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- endodermis
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noun,
a specialized tissue in the roots and stems of vascular plants, composed of a single layer of modified parenchyma cells forming the inner boundary of the cortex.
- Meissonier
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noun,
Jean Louis Ernest [zhahn lwee er-nest] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1815–91, French painter.
- undersides
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noun,
an under or lower side.
- desiderium
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noun,
an ardent longing, as for something lost.
- endoderms
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noun,
Also called endoblast. Embryology. the innermost cell layer of the embryo in its gastrula stage.
- remission
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noun,
the act of remitting.
- druidisms
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noun,
the religion or rites of the Druids.
- sourdines
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noun,
mute (def 10).
- sensorium
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noun,
a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- Ironsides
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noun,
a strong person with great power of endurance or resistance.
- Simonides
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noun,
556?–468? b.c, Greek poet.
- emersions
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- domineers
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- underdoes
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verb (used with or without object),
to do less or in a lesser fashion than is usual or requisite.
- semiround
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adjective,
having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- resinoids
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noun,
a resinoid substance.
- demission
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noun,
abdication.
- underside
-
noun,
an under or lower side.
- one-sided
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adjective,
considering but one side of a matter or question; partial or unfair:
- derisions
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noun,
ridicule; mockery:
- sun-dried
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adjective,
dried in the sun, as bricks or raisins.
- redounds
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verb (used without object),
to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
- insiders
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noun,
a person who is a member of a group, organization, society, etc.
- do-re-mi
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noun,
money.
- Sismondi
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noun,
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de [zhahn sharl ley-aw-nar see-mawnd duh] /ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɪ ɔˈnar siˈmɔ̃d də/ (Show IPA), 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.
- monsieur
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noun,
the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- resinous
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adjective,
full of or containing resin.
- insureds
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noun,
the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
- neuroses
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noun,
Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- dormeuse
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noun,
mobcap.
- Ironside
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noun,
a strong person with great power of endurance or resistance.
- Messidor
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noun,
(in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- sourdine
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noun,
mute (def 10).
- Missouri
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noun,
a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City.
Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- sounders
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noun,
a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
- dimerous
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adjective,
consisting of or divided into two parts.
- re-sound
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verb (used with or without object),
to sound again.
- indorses
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verb (used with object),
endorse.
- sundries
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plural noun,
sundry things or items, especially small, miscellaneous items of little value.
Compare notion (def 6).
- neurosis
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noun,
Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- Diomedes
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noun,
a Greek hero in the Trojan War.
- enuresis
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noun,
lack of control of urination, especially during sleep; bed-wetting; urinary incontinence.
- resinoid
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noun,
a resinoid substance.
- M-series
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noun,
See under M-line.
- diuresis
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noun,
increased discharge of urine.
- misdeeds
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noun,
an immoral or wicked deed.
- desmoids
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noun,
Pathology. a firm and tough tumor of nonmetastasizing, fibrous tissue.
- domineer
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- dieresis
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noun,
the separation of two adjacent vowels, dividing one syllable into two.
- uridines
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noun,
a ribonucleoside composed of ribose and uracil.
- Druidess
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noun,
a female member of the Druids.
- endorses
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noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- Druidism
-
noun,
the religion or rites of the Druids.
- endoderm
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noun,
Also called endoblast. Embryology. the innermost cell layer of the embryo in its gastrula stage.
- desirous
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adjective,
having or characterized by desire; desiring:
- simonies
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noun,
the making of profit out of sacred things.
- eudemons
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noun,
a good or benevolent demon or spirit.
- emission
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noun,
an act or instance of emitting:
- soredium
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noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- emersion
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- derision
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noun,
ridicule; mockery:
- sinusoid
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noun,
a curve described by the equation y = a sin x, the ordinate being proportional to the sine of the abscissa.
- midirons
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noun,
a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a driving iron but less slope than a mid-mashie.
- dourines
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noun,
an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- merisis
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noun,
growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- Doriden
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- dourine
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noun,
an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- misdeed
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noun,
an immoral or wicked deed.
- missend
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verb (used with object),
to send or forward, especially mail, to a wrong place or person.
- Misenus
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noun,
a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.
- suddens
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noun,
Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
- misdoes
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verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- dominee
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noun,
dominie (def 2).
- domines
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noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- dominie
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noun,
Chiefly Scot. a schoolmaster.
- Dominus
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noun,
God; the Lord.
- minuses
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noun,
minus sign.
- dossier
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noun,
a collection or file of documents on the same subject, especially a complete file containing detailed information about a person or topic.
- minders
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noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- Rossini
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noun,
Gioacchino Antonio [jaw-ahk-kee-naw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌdʒɔ ɑkˈki nɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1792–1868, Italian composer.
- dousers
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noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- midiron
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noun,
a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a driving iron but less slope than a mid-mashie.
- middens
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noun,
a dunghill or refuse heap.
- dormins
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noun,
abscisic acid.
- Messier
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noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- rounded
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noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- merinos
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- duendes
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noun,
a goblin; demon; spirit.
- sounder
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noun,
a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
- serious
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noun,
that which is of importance, grave, critical, or somber:
- Edmonds
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noun,
a town in NW Washington.
- indorse
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verb (used with object),
endorse.
- indiums
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noun,
a rare metallic element, soft, white, malleable, and easily fusible, found combined in various ore minerals, especially sphalerite: so called from the two indigo-blue lines in its spectrum. Symbol: In; atomic weight: 114.82; atomic number: 49; specific gravity: 7.3 at 20°C.
- senders
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noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- Emerson
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noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- sereins
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noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- eudemon
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noun,
a good or benevolent demon or spirit.
- serines
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- endorse
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noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- endures
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verb (used with object),
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo:
- insider
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noun,
a person who is a member of a group, organization, society, etc.
- enduros
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noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- simious
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adjective,
pertaining to or characteristic of apes or monkeys; simian.
- Siddons
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noun,
Sarah (Kemble) 1755–1831, English actress.
- Siemens
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noun,
Electricity. the standard unit of electrical conductance in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the reciprocal of the ohm and replacing the equivalent MKS unit (mho) Abbreviation: S.
- siddurs
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noun,
a Jewish prayer book designed for use chiefly on days other than festivals and holy days; a daily prayer book.
- sidemen
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noun,
an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- ensures
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verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- side-on
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adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- sidero-
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- Sirenum
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noun,
Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- insides
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noun,
the inner or internal part; interior:
- Meriden
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noun,
a city in central Connecticut.
- Dunmore
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noun,
John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732–1809, Scottish colonial governor in America.
- Dresden
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noun,
the capital of Saxony in E Germany, on the Elbe River.
- menders
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noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- Meissen
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noun,
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
- meiosis
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noun,
Cell Biology. part of the process of gamete formation, consisting of chromosome conjugation and two cell divisions, in the course of which the diploid chromosome number becomes reduced to the haploid.
Compare mitosis.
- meinies
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noun,
Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
- isomers
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noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- dudeens
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noun,
a short clay tobacco pipe.
- ironies
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noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- iridous
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adjective,
containing trivalent iridium.
- seiners
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noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- insured
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noun,
the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
- soirees
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noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- seismo-
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- ioniums
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noun,
a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of thorium. Symbol: Io; atomic number: 90; atomic weight: 230.
- iodisms
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noun,
poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds.
- sodiums
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noun,
Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- iodines
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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.
- soddens
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noun,
the act of seething.
- iodides
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noun,
a salt of hydriotic acid consisting of two elements, one of which is iodine, as sodium iodide, NaI.
- insures
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verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- mission
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noun,
a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- eonisms
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- misuser
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noun,
abuse of a right; unlawful use of an office, franchise, benefit, etc.
- desmids
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noun,
any single-celled freshwater algae of the family Desmidiaceae, characterized by a division of the body into mirror-image halves joined by a bridge containing the nucleus, and having a spiny or bristly exterior: sometimes forming into colonies or branching filaments.
- denudes
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verb (used with object),
to make naked or bare; strip:
- dereism
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noun,
autism.
- derides
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verb (used with object),
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
- murines
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noun,
a murine rodent.
- dermoid
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adjective,
skinlike; dermatoid.
- desired
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noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desires
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noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desmoid
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noun,
Pathology. a firm and tough tumor of nonmetastasizing, fibrous tissue.
- reissue
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noun,
something that is issued again, as a book or a motion picture.
- Desmond
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noun,
a male given name.
- underdo
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verb (used with or without object),
to do less or in a lesser fashion than is usual or requisite.
- muddies
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adjective,
abounding in or covered with mud.
- mudders
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noun,
a racehorse able to perform well on a wet, muddy track.
- resends
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verb (used with object),
to send again.
- residue
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noun,
something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used; remainder; rest; remnant.
- resound
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verb (used with object),
to reecho (a sound).
- reminds
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- neddies
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noun,
British Informal. donkey.
- resumes
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noun,
résumé.
- Redmond
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noun,
John Edward, 1856–1918, Irish political leader.
- oreides
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noun,
oroide.
- nudisms
-
noun,
the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- uridine
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noun,
a ribonucleoside composed of ribose and uracil.
- ureides
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noun,
an acyl urea.
- osmunds
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noun,
any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- noddies
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noun,
any of several dark-bodied terns of the genera Anous and Micranous found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid.
- reddens
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verb (used with object),
to make or cause to become red.
- undress
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noun,
dress of a style designed to be worn on other than highly formal or ceremonial occasions; informal dress as opposed to full dress.
- Nemesis
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noun,
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.:
- Redmund
-
- nimrods
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noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- demises
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noun,
death or decease.
- redness
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noun,
the quality or state of being red.
- redound
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verb (used without object),
to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
- dendro-
-
- Nereids
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noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- deniers
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- surmise
-
noun,
a matter of conjecture.
- remises
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verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- mousers
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- dirdums
-
noun,
blame.
- moderns
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- sunrise
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noun,
the rise or ascent of the sun above the horizon in the morning.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- moderne
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adjective,
pretentiously modern; striving to appear modern but lacking style or conviction.
- dineros
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noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- diurons
-
noun,
a white crystalline substance, C 9 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a weed-killer.
- diseurs
-
noun,
a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- sunders
-
verb (used with object),
to separate; part; divide; sever.
- diseuse
-
noun,
a female professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- indues
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verb (used with object),
endue.
- imides
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noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- Modred
-
noun,
the nephew and treacherous killer of Arthur.
- sensor
-
noun,
a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- niseis
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noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- rimose
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adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- Nimrud
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noun,
modern name of the site of the ancient city of Kalakh.
- senors
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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.
- idioms
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noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- Senior
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noun,
a person who is older than another.
- moires
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noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Nimrod
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noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- imines
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noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- Indris
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noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- indeed
-
adverb,
in fact; in reality; in truth; truly (used for emphasis, to confirm and amplify a previous statement, to indicate a concession or admission, or, interrogatively, to obtain confirmation):
- inside
-
noun,
the inner or internal part; interior:
- sensum
-
noun,
sense datum (def 1).
- Oidium
-
noun,
one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- mondes
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- semens
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- monied
-
adjective,
moneyed.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- neuro-
-
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Indies
-
noun,
the. (used with a plural verb) West Indies (def 1).
- redden
-
verb (used with object),
to make or cause to become red.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- nudism
-
noun,
the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- odiums
-
noun,
intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- onuses
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- eosins
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noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- oreide
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noun,
oroide.
- nurses
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- siddur
-
noun,
a Jewish prayer book designed for use chiefly on days other than festivals and holy days; a daily prayer book.
- rinses
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- numis.
-
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Modern
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- serous
-
adjective,
resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- series
-
noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- 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;
- ossein
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noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- misers
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- Osmund
-
noun,
any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- Osiris
-
noun,
the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- osiers
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- misrun
-
noun,
an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- serins
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- Esmond
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- Mounds
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- Seddon
-
noun,
Richard John, 1845–1906, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister 1893–1906.
- Russo-
-
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- medius
-
noun,
the middle finger.
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- Morini
-
noun,
Erika, 1906–1995, U.S. violinist, born in Austria.
- ridden
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- reuses
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- reused
-
adjective,
noting wool that previously has been spun, woven, and used.
- mender
-
noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- Mendes
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- menses
-
noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- rouses
-
noun,
a rousing.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- mousse
-
noun,
Cookery.
a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold:
an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish:
- mesons
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- rounds
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- merous
-
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- midden
-
noun,
a dunghill or refuse heap.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- mudder
-
noun,
a racehorse able to perform well on a wet, muddy track.
- seders
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- mouses
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- iodide
-
noun,
a salt of hydriotic acid consisting of two elements, one of which is iodine, as sodium iodide, NaI.
- Nemrod
-
noun,
Nimrod (def 1).
- rodmen
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- 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.
- 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.
- miosis
-
noun,
excessive constriction of the pupil of the eye, as a result of drugs, disease, or the like.
- iodism
-
noun,
poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds.
- ionium
-
noun,
a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of thorium. Symbol: Io; atomic number: 90; atomic weight: 230.
- remind
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- sedums
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- minded
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- murine
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- Isidor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- mid-on
-
noun,
the position of a fielder on the on side of the wicket.
- rosins
-
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.
- remiss
-
adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- 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.
- irides
-
noun,
a plural of iris.
- irises
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Iridum
-
noun,
Sinus, Sinus Iridum.
- misuse
-
noun,
wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- irido-
-
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- minder
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- indium
-
noun,
a rare metallic element, soft, white, malleable, and easily fusible, found combined in various ore minerals, especially sphalerite: so called from the two indigo-blue lines in its spectrum. Symbol: In; atomic weight: 114.82; atomic number: 49; specific gravity: 7.3 at 20°C.
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- Dunois
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Comte de ("Bastard of Orleans") 1403?–68, French military leader: relieved by Joan of Arc and her troops when besieged at Orleans.
- duress
-
noun,
compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- denude
-
verb (used with object),
to make naked or bare; strip:
- deride
-
verb (used with object),
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- Somers
-
- dermo-
-
- Somnus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.
- denom.
-
- dunder
-
noun,
the thick lees from boiled sugar-cane juice used in the distillation of rum.
- Dundee
-
noun,
a seaport in E Scotland, on the Firth of Tay: administrative center of the Tayside.
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- sondes
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- desmid
-
noun,
any single-celled freshwater algae of the family Desmidiaceae, characterized by a division of the body into mirror-image halves joined by a bridge containing the nucleus, and having a spiny or bristly exterior: sometimes forming into colonies or branching filaments.
- Deurne
-
noun,
a former city in N Belgium, now part of Antwerp.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- durned
-
adjective, adverb,
darned.
- under-
-
- Sirius
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Dog Star, the brightest-appearing star in the heavens, located in the constellation Canis Major.
- Edmond
-
noun,
a town in central Oklahoma.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- dendr-
-
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- undies
-
plural noun,
women's or children's underwear.
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- eddoes
-
noun,
the edible root of the taro or of any of several related plants.
- eddies
-
noun,
a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- sneers
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- denims
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- snores
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- sodden
-
noun,
the act of seething.
- sodium
-
noun,
Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- duende
-
noun,
a goblin; demon; spirit.
- didies
-
noun,
diaper (def 1).
- demurs
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- dorsi-
-
- douser
-
noun,
a person or thing that douses.
- sounds
-
noun,
the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- dosser
-
noun,
a basket for carrying objects on the back; pannier.
- domine
-
noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- Domnus
-
noun,
Donus.
- dorsum
-
noun,
the back, as of the body.
- sudden
-
noun,
Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
- sudser
-
noun,
a soap opera.
- dormin
-
noun,
abscisic acid.
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- soused
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- douses
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- suedes
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- didoes
-
noun,
a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- udders
-
noun,
a mamma or mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows.
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- dudeen
-
noun,
a short clay tobacco pipe.
- diesis
-
noun,
double dagger.
- sordid
-
adjective,
morally ignoble or base; vile:
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- druids
-
noun,
a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.
- dirdum
-
noun,
blame.
- diseur
-
noun,
a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- dismes
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- disuse
-
noun,
discontinuance of use or practice:
- sunder
-
verb (used with object),
to separate; part; divide; sever.
- diuron
-
noun,
a white crystalline substance, C 9 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a weed-killer.
- sirens
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- somni-
-
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- enduro
-
noun,
an endurance race for automobiles or sometimes motorcycles.
- 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.
- emesis
-
noun,
vomitus.
- urino-
-
- emends
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- ureide
-
noun,
an acyl urea.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- deisms
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- undoes
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- Simons
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- sirees
-
noun,
sirree.
- endues
-
verb (used with object),
to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- demode
-
adjective,
no longer in fashion; out of date; outmoded.
- demure
-
adjective,
characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- ensues
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- endure
-
verb (used with object),
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo:
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- MNurs
-
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- sumos
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- nudie
-
noun,
a film, performance, or magazine featuring nude performers or photographs.
- diode
-
noun,
a device, as a two-element electron tube or a semiconductor, through which current can pass freely in only one direction.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- nudi-
-
- suede
-
noun,
kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- monde
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- nudes
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- 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.
- nurds
-
noun,
nerd.
- miso-
-
- Nurmi
-
noun,
Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- omni-
-
- odium
-
noun,
intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- mini-
-
- minis
-
noun,
miniskirt.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- odeum
-
noun,
a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- 30-30
-
- Miss.
-
- onium
-
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- ordn.
-
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- domed
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- sudds
-
noun,
(in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- Ursid
-
noun,
any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- misos
-
noun,
a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Mossi
-
noun,
an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- nodus
-
noun,
a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
- derm-
-
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- redds
-
noun,
the spawning area or nest of trout or salmon.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- nisus
-
noun,
an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- 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.
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- demi-
-
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- denim
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- neur-
-
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- demur
-
noun,
the act of making objection.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- Demon
-
noun,
an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
- undid
-
verb,
simple past tense of undo.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Neuss
-
noun,
a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- nidus
-
noun,
a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- demo-
-
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Mound
-
noun,
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- surds
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- dimin
-
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- Susie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ORuss
-
- 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.
- udder
-
noun,
a mamma or mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows.
- 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.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Uredo
-
noun,
a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- reni-
-
- deeds
-
noun,
something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act:
- Udine
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- didos
-
noun,
a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- sides
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- 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.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- siris
-
noun,
lebbek (def 1).
- semi-
-
- Indus
-
noun,
a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1900 miles (3060 km) long.
- durns
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- indue
-
verb (used with object),
endue.
- indri
-
noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Indo-
-
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Indio
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- duros
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- dures
-
verb (used with or without object),
endure.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- 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.
- sords
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- Sedum
-
noun,
any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- dudes
-
noun,
a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
- seeds
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- Duero
-
noun,
Spanish name of Douro.
- 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.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- irids
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- 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:
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- endo-
-
- endue
-
verb (used with object),
to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
- Esdud
-
noun,
Ashdod.
- sero-
-
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- Eridu
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city near the Euphrates in S Iraq: center for the worship of Ea; partially excavated.
- sided
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- 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.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- imino
-
adjective,
containing the imino group.
- emend
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- imine
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- imido
-
adjective,
containing the imido group.
- imide
-
noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- Emden
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Germany.
- sends
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Sinus
-
noun,
a curve; bend.
- idium
-
- idion
-
- idiom
-
noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- idio-
-
- 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.
- ideo-
-
- 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:
- Sino-
-
- 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.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- Euro-
-
- issue
-
noun,
the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution:
- irid-
-
- minds
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- round
-
noun,
any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
- Druid
-
noun,
a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- doses
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- rudds
-
noun,
a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
- Mende
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- dried
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- mends
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- meno-
-
- meso-
-
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- dress
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- sorus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- SOUND
-
noun,
the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- douse
-
noun,
British Dialect. a stroke or blow.
- mero-
-
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- dross
-
noun,
waste matter; refuse.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- Druse
-
noun,
an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral.
- Russ.
-
abbreviation,
Russia.
- Donus
-
noun,
died a.d. 678, pope 676–678.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- runed
-
adjective,
having runes inscribed:
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- Rundi
-
noun,
a member of a people constituting virtually the entire population of Burundi.
- sours
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Midis
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Medon
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- urds
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- ouds
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- uni-
-
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- OSRD
-
- 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.
- USIS
-
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Rom.
-
- ord.
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- sudd
-
noun,
(in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- 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.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- osis
-
- 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.
- uro-
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- used
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- surd
-
noun,
Phonetics. a voiceless consonant (opposed to sonant).
- Redd
-
noun,
the spawning area or nest of trout or salmon.
- sur-
-
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- 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.
- Rumi
-
noun,
Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- udos
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- Sem.
-
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- Soni
-
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- suds
-
noun,
soapy water.
- undo
-
verb (used with object),
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done:
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Rudd
-
noun,
a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- sumi
-
noun,
black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- Rude
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1784–1855, French sculptor.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- 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.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- USSR
-
noun,
a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- 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.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- Ire.
-
- ious
-
- 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 = .
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- INRI
-
- IndE
-
- Idun
-
noun,
a goddess, keeper of the apples of youth and wife of Bragi; abducted by the giant Thjazi, from whom she was rescued.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- Ind.
-
- Eur.
-
- 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.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- eso-
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- ESIS
-
- Esd.
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- eous
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- mes-
-
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Mind
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- min.
-
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- midn
-
- MIDI
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- Mid.
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- iso-
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- Mend
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- men-
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- mdse
-
- MDES
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- med.
-
- ISSN
-
- Ens.
-
- 1080
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- DMSO
-
- dis-
-
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dir.
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- Dino
-
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- Din.
-
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- dim.
-
- Dido
-
noun,
a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- Deus
-
noun,
God. Abbreviation: D.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- der.
-
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Den.
-
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- Dem.
-
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- deed
-
noun,
something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act:
- Dom.
-
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- duos
-
noun,
Music. duet.
- end-
-
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- eddo
-
noun,
the edible root of the taro or of any of several related plants.
- Duse
-
noun,
Eleonora [el-ee-uh-nawr-uh;; Italian e-le-aw-naw-rah] /ˌɛl i əˈnɔr ə;; Italian ˌɛ lɛ ɔˈnɔ rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, Italian actress.
- duro
-
noun,
a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
- durn
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object), noun,
darn2 .
- dure
-
adjective,
hard; severe.
- duo-
-
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Duns
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- dune
-
noun,
a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
- dues
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- duds
-
noun,
a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
- dude
-
noun,
a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
- drum
-
noun,
a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- dour
-
adjective,
sullen; gloomy:
- Doss
-
noun,
a place to sleep, especially in a cheap lodging house.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- mis-
-
- iod-
-
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nurd
-
noun,
nerd.
- nom.
-
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- Muir
-
noun,
Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- mun.
-
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- MSEE
-
- 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.
- MSIE
-
- muss
-
noun,
a state of disorder or untidiness.
- Odds
-
noun,
the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else:
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- muds
-
noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- Nor.
-
- Odus
-
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- neo-
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- MusD
-
- mus.
-
- nude
-
noun,
a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
- nos-
-
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- 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.
- mod.
-
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Mon.
-
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- neem
-
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- 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):
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Dou
-
noun,
Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- Sr.
-
- SRS
-
- ss.
-
- SSD
-
- SSE
-
- SSI
-
- OSS
-
- oid
-
- Dr.
-
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SMD
-
- SMS
-
- EDD
-
- ed.
-
- EOM
-
- eo-
-
- SNU
-
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Re.
-
- Rd.
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- DRE
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Dun
-
noun,
a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
- DUI
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- due
-
noun,
something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- Dud
-
noun,
a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
- Du.
-
- DSS
-
- DSR
-
- oud
-
noun,
a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- SSM
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- SSN
-
- DEd
-
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- Une
-
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- UNO
-
- uns
-
- ur-
-
- Urd
-
noun,
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- ure
-
- Om.
-
- OEM
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- de-
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- DDR
-
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- OIr
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- do.
-
- DDS
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- dd.
-
- USM
-
- USN
-
- USO
-
- USR
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- ONI
-
- SSR
-
- DIU
-
noun,
part of the union territory of Daman and Diu (Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1961–87) in W India: a former Portuguese colony, comprising a small island and seaport at the extremity of Kathiawar peninsula.
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- Doi
-
- ose
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- DOD
-
- DNR
-
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- nr.
-
- DMS
-
- DMD
-
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- NSU
-
- ODD
-
noun,
something that is odd.
- NUM
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Sus
-
- OED
-
- USS
-
- OSD
-
- 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.
- ons
-
- udo
-
noun,
a plant, Aralia cordata, of the ginseng family, cultivated, especially in Japan and China, for its edible shoots.
- DID
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- di.
-
- ONR
-
- RDS
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- IRS
-
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- mi.
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- MI5
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noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- ISR
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- mud
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noun,
wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- MI6
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noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- See
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noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ism
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noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- res
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noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- MOR
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- ise
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- Is.
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noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- SEI
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noun,
sei whale.
- ium
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- IRO
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- Ir.
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- Mur
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noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- IOU
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- Ios
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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.
- ior
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- ion
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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 = .
- OES
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noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- RIM
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noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- ine
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- SEN
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noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- in.
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- IUD
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- SED
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- MRE
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- Mr.
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plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- RUM
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noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- MSD
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- MSE
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- MSI
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- run
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noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- M-1
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noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MS.
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plural,
manuscript.
- Mo.
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- MSN
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- Me.
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- Md.
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- Rue
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noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- IUS
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- se-
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- sd.
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- RSS
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- So.
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- RSE
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- SRO
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- Rs.
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- SDI
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- SDR
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- Meo
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noun,
Miao (def 1).
- RID
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noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- MOS
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noun,
moment (def 1).
- SDS
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- imu
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noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- ier
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- MIE
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- NMI
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- EOE
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- NIM
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noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- ene
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- en-
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- EMU
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noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- Sin
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noun,
transgression of divine law:
- ROI
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- EMS
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noun,
the letter M, m.
- ROE
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noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- EMR
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- MNE
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- EOS
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noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- eme
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noun,
friend.
- EIS
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- rm.
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plural,
ream.
- NMR
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- Rod
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noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- rnd
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- eir
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- EEO
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- EDS
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noun,
education:
- NMU
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- EDO
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noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- IDS
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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.
- eon
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noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ERE
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preposition, conjunction,
before.
- NES
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- Ido
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noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- MOI
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- Moe
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noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- ide
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- io-
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- REM
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noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- id.
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- SER
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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).
- rin
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noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- NDE
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- ne-
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- eu-
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- ESU
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- MRI
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- NED
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noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- ess
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noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESR
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- Nee
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adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- MIR
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noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- ese
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- ERS
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noun,
ervil.
- Ree
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noun,
reeve3 .
- SES
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- MNS
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- SID
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noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- 2D
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noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- 3D
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noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- D.
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- MN
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- RU
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- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- M.
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- NI
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- RN
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- SN
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- EI
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- NM
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- ee
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- RI
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- R.
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- OU
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noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- i.
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- ND
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- UI
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- N.
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- SU
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- DN
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- DM
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- MU
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noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- NU
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noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- O.
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- OD
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noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- U.
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- Ud
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- SM
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- S.
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- RO
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