.
- Celeste
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noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- Celesta
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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.
- arrange
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verb (used with object),
to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly:
- reglets
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noun,
Architecture.
a groove for guiding or holding a panel, window sash, etc.
a narrow, flat molding; fillet.
- eternal
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- arrears
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Idioms,
in arrears, behind or late, especially in payment:
Also, Chiefly Law, in arrear.
- transl.
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- larceny
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noun,
the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
- cygnets
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noun,
a young swan.
- reagent
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noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- agentry
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noun,
the profession, business, or activities of an agent:
- regreet
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noun,
regreets, Obsolete. greetings (def 3).
- Terrene
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noun,
the earth.
- arsenal
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noun,
a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.
- Nyerere
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noun,
Julius Kambarage [Swahili kahm-bah-rah-guh] /Swahili kɑmˈbɑ rɑ gə/ (Show IPA), 1921–1999, African statesman: president of Tanzania 1964–85.
- Laertes
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noun,
the father of Odysseus.
- clyster
-
noun,
an enema.
- ecartes
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- gyrenes
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noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Scarlet
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noun,
a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- regrets
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noun,
a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
- caseate
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verb (used without object),
to undergo caseation.
- relates
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verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- legates
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noun,
an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- Lateran
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noun,
the church of St. John Lateran, the cathedral church of the city of Rome; the church of the pope as bishop of Rome.
- relents
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verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- errancy
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noun,
the state or an instance of erring.
- cantles
-
noun,
the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
- sealant
-
noun,
a substance used for sealing, as sealing wax or adhesives.
- Carrere
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noun,
John Merven, 1858–1911, U.S. architect.
- carrels
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noun,
Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
- learner
-
noun,
a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
- laagers
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noun,
a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- erratas
-
noun,
plural of erratum.
- careens
-
noun,
a careening.
- garrets
-
noun,
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.
- Crystal
-
noun,
a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- carreta
-
noun,
a simple two-wheeled oxcart.
- sealery
-
noun,
a place where seals are caught.
- retrace
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verb (used with object),
to trace backward; go back over:
- carnets
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noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- leaners
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noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- retenes
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noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- crenate
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adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- scalage
-
noun,
an assessed percentage deduction, as in weight or price, granted in dealings with goods that are likely to shrink, leak, or otherwise vary in the amount or weight originally stated.
- Carleen
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noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- crenels
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noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- carneys
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noun,
carny.
- carnage
-
noun,
the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
- canters
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- treacle
-
noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- legatee
-
noun,
a person to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
- Calgary
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noun,
a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- tanrecs
-
noun,
tenrec.
- Sectary
-
noun,
a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.
- argyles
-
noun,
a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colors, used in knitting socks, sweaters, etc.
- craters
-
noun,
the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
- eaglets
-
noun,
a young eagle.
- carters
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noun,
Bennett Lester ("Benny") 1907–2003, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- tangles
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noun,
a tangled condition or situation.
- secrete
-
noun,
a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
- granary
-
noun,
a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
- cartels
-
noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- creates
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- Selenga
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noun,
a river in N central Asia, flowing E and N through the NW Mongolian People's Republic through the Buryat Autonomous Republic in the SE Russian Federation to Lake Baikal. About 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- Lacerta
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noun,
the Lizard, a northern constellation between Cepheus and Pegasus.
- acerate
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adjective,
acerose1 .
- yester-
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- cartage
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noun,
the act or cost of carting.
- yestern
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adjective,
yester.
- tanager
-
noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- garnets
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- lectern
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- Stanley
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noun,
Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- latency
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noun,
the state of being latent.
- glances
-
noun,
a quick or brief look.
- aerates
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verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- garners
-
noun,
a granary or grain bin.
- tracers
-
noun,
a person or thing that traces.
- cleanse
-
verb (used with object),
to make clean.
- acylate
-
verb (used with object),
to introduce the acyl group into (a compound).
- acreage
-
noun,
extent or area in acres; acres collectively.
- tenaces
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- greaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that greases.
- analyse
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verb (used with object),
analyze.
- analyst
-
noun,
a person who analyzes or who is skilled in analysis.
- lancets
-
noun,
a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- serrate
-
adjective,
Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw:
- general
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noun,
Military.
U.S. Army and Air Force. an officer ranking above a lieutenant general and below a general of the army or general of the air force.
U.S. Army. an officer of any of the five highest ranks: a brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, or general of the army.
U.S. Marine Corps. an officer holding the highest rank in the corps.
(in numerous armies) an officer in the highest, second, or third highest rank, as one ranking immediately below a field marshal in the British army.
- rescale
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verb (used with object),
to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest:
- 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.
- narrate
-
verb (used with object),
to give an account or tell the story of (events, experiences, etc.).
- enteral
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adjective,
enteric.
- geneal.
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- anelace
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noun,
a short sword having a double-edged blade tapering sharply to a point: worn by civilians from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
- greaten
-
verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Teleran
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noun,
a navigational aid that uses radar to map the sky above an airfield, which, together with a map of the airfield itself, is transmitted by television to aircraft approaching the field.
- telegas
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noun,
a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.
- galenas
-
noun,
a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.
- scalene
-
adjective,
Geometry.
(of a cone or the like) having the axis inclined to the base.
(of a triangle) having three unequal sides.
- 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.
- argents
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noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- Angeles
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noun,
a city in the Philippines, on S central Luzon.
- neglect
-
noun,
an act or instance of neglecting; disregard; negligence:
- rangers
-
noun,
forest ranger.
- reelers
-
noun,
a person or thing that reels.
- alegars
-
noun,
vinegar made from ale; sour ale.
- Terence
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noun,
(Publius Terentius Afer) c190–159? b.c, Roman playwright.
- nectars
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- nectary
-
noun,
Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- enlarge
-
verb (used with object),
to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to:
- enlaces
-
verb (used with object),
to interlace; intertwine:
- Alceste
-
noun,
an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
- tercels
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- gerents
-
noun,
a ruler or manager.
- enrages
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- cyanate
-
noun,
a salt or ester of cyanic acid.
- galeate
-
adjective,
having a galea.
- graters
-
noun,
a person or thing that grates.
- clanger
-
noun,
a person or thing that clangs.
- recants
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- lancers
-
noun,
a set of quadrilles danced in sequence.
- Greater
-
noun,
a person who has achieved importance or distinction in a field:
- Sargent
-
noun,
Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts) 1895–1967, English conductor.
- cetanes
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- ternary
-
noun,
a group of three.
- negates
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- Genesee
-
noun,
a river flowing N from N Pennsylvania through W New York into Lake Ontario. 144 miles (230 km) long.
- tenrecs
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- styrene
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 , having a penetrating aromatic odor, usually prepared from ethylene and benzene or ethylbenzene, that polymerizes to a clear transparent material and copolymerizes with other materials to form synthetic rubbers.
- encages
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as in a cage; coop up.
- angerly
-
adverb,
Archaic. angrily.
- greatly
-
adverb,
in or to a great degree; much:
- Greeley
-
noun,
Horace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
- agnates
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- reentry
-
noun,
an act of reentering.
- Antares
-
noun,
a red supergiant star of the first magnitude in the constellation Scorpius.
- centres
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- clarets
-
noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- elaters
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- Antlers
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- regales
-
noun,
a sumptuous feast.
- central
-
noun,
a main telephone exchange.
a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- gyrates
-
adjective,
Zoology. having convolutions.
- genteel
-
adjective,
belonging or suited to polite society.
- galact-
-
- sternal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the sternum.
- Electra
-
noun,
Also, Elektra. Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
- Regence
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of c1700–20, in which a transition occurs from the Baroque style of Louis XIV to the Rococo of Louis XV.
- Regency
-
noun,
the office, jurisdiction, or control of a regent or body of regents exercising the ruling power during the minority, absence, or disability of a sovereign.
- teeners
-
noun,
a teenager.
- acetals
-
noun,
Also called diethylacetal. a colorless, volatile, sparingly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 14 O 2 , having a nutlike aftertaste, obtained from acetaldehyde and ethyl alcohol: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of perfumes.
- centare
-
noun,
centiare.
- centals
-
noun,
hundredweight (def 1).
- realgar
-
noun,
arsenic disulfide, As 2 S 2 , found in nature as an orange-red mineral and also produced artificially: used in pyrotechnics.
- etagere
-
noun,
a stand with a series of open shelves for small objects, bric-a-brac, etc.
- cleaner
-
noun,
a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
- eyelets
-
noun,
a small hole, usually round and finished along the edge, as in cloth or leather for the passage of a lace or cord or as in embroidery for ornamental effect.
- grantee
-
noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- electr-
-
- Aegates
-
noun,
ancient name of Egadi.
- Langtry
-
noun,
Lillie [lil-ee] /ˈlɪl i/ (Show IPA), (Emily Charlotte Le Breton"the Jersey Lily") 1852–1929, English actress.
- raglans
-
noun,
a loose overcoat with raglan sleeves.
- entrees
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- reenter
-
verb (used with object),
to enter again:
- elegant
-
adjective,
tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.:
- langsat
-
noun,
an East Indian tree, Lansium domesticum, of the mahogany family.
- terrane
-
noun,
any rock formation or series of formations or the area in which a particular formation or group of rocks is predominant.
- anlaces
-
noun,
anelace.
- scenery
-
noun,
the general appearance of a place; the aggregate of features that give character to a landscape.
- anlages
-
noun,
Embryology. an embryonic area capable of forming a structure: the primordium, germ, or bud.
- anglers
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a hook and line.
- claret
-
noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- gleets
-
noun,
Pathology.
a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- crenel
-
noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- lagans
-
noun,
anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- lagers
-
noun,
Also called lager beer. a beer stored from six weeks to six months for aging before use.
- Graeae
-
plural noun,
three old sea goddesses who had but one eye and one tooth among them and were the protectors of their sisters the Gorgons.
- gleety
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling gleet.
- Cyrene
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city and colony in N Africa, in Cyrenaica.
- retene
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- cleans
-
- creese
-
noun,
a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- senary
-
adjective,
of or relating to the number six.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- clares
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- crayer
-
noun,
a small sailing vessel formerly used in trade along the coasts of western Europe.
- layers
-
noun,
a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface:
- creels
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- Cleary
-
noun,
Beverly, born 1916, U.S. author.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- creasy
-
adjective,
full of creases.
- Seneca
-
noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- clergy
-
noun,
the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
- clangs
-
noun,
a clanging sound.
- cleats
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- craals
-
noun,
kraal.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- senega
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- lagena
-
noun,
an outpocketing of the saccule of birds, reptiles, and bony fishes corresponding to the cochlear duct of mammals.
- Crater
-
noun,
the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
- scalar
-
noun,
Mathematics, Physics. a quantity possessing only magnitude.
Compare vector (def 1a).
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- Selene
-
noun,
the Greek goddess of the moon.
Compare Thyone.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- clears
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- enrage
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- errata
-
noun,
plural of erratum.
- greens
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- elect.
-
- estral
-
adjective,
estrous.
- elates
-
adjective,
elated.
- elater
-
noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- Greene
-
noun,
Graham, 1904–91, English novelist and journalist.
- Ranger
-
noun,
forest ranger.
- Grants
-
noun,
a town in W New Mexico.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- Raglan
-
noun,
a loose overcoat with raglan sleeves.
- elance
-
noun,
a quick darting movement.
- greets
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- Greely
-
noun,
Adolphus Washington, 1844–1935, U.S. general and arctic explorer.
- eraser
-
noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- eyelet
-
noun,
a small hole, usually round and finished along the edge, as in cloth or leather for the passage of a lace or cord or as in embroidery for ornamental effect.
- slangy
-
adjective,
of, of the nature of, or containing slang:
- Gretna
-
noun,
a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- eyalet
-
noun,
vilayet.
- Gretry
-
noun,
André Ernest Modeste [ahn-drey er-nest maw-dest] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈnɛst mɔˈdɛst/ (Show IPA), 1741–1813, French operatic composer.
- egrets
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- Egesta
-
noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- Slater
-
noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- Santal
-
noun,
sandalwood.
- elects
-
noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- Greece
-
noun,
Ancient Greek Hellas. Modern Greek Ellas. a republic in S Europe at the S end of the Balkan Peninsula. 50,147 sq. mi. (129,880 sq. km). Capital: Athens.
- sleety
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or like sleet.
- grease
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- enlace
-
verb (used with object),
to interlace; intertwine:
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Graces
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- grater
-
noun,
a person or thing that grates.
- Engels
-
noun,
Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- Serene
-
noun,
serenity; tranquillity.
- energy
-
noun,
the capacity for vigorous activity; available power:
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- enter-
-
- encyst
-
verb (used with or without object),
to enclose or become enclosed in a cyst.
- encase
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- estray
-
noun,
a person or animal that has strayed.
- encage
-
verb (used with object),
to confine in or as in a cage; coop up.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- enacts
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- greasy
-
adjective,
smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
- Elsene
-
noun,
Dutch name of Ixelles.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- entree
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- elytra
-
noun,
plural of elytron.
- Elysee
-
noun,
a palace in Paris: the official residence of the president of France.
- Greats
-
- eterne
-
adjective,
eternal.
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- gayals
-
noun,
an ox, Bibos frontalis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, sometimes considered to be a domesticated breed of the gaur.
- Senlac
-
noun,
a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- salary
-
noun,
a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
- sentry
-
noun,
a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- eaglet
-
noun,
a young eagle.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- stalag
-
noun,
a World War II German military camp housing prisoners of war of enlisted ranks.
- yentas
-
noun,
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- stance
-
noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- Sartre
-
noun,
Jean-Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ˈpɔl/ (Show IPA), 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.
- sacral
-
adjective,
of or relating to sacred rites or observances.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- retral
-
adjective,
at or toward the back; posterior.
- starry
-
adjective,
abounding with stars:
- Laager
-
noun,
a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- errant
-
adjective,
deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.
- Steele
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- steely
-
adjective,
consisting or made of steel.
- cryst.
-
- Cretan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- cresyl
-
adjective,
tolyl.
- yearns
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- esnecy
-
noun,
the right of the oldest member of a coparcenary to have first choice of share upon division of the inheritance.
- Granta
-
noun,
Cam.
- eatery
-
noun,
a restaurant or other commercial establishment serving food.
- satang
-
noun,
a monetary unit and former coin of Thailand, the 100th part of a baht.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- yagers
-
noun,
jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- eclats
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- sancta
-
noun,
a sacred or holy place.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- snarly
-
adjective,
apt to snarl; easily irritated.
- gnarls
-
noun,
a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- ergate
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- gnarly
-
adjective,
gnarled.
- stagey
-
adjective,
stagy.
- treasr
-
- selen-
-
- 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.
- Salter
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- Easley
-
noun,
a town in NW South Carolina.
- Stacey
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Salten
-
noun,
Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- select
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- Yeager
-
noun,
Charles (Elwood) ("Chuck") born 1923, U.S. aviator and test pilot: the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound (1947).
- Seeger
-
noun,
Alan, 1888–1916, U.S. poet.
- stylar
-
adjective,
having the shape of an ancient style; resembling a pen, pin, or peg.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- Cygnet
-
noun,
a young swan.
- Angles
-
noun,
Geometry.
the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
the figure so formed.
the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
- sclent
-
noun,
any slanting surface, as a slope.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antler
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- regale
-
noun,
a sumptuous feast.
- gelees
-
noun,
a jellied substance, especially a cosmetic gel or a jellied food.
- gyrate
-
adjective,
Zoology. having convolutions.
- ansate
-
adjective,
having a handle or handlelike part.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- teleg.
-
- Anlage
-
noun,
Embryology. an embryonic area capable of forming a structure: the primordium, germ, or bud.
- anlace
-
noun,
anelace.
- telega
-
noun,
a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.
- angler
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a hook and line.
- teensy
-
adjective,
teeny; tiny.
- reeler
-
noun,
a person or thing that reels.
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- Angela
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “messenger.”.
- rectal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- angary
-
noun,
the right of a belligerent state to seize and use the property of neutrals for purposes of warfare, subject to payment of full compensation.
- anergy
-
noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- aneles
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- gynec-
-
- genera
-
noun,
a plural of genus.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- tenace
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- trans.
-
- arcane
-
adjective,
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric:
- NASCAR
-
noun,
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
- Arlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- lanate
-
adjective,
woolly; covered with something resembling wool.
- arsen-
-
- arrest
-
noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- arrear
-
Idioms,
in arrears, behind or late, especially in payment:
Also, Chiefly Law, in arrear.
- gyrene
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- arrant
-
adjective,
downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious:
- arrays
-
noun,
order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle.
- lycees
-
noun,
a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- regnal
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sovereign, sovereignty, or reign:
- lyrate
-
adjective,
Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- reglet
-
noun,
Architecture.
a groove for guiding or holding a panel, window sash, etc.
a narrow, flat molding; fillet.
- sclera
-
noun,
a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- acetyl
-
adjective,
containing the acetyl group.
- Arleen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- aryans
-
noun,
Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
- geyser
-
noun,
a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
- Argyle
-
noun,
a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colors, used in knitting socks, sweaters, etc.
- Argent
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- argals
-
noun,
argol.
- lysate
-
noun,
the mixture of substances formed by the lysis of cells.
- acetal
-
noun,
Also called diethylacetal. a colorless, volatile, sparingly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 14 O 2 , having a nutlike aftertaste, obtained from acetaldehyde and ethyl alcohol: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of perfumes.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- scler-
-
- teener
-
noun,
a teenager.
- regent
-
noun,
a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- arecas
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- analyt
-
- alters
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- artery
-
noun,
Anatomy. a blood vessel that conveys blood from the heart to any part of the body.
- scarry
-
adjective,
marked with the scars of wounds.
- terras
-
noun,
earth; land.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- agency
-
noun,
an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another:
- gentle
-
adjective,
kindly; amiable:
- nyalas
-
noun,
an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.
- agates
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- Reagan
-
noun,
Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- Gentry
-
noun,
wellborn and well-bred people.
- raters
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- Gesner
-
noun,
Konrad von [kon-rad von;; German kawn-raht fuh n] /ˈkɒn ræd vɒn;; German ˈkɔn rɑt fən/ (Show IPA), 1516–65, Swiss naturalist.
- ratels
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- ratans
-
noun,
rattan.
- aglets
-
noun,
a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- aerate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- Aeneas
-
noun,
a Trojan hero, the reputed ancestor of the Romans: protagonist of the Aeneid.
- Aegean
-
noun,
the. Aegean Sea.
- Aeetes
-
noun,
a king of Colchis, father of Medea and custodian of the Golden Fleece.
- ratals
-
noun,
the amount on which rates or taxes are assessed.
- gerent
-
noun,
a ruler or manager.
- rastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- 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.
- Rascal
-
noun,
a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
- tracer
-
noun,
a person or thing that traces.
- tra-la
-
noun,
nonsense syllables sung as a refrain, expressing gaiety.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- aglare
-
adjective, adverb,
glaring; blazing:
- agnate
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- altern
-
adjective,
alternate; following one another.
- alegar
-
noun,
vinegar made from ale; sour ale.
- natals
-
noun,
a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- Alsace
-
noun,
a region and former province of France between the Vosges and the Rhine.
- Algren
-
noun,
Nelson, 1909–81, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- scaler
-
noun,
a person or thing that scales.
- Tralee
-
noun,
a city in and the county seat of Kerry, in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- Aletes
-
noun,
a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- alerts
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- alerce
-
noun,
the wood of the sandarac tree.
- nearly
-
adverb,
all but; almost:
- genets
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Nergal
-
noun,
(in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- reatas
-
noun,
riata.
- tercel
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- alates
-
noun,
the winged form of an insect when both winged and wingless forms occur in the species.
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- tergal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the tergum.
- realty
-
noun,
real property or real estate.
- negate
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- scanty
-
noun,
scanties, very brief underpants, especially for women.
- artels
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- teasel
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- Carter
-
noun,
Bennett Lester ("Benny") 1907–2003, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- Searle
-
noun,
Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- Searcy
-
noun,
a city in central Arkansas.
- Castle
-
noun,
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- renter
-
noun,
a person or organization that holds, or has the use of, property by payment of rent.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- lascar
-
noun,
an East Indian sailor.
- Garner
-
noun,
a granary or grain bin.
- rental
-
noun,
an amount received or paid as rent.
- Garnet
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- cartel
-
noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- catena
-
noun,
a chain or connected series, especially of extracts from the writings of the fathers of the Christian church.
- lateen
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having a lateen sail or sails.
- carrys
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Carew.
- latens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- Carrel
-
noun,
Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
- Garret
-
noun,
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.
- glares
-
noun,
a very harsh, bright, dazzling light:
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- Carney
-
noun,
carny.
- carnal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual:
- renege
-
noun,
Cards. an act or instance of reneging.
- Renata
-
noun,
a female given name.
- seance
-
noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- gantry
-
noun,
a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Langer
-
noun,
Susanne (Knauth) [knout] /knaʊt/ (Show IPA), 1895–1985, U.S. philosopher.
- gleans
-
verb (used with object),
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- lancer
-
noun,
a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- styler
-
noun,
a person or thing that styles.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- lances
-
noun,
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- lancet
-
noun,
a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- Galena
-
noun,
a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.
- cereal
-
noun,
any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn.
- 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.
- cerat-
-
- racers
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- larges
-
noun,
Music. the longest note in mensural notation.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- centr-
-
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- cental
-
noun,
hundredweight (def 1).
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- resale
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- celery
-
noun,
a plant, Apium graveolens, of the parsley family, whose leafstalks are eaten raw or cooked.
- Celaya
-
noun,
a city in Guanajuato state, central Mexico.
- Strega
-
- Glaser
-
noun,
Donald A. 1926–2013, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1960.
- larees
-
noun,
lari.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- leaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- Garter
-
noun,
Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- escent
-
- Lenaea
-
noun,
a festival in ancient Athens in honor of Dionysus, celebrated at the beginning of February and comprising a public banquet followed by the performance of comedies.
- tangle
-
noun,
a tangled condition or situation.
- aslant
-
adverb,
at a slant; slantingly; obliquely.
- Cagney
-
noun,
James, 1899–1986, U.S. film actor.
- cagers
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- tarsal
-
noun,
a tarsal bone, joint, or the like.
- glaces
-
noun,
ice placed in a drink to cool it.
- legacy
-
noun,
Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
- Caesar
-
noun,
Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (or Caius) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Julius, c100–44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.
- gastr-
-
- legate
-
noun,
an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- Lencas
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- legers
-
noun,
ledger (def 4).
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- Legree
-
noun,
Simon, Simon Legree.
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Tarlac
-
noun,
a city on N central Luzon, in the N Philippines.
- relate
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- re-lay
-
verb (used with object),
to lay again.
- astray
-
adverb, adjective,
out of the right way; off the correct or known road, path, or route:
- astral
-
adjective,
pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- careys
-
noun,
male given name, form of Carew.
- talers
-
noun,
thaler.
- carats
-
noun,
a unit of weight in gemstones, 200 milligrams (about 3 grains of troy or avoirdupois weight). Abbreviation: c., ct.
- learns
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- career
-
noun,
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
- learnt
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- 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.
- cantle
-
noun,
the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
- glance
-
noun,
a quick or brief look.
- cantar
-
noun,
a poem consisting of four-line stanzas, each line having eight syllables.
- regret
-
noun,
a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
- Cantal
-
noun,
a department in S central France. 2231 sq. mi. (5780 sq. km). Capital: Aurillac.
- Asante
-
noun,
Ashanti.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- Canary
-
noun,
any of several Old World finches of the genus Serinus, especially S. canaria (common canary) native to the Canary Islands and often kept as a pet, in the wild being greenish with brown streaks above and yellow below and in domesticated varieties usually bright yellow or pale yellow.
- Lerner
-
noun,
Alan Jay, 1918–86, U.S. lyricist and librettist.
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- rarely
-
adverb,
on rare occasions; infrequently; seldom:
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- calesa
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a small, two-wheeled calash.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- gyres
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- glees
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- 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.
- gleet
-
noun,
Pathology.
a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- glare
-
noun,
a very harsh, bright, dazzling light:
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- scaly
-
adjective,
covered with or abounding in scales or scale.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- glans
-
noun,
the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- gyral
-
adjective,
gyratory.
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- gleys
-
noun,
a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- glyc-
-
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- Glace
-
noun,
ice placed in a drink to cool it.
- satyr
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- glary
-
adjective,
harshly brilliant; glaring.
- Grace
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- Satan
-
noun,
the chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; the devil.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- glean
-
verb (used with object),
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gnarl
-
noun,
a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- grays
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- Leyte
-
noun,
an island in the E central Philippines: focal point of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines 1944. 3085 sq. mi. (7990 sq. km).
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- lt-yr
-
- Reger
-
noun,
Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1873–1916, German composer and pianist.
- regle
-
noun,
a groove or channel for guiding a sliding door.
- lyres
-
noun,
a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
- lycee
-
noun,
a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- lyase
-
noun,
any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- Lesya
-
noun,
any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- Regt.
-
- Lenca
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- Relay
-
noun,
a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- leges
-
noun,
plural of lex.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Leger
-
noun,
ledger (def 4).
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- leery
-
adjective,
wary; suspicious (usually followed by of):
- lect.
-
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- 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.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- Leary
-
adjective,
leery1 .
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- regal
-
noun,
a portable reed organ of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- Renee
-
noun,
a female given name, French form of Renata.
- rears
-
- racer
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- ratal
-
noun,
the amount on which rates or taxes are assessed.
- ratan
-
noun,
rattan.
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- 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:
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- Nyasa
-
noun,
former name of Malawi (def 2).
- nyala
-
noun,
an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- reata
-
noun,
riata.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- nears
-
- natl.
-
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Natal
-
noun,
a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- rares
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- nasty
-
noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- Nasca
-
adjective,
Nazca.
- nasal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a nasal speech sound.
- rect.
-
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- latry
-
- Grana
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- sarc-
-
- yeast
-
noun,
any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yearn
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- salat
-
noun,
prayers, said five times a day: the second of the Pillars of Islam.
- yeans
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- Salta
-
noun,
a game for two, resembling Chinese checkers, played on a board with 100 squares.
- Yasna
-
noun,
a part of the Avesta including the Gathas and other liturgical texts.
- salty
-
adjective,
tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- yangs
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- Yalta
-
noun,
a seaport in the Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.
- Yager
-
noun,
jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- Santa
-
noun,
Santa Claus.
- Saran
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- yenta
-
noun,
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- greys
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- greet
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Greer
-
noun,
Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- Green
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- rangy
-
adjective,
(of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- Sarre
-
noun,
French name of Saar.
- Grant
-
noun,
something granted, as a privilege or right, a sum of money, or a tract of land:
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Yeats
-
noun,
William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- sagan
-
noun,
Carl (Edward) 1934–96, U.S. astronomer and writer.
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- Lange
-
noun,
Christian Louis [kris-tyahn loo-ee,, -is] /ˈkrɪs tyɑn ˈlu i,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1938, Norwegian historian: Nobel Peace Prize 1921.
- ragas
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- 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.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- Larsa
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq: archaeological site.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Larry
-
noun,
a hoe with a perforated blade for mixing mortar or plaster.
- large
-
noun,
Music. the longest note in mensural notation.
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- lansa
-
noun,
langsat.
- lang.
-
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- LANCE
-
noun,
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- lanas
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- layer
-
noun,
a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface:
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Lager
-
noun,
Also called lager beer. a beer stored from six weeks to six months for aging before use.
- lagen
-
noun,
laggin.
- lagan
-
noun,
anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.
- restr
-
- lact-
-
- laces
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Lacey
-
noun,
a town in W Washington.
- scary
-
adjective,
causing fright or alarm.
- Taney
-
noun,
Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- Gerry
-
noun,
Elbridge [el-brij] /ˈɛl brɪdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1744–1814, U.S. politician: vice president 1813–14.
Compare gerrymander.
- Tanga
-
noun,
either of two former coins of India, one gold and one silver, issued by various Muslim rulers.
- Tansy
-
noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- Tanya
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tangs
-
- cagey
-
adjective,
cautious, wary, or shrewd:
- cager
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- cages
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- Cayes
-
noun,
Les. Les Cayes.
- tangy
-
adjective,
having a tang.
- canal
-
noun,
an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- Canea
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Crete, on the W part.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- Cant.
-
- Canty
-
adjective,
cheerful; lively.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- Talys
-
noun,
Thomas, Tallis, Thomas.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- ATLAS
-
noun,
a bound collection of maps.
- carat
-
noun,
a unit of weight in gemstones, 200 milligrams (about 3 grains of troy or avoirdupois weight). Abbreviation: c., ct.
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- Arnel
-
- array
-
noun,
order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle.
- Arran
-
noun,
an island in SW Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde. 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km).
- Arras
-
noun,
a rich tapestry.
- arrgt
-
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- artal
-
noun,
plural of rotl.
- artsy
-
adjective,
arty.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- tears
-
- teary
-
adjective,
of or like tears.
- ASEAN
-
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- astr.
-
- tarry
-
noun,
a stay; sojourn.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Caras
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- Carey
-
noun,
male given name, form of Carew.
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- cent.
-
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- Ceara
-
noun,
Fortaleza.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- cata-
-
- stray
-
noun,
a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- cert.
-
- 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.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- style
-
noun,
a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character:
- cyan-
-
- Gerar
-
noun,
an ancient city in Palestine, near the Mediterranean: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Carny
-
noun,
a person employed by a carnival.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Caryl
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Caryn
-
noun,
a female given name.
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- Carla
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- carls
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- 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.
- 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.
- Carry
-
noun,
range, as of a gun.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- Talca
-
noun,
a city in central Chile.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- talas
-
noun,
a repeated rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed beats played on a percussion instrument in Indian music.
- Casey
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “brave.”.
- tayra
-
noun,
a small animal, Eira barbara, of the weasel family, ranging from Mexico to tropical South America.
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- Aryan
-
noun,
Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
- cyst-
-
- agnel
-
noun,
a gold coin of France of the 13th–16th centuries, bearing the figure of a lamb.
- Agate
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- Terry
-
noun,
the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- agcy.
-
- Agena
-
noun,
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- agent
-
noun,
a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- agley
-
adverb,
off the right line; awry; wrong.
- aglet
-
noun,
a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- agars
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- terr.
-
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Ayres
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- Alans
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Celtic word meaning “harmony.”.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- Alas.
-
- acyls
-
adjective,
containing the acyl group.
- 30-30
-
- Tsana
-
noun,
Lake. Tana, Lake.
- treys
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- treas
-
- Aalst
-
noun,
Flemish name of Alost.
- aceae
-
- acet-
-
- acnes
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- tyees
-
noun,
chinook salmon.
- Tracy
-
noun,
Spencer, 1900–67, U.S. film actor.
- actg.
-
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- tyres
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- Tyree
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, near Ronne Ice Shelf. About 16,290 feet (4965 meters).
- tynes
-
noun,
tine.
- Tyner
-
noun,
McCoy (Sulaimon Saud) born 1938, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Tyler
-
noun,
tiler (def 2).
- Aetna
-
noun,
Mount. Etna, Mount.
- alary
-
adjective,
of or relating to wings.
- alate
-
noun,
the winged form of an insect when both winged and wingless forms occur in the species.
- argal
-
noun,
argol.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Angle
-
noun,
Geometry.
the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
the figure so formed.
the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
- angry
-
adjective,
feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
- angst
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- tele-
-
- Ansar
-
noun,
the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- antas
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- antsy
-
adjective,
unable to sit or stand still; fidgety:
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- Arcas
-
noun,
a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- 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.
- teeny
-
adjective,
tiny.
- Areca
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- Angl.
-
- Angel
-
noun,
one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Alyce
-
noun,
a female given name.
- alecs
-
noun,
a herring.
- tera-
-
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- algae
-
plural noun,
any of numerous groups of chlorophyll-containing, mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms ranging from microscopic single-celled forms to multicellular forms 100 feet (30 meters) or more long, distinguished from plants by the absence of true roots, stems, and leaves and by a lack of nonreproductive cells in the reproductive structures: classified into the six phyla Euglenophyta, Crysophyta, Pyrrophyta, Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta, and Rhodophyta.
- Algar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Alger
-
noun,
Horatio, Jr. 1834–99, U.S. novelist: author of a series of books for boys.
- Alta.
-
- angas
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- Altay
-
noun,
Altai.
- altar
-
noun,
an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- anal.
-
- anat.
-
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- cyans
-
noun,
cyan blue.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- styl-
-
- ency.
-
- Elgar
-
noun,
Sir Edward, 1857–1934, English composer.
- sycee
-
noun,
fine uncoined silver in lumps of various sizes usually bearing a banker's or assayer's stamp or mark, formerly used in China as a medium of exchange.
- Elyse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- serry
-
verb (used with or without object),
to crowd closely together.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- encl.
-
- elegy
-
noun,
a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- Engel
-
noun,
Lehman [ley-muh n] /ˈleɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1910–1982, U.S. conductor and composer.
- Engle
-
noun,
Paul (Hamilton) 1908–91, U.S. poet and educator.
- engr.
-
- entry
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Syene
-
noun,
ancient name of Aswan.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- eclat
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- ectal
-
adjective,
external; outer; on the surface of.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slaty
-
adjective,
consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to slate.
- 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.
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- EGRET
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- slang
-
noun,
very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- eyras
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- Synge
-
noun,
John Millington [mil-ing-tuh n] /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
- stge.
-
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Elara
-
noun,
Astronomy. a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- scrag
-
noun,
a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- geese
-
noun,
a plural of goose.
- Gelee
-
noun,
a jellied substance, especially a cosmetic gel or a jellied food.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- gelts
-
noun,
money.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- Genet
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Genl.
-
- genre
-
noun,
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like:
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scat-
-
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- g-cal
-
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- sect.
-
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- 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 .
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- Segal
-
noun,
George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Seely
-
adjective,
insignificant or feeble; poor.
- gaels
-
noun,
a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
- galet
-
noun,
spall (def 1).
- Gaeta
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- gayal
-
noun,
an ox, Bibos frontalis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, sometimes considered to be a domesticated breed of the gaur.
- Gayle
-
noun,
a female or male given name.
- galas
-
noun,
a festive occasion; celebration; special entertainment:
- galea
-
noun,
Botany. a part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet, as the upper lip of the corolla of the monkshood.
- Galen
-
noun,
Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- gales
-
noun,
a very strong wind.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- eyres
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- craal
-
noun,
kraal.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- clear
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- Eagle
-
noun,
any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family Accipitridae, noted for their size, strength, and powers of flight and vision: formerly widespread in North America, eagles are mostly confined to Alaska and a few isolated populations.
Compare bald eagle, golden eagle.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- cleat
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- Eagan
-
noun,
a town in SE Minnesota.
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- ster.
-
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- stagy
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or suggestive of the stage.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stang
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- 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.
- Starr
-
noun,
Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 1848–89, U.S. outlaw and folk hero.
- 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.
- 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.
- Early
-
noun,
a fruit or vegetable that appears before most others of its type.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- clang
-
noun,
a clanging sound.
- Srta.
-
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- Stacy
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- clans
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- Clare
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- Clara
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “clear, bright.”.
- clase
-
- Clary
-
noun,
any of several aromatic herbs of the genus Salvia, especially S. sclarea, having hairy, heart-shaped leaves and open clusters of lilac or blue flowers, used as a seasoning, a wine flavoring, and an ingredient in perfumes.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- secy
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Trey
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- scag
-
noun,
heroin.
- Tyrr
-
noun,
Tyr.
- tRNA
-
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- 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.
- sec.
-
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Tala
-
noun,
a repeated rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed beats played on a percussion instrument in Indian music.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- stg.
-
- 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.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- ter.
-
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Tyre
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- Taal
-
noun,
Afrikaans (usually preceded by the).
- Tray
-
noun,
a flat, shallow container or receptacle made of wood, metal, etc., usually with slightly raised edges, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles of food, glass, china, etc.
- Tyne
-
noun,
tine.
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- scry
-
verb (used without object),
to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- stlg
-
- tyee
-
noun,
chinook salmon.
- str.
-
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- 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.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Styr
-
noun,
a river in NW Ukraine, flowing N to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.
- 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.
- scr.
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- 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.
- Sat.
-
- 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.
- sala
-
noun,
a large hall, living room, or reception room.
- sync
-
noun,
synchronization:
- syne
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
since.
- stay
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- Syr.
-
- slag
-
noun,
Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- regr
-
- slay
-
noun,
sley.
- 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.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- 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.
- Tana
-
noun,
thana.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- sley
-
noun,
the reed of a loom.
- rel.
-
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Sra.
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- snye
-
noun,
a backwater.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- syn-
-
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Ryle
-
noun,
Sir Martin, 1918–84, British astronomer: Nobel Prize in physics 1974.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Ste.
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Tara
-
noun,
a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- ryal
-
noun,
rose noble.
- Ryan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ten.
-
- ryas
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- ryes
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- RNAS
-
- 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.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- SAGA
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- syce
-
noun,
(in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- rely
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- Reg.
-
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- tel-
-
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- 1080
-
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Gela
-
noun,
a city in S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- gelt
-
noun,
money.
- Gen.
-
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- Ger.
-
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- atry
-
adjective,
lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- gyne
-
- Gary
-
noun,
Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- Gays
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. a homosexual person, especially a male.
- Gal.
-
- Gala
-
noun,
a festive occasion; celebration; special entertainment:
- Gale
-
noun,
a very strong wind.
- gals
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a girl or woman.
- CALS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Calvin.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Cage
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- Cal.
-
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- cays
-
noun,
a small low island; key.
- gata
-
noun,
the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- cagy
-
adjective,
cagey.
- gyn-
-
- gyr-
-
- Can.
-
- year
-
noun,
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year)
Compare common year, leap year.
- asc-
-
- Asat
-
noun,
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
Compare sat2 (def 1).
- yare
-
adjective,
quick; agile; lively.
- yarn
-
noun,
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- Arty
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- art.
-
- yean
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- yeas
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- Yana
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- yens
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- arr.
-
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- aryl
-
adjective,
containing an aryl group.
- Arg.
-
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- ctr.
-
- Yale
-
noun,
Elihu, 1648–1721, English colonial official, born in America: governor of Madras 1687–92; principal benefactor of the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Connecticut (now Yale University).
- gyre
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- gnat
-
noun,
any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- ates
-
- Glee
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- gley
-
noun,
a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- Glen
-
noun,
a small, narrow, secluded valley.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- Glyn
-
noun,
Elinor, 1864–1943, English writer.
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- atar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- Gray
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- gras
-
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Grey
-
noun,
Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764–1845, British statesman: prime minister 1830–34.
- gres
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Gaya
-
noun,
a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.
- Gael
-
noun,
a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
- 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.
- eyes
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- egal
-
adjective,
equal.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- eyas
-
noun,
a nestling, usually a hawk.
- cet-
-
- eyen
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- eyne
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- cyl.
-
- eyra
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- Eyre
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- CERN
-
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- ELAS
-
- 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.
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- eery
-
adjective,
eerie.
- cyte
-
- Elys
-
noun,
Isle of, a former administrative county in E England: now part of Cambridgeshire.
- crat
-
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- 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.
- Cres
-
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- easy
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Clay
-
noun,
a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- cray
-
adjective,
crazy.
- Crag
-
noun,
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Clea
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- ect-
-
- clar
-
- clan
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- cene
-
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Casa
-
noun,
a house.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- etc.
-
- Carl
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Cara
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Cana
-
noun,
an ancient town in N Israel, in Galilee: scene of Jesus' first miracle. John 2:1, 11.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- cen.
-
- Eng.
-
- Cels
-
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Cela
-
noun,
Camilo José [kah-mee-law haw-se] /kɑˈmi lɔ hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2001, Spanish writer.
- enc.
-
- ence
-
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- enl.
-
- Ens.
-
- ergs
-
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- cat.
-
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- Yang
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- arca
-
noun,
a chest for valuables, used in medieval Spain and Italy.
- lyre
-
noun,
a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
- Naga
-
noun,
a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Burma.
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- aet.
-
- NACA
-
- agal
-
noun,
(among Arabs) a cord wound around a kaffiyeh to hold it in place.
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- agas
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- agr.
-
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- lyte
-
- lys-
-
- Lyra
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lyre, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Hercules, containing the bright star Vega.
- nays
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- leg.
-
- legs
-
noun,
either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- leys
-
noun,
leu.
- ayre
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lyes
-
noun,
a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- ayes
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- Ayer
-
noun,
Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- agst
-
- Nagy
-
noun,
Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- aery
-
noun,
aerie.
- Ala.
-
- 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.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- racy
-
adjective,
slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- AAEE
-
- acea
-
- acyl
-
adjective,
containing the acyl group.
- acle
-
noun,
the hard, durable wood of a Philippine leguminous tree, Albizzia acle, used for making fine furniture.
- ACLS
-
- NYSE
-
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- acr-
-
- Nysa
-
noun,
the mountain where Zeus sent the infant Dionysus to protect him from the vindictive wrath of Hera.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- NCTE
-
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Nary
-
adjective,
not any; no; never a:
- NASA
-
noun,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NCAA
-
- aer-
-
- nyet
-
adverb, noun,
no1 .
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Acta
-
plural noun,
official records, as of acts, deeds, proceedings, transactions, or the like.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- lyse
-
verb (used with object),
to cause dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Lana
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- lays
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- Alec
-
noun,
a herring.
- lags
-
noun,
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
- 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.
- Alg.
-
- 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).
- Lacy
-
noun,
a male given name.
- lace
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- Algy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Algernon.
- alt.
-
- Alea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. an epithet of Athena referring to a sanctuary built in her honor by Aleus.
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- Anas
-
- ance
-
- ancy
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Yser
-
noun,
a river flowing from N France through NW Belgium into the North Sea: battles 1914–18. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- yrs.
-
- anga
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- ansa
-
noun,
Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
- ant.
-
- ANTA
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- cts.
-
- LARC
-
noun,
long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception):
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- Lat.
-
- alae
-
noun,
plural of ala.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- lasa
-
noun,
Lhasa.
- Alar
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having wings; alary.
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- Alan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Celtic word meaning “harmony.”.
- lea.
-
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- ARS
-
- sty
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- acy
-
- CGS
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- cle
-
- Any
-
Idioms,
any which way, in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly:
- cr.
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- ACS
-
- STL
-
- ANG
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- Aar
-
- Ar.
-
- ca.
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- ctg
-
- cte
-
- CTA
-
- CST
-
- CSR
-
- CSA
-
- CRT
-
- CRS
-
- TSE
-
- AAE
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- ac-
-
- ag-
-
- al.
-
- ary
-
adjective,
any; anyone.
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- an.
-
- tra
-
- CNS
-
- CLR
-
- ays
-
- cs.
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- at.
-
- Tay
-
noun,
a river flowing through central Scotland into the Firth of Tay. 118 miles (190 km) long.
- cay
-
noun,
a small low island; key.
- TAL
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- ATA
-
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Ayr
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Scotland.
- TGN
-
- Ayn
-
noun,
ʿain.
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- AGC
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- ATC
-
- ALC
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- aye
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- Agt
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ast
-
- tr.
-
- cl.
-
- Tng
-
- tlr
-
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- TLC
-
- ae.
-
- AEA
-
- ct.
-
- ANC
-
- AEC
-
- CAA
-
- ASR
-
- ase
-
- Tyr
-
noun,
the god of strife.
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ASN
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- 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.
- TCS
-
- TCA
-
- CEA
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- 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.
- Lay
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- La.
-
- rya
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- Lt.
-
- 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).
- 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.
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- lag
-
noun,
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- RNR
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- LCA
-
- LCT
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- Ley
-
noun,
leu.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- RNA
-
- Rs.
-
- Les
-
- yer
-
- GTS
-
- yar
-
adjective,
yare (defs 1, 2).
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- yas
-
noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- YCL
-
- yea
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- Yen
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- yes
-
noun,
an affirmative reply.
- RSA
-
- SAE
-
- yet
-
Idioms,
as yet. as1 (def 31).
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- SAA
-
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- SAR
-
- NRC
-
- NYA
-
- Nye
-
noun,
Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- RCN
-
- RCA
-
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- NSA
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NSC
-
- 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.
- RCS
-
- Re.
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Ray
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- NGC
-
- NES
-
- lg.
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- lye
-
noun,
a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
- LNG
-
- LSC
-
- LST
-
- LTA
-
- ltr
-
- NYC
-
- NAA
-
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- Ney
-
noun,
Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- Nay
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- NEC
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- GTC
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- gt.
-
- 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).
- Ely
-
noun,
Isle of, a former administrative county in E England: now part of Cambridgeshire.
- Sgt
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- en-
-
- ene
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ery
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- SLA
-
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Esc
-
- ese
-
- ESL
-
- ESR
-
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- ety
-
- Syl
-
- eye
-
noun,
the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- ETS
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- eat
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noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Eg.
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- ETA
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noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
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- EAA
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- ean
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- ear
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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.
- EAS
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noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- Sta
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- St.
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- Sr.
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- SLE
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- ec-
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- ECA
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- ECG
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- EEC
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- SLR
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- Sly
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Idioms,
on the sly, secretly; furtively:
- EEE
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- EEG
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- EEL
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noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- ETR
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- RAN
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noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- Ga.
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- GCA
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- GCT
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- Gee
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noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- gey
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adverb,
Scot. considerably; very.
- Gel
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noun,
Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- se-
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- sea
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noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- Ges
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- get
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noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- gl.
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- sc.
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- Gr.
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- gre
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- GCR
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- GSA
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- GCE
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- Gat
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noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- GAR
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noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- See
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noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- GAS
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noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- GAN
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noun,
cotton gin.
- GSR
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- GSC
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- Gay
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noun,
Sometimes Offensive. a homosexual person, especially a male.
- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- TN
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- A.
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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.
- CE
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- ee
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SN
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- Y.
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- RN
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- RC
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- NL
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- ye
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pronoun,
Archaic, except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose Literary, or British Dialect.
(used nominatively as the plural of thou especially in rhetorical, didactic, or poetic contexts, in addressing a group of persons or things):
(used nominatively for the second person singular, especially in polite address):
(used objectively in the second person singular or plural):
- GN
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- YT
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- AA
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noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- yl
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- R.
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- YA
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noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- cy
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noun,
a male given name, form of Cyrus.
- SA
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- TL
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- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- L2
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- L1
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- rg
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- ry
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- LC
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- le
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- L.
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- yr
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- TC
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- GC
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- ly
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- ln
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- LR
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- T1
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- ey
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- TG
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- N.
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- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
- NC
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- NG
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- NY
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- ty
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- t.
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- S.
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- sy
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noun,
a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
- G.
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- SG
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- el
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noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- SL
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.