Anagrams of Septentrion
Word Septentrion has
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- retentions
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noun,
the act of retaining.
- pretension
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noun,
the laying of a claim to something.
- 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.
- penitents
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noun,
a penitent person.
- pinsetter
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noun,
a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- interpose
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verb (used with object),
to place between; cause to intervene:
- isentrope
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noun,
a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- nine-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- entropies
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noun,
Thermodynamics.
(on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.
(in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S.
- tenorites
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noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- entrepots
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noun,
a warehouse.
- tres-tine
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noun,
royal antler.
- pertinent
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adjective,
pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant:
- pensioner
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noun,
a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- spinneret
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noun,
an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- point-set
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adjective,
(of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- retention
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noun,
the act of retaining.
- Potteries
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noun,
the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- internes
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noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- internet
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noun,
a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- tontines
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noun,
an annuity scheme in which subscribers share a common fund with the benefit of survivorship, the survivors' shares being increased as the subscribers die, until the whole goes to the last survivor.
- isoprene
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- renitent
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adjective,
resisting pressure; resistant.
- tinstone
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noun,
cassiterite.
- noisette
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noun,
a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat:
- ternions
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- teosinte
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- poetries
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noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- ten-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- pioneers
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- 11-point
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- pretties
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noun,
Usually, pretties. pretty ornaments, clothes, etc.
- tenorite
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noun,
a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
- tenorist
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noun,
a person who sings tenor.
- strepto-
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- penitent
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noun,
a penitent person.
- Peronist
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noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- portents
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- Peterson
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noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- sternite
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noun,
a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- Pointers
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- interest
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noun,
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something:
- sentient
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noun,
a person or thing that is sentient.
- entrepot
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noun,
a warehouse.
- tritones
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- tropines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- intens.
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- poteens
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- pension
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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.:
- potties
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noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- introns
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noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- pentose
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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.
- peonies
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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.
- intones
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verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- orpines
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noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- pereion
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noun,
(in a crustacean) the thorax.
- interns
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noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- intense
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adjective,
existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:
- reopens
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- Epstein
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noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- interne
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noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- Ninette
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noun,
a female given name.
- tipster
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noun,
a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- intents
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noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- enteron
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noun,
the alimentary canal; the digestive tract.
- openers
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- prostie
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noun,
a prostitute.
- tenters
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- pretest
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noun,
an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- spitter
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noun,
a person or thing that spits.
- tenners
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noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- respite
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- reposit
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verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- Teniers
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noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- tonners
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noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- tropine
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- entries
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noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- repents
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adjective,
creeping.
- Tonnies
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noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- tontine
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noun,
an annuity scheme in which subscribers share a common fund with the benefit of survivorship, the survivors' shares being increased as the subscribers die, until the whole goes to the last survivor.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- tenpins
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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.
- repines
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verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- entires
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- riposte
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noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- present
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noun,
the present time.
- tension
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noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- Peneios
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noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- spotter
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noun,
a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- Rosette
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noun,
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
- pointer
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- pinenes
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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.
- tin-pot
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adjective,
inferior; paltry; shoddy.
- treetop
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noun,
the top or uppermost branches of a tree.
- pinners
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noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- tinners
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noun,
a tinsmith.
- Trenton
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noun,
a city in and the capital of New Jersey, in the W part, on the Delaware River: Washington defeated Hessian troops here 1776.
- pointes
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noun,
the tip of the toe.
- stereo-
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- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- tinters
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noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- spinner
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noun,
a person or thing that spins.
- Steptoe
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noun,
an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- Sennett
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noun,
Mack (Michael Sinnott) 1884–1960, U.S. motion-picture director and producer, born in Canada.
- Trieste
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noun,
a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- Pioneer
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Stentor
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- pterion
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noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- entero-
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- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Pontine
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adjective,
of or relating to the pons.
- portent
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noun,
an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- tritone
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noun,
an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.
- petites
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- petitor
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noun,
a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- protein
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- rennets
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noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- protest
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noun,
an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid:
- Petrine
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adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- protist
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noun,
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- ternion
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- tritons
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noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- sterno-
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- spinto
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adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- tenter
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noun,
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- protei
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noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- spinet
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noun,
a small upright piano.
- opener
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- Orient
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- tenson
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noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tentie
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adjective,
tenty.
- ptero-
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- Triton
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noun,
a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
- Orense
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noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- prosit
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interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- tensor
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- teston
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noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- tester
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noun,
a person or thing that tests.
- ternes
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noun,
terne metal.
- tenpin
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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.
- spinor
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noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spiro-
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- opines
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verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- pteron
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noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- preens
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noun,
a pin or brooch.
- orpine
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noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- Sterne
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noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Peters
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noun,
penis.
- Petite
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- sprint
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noun,
a short race at full speed.
- sprite
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noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- Petrie
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noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- petro-
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- Petros
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noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- ponies
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noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- poiser
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noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- pinene
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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.
- enter-
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- Pinero
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noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- trones
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noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- pinner
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noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- points
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noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pinons
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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.
- pinots
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noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- Pinter
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noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- pintos
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noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- pointe
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noun,
the tip of the toe.
- steno-
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- pitons
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noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- pester
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- prison
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noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- Strine
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noun,
Australian English.
- tenons
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noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- prints
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noun,
the state of being printed.
- tennis
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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.
- Tenner
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noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- Priest
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noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- tenets
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noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- tropes
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noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- presto
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noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- stript
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noun,
a striptease.
- stripe
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noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- preset
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noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- poster
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noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- Street
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noun,
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- Noreen
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noun,
a female given name, Irish diminutive of Nora.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Pennie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Penelope.
- pennis
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- enters
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Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- Potter
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noun,
a person who makes pottery.
- potent
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noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- stoper
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noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- poteen
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- intron
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- instr.
-
- Tories
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noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- intent
-
noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- inter.
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- intern
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noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- tripes
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noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- inters
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verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- Ronnie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Ronald or Veronica.
- intro.
-
- intros
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noun,
an introduction.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- tripos
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noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- sennet
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- septi-
-
- Esenin
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noun,
Sergey Aleksandrovich [Russian syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Trento
-
noun,
Italian name of Trent.
- rotten
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adjective,
decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- setter
-
noun,
a person or thing that sets.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- tortes
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- rottes
-
noun,
rote2 .
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Sitter
-
noun,
a person who sits.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- repine
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- tiptoe
-
noun,
the tip or end of a toe.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- 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.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- Rennie
-
noun,
John, 1761–1821, Scottish engineer.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- rennet
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- Rennes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ille-et-Vilaine, in NW France: former capital of Brittany; scene of trial of Alfred Dreyfus, 1899.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- nitro-
-
- tinter
-
noun,
a person who specializes in applying tints or dyes.
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Nerine
-
noun,
any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
- triste
-
adjective,
sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- 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.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- titres
-
noun,
titer.
- titers
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- sero-
-
- seti-
-
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- resp.
-
- pron.
-
- Pres.
-
- spor-
-
- Sino-
-
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- trots
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- poet.
-
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- 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.
- reni-
-
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- 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.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- ronin
-
noun,
a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sito-
-
- pros.
-
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- pret.
-
- rept.
-
- trop-
-
- rotte
-
noun,
rote2 .
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Port.
-
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- post-
-
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- 30-30
-
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- titer
-
noun,
the strength of a solution as determined by titration with a standard substance.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- 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.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- titre
-
noun,
titer.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- trite
-
adjective,
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- 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.).
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- 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.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nitr-
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Epis.
-
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- Torte
-
noun,
a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- torts
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- toti-
-
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Trent
-
noun,
Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- trets
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- Epist
-
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- intr.
-
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- inst.
-
- insp.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insep
-
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Prot.
-
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Penn.
-
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Sept.
-
- pene-
-
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- 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.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- pert.
-
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- peri-
-
- petr-
-
- petri
-
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- ento-
-
- ster.
-
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- 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.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- OPers
-
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- step-
-
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- oste-
-
- 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.
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- 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.
- Tenn.
-
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- Otter
-
noun,
any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- teno-
-
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- 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.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tron
-
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- tri-
-
- Ste.
-
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- tret
-
noun,
(formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- tort
-
noun,
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- tion
-
- 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.
- ten.
-
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- trit
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- Trot
-
noun,
the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- ter.
-
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Tit.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- top-
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- 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.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- tonn
-
- Soni
-
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- str.
-
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- 1080
-
- sepn
-
- Ont.
-
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- OPer
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- 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.
- Pen.
-
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- not-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nos-
-
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nor.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- non-
-
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- 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.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- 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.
- Pers
-
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- per.
-
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- esp.
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- eso-
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- ette
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- epit
-
- epi-
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Ens.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- neo-
-
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- 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.
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- iso-
-
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Ire.
-
- 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 = .
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Rep.
-
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- pro-
-
- prs.
-
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- pts.
-
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prin
-
- pre-
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- rpt.
-
- pot.
-
- rit.
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- pos.
-
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- 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 = .
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- ior
-
- 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.
- ine
-
- IOT
-
- RPO
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- IPO
-
- ISR
-
- TNT
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- ne-
-
- 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.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ite
-
- ist
-
- ise
-
- ipr
-
- in.
-
- IRS
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- IRO
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Ir.
-
- IPS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Tpr
-
- ier
-
- Tro
-
- EPT
-
- EPS
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOE
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- ene
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- en-
-
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- EEO
-
- eo-
-
- trp
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- TSP
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- se-
-
- io-
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- Rs.
-
- TPI
-
- TPN
-
- ROP
-
- tr.
-
- ETO
-
- ESR
-
- SRO
-
- RSE
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- ese
-
- ERT
-
- So.
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERP
-
- Sp.
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- 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:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- ote
-
- pt.
-
- Ps.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- prn
-
- Pr.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- OTS
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- ot-
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- OSP
-
- ose
-
- ROI
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- PTO
-
- Re.
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- POR
-
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- St.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- spt
-
- PIO
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- PTT
-
- STI
-
- 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:
- SPR
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- STP
-
- 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.
- RPS
-
- ons
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- NOP
-
- 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.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- NNP
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- 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:
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- NES
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- nr.
-
- ONR
-
- ONI
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- OIt
-
- OIr
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- op.
-
- Npt
-
- NPR
-
- TTS
-
- t.
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- TT
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- TN
-
- T1
-
- RO
-
- S.
-
- ee
-
- EI
-
- NP
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SN
-
- NI
-
- N.
-
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- i.
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- RP
-
- IP
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- 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.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- RN
-
- R.
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- RI
-
- O.
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- TP
-