Anagrams of spermagonium
Word spermagonium has
1980 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of spermagonium.
- gemmiparous
-
adjective,
producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gramineous
-
adjective,
grasslike.
- sporangium
-
noun,
the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- germaniums
-
noun,
a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.
- angiosperm
-
noun,
a plant having its seeds enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
- simon-pure
-
adjective,
real; genuine:
- geraniums
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- umpirages
-
noun,
the office or authority of an umpire.
- monergism
-
noun,
the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration.
Compare synergism (def 3).
- germanous
-
adjective,
containing bivalent germanium.
- persimmon
-
noun,
any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- Rommanies
-
noun,
Romany.
- ignoramus
-
noun,
an extremely ignorant person.
- emporiums
-
noun,
a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles.
- magnesium
-
noun,
a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- germanium
-
noun,
a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.
- Orangeism
-
noun,
the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- presuming
-
adjective,
presumptuous.
- Singapore
-
noun,
an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- Germanism
-
noun,
a usage, idiom, or other feature that is characteristic of the German language.
- semigroup
-
noun,
an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- moraines
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- pruinose
-
adjective,
covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- rampions
-
noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- rummages
-
noun,
miscellaneous articles; odds and ends.
- Negroism
-
noun,
the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
- pirogues
-
noun,
piragua (def 1).
- primages
-
noun,
a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- neuromas
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- organism
-
noun,
a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organums
-
noun,
an organon.
- epigrams
-
noun,
any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
- guisarme
-
noun,
a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- imposure
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noun,
the act of imposing:
- Spearing
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noun,
an illegal check in which a player jabs an opponent with the end of the stick blade or the top end of the stick, resulting in a penalty.
- open-air
-
noun,
the outdoors.
- Epigonus
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noun,
epigone.
- saprogen
-
noun,
a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- manropes
-
noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- Geranium
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noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- misnomer
-
noun,
a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.
- Emporium
-
noun,
a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles.
- pi-meson
-
noun,
pion.
- meropias
-
noun,
partial blindness.
- perigons
-
noun,
an angle of 360°.
- grammies
-
noun,
one of a group of statuettes awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in various categories in the recording industry.
- gouramis
-
noun,
a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.
- in-group
-
noun,
a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- megarons
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noun,
a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
- monsieur
-
noun,
the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- romaines
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- Romanies
-
noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- Romanism
-
noun,
Roman Catholicism.
- umpirage
-
noun,
the office or authority of an umpire.
- mu-meson
-
noun,
(no longer in technical use) muon.
- Suriname
-
noun,
a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- Pergamum
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noun,
an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- Superman
-
noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- germano-
-
- Peronism
-
noun,
the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- supermom
-
noun,
a mother who successfully manages a household and cares for her children while holding a job or being active in her community.
- Spurgeon
-
noun,
Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- Sumerian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
- Perugino
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noun,
(Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- promise
-
noun,
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one:
- rasping
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noun,
a tiny piece of material removed by rasping or scraping:
- oarsmen
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noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- inpours
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verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- reginas
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noun,
queen.
- enigmas
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noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- onagers
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noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- regains
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noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- purines
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noun,
a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- isogram
-
noun,
a line representing equality with respect to a given variable, used to relate points on maps, charts, etc.
- rampion
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noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- magnums
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noun,
a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- enamors
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verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- gainers
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noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- rapines
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noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- reagins
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noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- mainour
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noun,
a stolen article found on the person of or near the thief:
- engrams
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noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- moraine
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noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- mangoes
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noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- Pearson
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noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- Persian
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noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- Maspero
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noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- gamines
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noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- Permian
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noun,
Geology. the Permian Period or System.
- perigon
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noun,
an angle of 360°.
- Maurois
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noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- orpines
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noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- Megaris
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noun,
a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- origans
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noun,
an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- megaron
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noun,
a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
- parison
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noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- parings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that pares.
- earings
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- megrims
-
noun,
megrims, low spirits; the blues.
- Panurge
-
noun,
(in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- paniers
-
noun,
pannier.
- gammons
-
noun,
the game of backgammon.
- Perugia
-
noun,
a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.
- 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.
- prisage
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noun,
the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- pommies
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noun,
a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- Mangrum
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noun,
Lloyd, 1914–73, U.S. golf player.
- Manipur
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noun,
a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
- manrope
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noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- primage
-
noun,
a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- premium
-
noun,
a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
- manures
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noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- organum
-
noun,
an organon.
- arseno-
-
- Pommern
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noun,
German name of Pomerania.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Marengo
-
noun,
a village in Piedmont, in NW Italy: Napoleon defeated the Austrians 1800.
- pneumo-
-
- pneumas
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noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- Emporia
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noun,
a city in E Kansas.
- pirogue
-
noun,
piragua (def 1).
- pirogen
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noun,
(used with a plural verb) Jewish Cookery. small baked pastries filled with chopped chicken livers, onion, etc.
- Piraeus
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- meropia
-
noun,
partial blindness.
- porgies
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- Sprague
-
noun,
Frank Julian, 1857–1934, U.S. electrical engineer and inventor.
- murgeon
-
noun,
a grimace; a wry face.
- monesia
-
noun,
a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- agonies
-
noun,
extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- spumone
-
noun,
an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- Agriope
-
noun,
Eurydice.
- murines
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- springe
-
noun,
a snare for catching small game.
- Guapore
-
noun,
a river forming part of the boundary between Brazil and Bolivia, flowing NW to the Mamoré River. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
- sponger
-
noun,
a person or thing that sponges.
- groupie
-
noun,
a young person, especially a teenage girl, who is an ardent admirer of rock musicians and may follow them on tour.
- guimpes
-
noun,
a chemisette or yoke of lace, embroidery, or other material, worn with a dress cut low at the neck.
- guineas
-
noun,
a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
- spermo-
-
- sparing
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- igneous
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adjective,
Geology. produced under conditions involving intense heat, as rocks of volcanic origin or rocks crystallized from molten magma.
- repugns
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verb (used with object),
to oppose or refute.
- epinaos
-
noun,
a rear vestibule, as of a classical temple.
- gisarme
-
noun,
guisarme.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- Sungari
-
noun,
Songhua.
- ignores
-
verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- mousing
-
noun,
a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
- grammes
-
noun,
gram1 .
- Gournia
-
noun,
a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- uremias
-
noun,
a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- gourami
-
noun,
a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.
- morgens
-
noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- grampus
-
noun,
a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
- upraise
-
verb (used with object),
to raise up; lift or elevate.
- morgues
-
noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- gripman
-
noun,
a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
- Gropius
-
noun,
Walter [wawl-ter;; German vahl-tuh r] /ˈwɔl tər;; German ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.
- gripmen
-
noun,
a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
- mongers
-
noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- aerugos
-
noun,
verdigris.
- surname
-
noun,
the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- surgeon
-
noun,
a physician who specializes in surgery.
- supremo
-
noun,
the person in charge; chief.
- Eunomia
-
noun,
one of the Horae: the personification of order.
- Gompers
-
noun,
Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- Sirenum
-
noun,
Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- soaring
-
noun,
the sport of flying a sailplane.
- imagoes
-
noun,
Entomology. an adult insect.
- amusing
-
adjective,
pleasantly entertaining or diverting:
- giaours
-
noun,
an unbeliever; a non-Muslim, especially a Christian.
- impugns
-
verb (used with object),
to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- epigram
-
noun,
any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
- Samnium
-
noun,
an ancient country in central Italy.
- misname
-
verb (used with object),
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
- Ingemar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rummies
-
noun,
any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
- rummage
-
noun,
miscellaneous articles; odds and ends.
- impones
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- mirages
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- rousing
-
noun,
a rousing.
- memoirs
-
noun,
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- Anguier
-
noun,
François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1604–69, and his brother Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1614–86, French sculptors.
- Romains
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- Romaine
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- re-sign
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sign again.
- impresa
-
noun,
a device or emblem.
- gammers
-
noun,
an old woman.
- immures
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose within walls.
- signore
-
noun,
a conventional Italian title of respect for a man, usually used separately; signor.
- immuno-
-
- seringa
-
noun,
any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- Signora
-
noun,
a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a married woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- ammines
-
noun,
a compound containing one or more ammonia molecules in coordinate linkage.
- immunes
-
noun,
a person who is immune.
- impers.
-
- neuroma
-
noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- semipro
-
adjective, noun,
semiprofessional.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- serpigo
-
noun,
(formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- Mimosa
-
noun,
any of numerous plants, shrubs, or trees belonging to the genus Mimosa, of the legume family, native to tropical or warm regions, having small flowers in globular heads or cylindrical spikes and often sensitive leaves.
- monism
-
noun,
Philosophy.
(in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a).
(in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Mergui
-
noun,
a seaport in S Burma, on the Andaman Sea.
- Mingus
-
noun,
Charles ("Charlie") 1922–79, U.S. jazz bass player and composer.
- mimeos
-
noun,
mimeograph.
- merman
-
noun,
(in folklore) a male marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a man and the tail of a fish.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- mirage
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- merous
-
- 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.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- misrun
-
noun,
an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- monger
-
noun,
a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- Negros
-
noun,
an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- memoir
-
noun,
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- guanos
-
noun,
a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- impure
-
adjective,
not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, especially of an inferior or contaminating nature:
- impugn
-
verb (used with object),
to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impose
-
Verb phrases,
impose on/upon,
to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude.
to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.).
to defraud; cheat; deceive:
- impone
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- imper.
-
- immure
-
verb (used with object),
to enclose within walls.
- immune
-
noun,
a person who is immune.
- immane
-
adjective,
vast in size; enormous.
- images
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- ignore
-
verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- gummas
-
noun,
a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- Guinea
-
noun,
a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
- guimpe
-
noun,
a chemisette or yoke of lace, embroidery, or other material, worn with a dress cut low at the neck.
- grumps
-
noun,
a person given to constant complaining.
- Ingram
-
noun,
a male given name.
- grumes
-
noun,
blood when viscous.
- grouse
-
noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- groups
-
noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- gropes
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- groins
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- groans
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- Grison
-
noun,
a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.
- gripes
-
noun,
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- Grimes
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- granum
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a grain.
- grano-
-
- grani-
-
- gramps
-
noun,
grandfather.
- Ingmar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- INGRES
-
noun,
Jean Auguste Dominique [zhahn oh-gyst daw-mee-neek] /ʒɑ̃ oʊˈgüst dɔ miˈnik/ (Show IPA), 1780–1867, French painter.
- megrim
-
noun,
megrims, low spirits; the blues.
- mangos
-
noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- maugre
-
preposition,
in spite of; notwithstanding.
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- Marius
-
noun,
Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- Marion
-
noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- Marino
-
noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- margin
-
noun,
the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
- Margie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- Maoism
-
noun,
the political, social, economic, and military theories and policies advocated by Mao Zedong, as those concerning revolutionary movements and guerrilla warfare.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- manges
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- inorg.
-
- manger
-
noun,
a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
- Mamore
-
noun,
a river in Bolivia, flowing N to the Beni River on the border of Brazil to form the Madeira River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- Mamers
-
noun,
Mars.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- maigre
-
adjective,
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- magpie
-
noun,
either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- isopag
-
noun,
a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice exists at approximately the same period during winter.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- 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.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- inpour
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pour in.
- Magnum
-
noun,
a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- sapro-
-
- sarong
-
noun,
a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- sauger
-
noun,
a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- Seguin
-
noun,
a city in SE Texas.
- Segura
-
noun,
Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- Semang
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Saigon
-
noun,
former name of Ho Chi Minh City: capital of former South Vietnam 1954–76.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- 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.
- signer
-
noun,
a person who signs.
- Signor
-
noun,
a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simmer
-
noun,
the state or process of simmering.
- simper
-
noun,
a silly, self-conscious smile.
- Sammie
-
noun,
a sandwich.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Siouan
-
noun,
an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- repugn
-
verb (used with object),
to oppose or refute.
- Regain
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- Regina
-
noun,
queen.
- region
-
noun,
an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
- regius
-
adjective,
of or belonging to a king.
- reigns
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- resign
-
verb (used with object),
to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
- rugose
-
adjective,
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- 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.
- rouges
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- Singer
-
noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- reagin
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- unrips
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- Ugrian
-
noun,
a member of any of the Ugrian peoples.
- ugsome
-
adjective,
horrid; loathsome.
- umpire
-
noun,
a person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- unpegs
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the pegs from.
- unrigs
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of rigging, as a ship.
- unripe
-
adjective,
not ripe; immature; not fully developed:
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- supine
-
noun,
(in Latin) a noun form derived from verbs, appearing only in the accusative and the dative-ablative, as dictū in mirābile dictū, “wonderful to say.”.
- uprise
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- urano-
-
- uremia
-
noun,
a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- urino-
-
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- supra-
-
- Superi
-
plural noun,
(in ancient Rome) the gods.
- smegma
-
noun,
a thick, cheeselike, sebaceous secretion that collects beneath the foreskin or around the clitoris.
- spiro-
-
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- soigne
-
adjective,
carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
- somni-
-
- sparge
-
noun,
a sprinkling.
- sperm-
-
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spirea
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- sponge
-
noun,
any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- super-
-
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- sprang
-
noun,
a technique of weaving in which the warp is interwoven and there is no weft.
- Sprung
-
noun,
a leap, jump, or bound.
- spurge
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.
- Summer
-
noun,
the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
- summon
-
verb (used with object),
to call upon to do something specified.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- Morgan
-
noun,
one of a breed of light carriage and saddle horses descended from the stallion Justin Morgan.
- orgasm
-
noun,
the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- omegas
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- onager
-
noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- one-up
-
adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- opiums
-
noun,
the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.
- Orange
-
noun,
a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- orangs
-
noun,
orangutan.
- orgies
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- numis.
-
- origan
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- Origen
-
noun,
(Origenes Admantius) a.d. 185?–254? Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- osmium
-
noun,
a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
- pagers
-
noun,
something, as a book or brochure, having a specified number of pages (usually used in combination):
- pagnes
-
noun,
a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- Pamirs
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- omasum
-
noun,
the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum; the manyplies.
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- murine
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- Morgen
-
noun,
a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.
- morgue
-
noun,
a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mungos
-
noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- Murage
-
noun,
a toll or tax for the repair or construction of the walls or fortifications of a town.
- musing
-
noun,
contemplation; reflection.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Nagpur
-
noun,
a city in NE Maharashtra, in central India: former capital of the Central Provinces and Berar.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- neuro-
-
- nomism
-
noun,
religious conduct based on law.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- paries
-
noun,
Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- prunes
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- primes
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- primos
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- Primus
-
noun,
Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prongs
-
noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- puisne
-
noun,
an associate judge as distinguished from a chief justice.
- praise
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- purges
-
noun,
the act or process of purging.
- purine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- purism
-
noun,
strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- ragmen
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- prangs
-
verb (used with object),
to collide with; bump into.
- Prague
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the W central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.
- paring
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that pares.
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- parous
-
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pengos
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- Persia
-
noun,
Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- Pigeon
-
noun,
any bird of the family Columbidae, having a compact body and short legs, especially the larger species with square or rounded tails.
Compare dove1 (def 1).
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- pignus
-
noun,
property held as security for a debt.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- pingos
-
noun,
a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- pneuma
-
noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- pogies
-
noun,
a porgy.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- gramme
-
noun,
gram1 .
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- grains
-
noun,
an iron instrument with barbed prongs, for spearing or harpooning fish.
- gammon
-
noun,
the game of backgammon.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- Emmaus
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- arsen-
-
- earing
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- amnios
-
- gammer
-
noun,
an old woman.
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- gapers
-
noun,
a person or thing that gapes.
- agron.
-
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- animus
-
noun,
strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- Agrius
-
noun,
one of the Gigantes.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- AmerSp
-
- aspire
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- engram
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- enigma
-
noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- amino-
-
- aniso-
-
- Gainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- gamous
-
- Augier
-
noun,
Guillaume Victor Émile [gee-yohm veek-tawr ey-meel] /giˈyoʊm vikˈtɔr eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1820–89, French dramatist.
- gnomes
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- ammine
-
noun,
a compound containing one or more ammonia molecules in coordinate linkage.
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- ammino
-
adjective,
Chemistry. containing or pertaining to an ammine.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- gipons
-
noun,
jupon.
- genous
-
- Gasper
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- angio-
-
- amugis
-
noun,
a Philippine tree, Koordersiodendron pinnatum, of the cashew family.
- Europa
-
noun,
Also, Europe. Classical Mythology. a sister of Cadmus who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to Crete, where she bore him Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Sarpedon.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- Geonim
-
noun,
a plural of Gaon.
- Aegium
-
noun,
a town in ancient Achaea, on the Gulf of Corinth: the Achaean League met here.
- Gaines
-
noun,
Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- aerugo
-
noun,
verdigris.
- giaour
-
noun,
an unbeliever; a non-Muslim, especially a Christian.
- anemo-
-
- gamins
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- gamine
-
noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- German
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Germany.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- gerous
-
- aeron.
-
- argues
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- amigos
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- Epirus
-
noun,
an ancient district in NW Greece and S Albania.
- genoas
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- argons
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- genius
-
noun,
an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.:
Synonyms: intelligence, ingenuity, wit; brains.
- gasmen
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- genips
-
noun,
Also, ginep. a genipap.
- egoism
-
noun,
the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; selfishness (opposed to altruism).
- ageism
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- gonium
-
noun,
the germ cell during the phase marked by mitosis.
- goners
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- auger
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a bit, as for a brace.
a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- pause
-
noun,
a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action:
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- pengo
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- peags
-
noun,
wampum (def 1).
- peri-
-
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Primo
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prem.
-
- Pres.
-
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- Priam
-
noun,
a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
- prigs
-
noun,
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- prim.
-
- prime
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- Armen
-
- prang
-
verb (used with object),
to collide with; bump into.
- prims
-
noun,
privet.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- Arius
-
noun,
died a.d. 336, Christian priest at Alexandria: founder of Arianism.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- PRISM
-
noun,
Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- arium
-
- prius
-
noun,
a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- Piman
-
noun,
any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- Pimas
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- pingo
-
noun,
a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- pings
-
noun,
a pinging sound.
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- pious
-
adjective,
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- Piura
-
noun,
a city in N Peru.
- prae-
-
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pongs
-
noun,
an unpleasant smell; stink.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- pagne
-
noun,
a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- naso-
-
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- nears
-
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- 30-30
-
- Negus
-
noun,
a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- neur-
-
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- Nogai
-
noun,
a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Epis.
-
- Nammu
-
noun,
a Sumerian goddess personifying the primeval sea: the mother of the gods and of heaven and earth.
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- Msgr.
-
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- 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.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- MPers
-
- MUMPS
-
noun,
an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling of the parotid and usually other salivary glands, and sometimes by inflammation of the testes or ovaries, caused by a paramyxovirus.
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- munge
-
verb (used with or without object),
to manipulate (raw data), especially to convert (data) from one format to another:
- Mungo
-
noun,
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- mungs
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- 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.
- ergo-
-
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- 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.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- 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.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- gram.
-
- Prog.
-
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- pager
-
noun,
something, as a book or brochure, having a specified number of pages (usually used in combination):
- pagus
-
- Oreg.
-
- Paige
-
noun,
Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Pamir
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- pareu
-
noun,
lavalava.
- pari-
-
- orig.
-
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- nugae
-
plural noun,
trifles.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Nurmi
-
noun,
Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- 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.
- ogams
-
noun,
ogham.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- omega
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Orang
-
noun,
orangutan.
- omni-
-
- Onega
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- onium
-
- engr.
-
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- OPers
-
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- opium
-
noun,
the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- punas
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- progs
-
noun,
food or victuals.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- amigo
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- sing.
-
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- Sino-
-
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Amer.
-
- sirup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- smarm
-
noun,
behavior or speech that is smarmy.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- Somme
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW to the English Channel: battles, World War I, 1916, 1918; World War II, 1944. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- amin-
-
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- spang
-
adverb,
directly, exactly:
- ammos
-
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- sargo
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- semi-
-
- among
-
preposition,
in, into, or through the midst of; in association or connection with; surrounded by:
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- 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.
- signa
-
verb,
(used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- Ammon
-
noun,
the classical name of the Egyptian divinity Amen, whom the Greeks identified with Zeus, the Romans with Jupiter.
- sepia
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sero-
-
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Sigma
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- span-
-
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- aero-
-
- aeri-
-
- Unami
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- unpeg
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the pegs from.
- unrig
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of rigging, as a ship.
- unrip
-
verb (used with object),
to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- surge
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- uran-
-
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- urges
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- Urmia
-
noun,
Lake, a salt lake in NW Iran. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- usage
-
noun,
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- surg.
-
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- sprig
-
noun,
a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spor-
-
- agues
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sprag
-
noun,
a pole or bar hinged to the rear axle of a cart or the like in such a way that it can brace the vehicle against a road to prevent it from rolling downhill.
- agro-
-
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- spume
-
noun,
foam, froth, or scum.
- agone
-
adverb, adjective,
ago.
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- Sugar
-
noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- 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.
- summa
-
noun,
a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- agios
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- prom.
-
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- Pusan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- areo-
-
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- argon
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Apure
-
noun,
a river flowing E from W Venezuela to the Orinoco. about 500 miles (805 km) long.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Reaum
-
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- puris
-
noun,
poori.
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- pron.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- prong
-
noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- pros.
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Argus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
- Argos
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis: a powerful rival of Sparta, Athens, and Corinth.
- Prus.
-
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- Pugin
-
noun,
Augustus Charles, 1762–1832, French architectural draftsman and archaeologist in England.
- pumas
-
noun,
cougar.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- pungs
-
noun,
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- purge
-
noun,
the act or process of purging.
- argue
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- Purim
-
noun,
a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Adar in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from destruction by Haman.
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Sango
-
noun,
a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- rouge
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- angor
-
noun,
extreme distress or mental anguish, usually of physical origin.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- 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.
- angi-
-
- 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.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- Rugen
-
noun,
an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- rumps
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- 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.
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- Angus
-
noun,
Formerly Forfar. a historic county in E Scotland.
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- 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.
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- 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.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- reni-
-
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- resp.
-
- rogue
-
noun,
a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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).
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- rings
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- anis-
-
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- anim.
-
- geums
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- Mamie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- gamo-
-
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- guano
-
noun,
a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- Meigs
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Meigs.
- MNurs
-
- Gemma
-
noun,
a bud.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- gimme
-
noun,
Golf. a final short putt that a player is not required to take in informal play.
- guans
-
noun,
a large game bird of the curassow family, common in dense woodlands of Central and South America, somewhat resembling a turkey.
- guar.
-
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- guars
-
noun,
a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- mange
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- Mango
-
noun,
the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- Guin.
-
- gamps
-
noun,
an umbrella.
- Goias
-
noun,
a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- group
-
noun,
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
- gaums
-
verb (used with object),
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up):
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Grues
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- 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.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- gains
-
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- grume
-
noun,
blood when viscous.
- genus
-
noun,
Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- grump
-
noun,
a person given to constant complaining.
- gaurs
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- Mimas
-
noun,
Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
- genip
-
noun,
Also, ginep. a genipap.
- Megan
-
noun,
a female given name.
- mero-
-
- G-man
-
noun,
an agent for the FBI.
- gismo
-
noun,
a gadget or device:
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- impar
-
adjective,
unpaired; azygous.
- image
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- giros
-
noun,
autogiro.
- imago
-
noun,
Entomology. an adult insect.
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- imams
-
noun,
the officiating priest of a mosque.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Gaius
-
noun,
a.d. c110–c180, Roman jurist and writer, especially on civil law.
- girns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- gipon
-
noun,
jupon.
- Gamin
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- ginep
-
noun,
genip.
- Menam
-
noun,
a former name of Chao Phraya.
- gumma
-
noun,
a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- gnome
-
noun,
(in folklore) one of a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- guiro
-
noun,
a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- Guise
-
noun,
general external appearance; aspect; semblance:
- 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.
- meno-
-
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- maims
-
noun,
a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- meso-
-
- Magus
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- miso-
-
- Genoa
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- Gunas
-
noun,
(in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- gimps
-
noun,
a flat trimming of silk, wool, or other cord, sometimes stiffened with wire, for garments, curtains, etc.
- Gomer
-
noun,
an undesirable hospital patient.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- GROPE
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- Grimm
-
noun,
Jakob Ludwig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl,, lood-] /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA) 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
- GRIPS
-
noun,
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- Gaons
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Iran.
-
- gramp
-
noun,
grandfather.
- mimes
-
noun,
the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gripe
-
noun,
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- gorps
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- grins
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- garni
-
adjective,
garnished.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- insp.
-
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- grape
-
noun,
the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- gapes
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a parasitic disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by frequent gaping due to infestation of the trachea and bronchi with gapeworms.
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- grasp
-
noun,
the act of grasping or gripping, as with the hands or arms:
- geom.
-
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- insep
-
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- grime
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- marg.
-
- gaper
-
noun,
a person or thing that gapes.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- grain
-
noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- Gaspe
-
noun,
a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada on the NE end of the Gaspé Peninsula.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- mimeo
-
noun,
mimeograph.
- Momus
-
noun,
Also, Momos [moh-mos] /ˈmoʊ mɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the god of ridicule.
- groan
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- groma
-
noun,
an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- groin
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- mega-
-
- Euro-
-
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- Monge
-
noun,
Gaspard [gas-par] /gasˈpar/ (Show IPA), Comte de Péluse [pey-lyz] /peɪˈlüz/ (Show IPA), 1746–1818, French mathematician.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- Irgun
-
noun,
a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
- momes
-
noun,
a fool; blockhead.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Apus
-
noun,
the Bird of Paradise, a southern constellation between Octans and Triangulum Australe.
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Apsu
-
noun,
an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- 1080
-
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- ious
-
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Rep.
-
- 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.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- ANSI
-
- ano-
-
- 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.
- Ire.
-
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- iso-
-
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- apo-
-
- Reg.
-
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- genu
-
noun,
the knee.
- 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).
- Apr.
-
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- Arg.
-
- gasp
-
noun,
a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Mar.
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prig
-
noun,
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- prau
-
noun,
proa.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- gaum
-
verb (used with object),
to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up):
- Arm.
-
- prin
-
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- gaup
-
verb (used without object),
gawp.
- pro-
-
- pre-
-
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- pong
-
noun,
an unpleasant smell; stink.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- gape
-
noun,
a wide opening; gap; breach.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Prag
-
noun,
German name of Prague.
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- gaur
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- mag.
-
- maim
-
noun,
a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- Magi
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- purs
-
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- 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.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- 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.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- pung
-
noun,
a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- ARIS
-
- Mame
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Man.
-
- prs.
-
- Gen.
-
- psia
-
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- psig
-
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- esp.
-
- pugs
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- puma
-
noun,
cougar.
- puna
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- RNAS
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- AIME
-
- Aire
-
- Ainu
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal population of northernmost Japan, having lighter skin and hairier bodies than other Japanese.
- SPIM
-
noun,
a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- grum
-
adjective,
grim; glum; surly.
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- grue
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- Grus
-
noun,
the Crane, a southern constellation between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- ague
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- agr.
-
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- Agon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- gon-
-
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- SRAM
-
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- snug
-
noun,
British. a small, secluded room in a tavern, as for private parties.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- guan
-
noun,
a large game bird of the curassow family, common in dense woodlands of Central and South America, somewhat resembling a turkey.
- Guam
-
noun,
an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña.
Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
- Sra.
-
- sugi
-
noun,
Japan cedar.
- smug
-
adjective,
contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- urge
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- uni-
-
- gras
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- gorp
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- upas
-
noun,
the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Urga
-
noun,
former name of Ulan Bator.
- uria
-
- umps
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- uro-
-
- USAR
-
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- USGA
-
- USIA
-
- USMA
-
- USNA
-
- USPO
-
- gres
-
- aer-
-
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- 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.
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- gro.
-
- 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.
- sump
-
noun,
a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
- Sung
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, a.d. 960–1279, characterized by a high level of achievement in painting, ceramics, and philosophy: overthrown by the Mongols.
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- agio
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Grim
-
adjective,
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- supr
-
- sur-
-
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- grip
-
noun,
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- smog
-
noun,
smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- 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.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- ruga
-
noun,
Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Rumi
-
noun,
Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- amus
-
- rump
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- imps
-
noun,
a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- rung
-
noun,
one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Sam.
-
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- inae
-
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- gimp
-
noun,
a flat trimming of silk, wool, or other cord, sometimes stiffened with wire, for garments, curtains, etc.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Rom.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- 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 = .
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- geo-
-
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- RONA
-
- ins.
-
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Ger.
-
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Geum
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- GNMA
-
- simp
-
noun,
a fool; simpleton.
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- Sig.
-
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Iago
-
noun,
the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- guna
-
noun,
(in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- 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.
- gump
-
noun,
a foolish or stupid person.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- gumi
-
noun,
a spreading shrub, Elaeagnus multiflora, of eastern Asia, having fragrant yellowish-white flowers and edible red fruit.
- ign.
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Gino
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- Imp.
-
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- amp.
-
- saur
-
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sepn
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- Sem.
-
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- imam
-
noun,
the officiating priest of a mosque.
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- gips
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- 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.
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- MIPS
-
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- OGPU
-
noun,
(in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- Ming
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 1368–1644, marked by the restoration of traditional institutions and the development of the arts, especially in porcelain, textiles, and painting.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- Ogma
-
noun,
a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mis-
-
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- nos-
-
- 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.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Ens.
-
- ogam
-
noun,
ogham.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- Page
-
noun,
one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- mes-
-
- pam.
-
- 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.
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- Pan.
-
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- opia
-
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Eng.
-
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- min.
-
- Mims
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Mims.
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- org.
-
- MIME
-
noun,
the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
- Emp.
-
- Emma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- migs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emia
-
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nom.
-
- Pang
-
noun,
a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing:
- Eur.
-
- MSIE
-
- MSME
-
- MSPE
-
- Muir
-
noun,
Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- mump
-
verb (used with object),
to mumble; mutter.
- mums
-
noun,
chrysanthemum.
- MSEM
-
- mun.
-
- MUNG
-
noun,
something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- mong
-
noun,
mongrel, especially a mongrel dog.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- ergs
-
- MSGM
-
- MSAM
-
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- eso-
-
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- MSAE
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- mrem
-
- mRNA
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- 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.
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- 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.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- 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.
- Mngr
-
- eous
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- MNAS
-
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NIRA
-
- 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).
- MMus
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- neo-
-
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Mon.
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- moms
-
noun,
mother1 .
- mus.
-
- 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.
- MusM
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- epi-
-
- mome
-
noun,
a fool; blockhead.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- mogs
-
noun,
moggy.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- aur-
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- ASME
-
- Pen.
-
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- men-
-
- MEPA
-
- Maui
-
noun,
an island in central Hawaii. 728 sq. mi. (1886 sq. km).
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Gaon
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- mems
-
noun,
the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- per.
-
- pnea
-
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- Pegu
-
noun,
a city in central Burma: pagodas.
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- peag
-
noun,
wampum (def 1).
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Paur
-
noun,
Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- meas
-
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- PING
-
noun,
a pinging sound.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Pima
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Meng
-
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- PIMS
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- Auge
-
noun,
a daughter of King Aleus who became a priestess of Athena. After being raped by Hercules she bore a son, Telephus.
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- par.
-
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- Aus.
-
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- Aug.
-
- mem.
-
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- memo
-
noun,
memorandum.
- Pers
-
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- gamp
-
noun,
an umbrella.
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- GUS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- gi.
-
- Gur
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- pig
-
noun,
a young swine of either sex, especially a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 pounds (220 kg)
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- io-
-
- NEA
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- NOP
-
- IAS
-
- mom
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- Mao
-
- MOI
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- MOG
-
noun,
moggy.
- GSR
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Ga.
-
- ne-
-
- GSA
-
- pim
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- Ia.
-
- Gun
-
noun,
a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- NMI
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- NMU
-
- NIA
-
- PGA
-
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- MNE
-
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- SNU
-
- GUI
-
noun,
graphical user interface.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- GNP
-
- AME
-
- ASR
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- MNA
-
- ASU
-
- SMM
-
- Gum
-
noun,
any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water.
- NMR
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- EPA
-
- SMA
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- MNS
-
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- NES
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- MME
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- GNU
-
noun,
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- Ep.
-
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- up-
-
- ase
-
- ure
-
- an.
-
- ASI
-
- ur-
-
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- Ar.
-
- MPA
-
- UPI
-
- MPE
-
- ae.
-
- ag-
-
- uns
-
- ESU
-
- MPG
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- unp
-
- UNO
-
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- ung
-
- ESR
-
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MRP
-
- ERP
-
- USP
-
- USO
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- gap
-
noun,
a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line; breach:
- USN
-
- MOR
-
- USM
-
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- ESA
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Gr.
-
- POA
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- ARU
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- GPS
-
- POR
-
- Am.
-
- ap-
-
- GPM
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- Une
-
- gre
-
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- AGM
-
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- MUP
-
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- Mur
-
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.
- 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:
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- PIO
-
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- SUG
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- Sr.
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- SPR
-
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- 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.
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- MSA
-
- ARS
-
- MSE
-
- ump
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- UAM
-
- UAE
-
- USA
-
- UAR
-
- eu-
-
- ASN
-
- MSI
-
- PRA
-
- MSM
-
- MSN
-
- ASM
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- mug
-
noun,
a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- mum
-
noun,
chrysanthemum.
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- EPS
-
- IGM
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ROP
-
- ise
-
- AOU
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Ps.
-
- prn
-
- en-
-
- EMU
-
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.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- USR
-
- OPM
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Re.
-
- ISA
-
- EMR
-
- ROI
-
- ior
-
- ROG
-
- ier
-
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- RPM
-
- RPG
-
- PaG
-
- ANG
-
- ons
-
- ine
-
- OPA
-
- ing
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Ges
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- GPU
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- PAU
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in SW France: winter resort.
- MEP
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- Ir.
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- ose
-
- MIE
-
- ea.
-
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- OSP
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- EAM
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- ean
-
- PMG
-
- IRO
-
- Pa.
-
- pm.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- eir
-
- IOU
-
- RPS
-
- RMA
-
- ROA
-
- aor
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RNA
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- MIM
-
noun,
the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Pr.
-
- IRS
-
- IPS
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- IPA
-
- IPM
-
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Mig
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- IPO
-
- ipr
-
- EIS
-
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- RPO
-
- Rs.
-
- se-
-
- GOP
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- pug
-
noun,
one of a breed of small, short-haired dogs having a tightly curled tail, a deeply wrinkled face, and a smooth coat that is black or silver and fawn with black markings.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- IUS
-
- op.
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- NUM
-
- OSA
-
- gip
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- APS
-
- OAP
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Eg.
-
- RSA
-
- OAS
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- OEM
-
- Me.
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- MM.
-
- Mo.
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mam
-
noun,
British Informal. mother.
- PSA
-
- PSE
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- PSG
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- NSU
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- NPR
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- NSA
-
- OAU
-
- SAR
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MIP
-
- Peg
-
noun,
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- EOM
-
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- 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.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- imu
-
noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- in.
-
- GPO
-
noun,
the federal agency that prints and disseminates publications for other federal agencies. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- ONI
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rug
-
noun,
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design.
Compare carpet.
- ONR
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- mi.
-
- RSE
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- MGr
-
- Pg.
-
- ISR
-
- REA
-
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- AMS
-
- ium
-
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- AMU
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- OIr
-
- Om.
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- eo-
-
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- SAE
-
- SRO
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- AO
-
- MP
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- M.
-
- MG
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- SA
-
- SG
-
- SM
-
- EI
-
- PU
-
- SN
-
- OA
-
- NM
-
- OG
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- RU
-
- O.
-
- GP
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- i.
-
- GM
-
- GN
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- IG
-
- S.
-
- G.
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- RI
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- rg
-
- UI
-
- U.
-
- IP
-
- RN
-
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- RO
-
- GU
-
- RP
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SU
-
- R.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- N.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- NG
-
- NI
-
- NP
-
- MN
-