Anagrams of telephonists
Word telephonists has
1216 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of telephonists.
- pointless
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adjective,
without a point:
- pentolite
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noun,
a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- plenishes
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verb (used with object),
to fill up; stock; furnish.
- phonetist
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noun,
a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- teosintes
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- point-set
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adjective,
(of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- heelposts
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noun,
a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- siltstone
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noun,
a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- helistops
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noun,
a heliport.
- politesse
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noun,
formal politeness; courtesy.
- telethons
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noun,
a television broadcast lasting several hours, especially one soliciting support for a charity.
- hessonite
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noun,
essonite.
- isopleths
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noun,
a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- honesties
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noun,
the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- slipsheet
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verb (used with or without object),
to insert (blank sheets) between printed sheets as they come off the press to prevent offset.
- pestilent
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adjective,
producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- pestholes
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noun,
a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- holsteins
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noun,
Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- hotlines
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noun,
hot line.
- hostiles
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noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- teosinte
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- Shelepin
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noun,
Alexandr Nikolayevich [al-ig-zan-der nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–1994, Soviet government official.
- plenties
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noun,
a full or abundant supply or amount:
- spittles
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noun,
saliva; spit.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- hoplites
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noun,
a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- essonite
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- pistoles
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- Opheltes
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noun,
the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- thistles
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noun,
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- epsilons
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noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- isolette
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- isopleth
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noun,
a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- heelpost
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noun,
a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- ten-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- step-ins
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- teleosts
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noun,
Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.
- neoliths
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noun,
a Neolithic stone implement.
- seilenos
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noun,
Silenus.
- histones
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noun,
any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- potlines
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noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- Holstein
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noun,
Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- potheens
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noun,
poteen.
- telethon
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noun,
a television broadcast lasting several hours, especially one soliciting support for a charity.
- noteless
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adjective,
not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.
- tintless
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adjective,
without tint or tints; colorless.
- noisette
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noun,
a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat:
- hopeless
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adjective,
providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate:
- helistop
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noun,
a heliport.
- polishes
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noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- Holiness
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noun,
the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- heptoses
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noun,
any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- petioles
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noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- pinholes
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noun,
a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- entitles
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verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- pesthole
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noun,
a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pentoses
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noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- sleep-in
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noun,
a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.
- 11-point
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- shelties
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noun,
Shetland pony.
- Othniel
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noun,
a judge of Israel. Judges 3:9.
- spinets
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noun,
a small upright piano.
- nestles
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verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- stipels
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noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- pottles
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noun,
a former liquid measure equal to two quarts.
- potties
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noun,
a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
- lisente
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noun,
plural of sente.
- pinoles
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noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- histone
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noun,
any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- nettles
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noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- potsies
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noun,
hopscotch.
- pentose
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noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- potline
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noun,
a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- potheen
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noun,
poteen.
- spinose
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adjective,
full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- poteens
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- Nilotes
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noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- tonlets
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noun,
a skirt of plates.
- telesis
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noun,
deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
- telsons
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noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- shotten
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adjective,
(of fish, especially herring) having recently ejected the spawn.
- tinsels
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noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- penises
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noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- heptose
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noun,
any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- isoneph
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noun,
a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- hessite
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noun,
a rare mineral, silver telluride, Ag 2 Te, found in silver ores: sometimes contains gold.
- lioness
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noun,
a female lion.
- pensile
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adjective,
hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- spinels
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noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- pensils
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noun,
pencel.
- insoles
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noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- Elohist
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noun,
a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.
- teleost
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noun,
Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.
- listens
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- spittle
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noun,
saliva; spit.
- phenols
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noun,
Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- Stephen
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noun,
Saint, died a.d. c35, first Christian martyr.
- 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.
- hotline
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noun,
hot line.
- petites
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- sheitel
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noun,
a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- pestles
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noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- hostile
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noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- hostels
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noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- settles
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noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- litotes
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noun,
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
- splints
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noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- spleno-
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- slip-on
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noun,
something made this way, especially an article of clothing.
- hoplite
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noun,
a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- septets
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noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- peonies
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noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- spleens
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noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- pettles
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verb (used with object),
to fondle; pet.
- neolith
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noun,
a Neolithic stone implement.
- tonsils
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noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- Stilton
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- pettish
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adjective,
petulantly peevish:
- seleno-
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- Stetson
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- topline
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adjective,
so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like:
- seniles
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noun,
a senile person.
- stetho-
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- Steptoe
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noun,
an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- stepson
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noun,
a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- topless
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adjective,
lacking a top:
- insteps
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noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- petiole
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noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- Elspeth
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noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- theines
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noun,
caffeine, especially in tea.
- pistole
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- osselet
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noun,
a hard nodule on the leg of a horse, especially one on the inner side of the knee or the outer side of the fetlock.
- entitle
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verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- onliest
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Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- Siphnos
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noun,
a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- ensiles
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verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- plenish
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verb (used with object),
to fill up; stock; furnish.
- Thespis
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noun,
flourished 6th century b.c, Greek poet.
- phonies
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noun,
something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- Heloise
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noun,
1101?–64, French abbess: pupil of and secretly married to Pierre Abélard.
Compare Abélard.
- ethions
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noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- sphenes
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noun,
a mineral, calcium titanium silicate, CaTiSiO 5 , occurring as an accessory mineral in a variety of crystalline rocks, usually in small wedge-shaped crystals.
- ethiops
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adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- plinths
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noun,
a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.
- Leotine
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noun,
a female given name.
- lesions
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noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- spheno-
-
- Epsilon
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noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- pintles
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noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- Epistle
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noun,
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- pinhole
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noun,
a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- epithet
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noun,
any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality:
- isohels
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noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- piolets
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noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- entoils
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verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- ophites
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noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- Epstein
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noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- Sophist
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) Greek History.
any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- Thistle
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noun,
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- leptons
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noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- siphons
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noun,
a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- sottish
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adjective,
stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
- ethnol.
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- pontils
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noun,
punty.
- Ploesti
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noun,
a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- eoliths
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noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- Peneios
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noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- spilths
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noun,
spillage (def 1).
- shtetls
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noun,
(formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
- pelites
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noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- tensile
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adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- silents
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noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- tin-pot
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adjective,
inferior; paltry; shoddy.
- enisles
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verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- pelisse
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noun,
an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- sonship
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noun,
the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
- enlists
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verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- poesies
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noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- philos.
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- etoiles
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noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- Shelton
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noun,
a city in SW Connecticut.
- pointel
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noun,
a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- testons
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noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- poetess
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noun,
a woman who writes poetry.
- pointes
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noun,
the tip of the toe.
- Lettish
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noun,
Latvian (def 3).
- listen
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- litten
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adjective,
lighted1 .
- shiest
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noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- silent
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noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- shiels
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noun,
shieling.
- Lipton
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noun,
Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- lithos
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noun,
lithography.
- sheols
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noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- Shensi
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noun,
Older Spelling. Shaanxi.
- shotts
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noun,
chott.
- sleeps
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noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- Sholes
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noun,
Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
- shtetl
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noun,
(formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
- sleets
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noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- Lepton
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noun,
an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- litho.
-
- lionet
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noun,
a young or small lion.
- slipes
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noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- sitten
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verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- lesson
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noun,
a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject:
- lessen
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verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- siphon
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noun,
a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- shotes
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noun,
shoat (def 1).
- shines
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noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- Lettie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Laetitia.
- lepto-
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- leones
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noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- lesion
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noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- sliest
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adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- Silone
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noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- shleps
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noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- Shinto
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noun,
Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- lethes
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- posies
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noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- Sheets
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noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- Piston
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noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- pishes
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noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- opsins
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noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- pistes
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noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- opines
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verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- pistol
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noun,
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- Ophite
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- pithos
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noun,
a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- pintos
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noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- pitons
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noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- pleio-
-
- oleins
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noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- plinth
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noun,
a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.
- plisse
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noun,
a textile finish characterized by a puckered or blistered effect, produced by chemical treatment.
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- piolet
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pintle
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noun,
a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- poises
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noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- philo-
-
- Petite
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noun,
a category of clothing sized for women or girls of less than average height and with average or diminutive figures.
- pestle
-
noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- pettle
-
verb (used with object),
to fondle; pet.
- pheno-
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- pensil
-
noun,
pencel.
- phenol
-
noun,
Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- pelite
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noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- Pelion
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- phonet
-
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- pilots
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- Pilsen
-
noun,
German name of Plzeň.
- Pinole
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- sheens
-
noun,
luster; brightness; radiance.
- septi-
-
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Neisse
-
noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- selen-
-
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- septet
-
noun,
any group of seven persons or things.
- sestet
-
noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Lottie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- Settle
-
noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- ptosis
-
noun,
a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- pottle
-
noun,
a former liquid measure equal to two quarts.
- noshes
-
noun,
a snack.
- no-hit
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team:
- Polish
-
noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- polit.
-
- polite
-
adjective,
showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil:
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- pontil
-
noun,
punty.
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- Nettle
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- sloths
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- posits
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- posset
-
noun,
a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- possie
-
noun,
a job; position.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- potent
-
noun,
a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- slopes
-
- phones
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- sneesh
-
noun,
snuff1 (def 9).
- steno-
-
- espies
-
noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- Thess.
-
- Thetis
-
noun,
a Nereid, the wife of Peleus and the mother of Achilles.
- stints
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- holies
-
noun,
a place of worship; sacred place; sanctuary.
- stilts
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- holpen
-
verb,
a past participle of help.
- thiols
-
- tholes
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- honest
-
adjective,
honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair:
- Hoples
-
noun,
a son of Ion.
- tilths
-
noun,
the act or operation of tilling land; tillage.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- Hosein
-
noun,
Hussein (def 1).
- hosels
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- hoists
-
- Hotien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- spoilt
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- steels
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- tiptoe
-
noun,
the tip or end of a toe.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- hottie
-
noun,
a sexually attractive person.
- steeps
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- steles
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- hostel
-
noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- eosins
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- stipel
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- hoises
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- splosh
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
splash.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- ethnos
-
noun,
an ethnic group.
- tenets
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- helots
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- Helios
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens; identified by the Romans with Sol.
- helio-
-
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- Ethiop
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- heists
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- tenths
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- tentie
-
adjective,
tenty.
- testis
-
noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- testes
-
noun,
plural of testis.
- ethno-
-
- ethion
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- stipes
-
noun,
Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- thesis
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- stipos
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- theses
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- histo-
-
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- Stopes
-
noun,
Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.
- teleph
-
- theol.
-
- Hilton
-
noun,
Conrad (Nicholson) 1887–1979, U.S. hotel owner and developer.
- estops
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- theine
-
noun,
caffeine, especially in tea.
- ethine
-
noun,
acetylene.
- teleo-
-
- spoils
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- eolith
-
noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- splint
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- titles
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- spiles
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- spiels
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- sphene
-
noun,
a mineral, calcium titanium silicate, CaTiSiO 5 , occurring as an accessory mineral in a variety of crystalline rocks, usually in small wedge-shaped crystals.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- toilet
-
noun,
a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- spelts
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- speels
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sothis
-
noun,
the name for the star Sirius, the Dog Star, given by the ancient Egyptians.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- isohel
-
noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- Sophie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tonlet
-
noun,
a skirt of plates.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- istles
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- Tophet
-
noun,
a place in the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where, contrary to the law, children were offered as sacrifices, especially to Moloch. It was later used as a dumping ground for refuse.
- toshes
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- snipes
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- T-stop
-
noun,
a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- spilth
-
noun,
spillage (def 1).
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- spites
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- tithes
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- spleen
-
noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- spines
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- Tissot
-
noun,
James Joseph Jacques [zham zhaw-zef zhahk,, zheymz] /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk,, ʒeɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1836–1902, French painter.
- splen-
-
- spinel
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- spline
-
noun,
a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- phot.
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- Petit
-
adjective,
small; petty; minor.
- Pinel
-
noun,
Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- pleo-
-
- toti-
-
- Phene
-
noun,
any characteristic of an individual organism that is genetically determined.
- pleon
-
noun,
the abdomen of a crustacean.
- phons
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the apparent loudness of a sound, equal in number for a given sound to the intensity in decibels of a sound having a frequency of 1000 cycles per second when, in the judgment of a group of listeners, the two sounds are of equal loudness.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- phots
-
noun,
a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- poet.
-
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- plio-
-
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- petti
-
noun,
petticoat (def 1).
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- pilot
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- teths
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- piths
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- thens
-
noun,
that time:
- thine
-
pronoun,
the possessive case of thou1. used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
- title
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- tilts
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- those
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- thole
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- thio-
-
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- thins
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- phile
-
- theo-
-
- phon.
-
- pilon
-
noun,
something extra; lagniappe.
- pheon
-
noun,
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- phone
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- tithe
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- these
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- Theos
-
- tilth
-
noun,
the act or operation of tilling land; tillage.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- Phil.
-
- posts
-
noun,
a strong piece of timber, metal, or the like, set upright as a support, a point of attachment, a place for displaying notices, etc.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- shone
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spies
-
- silts
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- silos
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- shpt.
-
- shott
-
noun,
chott.
- shote
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- spins
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- sinhs
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- shoes
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spits
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- shlep
-
noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- shits
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- shins
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- shine
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- shies
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- shiel
-
noun,
shieling.
- Sheol
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Sino-
-
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- slosh
-
noun,
watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
- slops
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- snips
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- soils
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- slept
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sipes
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- Sophi
-
noun,
Sophy.
- sito-
-
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- sophs
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- spelt
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- speos
-
noun,
a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- stops
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- stopt
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- sloth
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- post-
-
- teeth
-
noun,
plural of tooth.
- tele-
-
- posse
-
noun,
posse comitatus.
- poss.
-
- poses
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- telo-
-
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- teno-
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- tenth
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- 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.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- sheet
-
noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sheep
-
noun,
any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- Sheen
-
noun,
luster; brightness; radiance.
- setts
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- seti-
-
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- septs
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- step-
-
- Sept.
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- stilt
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seeps
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- hosel
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Esth.
-
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- hist.
-
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- insep
-
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- opsis
-
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- hents
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- holes
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- Leith
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Epist
-
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insol
-
- helps
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Helot
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- heli-
-
- Helen
-
noun,
Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- heist
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- Isth.
-
- Heine
-
noun,
Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1797–1856, German lyric and satiric poet, journalist, and critic.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- heels
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Hines
-
noun,
Earl ("Fatha") 1905–83, U.S. jazz pianist.
- hosp.
-
- Henie
-
noun,
Sonja, 1912–69, U.S. figure-skater and film actress, born in Norway.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- inst.
-
- Lotte
-
noun,
angler (def 3).
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- insp.
-
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- ethos
-
noun,
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period:
- Ethel
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- hints
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- oste-
-
- Epis.
-
- hsien
-
noun,
(in popular Chinese religion) one of a group of benevolent spirits promoting good in the world.
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- pelts
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- Lethe
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- lipo-
-
- pene-
-
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- hopes
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- Hopis
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- hests
-
noun,
behest.
- Letts
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- pesos
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- hotel
-
noun,
a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- hosts
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- 30-30
-
- 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.
- pests
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Hesse
-
noun,
Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Neth.
-
- Othin
-
noun,
Odin.
- Ephes
-
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- Holst
-
noun,
Gustav Theodore [goo s-tahv] /ˈgʊs tɑv/ (Show IPA), 1874–1934, English composer.
- lithe
-
adjective,
bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible:
- Lith.
-
- ento-
-
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- holts
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- ileo-
-
- hones
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- intl
-
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- ile-
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- Ste.
-
- hots
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- SIPS
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- sith
-
adverb, conjunction, preposition,
since.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- sinh
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- Lett
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- soln
-
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- isls
-
- iso-
-
- sops
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- ISSN
-
- Soph
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- Soni
-
- 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.
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- itol
-
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- Sol.
-
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- 1080
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- Pet.
-
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- thi-
-
- Host
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Eph.
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- epi-
-
- tilt
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- epit
-
- this
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- Ens.
-
- ESIS
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- Thin
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- then
-
noun,
that time:
- tion
-
- Tit.
-
- thee
-
pronoun,
the objective case of thou1 :
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Tshi
-
noun,
Twi.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tosh
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- elhi
-
adjective,
elementary and high-school:
- top-
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- enl.
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Eth.
-
- the-
-
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- Hole
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- hins
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- hint
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Hiss
-
noun,
a hissing sound, especially one made in disapproval.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- hol-
-
- Holi
-
noun,
the Hindu spring festival.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- holp
-
verb,
a simple past tense of help.
- hols
-
plural noun,
Sometimes, hol. British Informal. holiday (def 5).
- Holt
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- Hons
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- hops
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- Hos.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- hilt
-
noun,
the handle of a sword or dagger.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- Heep
-
noun,
Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- teth
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- eths
-
noun,
a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- ette
-
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- heel
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- help
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- ten.
-
- hent
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- Hess
-
noun,
Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
- hest
-
noun,
behest.
- HETP
-
noun,
a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- hets
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- Hilo
-
noun,
a seaport on E Hawaii island, in SE Hawaii.
- tel-
-
- lin.
-
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- Pish
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- piss
-
noun,
urine.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- pith
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- Ont.
-
- Neph
-
- neo-
-
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- pil-
-
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sepn
-
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- osis
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Neh.
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Pitt
-
noun,
William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- pos.
-
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- posh
-
adjective,
sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- not-
-
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- nosh
-
noun,
a snack.
- 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-
-
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Pol.
-
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- pts.
-
- 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.
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- psis
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- ole-
-
- plot
-
noun,
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- PLSS
-
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- pot.
-
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- loth
-
adjective,
loath.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- pehs
-
noun,
pe.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- shoe
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- phis
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- lit.
-
- pelt
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- ship
-
noun,
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Pen.
-
- shit
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- shee
-
noun,
sídh.
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- Shin
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- lip-
-
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- shot
-
noun,
a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shop
-
noun,
a retail store, especially a small one.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- Seth
-
noun,
the third son of Adam. Gen. 4:25.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- eo-
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- ETS
-
- OIt
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- PLO
-
- tlo
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- TPI
-
- TSS
-
- TSP
-
- TSI
-
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- TSH
-
- TSE
-
- TPN
-
- tph
-
- Hel
-
noun,
the goddess ruling Niflheim: a daughter of Loki and Angerboda.
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- Npt
-
- Nth
-
Idioms,
the nth degree / power,
a high degree or power.
the utmost degree or extent:
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- op.
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- ons
-
- pli
-
- PHS
-
- OSS
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- OTS
-
- Ep.
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- EOE
-
- Ps.
-
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- en-
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TNT
-
- ene
-
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- 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.
- ETO
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- EEO
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- th-
-
- pl.
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- EIS
-
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- PIO
-
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ESL
-
- ose
-
- ese
-
- EPT
-
- PhL
-
- EPS
-
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- OSP
-
- hit
-
noun,
an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
- NOP
-
- IPO
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- LTh
-
- ist
-
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- ne-
-
- 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.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- Isl
-
- ish
-
- ise
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- IPS
-
- iph
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- INH
-
- NES
-
- ine
-
- in.
-
- ILS
-
- ILP
-
- LST
-
- ite
-
- il-
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- sht
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- shp
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Les
-
- lep
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- sho
-
- SLE
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LSS
-
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- LON
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- SLP
-
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- Lt.
-
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- LPN
-
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LSI
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- ILO
-
- IOT
-
- IHS
-
- NIH
-
- PSS
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PSE
-
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- 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:
- IHP
-
- NHL
-
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- STI
-
- NHS
-
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- PTT
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Hoe
-
noun,
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- STL
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- HIS
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- hip
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- STP
-
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- NHI
-
- TTS
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ht.
-
- HST
-
- se-
-
- SSN
-
- St.
-
- ss.
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
-
- spt
-
- SPS
-
- Hts
-
- SST
-
- io-
-
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- ln
-
- PH
-
- EI
-
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- ee
-
- O.
-
- HL
-
- NL
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- TP
-
- t.
-
- i.
-
- T1
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TT
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- S.
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- TN
-
- SL
-
- NP
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- NI
-
- N.
-
- h.
-
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- ol
-
- TL
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- HP
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- NH
-
- IP
-
- L.
-
- LH
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- L1
-
- L2
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- le
-
- SN
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