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- septendecillion
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noun,
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
- septillions
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noun,
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
- Pleistocene
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adjective,
noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- pestilences
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noun,
a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- insistence
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noun,
the act or fact of insisting.
- pendencies
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noun,
the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- nonelected
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adjective,
chosen for a position or office without running in an election.
- telescopes
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noun,
an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.
Compare radio telescope.
- stone-pine
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noun,
Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- Eisenstein
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noun,
Ferdinand Gotthold Max [fer-di-nahnt gawt-hawlt mahks] /ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt ˈgɔt hɔlt mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–52, German mathematician.
- depictions
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noun,
representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration:
- seed-snipe
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noun,
any of several South American birds of the family Thinocoridae, related to the shorebirds but superficially resembling quail.
- sidepieces
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noun,
a piece forming a side or a part of a side, or fixed by the side, of something.
- inceptions
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noun,
beginning; start; commencement.
- septillion
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noun,
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
- inspection
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noun,
the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically:
- descension
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noun,
Astrology. the part of the zodiac in which the influence of a planet is weakest.
Compare exaltation (def 6).
- leniencies
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noun,
the quality or state of being lenient.
- clienteles
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noun,
the clients or customers, as of a professional person or shop, considered collectively; a group or body of clients:
- centillion
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noun,
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 303 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 600 zeros.
- pesticides
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noun,
a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
- tendencies
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noun,
a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result:
- centipoise
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noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to 1/100 (0.01) poise. Abbreviation: cP, cp.
- pestilence
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noun,
a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- deponents
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noun,
Law. a person who testifies under oath, especially in writing.
- desinence
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noun,
a termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.
- deselects
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verb (used with object),
to discharge (a trainee) from a program of training.
- pectinose
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noun,
arabinose.
- epistolic
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adjective,
epistolary.
- depiction
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noun,
representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration:
- sidelines
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noun,
a line at the side of something.
- tolidines
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noun,
any of several isomeric derivatives of biphenyl containing two methyl and two amino groups, especially the ortho isomer that is used as a reagent and in the preparation of dyes.
- selection
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noun,
an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- incondite
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adjective,
ill-constructed; unpolished:
- one-piece
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noun,
Also called one-piecer. a one-piece garment.
- sidepiece
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noun,
a piece forming a side or a part of a side, or fixed by the side, of something.
- splenetic
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noun,
a splenetic person.
- sentience
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noun,
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
- denticles
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noun,
a small tooth or toothlike part.
- inception
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noun,
beginning; start; commencement.
- seditions
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noun,
incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- leninists
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noun,
an advocate or supporter of Lenin or Leninism.
- ill-spent
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adjective,
misspent; wasted.
- decillion
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noun,
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 33 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 60 zeros.
- deception
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noun,
the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived.
- pesticide
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noun,
a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
- side-step
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noun,
a step to one side, as in dancing, skiing, or boxing.
- lenticels
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noun,
a body of cells formed on the periderm of a stem, appearing on the surface of the plant as a lens-shaped spot, and serving as a pore.
- clientele
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noun,
the clients or customers, as of a professional person or shop, considered collectively; a group or body of clients:
- idiolects
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noun,
a person's individual speech pattern.
Compare dialect (def 1).
- splendent
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adjective,
shining or radiant, as the sun.
- silicones
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noun,
any of a number of polymers containing alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, as (–Si–O–Si–O–) n, whose properties are determined by the organic groups attached to the silicon atoms, and that are fluid, resinous, rubbery, extremely stable in high temperatures, and water-repellent: used as adhesives, lubricants, and hydraulic oils and in electrical insulation, cosmetics, etc.
- deletions
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noun,
an act or instance of deleting.
- toepieces
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noun,
toecap.
- picolines
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noun,
any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of pyridine having the formula C 6 H 7 N, obtained from coal tar as a colorless oily liquid with a strong odor.
- selenites
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
- Pendleton
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noun,
a city in N Oregon.
- densities
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noun,
the state or quality of being dense; compactness; closely set or crowded condition.
- licensees
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noun,
a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- pilotless
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adjective,
lacking a pilot or needing no pilot:
- eolipiles
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noun,
aeolipile.
- cespitose
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adjective,
forming mats; growing in dense tufts.
- penoncels
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noun,
pennoncel.
- neotenies
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noun,
Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- insectile
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adjective,
pertaining to or like an insect.
- potencies
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noun,
the state or quality of being potent.
- coleseeds
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noun,
the seed of the rape.
- celloidin
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noun,
a concentrated form of pyroxylin used to embed tissues for cutting and microscopic examination.
- neediness
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noun,
a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
- insolence
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noun,
contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
- colistins
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noun,
a toxic antibiotic polypeptide, C 45 H 85 O 10 N 13 , produced by the bacterium Bacillus colistinus, used in sulfate form against a broad spectrum of microorganisms and in the treatment of severe gastroenteritis.
- insolents
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noun,
an insolent person.
- diplotene
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noun,
a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- pointille
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adjective,
(of book covers) decorated with a tooled pattern of dots.
- nosepiece
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noun,
the part of a frame for eyeglasses that passes over the bridge of the nose.
- pointless
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adjective,
without a point:
- sentences
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noun,
Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- societies
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noun,
an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- politesse
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noun,
formal politeness; courtesy.
- nicotines
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noun,
a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C 10 H 14 N 2 , found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide.
- collinses
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- condenses
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verb (used with object),
to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
- nine-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- sepiolite
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noun,
meerschaum (def 1).
- penitence
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noun,
the state of being penitent; regret for one's wrongdoing or sinning; contrition; repentance.
- stenopeic
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noun,
a device, as of wood, metal, or cardboard, with a narrow horizontal slit, worn over the eyes for protection against bright sunlight.
- ellipsoid
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noun,
Geometry. a solid figure all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. Typical equation: (x 2 / a 2) + (y 2 / b 2) + (z 2 / c 2) = 1.
- enceintes
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noun,
a wall or enclosure, as of a fortified place.
- indispose
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verb (used with object),
to make ill, especially slightly.
- destinies
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noun,
something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune.
- enlistees
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noun,
a person who enlists for military service.
Compare draftee.
- isoclines
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noun,
a fold of strata so tightly compressed that both limbs dip in the same direction.
- endpoints
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noun,
the point on each side of an interval marking its extremity on that side.
- indolence
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noun,
the quality or state of being indolent.
- centipede
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noun,
any of numerous predaceous, chiefly nocturnal arthropods constituting the class Chilopoda, having an elongated, flattened body composed of from 15 to 173 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair being modified into poison fangs.
- telescope
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noun,
an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.
Compare radio telescope.
- penniless
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adjective,
without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- decollete
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adjective,
(of a garment) low-necked.
- pisolites
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noun,
limestone composed of rounded concretions about the size of a pea.
- Isenstein
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noun,
(in the Nibelungenlied) the home of Brunhild in Isenland.
- senescent
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adjective,
growing old; aging.
- penicils
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noun,
a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
- penoncel
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noun,
pennoncel.
- condense
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verb (used with object),
to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
- decision
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noun,
the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment:
- selenite
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
- selenide
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noun,
any compound in which bivalent selenium is combined with a positive element, as potassium selenide, K 2 Se, or with a group.
- indecent
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adjective,
offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar:
- incenses
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noun,
an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
- tolidine
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noun,
any of several isomeric derivatives of biphenyl containing two methyl and two amino groups, especially the ortho isomer that is used as a reagent and in the preparation of dyes.
- instills
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verb (used with object),
to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings; insinuate; inject:
- coniines
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noun,
a volatile, highly poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 17 N, constituting the active principle of the poison hemlock.
- sentence
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noun,
Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- inclined
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noun,
an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- contends
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verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain earnestly:
- seilenos
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noun,
Silenus.
- inspects
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verb (used with object),
to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically:
- declines
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noun,
a downward slope; declivity.
- consents
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noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- incienso
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noun,
a shrubby, composite desert plant, Encelia farinosa, of the southwestern U.S., having silvery leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
- incloses
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verb (used with object),
enclose.
- incident
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noun,
an individual occurrence or event.
- insolent
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noun,
an insolent person.
- toepiece
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noun,
toecap.
- inclines
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noun,
an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- seicento
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noun,
the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- indolent
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adjective,
having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful:
- solicits
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verb (used with object),
to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.:
- sedition
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noun,
incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- Einstein
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noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1879–1955, German physicist, U.S. citizen from 1940: formulator of the theory of relativity; Nobel Prize 1921.
- endnotes
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noun,
a note, as of explanation, emendation, or the like, added at the end of an article, chapter, etc.
- encloses
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verb (used with object),
to shut or hem in; close in on all sides:
- enceinte
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noun,
a wall or enclosure, as of a fortified place.
- pisolite
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noun,
limestone composed of rounded concretions about the size of a pea.
- psilocin
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noun,
a psilocybin metabolite with strong hallucinogenic potency, produced after ingestion of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- pistoles
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- ellipsis
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noun,
Grammar.
the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.
the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
- pitiless
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adjective,
feeling or showing no pity; merciless:
- elisions
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noun,
the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
- potlines
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noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- potences
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noun,
potency.
- dioceses
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noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- election
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noun,
the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- plenties
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noun,
a full or abundant supply or amount:
- Pliocene
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noun,
the Pliocene Epoch or Series.
- dictions
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noun,
style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words:
- distills
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verb (used with object),
to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
- poncelet
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noun,
Jean Victor [zhahn veek-tawr] /ʒɑ̃ vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1788–1867, French mathematician.
- D-notice
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noun,
a government notice sent to newspapers or other publications requesting them to withhold information for reasons of state security.
- polities
-
noun,
a particular form or system of government:
- politics
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noun,
the science or art of political government.
- doneness
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noun,
the condition of being cooked to a desired degree:
- poli-sci
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noun,
political science:
- policies
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noun,
a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.:
- diplonts
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noun,
the diploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- dispense
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noun,
Obsolete. expenditure.
- disclose
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verb (used with object),
to make known; reveal or uncover:
- disciple
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noun,
Religion.
one of the 12 personal followers of Christ.
one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1.
any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- eclipses
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noun,
Astronomy.
the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse)
a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.
the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- ploidies
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noun,
the number of homologous chromosome sets present in a cell or organism.
- diplosis
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noun,
the doubling of the chromosome number by the union of the haploid sets in the union of gametes.
- endpoint
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noun,
the point on each side of an interval marking its extremity on that side.
- enlistee
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noun,
a person who enlists for military service.
Compare draftee.
- pensions
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noun,
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
- dentelle
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noun,
lace (def 1).
- sections
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noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- pentodes
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noun,
a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
- deep-set
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adjective,
placed far in:
- pentoses
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noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- secondes
-
noun,
the second of the eight defensive positions.
- idleness
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noun,
the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle:
- idiolect
-
noun,
a person's individual speech pattern.
Compare dialect (def 1).
- deletion
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noun,
an act or instance of deleting.
- petioles
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noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- picoline
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noun,
any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of pyridine having the formula C 6 H 7 N, obtained from coal tar as a colorless oily liquid with a strong odor.
- picotees
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noun,
a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
- Estienne
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noun,
Also, Étienne. a family of French printers, book dealers, and scholars, including especially Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA) died 1520; his son, Robert [raw-ber] /rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA) 1503?–59; Henri, (son of Robert), 1531?–98.
- essonite
-
noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- pillions
-
noun,
a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
- denticle
-
noun,
a small tooth or toothlike part.
- destines
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verb (used with object),
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
- epeeists
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noun,
a person who fences with an épée.
- despotic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despoils
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- eolipile
-
noun,
aeolipile.
- despites
-
noun,
contemptuous treatment; insult.
- tensions
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- deselect
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge (a trainee) from a program of training.
- pinitols
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, inositol derivative, C 7 H 14 O 6 , obtained from the resin of the sugar pine.
- epsilons
-
noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- deposits
-
noun,
money placed in a bank account or an instance of placing money in a bank account.
- epicenes
-
noun,
a person or thing that is epicene.
- deponent
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noun,
Law. a person who testifies under oath, especially in writing.
- depletes
-
verb (used with object),
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
- epidotes
-
noun,
a mineral, calcium aluminum iron silicate, Ca 2 (Al, Fe) 3 Si 3 O 12 (OH), occurring in green prismatic crystals.
- episodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of an episode.
- Eteocles
-
noun,
a son of Oedipus and the brother of Polynices, by whom he was slain.
Compare Seven against Thebes (def 1).
- indocile
-
adjective,
not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
- Sentinel
-
noun,
a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
- lenticel
-
noun,
a body of cells formed on the periderm of a stem, appearing on the surface of the plant as a lens-shaped spot, and serving as a pore.
- cineoles
-
noun,
a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- cipolins
-
noun,
an impure variety of marble with alternate white and greenish zones and a layered structure.
- open-end
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or like an open-end investment company.
- pendents
-
noun,
pendant.
- licensee
-
noun,
a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- lepidote
-
adjective,
covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.
- silicons
-
noun,
a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.
- silicone
-
noun,
any of a number of polymers containing alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, as (–Si–O–Si–O–) n, whose properties are determined by the organic groups attached to the silicon atoms, and that are fluid, resinous, rubbery, extremely stable in high temperatures, and water-repellent: used as adhesives, lubricants, and hydraulic oils and in electrical insulation, cosmetics, etc.
- silicles
-
noun,
a short silique.
- lenticle
-
noun,
a window in a clock case revealing the motion of the pendulum bob.
- lenition
-
noun,
Phonetics. a phonological process that weakens consonant articulation at the ends of syllables or between vowels, causing the consonant to become voiced, spirantized, or deleted.
- linoleic
-
adjective,
of or derived from linoleic acid.
- lenities
-
noun,
the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- silences
-
noun,
absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- Leninist
-
noun,
an advocate or supporter of Lenin or Leninism.
- stollens
-
noun,
a sweetened bread made from raised dough, usually containing nuts, raisins, and citron.
- lections
-
noun,
a version of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text; a variant reading.
- sidestep
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid or dodge by stepping aside.
- sidespin
-
noun,
a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
- close-in
-
adjective,
near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city:
- closeted
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- spindles
-
noun,
a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- one-step
-
noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- linseeds
-
noun,
flaxseed.
- codeines
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- stenosed
-
adjective,
characterized by stenosis; abnormally narrowed.
- nineties
-
noun,
a cardinal number, ten times nine.
- nicotine
-
noun,
a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C 10 H 14 N 2 , found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide.
- topsides
-
noun,
the upper side.
- niceties
-
noun,
a delicate or fine point; punctilio:
- steepens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become steeper.
- nitinols
-
noun,
a paramagnetic alloy of nickel and titanium that, after heating and deformation, resumes its original shape when reheated.
- needless
-
adjective,
unnecessary; not needed or wanted:
- celestes
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- St-Denis
-
noun,
Ruth, 1880?–1968, U.S. dancer.
- 11-point
-
- step-ins
-
noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- cestoids
-
noun,
cestode.
- slipsole
-
noun,
an insole placed in a shoe for warmth or to adjust the size.
- noteless
-
adjective,
not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.
- spondees
-
noun,
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- centesis
-
noun,
a puncture or perforation.
- centiles
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a percentile.
- oilseeds
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- sleep-in
-
noun,
a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.
- old-line
-
adjective,
following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- solstice
-
noun,
Astronomy.
either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator: about June 21, when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22, when it reaches its southernmost point. Compare summer solstice, winter solstice.
either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.
- cestodes
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- sideslip
-
noun,
an act or instance of sideslipping.
- licenses
-
noun,
formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- pedicels
-
noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- pedicles
-
noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- colpitis
-
noun,
vaginitis.
- collides
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to collide:
- colleens
-
noun,
an Irish girl.
- colistin
-
noun,
a toxic antibiotic polypeptide, C 45 H 85 O 10 N 13 , produced by the bacterium Bacillus colistinus, used in sulfate form against a broad spectrum of microorganisms and in the treatment of severe gastroenteritis.
- coleseed
-
noun,
the seed of the rape.
- isocline
-
noun,
a fold of strata so tightly compressed that both limbs dip in the same direction.
- coesites
-
noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- isolines
-
noun,
isogram.
- isopedin
-
noun,
the underlying layer of a ganoid scale, composed of connective tissue embedded with bone.
- sideline
-
noun,
a line at the side of something.
- Ponselle
-
noun,
Rosa (Melba) 1897–1981, U.S. soprano.
- pedicle
-
noun,
a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- Ellison
-
noun,
Ralph (Waldo) [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1914–1994, U.S. novelist, essayist, and lecturer.
- encodes
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- stipels
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- enclose
-
verb (used with object),
to shut or hem in; close in on all sides:
- spondee
-
noun,
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- pectins
-
noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- Stinnes
-
noun,
Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- pencils
-
noun,
a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- pistole
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- notices
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- insoles
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- endless
-
adjective,
having or seeming to have no end, limit, or conclusion; boundless; infinite; interminable; incessant:
- lopseed
-
noun,
a weedy plant, Phryma leptostachya, of Asia and North America, having spikes of whitish paired flowers.
- stepson
-
noun,
a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- ellipse
-
noun,
a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal. It is a conic section formed by the intersection of a right circular cone by a plane that cuts the axis and the surface of the cone. Typical equation: (x 2 / a 2) + (y 2 / b 2) = 1. If a = b the ellipse is a circle.
- inspect
-
verb (used with object),
to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically:
- Pitocin
-
- step-on
-
adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- intones
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- elision
-
noun,
the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
- step-in
-
noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- noetics
-
noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- piscine
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a fish or fishes.
- endnote
-
noun,
a note, as of explanation, emendation, or the like, added at the end of an article, chapter, etc.
- pectose
-
noun,
protopectin.
- entices
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- pinoles
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- insides
-
noun,
the inner or internal part; interior:
- tellies
-
noun,
television.
- lipoids
-
noun,
a fat or fatlike substance, as lecithin or wax.
- lisente
-
noun,
plural of sente.
- entopic
-
adjective,
being or occurring in the usual place.
- iolites
-
noun,
cordierite.
- entoils
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- splices
-
noun,
a joining of two ropes or parts of a rope by splicing.
- listels
-
noun,
a narrow list or fillet.
- enspell
-
verb (used with object),
to cast a spell on.
- iodines
-
noun,
a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- ensiles
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- pintles
-
noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- enlists
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- listens
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- Peneios
-
noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- piolets
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- oilseed
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- enisles
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- splints
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- stipend
-
noun,
a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- elicits
-
verb (used with object),
to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
- pendent
-
noun,
pendant.
- penicil
-
noun,
a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
- Nicolle
-
noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, French physician: Nobel prize 1928.
- pointel
-
noun,
a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointes
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- instill
-
verb (used with object),
to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings; insinuate; inject:
- steepen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become steeper.
- tineids
-
noun,
a moth of the family Tineidae, comprising the clothes moths.
- intens.
-
- instils
-
verb (used with object),
instill.
- Nicolet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1598–1642, French explorer in America.
- donnees
-
noun,
a set of artistic or literary premises or assumptions.
- intends
-
verb (used with object),
to have in mind as something to be done or brought about; plan:
- pointed
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- politic
-
adjective,
shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
- tinsels
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- inclips
-
verb (used with object),
to grasp or enclose.
- Nielsen
-
noun,
Carl August [kahrl ou-goo st] /kɑrl ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1865–1931, Danish composer.
- pentode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
- Nilsson
-
noun,
(Märta) Birgit [mahr-tah bir-git;; English mahr-tuh bur-git] /ˈmɑr tɑ ˈbɪr gɪt;; English ˈmɑr tə ˈbɜr gɪt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2005, Swedish soprano.
- dollies
-
noun,
Informal. a doll.
- pollees
-
noun,
a person who is asked questions in a poll.
- pollens
-
noun,
the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
- Nilotic
-
noun,
a group of languages belonging to the Eastern Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan, and including Dinka, Luo, Masai, and Nandi.
- nestles
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- poietic
-
- stencil
-
noun,
a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- steelie
-
noun,
a playing marble made of steel.
- elected
-
noun,
elect (def 10).
- intines
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- Needles
-
noun,
a town in SE California: on Colorado River at Arizona line.
- insteps
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- eidetic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail.
- pedicel
-
noun,
Botany.
a small stalk.
an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- spences
-
noun,
a pantry.
- Ploesti
-
noun,
a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- Neilson
-
noun,
William Allan, 1869–1946, U.S. educator and lexicographer, born in Scotland.
- nelsons
-
noun,
a hold in which pressure is applied to the head, back of the neck, and one or both arms of the opponent.
- edition
-
noun,
one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
- poiesis
-
- Neocene
-
adjective, noun,
Neogene.
- podites
-
noun,
an arthropod limb.
- tiepins
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- poesies
-
noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- poetess
-
noun,
a woman who writes poetry.
- poetics
-
noun,
literary criticism treating of the nature and laws of poetry.
- intense
-
adjective,
existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:
- nitinol
-
noun,
a paramagnetic alloy of nickel and titanium that, after heating and deformation, resumes its original shape when reheated.
- steeple
-
noun,
an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- eclipse
-
noun,
Astronomy.
the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse)
a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.
the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- lioness
-
noun,
a female lion.
- lioncel
-
noun,
a lion: so called when three or more are displayed on an escutcheon.
- Pensees
-
noun,
a collection of notes, essays, etc., dealing with religious and philosophical matters by Blaise Pascal, published posthumously in 1670.
- idlesse
-
noun,
idleness.
- illites
-
noun,
any of a group of clay minerals, hydrous potassium aluminosilicates, characterized by a three-layer micalike structure and a gray, light green, or yellowish-brown color.
- pentose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- indicts
-
verb (used with object),
(of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial:
- peonies
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- incises
-
verb (used with object),
to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
- Ossetic
-
noun,
the Indo-European, Iranian language of the Ossets.
- osselet
-
noun,
a hard nodule on the leg of a horse, especially one on the inner side of the knee or the outer side of the fetlock.
- isoline
-
noun,
isogram.
- tendons
-
noun,
Anatomy. a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew.
- indites
-
verb (used with object),
to compose or write, as a poem.
- illness
-
noun,
unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
- incites
-
verb (used with object),
to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action:
- lentoid
-
noun,
a lentoid body.
- pestles
-
noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- Leonids
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- doilies
-
noun,
any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
- petiole
-
noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- pectens
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- Leonine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the lion.
- identic
-
adjective,
identical.
- Oscines
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- lenitic
-
adjective,
lentic.
- ossicle
-
noun,
a small bone.
- lepido-
-
- pensile
-
adjective,
hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- incests
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- incepts
-
verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- spinels
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- inconel
-
- lectins
-
noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- indenes
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C 9 H 8 , obtained from coal tar by fractional distillation: used in synthesizing resins.
- indents
-
noun,
a toothlike notch or deep recess; indentation.
- lection
-
noun,
a version of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text; a variant reading.
- isospin
-
noun,
isotopic spin.
- incense
-
noun,
an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
- pensils
-
noun,
pencel.
- indices
-
noun,
a plural of index.
- incised
-
adjective,
cut into:
- spinets
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- spinode
-
noun,
cusp (def 3).
- pension
-
noun,
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
- spinose
-
adjective,
full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- stollen
-
noun,
a sweetened bread made from raised dough, usually containing nuts, raisins, and citron.
- Lenclos
-
noun,
Anne [ahn,, an] /ɑn,, an/ (Show IPA), (Ninon de Lenclos) 1620–1705? French courtesan and wit.
- telsons
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- lenient
-
adjective,
agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent:
- spindle
-
noun,
a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- Leotine
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Tenedos
-
noun,
an island in the Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, belonging to Turkey.
- pencels
-
noun,
a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- oneness
-
noun,
the quality of being one; singleness.
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- Epistle
-
noun,
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- lindens
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Tilia, as T. americana (American linden) or T. europaea (European linden) having fragrant yellowish-white flowers and heart-shaped leaves, grown as an ornamental or shade tree.
Compare linden family.
- episode
-
noun,
an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
- splenic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen:
- in-line
-
adjective,
(of an internal-combustion engine) having the cylinders ranged side by side in one or more rows along the crankshaft.
- pinions
-
noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- lindies
-
noun,
Also called lindy hop, Lindy Hop. an energetic jitterbug dance.
- telesis
-
noun,
deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
- epidote
-
noun,
a mineral, calcium aluminum iron silicate, Ca 2 (Al, Fe) 3 Si 3 O 12 (OH), occurring in green prismatic crystals.
- linnets
-
noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- tension
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- epicist
-
noun,
a writer of epic poetry.
- spleno-
-
- epicene
-
noun,
a person or thing that is epicene.
- pinites
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- inclose
-
verb (used with object),
enclose.
- pinitol
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, inositol derivative, C 7 H 14 O 6 , obtained from the resin of the sugar pine.
- linseed
-
noun,
flaxseed.
- incline
-
noun,
an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- lintels
-
noun,
a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- epeeist
-
noun,
a person who fences with an épée.
- pinenes
-
noun,
a liquid terpene, C 10 H 16 , the principal constituent of oil of turpentine, found in other essential oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of camphor.
- Epsilon
-
noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- picotee
-
noun,
a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
- spleens
-
noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- pelisse
-
noun,
an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- Tenniel
-
noun,
Sir John, 1820–1914, English caricaturist and illustrator.
- etoiles
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- Etienne
-
noun,
Estienne (def 1).
- leptons
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- pieties
-
noun,
reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations:
- lesions
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- Estelle
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “star.”.
- pillion
-
noun,
a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
- Essonne
-
noun,
a department in N France. 699 sq. mi. (1810 sq. km). Capital: Évry.
- essence
-
noun,
the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features:
- Lincoln
-
noun,
Abbey (Anna Marie Gaby Wooldridge; Aminata Moseka) born 1930, U.S. jazz singer, activist, and actress.
- license
-
noun,
formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- tenpins
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- indoles
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- esplees
-
noun,
the yield from land, as produce or rents.
- pelites
-
noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- lidless
-
adjective,
(of objects) without a lid.
- tensile
-
adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- Pennell
-
noun,
Joseph, 1860–1926, U.S. etcher, illustrator, and writer.
- pellets
-
noun,
a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
- Epstein
-
noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- penises
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- Nilotes
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- tonsils
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- colitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the colon.
- psocids
-
noun,
any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- cissoid
-
noun,
a curve having a cusp at the origin and a point of inflection at infinity. Equation: r = 2 a sin(θ)tan(θ).
- cipolin
-
noun,
an impure variety of marble with alternate white and greenish zones and a layered structure.
- sinopis
-
noun,
a red ocher, used from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
- dillies
-
noun,
something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual, etc.:
- cineole
-
noun,
a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- Sistine
-
adjective,
of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
- potsies
-
noun,
hopscotch.
- Dinesen
-
noun,
Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
- potline
-
noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- cestoid
-
noun,
cestode.
- cestode
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- cesspit
-
noun,
a pit for receiving wastes, as sewage, or other refuse.
- potence
-
noun,
potency.
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- coesite
-
noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- Collins
-
noun,
a tall drink made with gin, whiskey, rum, or vodka, and lemon or lime juice, soda water, and sugar.
- consent
-
noun,
permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
- secedes
-
verb (used without object),
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
- diplont
-
noun,
the diploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- deities
-
noun,
a god or goddess.
- centile
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a percentile.
- coniine
-
noun,
a volatile, highly poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 17 N, constituting the active principle of the poison hemlock.
- deletes
-
verb (used with object),
to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.
- cession
-
noun,
act of ceding, as by treaty.
- collide
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to collide:
- collets
-
noun,
a collar or enclosing band.
- delicts
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- Colleen
-
noun,
an Irish girl.
- delists
-
verb (used with object),
to delete from a list, as one that indicates acceptability, legitimacy, or the like.
- deplete
-
verb (used with object),
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
- tocsins
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- Denison
-
noun,
a city in NE Texas.
- consist
-
noun,
Railroads.
the rolling stock, exclusive of the locomotive, making up a train.
a record made of this rolling stock.
- clip-on
-
noun,
a clip-on device, ornament, or the like.
- despoil
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- despite
-
noun,
contemptuous treatment; insult.
- silents
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- Clinton
-
noun,
De Witt [duh wit] /də ˈwɪt/ (Show IPA), 1769–1828, U.S. political leader and statesman: governor of New York 1817–21, 1825–28 (son of James Clinton).
- despise
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
- deontic
-
adjective,
of or relating to duty and moral obligation as ethical concepts.
- silence
-
noun,
absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- dentins
-
noun,
the hard, calcareous tissue, similar to but denser than bone, that forms the major portion of a tooth, surrounds the pulp cavity, and is situated beneath the enamel and cementum.
- descent
-
noun,
the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- Sienese
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Siena.
- deposit
-
noun,
money placed in a bank account or an instance of placing money in a bank account.
- deposes
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from office or position, especially high office:
- depicts
-
verb (used with object),
to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depones
-
verb (used with or without object),
to testify under oath; depose.
- destine
-
verb (used with object),
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
- silicle
-
noun,
a short silique.
- coedits
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- Tonnies
-
noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- diesels
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- speedos
-
noun,
speedometer.
- denotes
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- side-on
-
adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- codline
-
noun,
an untarred cord of hemp or cotton, used for fishing and for various purposes aboard a ship.
- codeine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- citoles
-
noun,
cittern.
- dentils
-
noun,
any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
- diction
-
noun,
style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words:
- sillies
-
noun,
Informal. a silly or foolish person:
- species
-
noun,
a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind.
- closets
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- selenic
-
adjective,
of or containing selenium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- silicon
-
noun,
a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.
- seconde
-
noun,
the second of the eight defensive positions.
- poteens
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- dipoles
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dispose
-
noun,
Archaic. disposition; habit.
- cellist
-
noun,
a person who plays the cello.
- pontils
-
noun,
punty.
- Pontine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the pons.
- decline
-
noun,
a downward slope; declivity.
- distill
-
verb (used with object),
to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
- Cellini
-
noun,
Benvenuto [ben-vuh-noo-toh,, -nyoo-;; Italian ben-ve-noo-taw] /ˌbɛn vəˈnu toʊ,, -ˈnyu-;; Italian ˌbɛn vɛˈnu tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1500–71, Italian, metalsmith, sculptor, and autobiographer.
- seleno-
-
- deciles
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- dispels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
- cosines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- section
-
noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- ctenoid
-
adjective,
comblike or pectinate; rough-edged.
- dissect
-
verb (used with object),
to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- dissent
-
noun,
difference of sentiment or opinion.
- seniles
-
noun,
a senile person.
- distils
-
verb (used with or without object),
distill.
- deceits
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- sennits
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- Celeste
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- seidels
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- deepens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become deep or deeper:
- topless
-
adjective,
lacking a top:
- slip-on
-
noun,
something made this way, especially an article of clothing.
- docents
-
noun,
privatdocent.
- solicit
-
verb (used with object),
to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.:
- contend
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain earnestly:
- cenotes
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- sonnies
-
noun,
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
- topside
-
noun,
the upper side.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- tollies
-
noun,
candle (def 1).
- soliped
-
noun,
solidungulate.
- sectile
-
adjective,
capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- seconds
-
noun,
a second part.
- topline
-
adjective,
so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like:
- selects
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- sennets
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- cosets
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- cosies
-
noun,
a padded covering for a teapot, chocolate pot, etc., to retain the heat.
- pectin
-
noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- cossie
-
noun,
a bathing suit; bathers.
- indole
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- sendee
-
noun,
the person to whom something is sent.
- coedit
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- pecten
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- spinel
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- spills
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- cosset
-
noun,
a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
- spines
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- clones
-
noun,
Biology.
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- closed
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- lectin
-
noun,
any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- closes
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- pensee
-
noun,
a reflection or thought.
- stoned
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- indite
-
verb (used with object),
to compose or write, as a poem.
- closet
-
noun,
a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- sidles
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- Cloete
-
noun,
Stuart, 1897–1976, South African novelist, born in France.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Indies
-
noun,
the. (used with a plural verb) West Indies (def 1).
- Stopes
-
noun,
Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.
- indict
-
verb (used with object),
(of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial:
- pedion
-
noun,
a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- teiids
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- insist
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- pencil
-
noun,
a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- sennet
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- inside
-
noun,
the inner or internal part; interior:
- tellin
-
noun,
any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Tellina, having a thin, rounded shell of white, yellow, pink, or purple.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- intoed
-
adjective,
having inwardly turned toes.
- collet
-
noun,
a collar or enclosing band.
- contin
-
- intine
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- colins
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- Collie
-
noun,
one of a breed of dogs having a usually long, black, tan, and white or sable and white coat, raised originally in Scotland for herding sheep.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- intend
-
verb (used with object),
to have in mind as something to be done or brought about; plan:
- sonics
-
noun,
the branch of science that deals with the practical applications of sound.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- instil
-
verb (used with object),
instill.
- Connie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Constance.
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- contd.
-
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- iodine
-
noun,
a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- iolite
-
noun,
cordierite.
- pennis
-
- pelite
-
noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- istles
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- Pennie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Penelope.
- spiles
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- copses
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- inline
-
noun,
an ornamented type with a line of white or of a contrasting color running just inside the edge and following the contour of each letter.
- Isolde
-
noun,
German name of Iseult.
- copies
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- Pelion
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- septi-
-
- pistol
-
noun,
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- copens
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- teleo-
-
- peloid
-
noun,
mud used therapeutically.
- insect
-
noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- Colden
-
noun,
Cadwallader, 1688–1776, Scottish physician, botanist, and public official in America, born in Ireland.
- colent
-
- pencel
-
noun,
a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- ionics
-
noun,
Prosody. an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
- septic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- colies
-
noun,
any of several slender, fruit-eating, African birds constituting the family Coliidae, having grayish-brown plumage and a long, pointed tail.
- Pellet
-
noun,
a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Leiden
-
noun,
a city in W Netherlands.
- censes
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- cellos
-
noun,
the second largest member of the violin family, rested vertically on the floor between the performer's knees when being played.
- sloids
-
noun,
sloyd.
- celto-
-
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- nonces
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- slipes
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- losels
-
noun,
a worthless person; scoundrel.
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- stills
-
noun,
stillness or silence:
- Lonnie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Alonso.
- sliest
-
adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- slides
-
- slopes
-
- centi-
-
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- spoilt
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- spoils
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- spodes
-
noun,
Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- lodens
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- stipel
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- slices
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- L-line
-
noun,
one of a series of lines (L-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (L-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the L-shell.
- stipes
-
noun,
Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- splint
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- oillet
-
noun,
eyelet (def 5).
- spline
-
noun,
a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- steno-
-
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Niepce
-
noun,
Joseph Nicéphore [zhaw-zef nee-sey-fawr] /ʒɔ zɛf ni seɪˈfɔr/ (Show IPA), 1765–1833, French inventor.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- niello
-
noun,
a black metallic substance, consisting of silver, copper, lead, and sulfur, with which an incised design or ground is filled to produce an ornamental effect on metal.
- solids
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- socles
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- Nicole
-
noun,
a female given name: from Greek words meaning “victory” and “people.”.
- Nicene
-
adjective,
of or relating to Nicaea.
- niseis
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- nested
-
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.
- steels
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- steeps
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- snipes
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snells
-
noun,
a short piece of nylon, gut, or the like, by which a fishhook is attached to a line.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- Nelson
-
noun,
a hold in which pressure is applied to the head, back of the neck, and one or both arms of the opponent.
- Nellie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Steele
-
noun,
Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.
- Neisse
-
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.
- steeds
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- nocent
-
adjective,
harmful; injurious.
- nocti-
-
- Celine
-
noun,
Louis-Ferdinand [lwee-fer-dee-nahn] /lwi fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), (Louis F. Destouches) 1894–1961, French novelist and physician.
- needle
-
noun,
a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- celled
-
noun,
a small room, as in a convent or prison.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- steles
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- sleets
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- listel
-
noun,
a narrow list or fillet.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- leones
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Leslie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- citied
-
adjective,
occupied by a city or cities.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- optics
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision.
- cities
-
noun,
a large or important town.
- Lepton
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lepto-
-
- citole
-
noun,
cittern.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- cleoid
-
noun,
a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- clepes
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- Leonid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- spleen
-
noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- lessen
-
verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- spites
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- lentil
-
noun,
a plant, Lens culinaris, of the legume family, having flattened, biconvex seeds used as food.
- client
-
noun,
a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- clines
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- lentic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in still water.
- Lenten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- clinid
-
noun,
any of the blennioid fishes of the family Clinidae, of tropical and subtropical seas.
- clino-
-
- clints
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- Ostend
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Belgium.
- clites
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- stolid
-
adjective,
not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- lessee
-
noun,
a person, group, etc., to whom a lease is granted.
- lesson
-
noun,
a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject:
- listed
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- Ondine
-
noun,
undine.
- sleeps
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- splice
-
noun,
a joining of two ropes or parts of a rope by splicing.
- lisles
-
noun,
knit goods, as gloves or hose, made of lisle thread.
- oldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- stipos
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- Lipton
-
noun,
Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- lipoid
-
noun,
a fat or fatlike substance, as lecithin or wax.
- lipids
-
noun,
any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- Lionel
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leon.
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- Linton
-
noun,
Ralph, 1893–1953, U.S. anthropologist.
- lintel
-
noun,
a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- Linnet
-
noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- stoics
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Lindon
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Linden
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Tilia, as T. americana (American linden) or T. europaea (European linden) having fragrant yellowish-white flowers and heart-shaped leaves, grown as an ornamental or shade tree.
Compare linden family.
- online
-
adverb,
with or through a computer, especially over a network.
- lilies
-
noun,
any scaly-bulbed plant of the genus Lilium, having showy, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped flowers.
Compare lily family.
- lilied
-
adjective,
abounding in lilies.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- cisele
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- Lidice
-
noun,
a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- splen-
-
- sindon
-
noun,
cloth of fine linen or silk, used especially for shrouds.
- sondes
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- opsins
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- indic.
-
- Inness
-
noun,
George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
- indent
-
noun,
a toothlike notch or deep recess; indentation.
- pistil
-
noun,
the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma.
- Pisces
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Fishes, a zodiacal constellation between Aries and Aquarius.
- Selene
-
noun,
the Greek goddess of the moon.
Compare Thyone.
- speedo
-
noun,
speedometer.
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- encode
-
verb (used with object),
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
- diesis
-
noun,
double dagger.
- ptosis
-
noun,
a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- speeds
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- piscos
-
noun,
a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- pissed
-
noun,
urine.
- Elsene
-
noun,
Dutch name of Ixelles.
- pistes
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- psocid
-
noun,
any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- dillis
-
noun,
Dili.
- Dillon
-
noun,
C(larence) Douglas, 1909–1979, U.S. lawyer and government official, born in Switzerland: Secretary of the Treasury 1961–65.
- speels
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- pities
-
noun,
sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy:
- spells
-
noun,
a word, phrase, or form of words supposed to have magic power; charm; incantation:
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- spends
-
verb (used with object),
to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- tepees
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- elicit
-
verb (used with object),
to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- epodes
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- Denton
-
noun,
a city in N Texas.
- Scipio
-
noun,
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major [puhb-lee-uh s kawr-neel-yuh s,, af-ri-key-nuh s,, -kan-uh s,, -kahn-] /ˈpʌb li əs kɔrˈnil yəs,, ˌæf rɪˈkeɪ nəs,, -ˈkæn əs,, -ˈkɑn-/ (Show IPA), ("Scipio the Elder") 237–183 b.c, Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
- pinion
-
noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- scions
-
noun,
a descendant.
- depict
-
verb (used with object),
to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- pinite
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- depone
-
verb (used with or without object),
to testify under oath; depose.
- depose
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from office or position, especially high office:
- scents
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Pinole
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- desist
-
verb (used without object),
to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- eosins
-
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.
- pinons
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Eocene
-
noun,
the Eocene Epoch or Series.
- despot
-
noun,
a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- pintle
-
noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- entice
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- scends
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- spices
-
noun,
any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- piolet
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- dicots
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- pleio-
-
- elects
-
noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- dentin
-
noun,
the hard, calcareous tissue, similar to but denser than bone, that forms the major portion of a tooth, surrounds the pulp cavity, and is situated beneath the enamel and cementum.
- donnee
-
noun,
a set of artistic or literary premises or assumptions.
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- tineid
-
noun,
a moth of the family Tineidae, comprising the clothes moths.
- distil
-
verb (used with or without object),
distill.
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- poised
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- tinned
-
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.
- poises
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- dossil
-
noun,
a cloth roll for removing excess ink from a plate before printing.
- police
-
noun,
Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- posies
-
noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- polit.
-
- discos
-
noun,
discotheque.
- Donets
-
noun,
a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- polite
-
adjective,
showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil:
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- pontil
-
noun,
punty.
- tip-in
-
noun,
tap-in.
- Pontic
-
noun,
an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- polled
-
noun,
a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- pollee
-
noun,
a person who is asked questions in a poll.
- docent
-
noun,
privatdocent.
- Pollen
-
noun,
the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
- Docile
-
adjective,
easily managed or handled; tractable:
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- ponces
-
noun,
a pimp.
- dispel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
- tildes
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- dipole
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- elect.
-
- eldest
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- diotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or affecting both ears; binaural.
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- Eileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Ticino
-
noun,
a canton in S Switzerland. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Bellinzona.
- diplo-
-
- plisse
-
noun,
a textile finish characterized by a puckered or blistered effect, produced by chemical treatment.
- diploe
-
noun,
the cancellate bony tissue between the hard inner and outer walls of the bones of the cranium.
- tidies
-
noun,
any of various articles for keeping things tidy, as a box having small drawers and compartments.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- Tilden
-
noun,
Samuel Jones, 1814–86, U.S. statesman.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- Spence
-
noun,
a pantry.
- pocill
-
- podite
-
noun,
an arthropod limb.
- possie
-
noun,
a job; position.
- tiepin
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- posset
-
noun,
a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- spelts
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- dipsos
-
noun,
a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- ecoles
-
noun,
school1 .
- poetic
-
noun,
poetics.
- posits
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- disco-
-
- ecesis
-
noun,
the establishment of an immigrant plant in a new environment.
- pinene
-
noun,
a liquid terpene, C 10 H 16 , the principal constituent of oil of turpentine, found in other essential oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of camphor.
- pisci-
-
- dentil
-
noun,
any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
- estocs
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- estops
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- deepen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become deep or deeper:
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- decile
-
noun,
one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.
- decent
-
adjective,
conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
- incept
-
verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- pieces
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- deceit
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- scolds
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- Dennis
-
noun,
John, 1657–1734, English dramatist and critic.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- tenpin
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- illite
-
noun,
any of a group of clay minerals, hydrous potassium aluminosilicates, characterized by a three-layer micalike structure and a gray, light green, or yellowish-brown color.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- tendon
-
noun,
Anatomy. a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew.
- specie
-
noun,
coined money; coin.
- delict
-
noun,
Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
- pestle
-
noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- secede
-
verb (used without object),
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
- denti-
-
- deists
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- second
-
noun,
a second part.
- delist
-
verb (used with object),
to delete from a list, as one that indicates acceptability, legitimacy, or the like.
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deesis
-
noun,
a representation in Byzantine art of Christ enthroned and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, often found on an iconostasis.
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- picots
-
noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- spiels
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- Scopes
-
noun,
John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- Iletin
-
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- scones
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- incise
-
verb (used with object),
to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
- delete
-
verb (used with object),
to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.
- sclent
-
noun,
any slanting surface, as a slope.
- escent
-
- inclip
-
verb (used with object),
to grasp or enclose.
- incite
-
verb (used with object),
to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action:
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- dentes
-
noun,
plural of dens.
- Selden
-
noun,
George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- pensil
-
noun,
pencel.
- indecl
-
- indene
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C 9 H 8 , obtained from coal tar by fractional distillation: used in synthesizing resins.
- selen-
-
- denote
-
verb (used with object),
to be a mark or sign of; indicate:
- espies
-
noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- piloti
-
noun,
a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- pilots
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- cteno-
-
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- Esenin
-
noun,
Sergey Aleksandrovich [Russian syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
- select
-
adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- Essene
-
noun,
a member of a Palestinian sect, characterized by asceticism, celibacy, and joint holding of property, that flourished from the 2nd century b.c. to the 2nd century a.d.
- Pilsen
-
noun,
German name of Plzeň.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- 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.
- noted
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- poet.
-
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- posse
-
noun,
posse comitatus.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- polls
-
noun,
a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- pesos
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- 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.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- spec.
-
- ploce
-
noun,
the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: “I am that I am.”.
- OIcel
-
- Spode
-
noun,
Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- plods
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- ploid
-
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- pends
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- 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:
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- pene-
-
- soils
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- nonce
-
noun,
the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
- poses
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Snell
-
noun,
a short piece of nylon, gut, or the like, by which a fishhook is attached to a line.
- Penn.
-
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- ponds
-
noun,
a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- seeps
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- sends
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- Sells
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- nitid
-
adjective,
bright; lustrous.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- snips
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- noct-
-
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Nolde
-
noun,
Emil (Emil Hansen) 1867–1956, German painter.
- sect.
-
- secos
-
noun,
sekos.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- poss.
-
- spelt
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- sloid
-
noun,
sloyd.
- socle
-
noun,
a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- seeds
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- plio-
-
- slops
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- posts
-
noun,
a strong piece of timber, metal, or the like, set upright as a support, a point of attachment, a place for displaying notices, etc.
- spend
-
verb (used with object),
to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
- spice
-
noun,
any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- spits
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Peele
-
noun,
George, 1558?–97? English dramatist.
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Peene
-
noun,
a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- specs
-
noun,
Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Sices
-
noun,
syce.
- 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.
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- scend
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- speed
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- piled
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- optic
-
noun,
the eye.
- Pelee
-
noun,
Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4428 feet (1350 meters).
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- silos
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- opsis
-
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- silts
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- scelp
-
noun,
a slap, smack, or blow, especially one given with the open hand.
- pedo-
-
- pisco
-
noun,
a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- Pinel
-
noun,
Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- spics
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- sides
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- spins
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- Siepi
-
noun,
Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.
- silds
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- oste-
-
- pilot
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- Pinon
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- pedi-
-
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- scold
-
noun,
a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- pilon
-
noun,
something extra; lagniappe.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- oiled
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- spies
-
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- speos
-
noun,
a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- scops
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- oleic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- Scot.
-
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- picot
-
noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- SCOTS
-
noun,
Also called Scottish. the English language as spoken in Scotland.
Compare Scots Gaelic.
- pico-
-
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- Ollie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Oliver.
- olden
-
adjective,
of or relating to the distant past or bygone times; ancient.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pleo-
-
- pests
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- Sept.
-
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- pleon
-
noun,
the abdomen of a crustacean.
- slept
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- slice
-
noun,
a thin, flat piece cut from something:
- post-
-
- sito-
-
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- piend
-
noun,
arris.
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- seti-
-
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- 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.
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- septs
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- Sino-
-
- pelts
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Pence
-
noun,
a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination):
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- piece
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- sipes
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sipid
-
adjective,
having a pleasing taste or flavor.
- spell
-
noun,
a word, phrase, or form of words supposed to have magic power; charm; incantation:
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- nills
-
verb (used with object),
to refuse or reject.
- Ellen
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in S Utah. 11,522 feet (3514 meters).
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- edit.
-
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Ellis
-
noun,
Alexander John (Alexander John Sharpe) 1814–90, English phonetician and mathematician.
- tilde
-
noun,
a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- tepid
-
adjective,
moderately warm; lukewarm:
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Tepic
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Nayarit, W central Mexico.
- encl.
-
- endo-
-
- Enlil
-
noun,
the king of the Sumerian gods and the god of the air.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- edict
-
noun,
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- ecto-
-
- tepee
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- donec
-
conjunction,
(in prescriptions) until.
- disc.
-
- dist.
-
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- tipis
-
noun,
tepee.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- dolce
-
noun,
an instruction to the performer that the music is to be executed softly and sweetly.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- Dolin
-
noun,
Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- dolts
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- econ.
-
- Donne
-
noun,
John, 1573–1631, English poet and clergyman.
- dopes
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- doses
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tills
-
noun,
a drawer, box, or the like, as in a shop or bank, in which money is kept.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tiled
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- ecol.
-
- Ecole
-
noun,
school1 .
- ento-
-
- Eolic
-
noun,
the Greek dialect of ancient Aeolis and Thessaly; Aeolian.
- dipl.
-
- tells
-
noun,
an artificial mound consisting of the accumulated remains of one or more ancient settlements (often used in Egypt and the Middle East as part of a place name).
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- incl.
-
- indie
-
noun,
an independently or privately owned business, especially a film or music company that is not affiliated with a larger and more commercial company:
- Indio
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Indo-
-
- telo-
-
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- inion
-
noun,
a point at the external occipital protuberance of the skull.
- init.
-
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- insep
-
- ilio-
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insol
-
- insp.
-
- inst.
-
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- iodic
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the pentavalent state.
- Ionic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
- telic
-
adjective,
Grammar. expressing end or purpose:
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- tele-
-
- Ilion
-
noun,
Greek name of ancient Troy.
- ileo-
-
- 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.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- epees
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- Epis.
-
- Episc
-
- Epist
-
- epode
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- ESPEC
-
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- teno-
-
- Tenn.
-
- Icel.
-
- Iceni
-
noun,
an ancient Celtic tribe of eastern England, whose queen, Boadicea, headed an insurrection against the Romans in a.d. 61.
- icons
-
- tends
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- ideo-
-
- idio-
-
- idion
-
- idiot
-
noun,
Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
- dipso
-
noun,
a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- Islip
-
noun,
a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- Close
-
noun,
the act of closing.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- Cleon
-
noun,
died 422 b.c, Athenian general and political opponent of Pericles.
- clepe
-
verb (used with object),
to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- clept
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of clepe.
- cline
-
noun,
Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- Clint
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Clinton.
- clipt
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- Clite
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clone
-
noun,
Biology.
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- clops
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- clots
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- codes
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- coel-
-
- coele
-
- coils
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- colds
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- Coles
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Colet
-
noun,
John, 1467?–1519, English educator and clergyman.
- Colin
-
noun,
any of several American quails, especially the bobwhite.
- cists
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- Conde
-
noun,
Louis II de Bourbon [lwee,, duh boor-bawn] /lwi,, də burˈbɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Prince de (Duc d'Enghien"the Great Condé") 1621–86, French general.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- 30-30
-
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- ceils
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- Cello
-
noun,
the second largest member of the violin family, rested vertically on the floor between the performer's knees when being played.
- cells
-
noun,
a small room, as in a convent or prison.
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- cent.
-
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- topic
-
noun,
a subject of conversation or discussion:
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- cine-
-
- coll.
-
- Conn.
-
- diols
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- desc.
-
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- dent.
-
- dents
-
noun,
a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- depot
-
noun,
a railroad station.
- dept.
-
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- dicot
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- dict.
-
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- dilis
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- dilli
-
noun,
Dili.
- dills
-
noun,
a plant, Anethum graveolens, of the parsley family, having aromatic seeds and finely divided leaves, both of which are used for flavoring food.
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- dints
-
noun,
force; power:
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- conns
-
noun,
responsibility for the steering of a ship.
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- Cons.
-
- Const
-
- cont.
-
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- costs
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tolls
-
noun,
a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- deci-
-
- decl.
-
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- deeps
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- solid
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Lindi
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Tanzania.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- 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.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- lidos
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loden
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- step-
-
- Lenin
-
noun,
V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"N. Lenin") 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- linen
-
noun,
fabric woven from flax yarns.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lilts
-
noun,
rhythmic swing or cadence.
- linns
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- stops
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- lect.
-
- lends
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- lotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or living in flowing water.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- Lisle
-
noun,
knit goods, as gloves or hose, made of lisle thread.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- istic
-
- Still
-
noun,
stillness or silence:
- licit
-
adjective,
legal; lawful; legitimate; permissible.
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- licet
-
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- lipo-
-
- losel
-
noun,
a worthless person; scoundrel.
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- ition
-
- teiid
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- lipid
-
noun,
any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- told
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- nos-
-
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- cts.
-
- 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.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Toll
-
noun,
a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Sell
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- coss
-
noun,
kos.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- not-
-
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- cpd.
-
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- tonn
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- SpEd
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- OECD
-
- dep.
-
- OEEC
-
- scil
-
- sci.
-
- TODS
-
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loci
-
noun,
plural of locus.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- PTSD
-
- pts.
-
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- Dili
-
noun,
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Dill
-
noun,
a plant, Anethum graveolens, of the parsley family, having aromatic seeds and finely divided leaves, both of which are used for flavoring food.
- psis
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- LitD
-
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- DCNL
-
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Dec.
-
- SScD
-
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- sops
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- deep
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- lond
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- Oct.
-
- Del.
-
- sec.
-
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SCSI
-
noun,
a standard for computer interface ports featuring faster data transmission and greater flexibility than normal ports.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- Den.
-
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- cene
-
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- 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.
- SLIC
-
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- sld.
-
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- cet-
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- neo-
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Ceto
-
- SIPS
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- cide
-
- Nell
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- cen.
-
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- Sol.
-
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Ceil
-
verb (used with object),
to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- soln
-
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- cell
-
noun,
a small room, as in a convent or prison.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- Cels
-
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Cond
-
- lit.
-
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- Ltd.
-
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- 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.
- sics
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- Soni
-
- coil
-
noun,
a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- non-
-
- NCTE
-
- Col.
-
- Cold
-
noun,
the relative absence of heat:
- Cole
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, especially kale and rape.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- Coln
-
noun,
former German name of Cologne.
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sepn
-
- cols
-
noun,
Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
- COLT
-
noun,
a young male animal of the horse family.
- Con.
-
- clot
-
noun,
a mass or lump.
- CLOS
-
noun,
a walled vineyard.
- cis-
-
- clep
-
- 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.
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- cit.
-
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- Cleo
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sill
-
noun,
a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc.
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- NDSL
-
- Ste.
-
- top-
-
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- Clio
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the Muse of history.
- clip
-
noun,
the act of clipping.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- clit
-
noun,
clitoris.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- clod
-
noun,
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- Cloe
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Chloe.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- clop
-
noun,
a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- psid
-
- dint
-
noun,
force; power:
- psec
-
- pil-
-
- eso-
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- est.
-
- pill
-
noun,
a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pili
-
noun,
a Philippine tree, Canarium ovatum, the edible seeds of which taste like a sweet almond.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- etc.
-
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Pict
-
noun,
a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.
- PICS
-
noun,
a movie.
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Ind.
-
- Ice.
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- ESIS
-
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Ens.
-
- enc.
-
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- ence
-
- Din.
-
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- enl.
-
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- osis
-
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- epee
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- epi-
-
- epic
-
noun,
an epic poem.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- epit
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Esd.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- pice
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.
Compare pie5 .
- piss
-
noun,
urine.
- peds
-
- pede
-
- 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.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- ins.
-
- itol
-
- itis
-
- int.
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- intl
-
- 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.
- pend
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- iod-
-
- 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 = .
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Tell
-
noun,
an artificial mound consisting of the accumulated remains of one or more ancient settlements (often used in Egypt and the Middle East as part of a place name).
- Pen.
-
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- pelt
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- tel-
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- ISSN
-
- isls
-
- iso-
-
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- ped.
-
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- tend
-
Verb phrases,
tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- IEEE
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- ile-
-
- pct.
-
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- Ill.
-
- ills
-
noun,
an unfavorable opinion or statement:
- 1080
-
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- ten.
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Inc.
-
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- IndE
-
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- end-
-
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- dol.
-
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Doll
-
noun,
a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.
- Poll
-
noun,
a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- dolt
-
noun,
a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- Pond
-
noun,
a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- dope
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Doss
-
noun,
a place to sleep, especially in a cheap lodging house.
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- Pol.
-
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Linn
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- tion
-
- lip-
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- 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.
- Dino
-
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- dioc
-
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- pot.
-
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- dips
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- dipt
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- dis-
-
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pos.
-
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- ole-
-
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- tipi
-
noun,
tepee.
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- dpt.
-
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- PLSS
-
- plot
-
noun,
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- plod
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- EEOC
-
- std.
-
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Ont.
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- pled
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- nill
-
verb (used with object),
to refuse or reject.
- ELLE
-
- spic
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- Elli
-
noun,
an old woman, a personification of old age, who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
- lice
-
noun,
plural of louse.
- ells
-
noun,
an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- lin.
-
- eco-
-
- Till
-
noun,
a drawer, box, or the like, as in a shop or bank, in which money is kept.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Lili
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lilt
-
noun,
rhythmic swing or cadence.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- ect-
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- St.
-
- tpd
-
- TPI
-
- spt
-
- TPN
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- ss.
-
- TSP
-
- SSC
-
- SPS
-
- STP
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- TID
-
- SST
-
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- TCS
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- SSN
-
- STL
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- tlo
-
- SSI
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TLC
-
- SSE
-
- SSD
-
- STI
-
- 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.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- 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.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- ese
-
- ILP
-
- ILO
-
- il-
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- IDP
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- ide
-
- io-
-
- id.
-
- ics
-
- ETS
-
- ETO
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESL
-
- Esc
-
- in.
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- EEE
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- EEO
-
- EIS
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- Ell
-
noun,
an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
- en-
-
- EPT
-
- ene
-
- EOE
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Ep.
-
- EPS
-
- ILS
-
- ine
-
- EDT
-
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- LCT
-
- Ld.
-
- LDC
-
- LDL
-
- LDP
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- Lt.
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- lep
-
- Les
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- LCD
-
- LSD
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- IOC
-
- 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 = .
- 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.
- IOT
-
- IPO
-
- IPS
-
- ise
-
- LDS
-
- Isl
-
- ist
-
- ITC
-
- ite
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- LCL
-
- EEC
-
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- CPI
-
- CNN
-
- CNO
-
- CNS
-
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- CPL
-
- CLI
-
- CPO
-
- CPS
-
- CSO
-
- CST
-
- cte
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- Clo
-
- cle
-
- do.
-
- cl.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- Co.
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- cp.
-
- cs.
-
- ct.
-
- CDT
-
- CIP
-
- CED
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- CEO
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- CIE
-
- DCL
-
- DSC
-
- EDP
-
- DST
-
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- DPC
-
- DPI
-
- DPS
-
- DSP
-
- DSS
-
- eo-
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- ETD
-
- ec-
-
- ed.
-
- EDC
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- DOP
-
noun,
a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
- Doi
-
- DSO
-
- di.
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DCS
-
- de-
-
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- DET
-
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- DIL
-
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- DLC
-
- DLO
-
- DLS
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- LCI
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PTO
-
- PCI
-
- PCS
-
- PDL
-
- PDT
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- Ps.
-
- PID
-
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- PIO
-
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- pl.
-
- pt.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- PLC
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- OIt
-
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- ons
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- ll.
-
- pd.
-
- ose
-
- OSP
-
- OSS
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- pc.
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- pli
-
- oid
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- SED
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- SDS
-
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- SLE
-
- SLP
-
- se-
-
- SDI
-
- PLO
-
- PSS
-
- POC
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- PSC
-
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- SCS
-
- sd.
-
- So.
-
- Sp.
-
- TSS
-
- sc.
-
- ScD
-
- SCP
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- oic
-
- NDE
-
- NNP
-
- NNE
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- 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:
- NES
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- NEC
-
- ne-
-
- NCO
-
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- LTL
-
- LST
-
- LSS
-
- LSI
-
- LSC
-
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LPN
-
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- LON
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LOC
-
- LLD
-
- NOC
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- NOP
-
- op.
-
- OSD
-
- OED
-
- OTC
-
- OCD
-
- NSC
-
- OCS
-
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- Oc.
-
- Npt
-
- ODT
-
- ol
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- L2
-
- TC
-
- T1
-
- TD
-
- t.
-
- N.
-
- i.
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- CE
-
- SN
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- le
-
- L1
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ln
-
- TP
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- S.
-
- NC
-
- O.
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- NL
-
- DN
-
- DT
-
noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TL
-
- ee
-
- IP
-
- TN
-
- EI
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- SL
-
- 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.
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- dl
-
- L.
-
- LC
-
- DP
-
- NP
-
- ND
-
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- D.
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- ic
-
- NI
-