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Word stumpknocker has
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- mockernut
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noun,
a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- trounces
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verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- sprocket
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noun,
Machinery.
Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain.
one tooth of such a wheel.
- counter-
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- counters
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noun,
a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
- no-trump
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noun,
the declaration to play a no-trump contract.
- crumpets
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noun,
a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
- contemp.
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- penstock
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noun,
a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- consumer
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noun,
a person or thing that consumes.
- construe
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noun,
the act of construing.
- cokernut
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noun,
coconut.
- corpsmen
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noun,
U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- stockmen
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noun,
U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- customer
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noun,
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
- computer
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noun,
a programmable electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Mainframes, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of computers.
Compare analog computer, digital computer.
- re-count
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noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- computes
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noun,
computation:
- centrums
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noun,
a center.
- spectro-
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- Turkomen
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noun,
Turkmenistan.
- spectrum
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noun,
Physics.
an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass: often the band of colors produced when sunlight is passed through a prism, comprising red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
this band or series of colors together with extensions at the ends that are not visible to the eye, but that can be studied by means of photography, heat effects, etc., and that are produced by the dispersion of radiant energy other than ordinary light rays. Compare band spectrum, electromagnetic spectrum, mass spectrum.
- truckmen
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noun,
a truckdriver.
- costumer
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noun,
a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- mounters
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- muskone
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noun,
muscone.
- constr.
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- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- rockets
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noun,
any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- Turkmen
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noun,
the language of the Turkman people, a Turkic language spoken mostly east of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan but also in parts of European Russia, Iran, and the Caucasus.
- remount
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- conkers
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noun,
a horse chestnut.
- consume
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verb (used with object),
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- muscone
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noun,
an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 16 H 30 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- prosect
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verb (used with object),
to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- petrous
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adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- cornets
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noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- stonker
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verb (used with object),
to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- couters
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noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- Proteus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- encrust
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verb (used with or without object),
incrust.
- troupes
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noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- stumper
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noun,
a person or thing that stumps.
- pockets
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noun,
a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- cornute
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adjective,
cornuted.
- neutro-
-
- scrotum
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noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- supremo
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noun,
the person in charge; chief.
- knocker
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noun,
a person or thing that knocks.
- crepons
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noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- scouter
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noun,
a person who scouts.
- punster
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noun,
a person who makes puns frequently.
- contuse
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verb (used with object),
to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- restock
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verb (used with or without object),
to stock again; replenish.
- kopecks
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noun,
an aluminum-bronze coin of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, the 100th part of a ruble.
- copters
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noun,
helicopter.
- tone-up
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noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- sternum
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- Munster
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noun,
muenster.
- centro-
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- pounces
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noun,
the claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- pectous
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adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- recoups
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noun,
an act of recouping.
- pouters
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noun,
a person who pouts.
- costume
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noun,
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- centums
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noun,
one hundred.
- recount
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noun,
a second or additional count, as of votes in an election.
- centrum
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noun,
a center.
- mock-up
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noun,
a model, often full-size, for study, testing, or teaching:
- pneumo-
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- mounter
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- reckons
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Verb phrases,
reckon with,
to include in consideration or planning; anticipate:
to deal with:
- precuts
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adjective,
cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used:
- monster
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noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- puckers
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noun,
a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- spermo-
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- trounce
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verb (used with object),
to beat severely; thrash.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- crumpet
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noun,
a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
- spumone
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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.
- Kentuck
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noun,
Kentucky.
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- compute
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noun,
computation:
- stocker
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noun,
a person or thing that stocks.
- Sumpter
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noun,
a packhorse or mule.
- sterno-
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- nostrum
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noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- uncorks
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verb (used with object),
to draw the cork from.
- postmen
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noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- tuckers
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noun,
a person or thing that tucks.
- posture
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noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- muckers
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noun,
Slang. a vulgar, illbred person.
- unkempt
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adjective,
not combed:
- pterous
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- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- trompes
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noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- toners
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noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- one-up
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adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- ockers
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noun,
an uncultured Australian male.
- rouens
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- eructs
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verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- rectus
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noun,
any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- Rockne
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noun,
Knute (Kenneth) [noot] /nut/ (Show IPA), 1888–1931, U.S. football coach, born in Norway.
- ouster
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noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- tropes
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noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- recons
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noun,
reconnaissance.
- trones
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noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- recoup
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noun,
an act of recouping.
- cupro-
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- tromps
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verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- curets
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noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- trompe
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noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- rectos
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- trokes
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noun,
truck2 (defs 4–7).
- topers
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noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- rectum
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noun,
the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- Custer
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noun,
George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- ounces
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noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- repots
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verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Reston
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noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Empson
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noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- emptor
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noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- topmen
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noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- rocket
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noun,
any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- erupts
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verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- knucks
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- routes
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noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- socket
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noun,
a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
- Munroe
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noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- stoker
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noun,
a person or thing that stokes.
- McKuen
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noun,
Rod, 1933–2015, U.S. poet and songwriter.
- mucors
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noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- steno-
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- Mentor
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noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Mucker
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noun,
Slang. a vulgar, illbred person.
- smoker
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noun,
a person or thing that smokes.
- Merops
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noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- merous
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- Merton
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noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- socmen
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noun,
sokeman.
- set-up
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noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- metro-
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- metros
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noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- spruce
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noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
- sprout
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noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- mouser
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noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mourns
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verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mounts
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noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- spoken
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verb,
a past participle of speak.
- source
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noun,
any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin:
- souter
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- sperm-
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- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- stoper
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noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- kernos
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noun,
a Mycenaean ceramic piece, usually in the form of a ring, to which were attached a number of cups or vases.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Temuco
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noun,
a city in S Chile.
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- Ruston
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noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- super-
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- sunket
-
noun,
something, especially something to eat.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- neuro-
-
- Sumner
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noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- musket
-
noun,
a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle.
- sucker
-
noun,
a person or thing that sucks.
- km/sec
-
- necro-
-
- knouts
-
noun,
a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- struck
-
noun,
an act or instance of striking.
- septum
-
noun,
a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- kopeck
-
noun,
an aluminum-bronze coin of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, the 100th part of a ruble.
- stroke
-
noun,
the act or an instance of striking, as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; a blow.
- 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.
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- custom
-
noun,
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- UNESCO
-
noun,
an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
- 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.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- cokers
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noun,
Often, cokers. an inhabitant of the mountains of the coal-mining regions of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- petro-
-
- counts
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- pucker
-
noun,
a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- ponces
-
noun,
a pimp.
- unstep
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verb (used with object),
to lift from its step, as a mast.
- coupes
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noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- unstop
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- upmost
-
adjective,
uppermost.
- course
-
noun,
a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- pounce
-
noun,
the claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- courts
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- Tunker
-
noun,
Dunker.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- punker
-
noun,
a punk rock musician or a devotee of punk rock or punk styles.
- pokers
-
noun,
a person or thing that pokes.
- copens
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- conure
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed New World parrots, especially of the genus Aratinga, certain species of which are kept as pets.
- prunes
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- contr.
-
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- copter
-
noun,
helicopter.
- Pontus
-
noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- conker
-
noun,
a horse chestnut.
- turco-
-
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- pocket
-
noun,
a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- ptero-
-
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- corpus
-
noun,
a large or complete collection of writings:
- uncork
-
verb (used with object),
to draw the cork from.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- compts
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- couter
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the elbow.
- tusker
-
noun,
an animal with tusks, as an elephant or a wild boar.
- cerous
-
adjective,
containing trivalent cerium.
- Tucker
-
noun,
a person or thing that tucks.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Cronus
-
noun,
a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, who was dethroned by his son Zeus.
- Tucson
-
noun,
a city in S Arizona: health resort.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Crouse
-
noun,
Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- croute
-
noun,
crust.
- precut
-
adjective,
cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used:
- cruets
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- centr-
-
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- crumps
-
noun,
a crunching sound.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Crusoe
-
noun,
Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- utero-
-
- trumps
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- reckon
-
Verb phrases,
reckon with,
to include in consideration or planning; anticipate:
to deal with:
- trucks
-
noun,
any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit.
- truces
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- cteno-
-
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- croups
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- centum
-
noun,
one hundred.
- crepon
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- MSEnt
-
- sero-
-
- porks
-
noun,
the flesh of hogs used as food.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- murks
-
noun,
darkness; gloom:
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Pres.
-
- 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.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Prot.
-
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- setup
-
noun,
organization; arrangement.
- spec.
-
- snuck
-
noun,
a sneaking, underhand, or contemptible person.
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- MPers
-
- pret.
-
- Sept.
-
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- soken
-
noun,
a district held by socage.
- 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.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pron.
-
- sect.
-
- 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):
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- Port.
-
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- muco-
-
- prom.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- mucor
-
noun,
any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- sneck
-
noun,
a door latch or its lever.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- post-
-
- snoek
-
noun,
a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.
- mucro
-
noun,
a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mucks
-
noun,
moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- Smock
-
noun,
a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- pros.
-
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- 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.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- prem.
-
- skunk
-
noun,
a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
- 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.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- neut.
-
- scute
-
noun,
a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- resp.
-
- 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).
- pert.
-
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- OPers
-
- punks
-
noun,
any prepared substance, usually in stick form, that will smolder and can be used to light fireworks, fuses, etc.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- rocks
-
noun,
a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- pukes
-
noun,
vomit.
- rept.
-
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- pucks
-
noun,
Ice Hockey. a black disk of vulcanized rubber that is to be hit into the goal.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- 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.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- 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.
- oecus
-
noun,
(in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- Orcus
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- rcpt.
-
- pecks
-
noun,
a dry measure of 8 quarts; the fourth part of a bushel, equal to 537.6 cubic inches (8.81 liters).
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- recpt
-
- rect.
-
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- punts
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- Perks
-
noun,
perquisite.
- ounce
-
noun,
a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- oste-
-
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- petr-
-
- necks
-
noun,
the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- scour
-
noun,
the act of scouring.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- Scot.
-
- pocks
-
noun,
a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- poet.
-
- recks
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to have regard for; mind; heed.
- Prus.
-
- poker
-
noun,
a person or thing that pokes.
- neur-
-
- neuks
-
noun,
nook.
- Scout
-
noun,
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- pokes
-
noun,
a thrust or push.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- 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.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- scrum
-
noun,
a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- nocks
-
noun,
a metal or plastic piece at the end of an arrow, having a notch for the bowstring.
- Ocker
-
noun,
an uncultured Australian male.
- rumps
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- 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.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- nukes
-
noun,
a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- rucks
-
noun,
a large number or quantity; mass.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- noct-
-
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- 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.
- puces
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- scoke
-
noun,
pokeweed.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- speck
-
noun,
a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies:
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- cornu
-
noun,
a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- corp.
-
- corpn
-
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- eruct
-
verb (used with or without object),
to belch forth, as gas from the stomach.
- token
-
noun,
something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign:
- tokes
-
noun,
a tip or gratuity given by a gambler to a dealer or other employee at a casino.
- Turk.
-
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Tomsk
-
noun,
a city in the central Russian Federation in Asia, E of the Ob River.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- term.
-
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Count
-
noun,
the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- kecks
-
verb (used without object),
to retch; be nauseated.
- Const
-
- cont.
-
- Supt.
-
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- CONUS
-
noun,
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- temp.
-
- cruse
-
noun,
an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- Euro-
-
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- copr-
-
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- turks
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Turkey.
- cores
-
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- corks
-
noun,
the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- kemps
-
noun,
British Dialect.
a strong, brave warrior.
an athlete, especially a champion.
a professional fighter.
an impetuous or roguish young man.
- cures
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- cutes
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- crump
-
noun,
a crunching sound.
- troke
-
noun,
truck2 (defs 4–7).
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- curst
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curse
-
noun,
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curns
-
noun,
a grain.
- curet
-
noun,
a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.
- crunk
-
noun,
a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- cruet
-
noun,
a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- cunts
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- trop-
-
- Cukor
-
noun,
George, 1899–1983, U.S. film director.
- cukes
-
noun,
cucumber.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- truce
-
noun,
a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- truck
-
noun,
any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit.
- trump
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- trunk
-
noun,
the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- tucks
-
noun,
something tucked or folded in.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- coupe
-
noun,
Also, coupé. a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
- ento-
-
- coups
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Court
-
noun,
Law.
a place where justice is administered.
a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
a session of a judicial assembly.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- tumps
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- ecto-
-
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- econ.
-
- cronk
-
adjective,
sick or feeble.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- torsk
-
noun,
a cod.
- croup
-
noun,
any condition of the larynx or trachea characterized by a hoarse cough and difficult breathing.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- Cons.
-
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- kempt
-
adjective,
neatly or tidily kept:
- cert.
-
- mero-
-
- merks
-
noun,
mark2 (def 3).
- proc.
-
- spunk
-
noun,
pluck; spirit; mettle.
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- upset
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- cero-
-
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- meno-
-
- spume
-
noun,
foam, froth, or scum.
- step-
-
- ster.
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- conks
-
noun,
the head.
- stoke
-
noun,
a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter.
- stome
-
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Kursk
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- Cetus
-
noun,
the Whale, a constellation lying above the equator, containing the variable star Mira.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- meso-
-
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- mokes
-
noun,
Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Mont.
-
- Spock
-
noun,
Benjamin (McLane) [muh-kleyn] /məˈkleɪn/ (Show IPA), 1903–98, U.S. physician and educator.
- 30-30
-
- spoke
-
noun,
one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- Monck
-
noun,
Sir Charles Stanley (4th Viscount Monck, 1st Baron Monck) 1819–94, British colonial administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of Canada 1861–68.
- spor-
-
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- 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.
- mocks
-
noun,
a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- MNurs
-
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- metr-
-
- cent.
-
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- 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.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- Stock
-
noun,
a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- crust
-
noun,
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- Comr.
-
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- Smoke
-
noun,
the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- comp.
-
- knout
-
noun,
a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.
- comps
-
noun,
a compositor.
- stump
-
noun,
the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- knosp
-
noun,
a budlike ornament.
- compt
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
count1 .
- knops
-
noun,
a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- uncos
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- stunk
-
noun,
a strong offensive smell; stench.
- stupe
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- keto-
-
- Comus
-
noun,
an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- Sucre
-
noun,
Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- Kerst
-
noun,
Donald William, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- keros
-
noun,
a wooden container, as a beaker, made by the Incas.
- Kerns
-
noun,
a part of the face of a type projecting beyond the body or shank, as in certain italic letters.
- 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.
- kenos
-
noun,
a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- stuck
-
noun,
a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- Coker
-
noun,
Often, cokers. an inhabitant of the mountains of the coal-mining regions of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- stork
-
noun,
any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill.
Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- Koner
-
noun,
Pauline, 1905–2000, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- cokes
-
noun,
the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals.
- krone
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
- Krems
-
noun,
a city in NE Austria, on the Danube.
- knurs
-
noun,
a knotty or hard protuberance or growth, as on a tree.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Ukr.
-
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- prs.
-
- pts.
-
- unco
-
noun,
something extraordinary or unusual; a novelty.
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- USTC
-
- ukes
-
noun,
ukulele.
- umps
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- puce
-
noun,
a dark or brownish purple.
- USRC
-
- psec
-
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- puke
-
noun,
vomit.
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- Tues
-
- punk
-
noun,
any prepared substance, usually in stick form, that will smolder and can be used to light fireworks, fuses, etc.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- uret
-
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- Puck
-
noun,
Ice Hockey. a black disk of vulcanized rubber that is to be hit into the goal.
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- USPO
-
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- tusk
-
noun,
(in certain animals) a tooth developed to great length, usually one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar, but singly in the narwhal.
- purs
-
- uro-
-
- Tuck
-
noun,
something tucked or folded in.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- tump
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- USMC
-
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- RCMP
-
- sunk
-
noun,
a basin or receptacle, as in a kitchen or laundry, usually connected with a water supply and drainage system, for washing dishes, clothing, etc.
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- sec.
-
- scut
-
noun,
a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- scup
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- scum
-
noun,
a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- scr.
-
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- 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.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- Sem.
-
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- supr
-
- sur-
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- Rusk
-
noun,
a slice of sweet raised bread dried and baked again in the oven; zwieback.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rus.
-
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Sekt
-
noun,
sparkling wine; champagne.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ten.
-
- sock
-
noun,
a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- souk
-
noun,
suk.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- 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.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- soke
-
noun,
the privilege of holding court, usually connected with the feudal rights of lordship.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- sepn
-
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- SMTP
-
- 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.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Ste.
-
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- skep
-
noun,
a round farm basket of wicker or wood.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- str.
-
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- 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.
- reck
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to have regard for; mind; heed.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- top-
-
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- Rock
-
noun,
a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- Rom.
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- Rep.
-
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- trek
-
noun,
a journey or trip, especially one involving difficulty or hardship.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- tron
-
- roke
-
noun,
a seam or scratch filled with scale or slag on the surface of an ingot or bar.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- rump
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- ter.
-
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- ruck
-
noun,
a large number or quantity; mass.
- rpt.
-
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- tnpk
-
- toke
-
noun,
a tip or gratuity given by a gambler to a dealer or other employee at a casino.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- 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.
- tonk
-
noun,
a form of rummy for two or more players with deuces wild.
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- 1080
-
- pro-
-
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- neo-
-
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neck
-
noun,
the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- eco-
-
- Ecru
-
noun,
an ecru color.
- ect-
-
- NCTE
-
- Emp.
-
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- enc.
-
- musk
-
noun,
a substance secreted in a glandular sac under the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer, having a strong odor, and used in perfumery.
- cute
-
noun,
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
- 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.
- mus.
-
- murk
-
noun,
darkness; gloom:
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- 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.
- mun.
-
- muck
-
noun,
moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muc-
-
- eous
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- neuk
-
noun,
nook.
- nock
-
noun,
a metal or plastic piece at the end of an arrow, having a notch for the bowstring.
- MSPE
-
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- Cres
-
- Oct.
-
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- crus
-
noun,
the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- crut
-
noun,
crud (def 1).
- nuke
-
noun,
a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- ctr.
-
- cts.
-
- cues
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- cuke
-
noun,
cucumber.
- cunt
-
noun,
the vulva or vagina.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- cur.
-
- Knt.
-
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- not-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nos-
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- Nor.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- cure
-
noun,
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- curn
-
noun,
a grain.
- curs
-
noun,
a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- Curt
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Curtis.
- cusk
-
noun,
an edible marine fish, Brosme brosme, of North Atlantic coastal waters.
- Cusp
-
noun,
a point or pointed end.
- nom.
-
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- msec
-
- okes
-
noun,
oka1 .
- kept
-
noun,
board and lodging; subsistence; support:
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- kc/s
-
- ment
-
- men-
-
- keck
-
verb (used without object),
to retch; be nauseated.
- Kemp
-
noun,
British Dialect.
a strong, brave warrior.
an athlete, especially a champion.
a professional fighter.
an impetuous or roguish young man.
- MCPO
-
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- keno
-
noun,
a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- kens
-
noun,
knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception:
- Kent
-
noun,
James, 1763–1847, U.S. jurist.
- Keos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Aegean, off the SE coast of the Greek mainland. 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- Kern
-
noun,
a part of the face of a type projecting beyond the body or shank, as in certain italic letters.
- merk
-
noun,
mark2 (def 3).
- Kurt
-
noun,
a male given name.
- kurn
-
noun,
kirn2 .
- Kure
-
noun,
a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.
- kero
-
noun,
a wooden container, as a beaker, made by the Incas.
- ket-
-
- KKtP
-
- kors
-
noun,
homer2 .
- Kore
-
noun,
Greek Antiquity. a sculptured representation of a young woman, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
- kops
-
noun,
a hill.
- knop
-
noun,
a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
- koku
-
noun,
a Japanese unit of dry measure equivalent to 5.12 bushels (1.8 hectoliters).
- Knut
-
noun,
Canute.
- knot
-
noun,
an interlacing, twining, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob or lump, for fastening, binding, or connecting two cords together or a cord to something else.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- 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.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- MSCP
-
- MSCE
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- mout
-
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- eso-
-
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- esp.
-
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- MOpt
-
- mes-
-
- 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.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- est.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Monk
-
noun,
(in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- Mon.
-
- moke
-
noun,
Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- mock
-
noun,
a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
- etc.
-
- prec
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- mkt.
-
- Eur.
-
- met.
-
- Oken
-
noun,
Lorenz (Lorenz Ockenfuss) 1779–1851, German naturalist and philosopher.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- knur
-
noun,
a knotty or hard protuberance or growth, as on a tree.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- 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.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Pers
-
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- perk
-
noun,
perquisite.
- per.
-
- pock
-
noun,
a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- cen.
-
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- Cor.
-
- Cork
-
noun,
the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orsk
-
noun,
a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Ural River.
- Cort
-
- Com.
-
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Con.
-
- Pet.
-
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- Coke
-
noun,
the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals.
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- pkt.
-
- conk
-
noun,
the head.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Cnut
-
noun,
Canute.
- out-
-
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Cmon
-
- pos.
-
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- Omsk
-
noun,
a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia on the Irtysh River.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Ceto
-
- pork
-
noun,
the flesh of hogs used as food.
- cet-
-
- 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):
- Peck
-
noun,
a dry measure of 8 quarts; the fourth part of a bushel, equal to 537.6 cubic inches (8.81 liters).
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- pot.
-
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- CERN
-
- pre-
-
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- pct.
-
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPer
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- 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.
- poke
-
noun,
a thrust or push.
- Pen.
-
- Ont.
-
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- 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.
- Coue
-
noun,
Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.
- coup
-
noun,
a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- ESR
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- ETO
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- ur-
-
- ESU
-
- CEO
-
- ure
-
- cs.
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- USR
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- kn.
-
- kMc
-
- km.
-
- KKt
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Suk
-
noun,
(especially in the Arab countries) the market, especially the traditional bazaar.
- UTC
-
- 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:
- Ker
-
- Co.
-
- 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.
- cp.
-
- Ken
-
noun,
knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception:
- cr.
-
- ETR
-
- TCS
-
- ETS
-
- eu-
-
- USC
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- ct.
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- Usk
-
noun,
a river flowing S and SE from SE Wales through SW England into the Severn estuary. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- Kt.
-
- USM
-
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- USN
-
- USO
-
- USP
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- CPR
-
- TKO
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- trp
-
- cue
-
noun,
anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
- cum
-
noun,
come (def 24).
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- cup
-
noun,
a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- Tro
-
- CST
-
- Cut
-
noun,
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- UCR
-
- TPN
-
- TPM
-
- tpk
-
- cte
-
- CSR
-
- eo-
-
- CRT
-
- CPS
-
- CPU
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- tue
-
- CPM
-
- CRP
-
- CRS
-
- cru
-
noun,
(in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru)
- CSO
-
- Tu.
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- TSP
-
- tsk
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tsk.”.
- TSE
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- csk
-
- Uke
-
noun,
ukulele.
- EOM
-
- TMO
-
- ERP
-
- CNO
-
- Ep.
-
- CNM
-
- EPS
-
- EPT
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- erk
-
noun,
an aircraftsman of the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- CNS
-
- up-
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- UPC
-
- ERT
-
- Esc
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Esk
-
- CPO
-
- unp
-
- ec-
-
- unc
-
- Eck
-
noun,
Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), (Johann Mayer) 1486–1543, German Roman Catholic theologian: opponent of Martin Luther.
- ECM
-
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- ump
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- UMT
-
- ECU
-
noun,
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- EMR
-
- UNO
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- 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.
- en-
-
- Une
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- uns
-
- SPR
-
- KNP
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Oc.
-
- op.
-
- OTC
-
- ock
-
- OCR
-
- OCS
-
- OEM
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- oke
-
noun,
oka1 .
- Om.
-
- NUM
-
- 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.
- ROP
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONR
-
- ons
-
- ROK
-
noun,
a soldier in the army of the Republic of Korea.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- RMC
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- RPM
-
- OPM
-
- Npt
-
- SCM
-
- sc.
-
- SRO
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- NOP
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- NPR
-
- nr.
-
- RPO
-
- NRC
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- NSC
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- NSU
-
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- NOC
-
- PKU
-
- Re.
-
- RCS
-
- RCP
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- 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.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- 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.
- pk.
-
plural,
pack.
- pks
-
plural,
pack.
- PUC
-
- RPS
-
- pmk
-
- PMT
-
- POC
-
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- PSE
-
- PSC
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- POR
-
- PRC
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RCN
-
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ose
-
- OSP
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- RCT
-
- pc.
-
- pm.
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- PCM
-
- PCS
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- NMU
-
- 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.
- MEP
-
- spt
-
- mk.
-
- MKS
-
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- Sr.
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- MPE
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- MRE
-
- MRP
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- St.
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- Kur
-
noun,
(in Sumerian mythology) the world of the dead.
- kop
-
noun,
a hill.
- kor
-
noun,
homer2 .
- STP
-
- Kos
-
noun,
a unit of land distance of various lengths from 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km).
- kpc
-
- kr.
-
- KRP
-
- krs
-
- Kun
-
noun,
Béla [bey-lo] /ˈbeɪ lɒ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1937, Hungarian Communist leader.
- Mc-
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSC
-
- STM
-
- stk
-
- 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.
- MCP
-
- MCR
-
- MSE
-
- MOR
-
- SNU
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- 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.
- 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).
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- 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.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- NCO
-
- ne-
-
- Skt
-
- se-
-
- NEC
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NES
-
- SCP
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NMR
-
- MUP
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- MTP
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- MST
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- MTO
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- Mt.
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- SKU
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- MSN
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- MTS
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- mtn
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- TN
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- TM
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- SN
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- MP
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- tk
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- R.
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- RC
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- NP
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- RO
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- M.
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- U.
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- PU
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- S.
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- CU
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SU
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- NM
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- UT
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noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- TP
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- CM
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- CE
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- SM
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- NC
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- RN
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- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- UK
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- RP
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- MU
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noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- MN
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- sk
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- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- O.
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- OU
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noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- K.
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- P.
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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.
- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- UC
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- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- TC
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- T1
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- OK
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noun,
an approval, agreement, or endorsement:
- KO
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noun,
a knockout in boxing.
- KP
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- RU
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- K2
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noun,
Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- KC
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- NU
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noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- N.
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- ck
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- t.
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