Anagrams of sensitometry
Word sensitometry has
1127 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of sensitometry.
- serotines
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- interests
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- oystermen
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noun,
a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- sternites
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- sternmost
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adjective,
farthest aft.
- emersions
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- testimony
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noun,
Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- esoterism
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noun,
esotericism.
- mysteries
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noun,
anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown:
- tyrosines
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- neoterism
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noun,
an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- monitress
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noun,
a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- semitones
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noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- tres-tine
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noun,
royal antler.
- teosintes
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- tenorites
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noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- M-series
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noun,
See under M-line.
- enormity
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noun,
outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness:
- essonite
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- moneyers
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noun,
Archaic. a person employed in the authorized coining of money.
- stentors
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- metrists
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noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- sternite
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- teosinte
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- moistens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- mortises
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- termites
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- temerity
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noun,
reckless boldness; rashness.
- noisette
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noun,
a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat:
- tenorist
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noun,
a person who sings tenor.
- styrenes
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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.
- minsters
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- entirety
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noun,
the state of being entire; completeness:
- one-time
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adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- mistryst
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verb (used with object),
to fail to meet or to keep an appointment with (someone).
- tenorite
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noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- Monterey
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noun,
a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- rimstone
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noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- Rossetti
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noun,
Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- rosettes
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noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- tyrosine
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- tritones
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- Yosemite
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noun,
a valley in E California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: a part of Yosemite National Park. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- interest
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- isometry
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noun,
equality of measure.
- isostere
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noun,
Chemistry. a compound isosteric with one or more other compounds.
- semitone
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noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- emersion
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- sentries
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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.
- eternity
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noun,
infinite time; duration without beginning or end.
- trisomes
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- estrones
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- torments
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noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- Somerset
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noun,
a city in SE Massachusetts.
- Serenity
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noun,
the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- emitters
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noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- syenites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase with hornblende, biotite, or augite.
- inserts
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- termite
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noun,
any of numerous pale-colored, soft-bodied, chiefly tropical social insects, of the order Isoptera, that feed on wood, some being highly destructive to buildings, furniture, etc.
- moisten
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- tonemes
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noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Messier
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noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- misters
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noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- myosins
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noun,
the principal contractile protein of muscle.
- isomers
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noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- metiers
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- Minster
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- tinters
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- testers
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noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- Minette
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noun,
a syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
- testons
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noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- Meissen
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noun,
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
- Meitner
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noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- Menotti
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noun,
Gian Carlo [jahn kahr-loh;; Italian jahn kahr-law] /dʒɑn ˈkɑr loʊ;; Italian dʒɑn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–2007, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- metrist
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noun,
a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- merinos
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- metisse
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noun,
a woman of mixed ancestry.
- Nemesis
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noun,
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.:
- monster
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noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- smitten
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verb,
a past participle of smite.
- sorites
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noun,
a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- somites
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noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- 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.
- soirees
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noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Reymont
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noun,
Władysław Stanisław [vwah-dee-swahf stah-nee-swahf] /vwɑˈdi swɑf stɑˈni swɑf/ (Show IPA), ("Ladislas Regmont") 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1924.
- remises
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verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- remotes
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- resents
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- Rosette
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noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- sinters
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- syenite
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase with hornblende, biotite, or augite.
- Siemens
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noun,
Electricity. the standard unit of electrical conductance in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the reciprocal of the ohm and replacing the equivalent MKS unit (mho) Abbreviation: S.
- seiners
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noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- seismo-
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- semites
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noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- sensory
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adjective,
of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- sereins
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noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- serines
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Orestes
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noun,
Classical Mythology. the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena.
- tenters
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- nestors
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noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- tensors
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- mortise
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- tensity
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noun,
the state of being tense; tenseness.
- mostest
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adjective, noun,
most.
- Teniers
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noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- streets
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- yester-
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- stories
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noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- storeys
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noun,
story2 .
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- stoners
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- styrene
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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.
- Stimson
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noun,
Henry L(ewis) 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- Stetson
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- sterno-
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- stereo-
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- Stentor
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- stemson
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noun,
a curved timber in a wooden bow, scarfed at its lower end to the keelson.
- yestern
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adjective,
yester.
- moneyer
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noun,
Archaic. a person employed in the authorized coining of money.
- tritons
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noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- trisomy
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noun,
an abnormality characterized by the presence of an additional chromosome to the normal diploid number.
- tritone
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- entires
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- trioses
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noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- etymons
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noun,
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ (e) rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
- estrins
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noun,
estrone.
- torment
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noun,
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- Emerson
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noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- entero-
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- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- emitter
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noun,
a person or thing that emits.
- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- eonisms
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- Toryism
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noun,
the act or fact of being a Tory.
- entries
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noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- Trieste
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noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- esotery
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noun,
esotericism.
- Stones
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noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Storey
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noun,
story2 .
- entity
-
noun,
something that has a real existence; thing:
- Nestor
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noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Stormy
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adjective,
affected, characterized by, or subject to storms; tempestuous:
- stores
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noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Nessie
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noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- storms
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noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Nereis
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noun,
clamworm.
- entire
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Tories
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noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- noises
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noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- enosis
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noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- stimes
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noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- norite
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- stymie
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noun,
Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- stints
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noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- enter-
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- noesis
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noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- stoney
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adjective,
stony.
- enters
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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:
- nitro-
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- nitres
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noun,
niter.
- Street
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- niters
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noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitery
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noun,
a nightclub.
- Neisse
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noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- teensy
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adjective,
teeny; tiny.
- triens
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noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Mister
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noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- moires
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noun,
any moiré fabric.
- moiety
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noun,
a half.
- tremie
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noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- mitten
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noun,
a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.
- mitres
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noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- miters
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noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- treens
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noun,
treenware.
- ternes
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noun,
terne metal.
- moneys
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noun,
any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- misers
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noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- misery
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noun,
wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- Miseno
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noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- Tessie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Tessin
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noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- myosis
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noun,
miosis.
- myosin
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noun,
the principal contractile protein of muscle.
- sestet
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noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- tentie
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adjective,
tenty.
- Strine
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noun,
Australian English.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- stroys
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verb (used with object),
to destroy.
- eonism
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- tenets
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noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- triene
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- mottes
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noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- motets
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noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- eosins
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noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- moseys
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verb (used without object),
to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- monies
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noun,
a plural of money.
- tensor
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tressy
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adjective,
resembling or having tresses.
- Erinys
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noun,
any of the Furies.
- Moreen
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- tenter
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- Ermine
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noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- Trento
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noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- sterns
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noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- steins
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noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- enmity
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noun,
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
- rottes
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noun,
rote2 .
- Triton
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noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- Simeon
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noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simony
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noun,
the making of profit out of sacred things.
- Simons
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noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- Symons
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noun,
Arthur, 1865–1945, English poet and critic, born in Wales.
- sinter
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- rotten
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adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- seines
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noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- trysts
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noun,
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- rosins
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noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- sirees
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noun,
sirree.
- triste
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adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- rosets
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noun,
resin; rosin.
- sirens
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noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Romney
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noun,
one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- set-to
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noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- Sister
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noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- 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.
- sermon
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noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- serins
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- series
-
noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- sensor
-
noun,
a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- senors
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- Troyes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Aube, in NE France, on the Seine: truce treaty in Hundred Year's War.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- semens
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- system
-
noun,
an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole:
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- emesis
-
noun,
vomitus.
- Somers
-
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- somni-
-
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- osiers
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- snotty
-
adjective,
Vulgar. of or relating to snot.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- steno-
-
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- oyster
-
noun,
any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- steres
-
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- rinses
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Smitty
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Smith.
- sneers
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- remiss
-
adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- 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.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- snores
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- snorts
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- tester
-
noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- inter.
-
- Metsys
-
noun,
Quentin [Flemish kven-tin;; English kwen-tn] /Flemish ˈkvɛn tɪn;; English ˈkwɛn tn/ (Show IPA), Massys, Quentin.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- Tyrone
-
noun,
a former administrative county in W Northern Ireland: replaced by several new districts 1973.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- menses
-
noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- instr.
-
- Mettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- metro-
-
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- etymon
-
noun,
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ (e) rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
- intro.
-
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- tinter
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- titmen
-
noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- esters
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- torses
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- mesons
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- totems
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- Meyers
-
noun,
Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- testes
-
noun,
plural of testis.
- yeomen
-
noun,
a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Mersey
-
noun,
a river in W England, flowing W from Derbyshire to the Irish Sea. 70 miles (115 km) long.
- testis
-
noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- Tissot
-
noun,
James Joseph Jacques [zham zhaw-zef zhahk,, zheymz] /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk,, ʒeɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1836–1902, French painter.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- tyres
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- reni-
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- tyros
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Emery
-
noun,
a granular mineral substance consisting typically of corundum mixed with magnetite or hematite, used powdered, crushed, or consolidated for grinding and polishing.
- irony
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- omni-
-
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- ster.
-
- enemy
-
noun,
a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
- oyers
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- tynes
-
noun,
tine.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Tyner
-
noun,
McCoy (Sulaimon Saud) born 1938, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- sonsy
-
adjective,
strong and healthy; robust.
- oste-
-
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- 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.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Tyree
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, near Ronne Ice Shelf. About 16,290 feet (4965 meters).
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Emory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Tyson
-
noun,
Michael Gerald ("Mike"; "Iron Mike") born 1966, U.S. boxer.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- setts
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- semi-
-
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- troys
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Syene
-
noun,
ancient name of Aswan.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Yemen
-
noun,
Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- 30-30
-
- sero-
-
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- seti-
-
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- yetis
-
noun,
Abominable Snowman.
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- yetts
-
noun,
gate.
- inst.
-
- Sino-
-
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- eyrie
-
noun,
aerie.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- tryst
-
noun,
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- yores
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- snyes
-
noun,
a backwater.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- yonis
-
noun,
(in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti.
Compare lingam (def 2).
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- eyres
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- intr.
-
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- syst.
-
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- sito-
-
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- ryots
-
noun,
a peasant.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- stroy
-
verb (used with object),
to destroy.
- 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 .
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Mont.
-
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- tenty
-
adjective,
watchful; attentive.
- metr-
-
- metry
-
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- mosey
-
verb (used without object),
to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- meso-
-
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- MSEnt
-
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- teno-
-
- messy
-
adjective,
characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- motte
-
noun,
a grove or clump of trees in prairie land or open country.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- motet
-
noun,
a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- mossy
-
adjective,
overgrown with or abounding in moss:
- Mossi
-
noun,
an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- money
-
noun,
any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- moity
-
adjective,
full of moits.
- teeny
-
adjective,
tiny.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- totem
-
noun,
a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- testy
-
adjective,
irritably impatient; touchy.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- 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.
- Myron
-
noun,
chrism.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- misos
-
noun,
a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- minty
-
adjective,
having the flavor or aroma of mint.
- toti-
-
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- miso-
-
- Miss.
-
- 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.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- term.
-
- treys
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- mitts
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- mitty
-
noun,
Walter Mitty.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Missy
-
noun,
young miss; girl.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Mists
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Misty
-
adjective,
abounding in or clouded by mist.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- nests
-
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.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stony
-
adjective,
full of or abounding in stones or rock:
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- noisy
-
adjective,
making much noise:
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Meyer
-
noun,
Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- meno-
-
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Noyes
-
noun,
Alfred, 1880–1958, English poet.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- meiny
-
noun,
Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
- nitty
-
adjective,
full of nits.
- stomy
-
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- stome
-
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Story
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- ento-
-
- nosey
-
adjective,
nosy.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- entry
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- mero-
-
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- tyees
-
noun,
chinook salmon.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- stimy
-
noun,
stymie.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- 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.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- Styr
-
noun,
a river in NW Ukraine, flowing N to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.
- Ste.
-
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Tyne
-
noun,
tine.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Tony
-
noun,
one of a group of awards made annually by the American Theatre Wing, a professional school for the performing arts, for achievements in theatrical production and performance.
- Troy
-
noun,
Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tron
-
- Tiny
-
adjective,
very small; minute; wee.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tomy
-
- 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.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- trit
-
- sym.
-
- tri-
-
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- soys
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- snye
-
noun,
a backwater.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Tyro
-
noun,
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- tyee
-
noun,
chinook salmon.
- Tit.
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- ten.
-
- str.
-
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- Tory
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- 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.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Tyre
-
noun,
an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
- Trey
-
noun,
a playing card or a die having three pips.
- tion
-
- ter.
-
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- syn-
-
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- syne
-
adverb, preposition, conjunction,
since.
- toys
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Syr.
-
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- toey
-
adjective,
touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- 1080
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- mony
-
adjective, noun,
many.
- Mon.
-
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- mis-
-
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- miry
-
adjective,
of the nature of mire; swampy:
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- myo-
-
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- min.
-
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- met.
-
- Mott
-
noun,
John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- MSEE
-
- mes-
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- not-
-
- nosy
-
adjective,
unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nos-
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nor.
-
- nomy
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nom.
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- MSIE
-
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NYSE
-
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nyet
-
adverb, noun,
no1 .
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- 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.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- neo-
-
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neem
-
- MSTS
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- est.
-
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- eso-
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- ESIS
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Ens.
-
- etym
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Enyo
-
noun,
an ancient Greek war goddess.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- EMet
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- Eyre
-
noun,
a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- eyot
-
noun,
ait.
- eyne
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- 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.
- eyen
-
noun,
plural of eye.
- eery
-
adjective,
eerie.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- yrs.
-
- ment
-
- men-
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- ISSN
-
- iso-
-
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Yser
-
noun,
a river flowing from N France through NW Belgium into the North Sea: battles 1914–18. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- ette
-
- Ire.
-
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- yoni
-
noun,
(in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti.
Compare lingam (def 2).
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Ymir
-
noun,
the earliest being and the progenitor of the giants, killed by Odin and his brothers. From his flesh the earth was made, from his blood the waters, and from his skull the heavens.
- yins
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- yett
-
noun,
gate.
- yeti
-
noun,
Abominable Snowman.
- yens
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- ryot
-
noun,
a peasant.
- osis
-
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Rosy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rit.
-
- rimy
-
adjective,
covered with rime.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- ryes
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- 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.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- 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.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Rom.
-
- Ont.
-
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Sem.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- onym
-
- TNT
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- eir
-
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- Tro
-
- TOY
-
noun,
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- 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.
- 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).
- yon
-
pronoun,
that or those yonder.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TMO
-
- ior
-
- EOE
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- TTY
-
- ite
-
- Tyr
-
noun,
the god of strife.
- TSS
-
- ist
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- TSI
-
- ISR
-
- TSE
-
- eo-
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ine
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- ise
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- EOM
-
- IRS
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- EEO
-
- IRO
-
- ROI
-
- Ir.
-
- IOT
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- in.
-
- So.
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESR
-
- RTS
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- tr.
-
- ese
-
- ERT
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- RSS
-
- SRO
-
- se-
-
- EMT
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- en-
-
- ene
-
- ery
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ety
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- yer
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- yis
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Yin
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- EIS
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- yet
-
Idioms,
as yet. as1 (def 31).
- yes
-
noun,
an affirmative reply.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ier
-
- RSE
-
- Yeo
-
- Yen
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- io-
-
- ity
-
- EMR
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- Rs.
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ETO
-
- Om.
-
- Me.
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ne-
-
- Nye
-
noun,
Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
- 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:
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- NES
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ory
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- 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.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- MTS
-
- MTO
-
- mtn
-
- MTI
-
- Mt.
-
- MSN
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- MSI
-
- MSE
-
- ose
-
- MRI
-
- SRS
-
- ss.
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- ONR
-
- mi.
-
- Oys
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- OIr
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OEM
-
- nr.
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- STI
-
- sty
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- ons
-
- SSE
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- SSR
-
- SSN
-
- SSM
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- NMR
-
- STM
-
- NMI
-
- SSI
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- MRE
-
- MST
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- MIT
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- MIE
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- my-
-
- MNE
-
- 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.
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- SMS
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Mo.
-
- OIt
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- soy
-
noun,
soy sauce.
- MNS
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- OSS
-
- ot-
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- MOR
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Re.
-
- MOI
-
- TTS
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- Y.
-
- YT
-
- ey
-
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- O.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- EI
-
- Yi
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ye
-
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):
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- RN
-
- S.
-
- TT
-
- MN
-
- i.
-
- NY
-
- TM
-
- yr
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- N.
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- T1
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- RI
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- sy
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noun,
a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- NM
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- t.
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- R.
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- SN
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- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- TN
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- M.
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- SM
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- ty
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- RO
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- ry
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- NI
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- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.