Anagrams of tragicomedies
Word tragicomedies has
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- dime-store
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noun,
five-and-ten (def 1).
- acidimeter
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noun,
an instrument for measuring the amount of acid in a solution.
- miscreated
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adjective,
badly or wrongly created; misshapen; monstrous.
- germicides
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noun,
an agent for killing germs or microorganisms.
- iridectome
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noun,
a slender cutting instrument used in performing an iridectomy.
- mediacies
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noun,
the state of being mediate.
- matricide
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noun,
the act of killing one's mother.
- imageries
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noun,
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:
- eroticism
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noun,
the sexual or erotic quality or character of something.
- tragedies
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noun,
a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster:
- geometrid
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noun,
a geometrid moth.
- digastric
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noun,
a muscle of the lower jaw, the action of which assists in lowering the jaw.
- Masoretic
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adjective,
of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- medicares
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.
Compare Medicaid.
- medicates
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verb (used with object),
to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- dietaries
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noun,
a regulated allowance of food.
- mediocris
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adjective,
(of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- esoterica
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plural noun,
things understood by or meant for a select few; recondite matters or items.
- mediators
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noun,
a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- emigrates
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- raticides
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noun,
a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- dogmatics
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noun,
the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- ectoderms
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- timecards
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noun,
a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- edacities
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noun,
the state of being edacious; voraciousness; appetite.
- dosimeter
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noun,
a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- osmeteria
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noun,
a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- isogamete
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noun,
one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- isometric
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noun,
isometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
- discreate
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verb (used with object),
to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- orgiastic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or having the nature of an orgy.
- asiderite
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noun,
an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- semeiotic
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adjective,
semiotic.
- geometric
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adjective,
of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- ameristic
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adjective,
not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- derogates
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adjective,
Archaic. debased.
- mesorecta
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noun,
the mesentery of the rectum.
- armistice
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noun,
a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce:
- Demetrias
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noun,
an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- regicides
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noun,
the killing of a king.
- miscreate
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adjective,
miscreated.
- moderates
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noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- dacoities
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noun,
(in India and Burma) gang robbery; robbery by dacoits.
- decorates
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verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- germicide
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noun,
an agent for killing germs or microorganisms.
- decimates
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verb (used with object),
to destroy a great number or proportion of:
- decigrams
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noun,
a unit of mass or weight equal to 1/10 (0.1) gram (1.543 grains). Abbreviation: dg.
- gasometer
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noun,
an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- comrades
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noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- emigrate
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- ragtimes
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noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- decorate
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verb (used with object),
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish:
- ceratoid
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adjective,
hornlike; horny.
- Oresteia
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noun,
a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- comities
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noun,
mutual courtesy; civility.
- cordages
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noun,
fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
- raticide
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noun,
a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- semiarid
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adjective,
characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm):
- trisomic
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adjective,
having one chromosome in addition to the usual diploid number.
- cordites
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noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- asteroid
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noun,
Also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter.
- disgrace
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noun,
the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame:
- maitrise
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noun,
mastery; skill.
- discrete
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adjective,
apart or detached from others; separate; distinct:
- discreet
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adjective,
judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- disagree
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verb (used without object),
to fail to agree; differ:
- semiotic
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noun,
semiotics.
- regicide
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noun,
the killing of a king.
- ceramist
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noun,
a person who makes ceramics.
- grimaces
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noun,
a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- corteges
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noun,
a procession, especially a ceremonial one:
- Docetism
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noun,
an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- dogcarts
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noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle for ordinary driving, with two transverse seats back to back, and originally having a box under the rear seat for carrying a dog.
- comedist
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noun,
a writer of comedies.
- deciares
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noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- scimitar
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noun,
a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- idocrase
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noun,
vesuvianite.
- racemose
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adjective,
Botany.
having the form of a raceme.
arranged in racemes.
- ectoderm
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noun,
the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- Aristide
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noun,
Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- moderate
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noun,
a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
- geodetic
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adjective,
pertaining to geodesy.
- seadrome
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noun,
a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- geodesic
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noun,
geodesic line.
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- ideogram
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noun,
a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- iotacism
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noun,
the conversion of other vowel sounds, especially in Modern Greek, into (ē), the sound of iota.
- timecard
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noun,
a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- sterigma
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noun,
a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- comedies
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noun,
a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- do-re-mi
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noun,
money.
- Iscariot
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noun,
the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- origamis
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noun,
the traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers.
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- aoristic
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adjective,
Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- domestic
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noun,
a hired household servant.
- dog-star
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noun,
the bright star Sirius, in Canis Major.
- decigram
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noun,
a unit of mass or weight equal to 1/10 (0.1) gram (1.543 grains). Abbreviation: dg.
- egoistic
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adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- dogmatic
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adjective,
relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal:
- isomeric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- decimate
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verb (used with object),
to destroy a great number or proportion of:
- Rosemead
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- emirates
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- airtimes
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noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- diorites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- meristic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- acrotism
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noun,
absence or weakness of the pulse.
- sericate
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adjective,
sericeous; silky.
- Masorete
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noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- megadose
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noun,
a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.
- die-cast
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adjective,
formed by die casting.
- esoteric
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adjective,
understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
- sericite
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noun,
a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- aegirite
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noun,
a mineral, mainly sodium-ferric iron silicate, NaFe⋅(Si 2 O 6), occurring in feldspathoid rocks in slender prismatic crystals.
- diatreme
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noun,
a volcanic vent produced in a solid rock structure by the explosive energy of gases in magmas.
- cremates
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- casimere
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noun,
cassimere.
- diatomic
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adjective,
having two atoms in the molecule.
- gaieties
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noun,
the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
- seriatim
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adverb, adjective,
in a series; one after another.
- Gaiseric
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noun,
Genseric.
- carotids
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noun,
Also called carotid artery. either of the two large arteries, one on each side of the head, that carry blood to the head and that divide into an external branch supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts.
- diameter
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noun,
Geometry.
a straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere and meeting the circumference or surface at each end.
a straight line passing from side to side of any figure or body, through its center.
- demerits
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noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- meteoric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- derogate
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adjective,
Archaic. debased.
- dermato-
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- gamester
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noun,
a gambler.
- demotics
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noun,
demotic script.
- mortices
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- Democrat
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noun,
an advocate of democracy.
- Mordecai
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noun,
the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- demi-sec
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adjective,
(of wines) semidry; sweeter than sec but drier than doux.
- mediocre
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adjective,
of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate:
Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill.
Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- escargot
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noun,
an edible snail.
- medicate
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verb (used with object),
to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- migrates
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verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- agrestic
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adjective,
rural; rustic.
- matrices
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noun,
something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops:
- moieties
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noun,
a half.
- ergotism
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noun,
a condition caused by eating rye or some other grain that is infected with ergot fungus or by taking an overdose of a medicine containing ergot, characterized by cramps, spasms, and a form of gangrene.
- digestor
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noun,
digester (def 2).
- redcoats
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noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- digester
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noun,
a person or thing that digests.
- dimeters
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noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- digamies
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noun,
a second marriage, after the death or divorce of the first husband or wife; deuterogamy.
Compare monogamy (def 3).
- carditis
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noun,
inflammation of the pericardium, myocardium, or endocardium, separately or in combination.
- Medicare
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.
Compare Medicaid.
- mediates
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adjective,
acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.
- mediator
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noun,
a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- siderite
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noun,
Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.
- ergates
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noun,
a worker ant.
- cimaise
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noun,
cymaise.
- sarcoid
-
noun,
a growth resembling a sarcoma.
- Reigate
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noun,
a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.
- ecartes
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noun,
a card game for two players.
- emirate
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- garotes
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noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- cargoes
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noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- carotid
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noun,
Also called carotid artery. either of the two large arteries, one on each side of the head, that carry blood to the head and that divide into an external branch supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts.
- roseate
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adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- ergodic
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adjective,
of or relating to the condition that, in an interval of sufficient duration, a system will return to states that are closely similar to previous ones: the assumption of such a condition underlies statistical methods used in modern dynamics and atomic theory.
- remotes
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- gametes
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noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- gameto-
-
- gearset
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noun,
a combination of gears that mesh to provide a particular gear ratio.
- emigres
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noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- sarcode
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noun,
protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- cerated
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adjective,
covered with wax.
- gastric
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adjective,
pertaining to the stomach.
- erotics
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noun,
an erotic poem.
- emetics
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- Emerita
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noun,
a woman with such status.
- eidetic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail.
- cerato-
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- cerates
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noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- cermets
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noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- egotism
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noun,
excessive and objectionable reference to oneself in conversation or writing; conceit; boastfulness.
- gaiters
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noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- dearies
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noun,
darling.
- cardio-
-
- estrade
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noun,
a slightly raised platform in a room or hall.
- cestode
-
noun,
a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.
- gastro-
-
- erotica
-
noun,
written works, usually fiction, dealing with sexual love.
- cestoid
-
noun,
cestode.
- Edomite
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noun,
a descendant of Esau or Edom. Num. 20:14–21.
- eristic
-
noun,
a person who engages in disputation; controversialist.
- coaster
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noun,
a person or thing that coasts.
- storied
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noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- diaster
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noun,
the stage in mitosis at which the chromosomes, after their division and separation, are grouped near the poles of the spindle.
- Demotic
-
noun,
demotic script.
- dereism
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noun,
autism.
- dermat-
-
- diaries
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noun,
a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
- diarist
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noun,
a person who keeps a diary.
- diastem
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noun,
a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diatoms
-
noun,
any of numerous microscopic, unicellular, marine or freshwater algae of the phylum Chrysophyta, having cell walls containing silica.
- soredia
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noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- cremate
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verb (used with object),
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- seriema
-
noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- credits
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- creates
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- diester
-
noun,
an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- Craigie
-
noun,
Sir William (Alexander) 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer and philologist.
- seriate
-
adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- demotes
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- somatic
-
adjective,
of the body; bodily; physical.
- dimeter
-
noun,
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- degames
-
noun,
lemonwood.
- simitar
-
noun,
scimitar.
- decares
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- deceits
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- deciare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to one-tenth of an are, or 10 square meters: equivalent to 11.96 square yards.
- sigmate
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adjective,
having the form of the Greek sigma or the letter S.
- decries
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- sidero-
-
- dairies
-
noun,
an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
- demerit
-
noun,
a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency:
- degerms
-
verb (used with object),
to rid of germs.
- sidecar
-
noun,
a small car attached on one side to a motorcycle and supported on the other side by a wheel of its own, used for a passenger, parcels, etc.
- deicers
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- dacoits
-
noun,
(in India and Burma) a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.
- deities
-
noun,
a god or goddess.
- socager
-
noun,
a tenant holding land by socage; sokeman.
- sidearm
-
adverb,
with a swinging motion of the arm moving to the side of the body at shoulder level or below and nearly parallel to the ground:
- coterie
-
noun,
a group of people who associate closely.
- costard
-
noun,
a large English variety of apple.
- storage
-
noun,
the act of storing; state or fact of being stored:
- steroid
-
noun,
any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- dogcart
-
noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle for ordinary driving, with two transverse seats back to back, and originally having a box under the rear seat for carrying a dog.
- sedarim
-
noun,
a plural of Seder.
- dog-ear
-
noun,
(in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- comates
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- stereo-
-
- coesite
-
noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- coedits
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- codgers
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- comitia
-
noun,
an assembly of the people convened to pass on laws, nominate magistrates, etc.
- dormice
-
noun,
any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- Seagirt
-
noun,
surrounded by the sea.
- sea-dog
-
noun,
a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
- dotages
-
noun,
a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
- coatees
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- dragees
-
noun,
a sugarcoated nut or candy.
- drastic
-
adjective,
acting with force or violence; violent.
- Docetae
-
plural noun,
early Christian adherents of Docetism.
- comrade
-
noun,
a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.
- diocese
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- coremia
-
noun,
the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- diorite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- stardom
-
noun,
the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- Semitic
-
noun,
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- directs
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- cortege
-
noun,
a procession, especially a ceremonial one:
- dirties
-
Idioms,
do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
- corsage
-
noun,
a small bouquet worn at the waist, on the shoulder, on the wrist, etc., by a woman.
- disrate
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- stearo-
-
- cordite
-
noun,
a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
- cordate
-
adjective,
heart-shaped:
- cordage
-
noun,
fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
- steamed
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- stearic
-
adjective,
of or relating to suet or fat.
- sematic
-
adjective,
serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- Ditmars
-
noun,
Raymond Lee, 1876–1942, U.S. zoologist and author.
- sigmoid
-
adjective,
shaped like the letter C.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- astride
-
preposition,
with a leg on each side of; straddling:
- ragtime
-
noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- tierces
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- tierced
-
adjective,
(of an escutcheon) divided vertically or horizontally into three equal parts.
- admires
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- airtime
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- iodates
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- grimace
-
noun,
a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- tirades
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- racemes
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- astroid
-
noun,
a hypocycloid with four cusps.
- oersted
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strength when undergoing a force of one dyne in a vacuum. Abbreviation: Oe.
- imagoes
-
noun,
Entomology. an adult insect.
- mortice
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- osmatic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the sense of smell.
- Grecism
-
noun,
the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- Isadore
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- midairs
-
noun,
any point in the air not contiguous with the earth or other solid surface:
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- iatrics
-
- Mideast
-
noun,
Middle East.
- ideates
-
noun,
ideatum.
- ocreate
-
adjective,
having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed.
- tragics
-
noun,
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.:
- mastoid
-
noun,
the mastoid process.
- mediate
-
adjective,
acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.
- medico-
-
- radices
-
noun,
a plural of radix.
- medicos
-
noun,
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
- ARTEMIS
-
noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- triacid
-
adjective,
capable of combining with three molecules of a monobasic acid:
- metages
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- Megaris
-
noun,
a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- Mercado
-
noun,
a market.
- Mercast
-
noun,
a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- torsade
-
noun,
a twisted cord.
- mercies
-
noun,
compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
- imarets
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- aristo-
-
- radomes
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- triages
-
noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- teredos
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- mortise
-
noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- Geordie
-
noun,
a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- redcoat
-
noun,
(especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- Amorite
-
noun,
a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
- amorist
-
noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- recites
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- go-cart
-
noun,
a small carriage for young children to ride in; stroller.
- atomics
-
noun,
the branch of physics that deals with atoms, especially atomic energy.
- miscite
-
verb (used with or without object),
to misquote.
- acerose
-
adjective,
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
- miscode
-
verb (used with object),
to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- redacts
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- triodes
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- amosite
-
noun,
an asbestine variety of anthophyllite, rich in iron, formerly used as a heat-resistant material.
- misdate
-
noun,
a wrong date.
- amities
-
noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- trisome
-
noun,
a trisomic individual.
- misread
-
verb (used with or without object),
to read wrongly.
- gisarme
-
noun,
guisarme.
- modiste
-
noun,
Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- mitered
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- orgeats
-
noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- tsardom
-
noun,
czardom.
- mirages
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- amerces
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- Graeco-
-
- origami
-
noun,
the traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers.
- atomies
-
noun,
an atom; mote.
- miotics
-
noun,
a miotic drug.
- midgets
-
noun,
(not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
- goiters
-
noun,
an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- readies
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- migrate
-
verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- toadies
-
noun,
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- isogram
-
noun,
a line representing equality with respect to a given variable, used to relate points on maps, charts, etc.
- Isidora
-
noun,
a female given name.
- magots
-
noun,
Barbary ape.
- distr.
-
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- macro-
-
- Mastic
-
noun,
Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- omegas
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- magics
-
noun,
the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring:
- macers
-
noun,
macebearer.
- masto-
-
- Maceio
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Alagoas, in E Brazil.
- Maced.
-
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matri-
-
- maigre
-
adjective,
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- Marcie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marcia.
- MAeroE
-
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- madres
-
noun,
mother1 .
- disarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- disco-
-
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- oedema
-
noun,
edema.
- dirigo
-
- Madero
-
noun,
Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- diotic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or affecting both ears; binaural.
- Margie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Margot
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Marist
-
noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- Maisie
-
noun,
a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- direct
-
adverb,
in a direct manner; directly; straight:
- Marcos
-
noun,
Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- octads
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- Mascot
-
noun,
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- geoids
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- deicer
-
noun,
a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- demits
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- micro-
-
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- micros
-
noun,
anything extremely small in scope or capability.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- midair
-
noun,
any point in the air not contiguous with the earth or other solid surface:
- midges
-
noun,
any of numerous minute dipterous insects, especially of the family Chironomidae, somewhat resembling a mosquito.
Compare gnat (def 1).
- midget
-
noun,
(not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- deices
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- miotic
-
noun,
a miotic drug.
- mirage
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- Mosaic
-
noun,
a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- degerm
-
verb (used with object),
to rid of germs.
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- degame
-
noun,
lemonwood.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- decors
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- decime
-
noun,
a former copper or bronze coin of France issued from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, the 10th part of a franc, equal in value to 10 centimes.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- modest
-
adjective,
having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- deceit
-
noun,
the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- decare
-
noun,
a unit of surface measure equal to 10 ares, or 1000 square meters: equivalent to 0.2471 acre.
- demote
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote):
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- digram
-
noun,
a sequence of two adjacent letters or symbols.
- Merida
-
noun,
suntan (def 2).
- meager
-
adjective,
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
- mecate
-
noun,
Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- Digest
-
noun,
a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, especially when classified or condensed.
- medias
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- Medici
-
noun,
Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- Medit.
-
- dicots
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- Merced
-
noun,
a city in central California.
- dicast
-
noun,
(in ancient Athens) a citizen eligible to sit as a judge.
- Mercia
-
noun,
an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- merges
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- metro-
-
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- metage
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- deters
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- desert
-
noun,
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- dermo-
-
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- dermic
-
adjective,
dermal.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- dermas
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- metric
-
noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- diatom
-
noun,
any of numerous microscopic, unicellular, marine or freshwater algae of the phylum Chrysophyta, having cell walls containing silica.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- rosace
-
noun,
rosette (def 3).
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- re-act
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- grease
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- Greats
-
- erotic
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- ericas
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- Romaic
-
noun,
demotic (def 5).
- ergots
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- Greco-
-
- greeds
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- ergate
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- greets
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- grides
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- Grimes
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- groats
-
noun,
hulled grain, as wheat or oats, broken into fragments.
- emigre
-
noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- emetic
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- iatric
-
adjective,
of or relating to a physician or medicine; medical.
- iatro-
-
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- egrets
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- gratis
-
adverb,
without charge or payment; free:
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- egoist
-
noun,
a self-centered or selfish person (opposed to altruist).
- redact
-
verb (used with object),
to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- Gerome
-
noun,
Jean Léon [zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1824–1904, French painter and sculptor.
- geodes
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- gemots
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- regime
-
noun,
a mode or system of rule or government:
- gestic
-
adjective,
pertaining to bodily motions, especially in dancing.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- gators
-
noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- rectos
-
- etrogs
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- recti-
-
- goatee
-
noun,
a man's beard trimmed to a tuft or point on the chin.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- garote
-
noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- gamete
-
noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- gamet-
-
- goiter
-
noun,
an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- Graces
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- gaiter
-
noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- gaited
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- grades
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- Gadite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Gad.
- Raetic
-
noun,
an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- egoism
-
noun,
the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; selfishness (opposed to altruism).
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- irido-
-
- screed
-
noun,
a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- dragee
-
noun,
a sugarcoated nut or candy.
- scrota
-
noun,
the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- imides
-
noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- seadog
-
noun,
fogbow.
- dotage
-
noun,
a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
- raceme
-
noun,
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- iodate
-
noun,
Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- iodism
-
noun,
poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds.
- dosage
-
noun,
the administration of medicine in doses.
- dorsi-
-
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- irides
-
noun,
a plural of iris.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- dreamt
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- Dorcas
-
noun,
a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for the poor. Acts 9:36–41.
- Isidor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Dorati
-
noun,
Antal [ahn-tahl;; Hungarian on-tol] /ˈɑn tɑl;; Hungarian ˈɒn tɒl/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Hungarian conductor, in the U.S.
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- isotac
-
noun,
a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- orgies
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- sedate
-
adjective,
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- orgeat
-
noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- orgasm
-
noun,
the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- doater
-
noun,
doter.
- Dreams
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- scream
-
noun,
a loud, sharp, piercing cry:
- radome
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- racist
-
noun,
a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- sacred
-
adjective,
devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sacro-
-
- Egesta
-
noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- ideate
-
noun,
ideatum.
- editor
-
noun,
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- edgers
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- sarco-
-
- edemas
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- radio-
-
- idioms
-
noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- ecrase
-
adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- driest
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- racism
-
noun,
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- images
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- scato-
-
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- scoria
-
noun,
Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Scotia
-
noun,
a deep concave molding between two fillets, as in the Attic base.
- droits
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- gastr-
-
- griots
-
noun,
a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- Sigrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “victory.”.
- coatis
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- stego-
-
- Tigris
-
noun,
a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150 miles (1850 km) long.
- acmite
-
noun,
a rare pyroxene mineral, sodium-ferric iron silicate, NaFe(Si 2 O 6), found in feldspathoid rocks.
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- coedit
-
verb (used with object),
to edit jointly with another.
- trigos
-
noun,
wheat; field of wheat.
- codger
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- tiered
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- coders
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- tragic
-
noun,
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.:
- Coates
-
noun,
Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
- comdg.
-
- coatee
-
noun,
a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.
- tidies
-
noun,
any of various articles for keeping things tidy, as a box having small drawers and compartments.
- coated
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- stigma
-
noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- Dorset
-
noun,
1st Earl of, Thomas Sackville.
- coarse
-
adjective,
composed of relatively large parts or particles:
- Astrid
-
noun,
a female given name: from Scandinavian, meaning “divine strength.”.
- stodge
-
noun,
food that is particularly filling.
- cities
-
noun,
a large or important town.
- citied
-
adjective,
occupied by a city or cities.
- treads
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- comate
-
noun,
a mate or companion.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- ageism
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- corita
-
noun,
a boat resembling a large, woven basket, used by Indians of the southwestern U.S.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- tirage
-
noun,
the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- COSTAR
-
noun,
a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
- tirade
-
noun,
a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation:
- aceto-
-
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- agreed
-
adjective,
arranged or set by common consent:
- argots
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- Comdr.
-
- Ariege
-
noun,
a department in S France. 1893 sq. mi. (4905 sq. km). Capital: Foix.
- corgis
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- cordis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the heart.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- COMSAT
-
noun,
(often lowercase) a communications satellite.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- Comdt.
-
- astro-
-
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- crates
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Admete
-
noun,
a daughter of Eurystheus for whom Hercules took the golden girdle of Ares from Hippolyte.
- cameos
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- admire
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- camise
-
noun,
a lightweight, loose-fitting shirt or smock with long sleeves.
- Cedars
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- camote
-
noun,
batata.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- cardi-
-
- admits
-
verb (used with object),
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- triacs
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- cairds
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- cargos
-
noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- Castro
-
noun,
Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- Castor
-
noun,
Also, castoreum. a brownish, unctuous substance with a strong, penetrating odor, secreted by certain glands in the groin of the beaver, used in medicine and perfumery.
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- caries
-
noun,
decay, as of bone or of plant tissue.
- caroms
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- adroit
-
adjective,
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- triage
-
noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- triads
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- Taoism
-
noun,
the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- cerat-
-
- atomic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs:
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- teredo
-
noun,
a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- Strega
-
- ciders
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- teiids
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- stride
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- Ciardi
-
noun,
John, 1916–86, U.S. poet.
- strode
-
noun,
a striding manner or a striding gait.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- cadets
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- cadges
-
noun,
a frame on which hawks are carried to the field.
- adeems
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- Tadmor
-
noun,
Biblical name of Palmyra.
- Tagore
-
noun,
Sir Rabindranath [ruh-been-druh-naht] /rəˈbin drəˌnɑt/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, Indian poet: Nobel prize 1913.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- cadres
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- cagers
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- cerias
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- staged
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- tarso-
-
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- triode
-
noun,
a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- somat-
-
- Crista
-
noun,
a crest or ridge.
- sorted
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- Crimea
-
noun,
the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- dacoit
-
noun,
(in India and Burma) a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.
- todies
-
noun,
any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- socage
-
noun,
a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- C-star
-
noun,
carbon star.
- amides
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- darics
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- amices
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- agric.
-
- amido-
-
- credos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- amigos
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- creams
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- crease
-
noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- dagoes
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- create
-
adjective,
Archaic. created.
- trades
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- amidst
-
preposition,
amid.
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- credit
-
noun,
commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
- amerce
-
verb (used with object),
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- cadis
-
noun,
qadi.
- Isiac
-
adjective,
of or relating to Isis or the worship of Isis.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- geom.
-
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- magic
-
noun,
the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring:
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- cages
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- Regt.
-
- mega-
-
- aero-
-
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- MAgEc
-
- cager
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- masc.
-
- MAgEd
-
- girts
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- Msgr.
-
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Teide
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- godet
-
noun,
a triangular piece of fabric, often rounded at the top, inserted in a garment to give fullness.
Compare gore3 (def 1), gusset (def 1).
- oidea
-
- teiid
-
noun,
any of a large group of chiefly tropical New World lizards of the family Teiidae, as the racerunner, caiman lizard, or whiptail, characterized by large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
- oidia
-
noun,
one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Recit
-
- rect.
-
- madre
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Goias
-
noun,
a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- treed
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- tera-
-
- Gomer
-
noun,
an undesirable hospital patient.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Madge
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- goads
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Amer.
-
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- girds
-
noun,
a gibe.
- Medoc
-
noun,
a wine-growing region in Gironde, in SW France.
- giros
-
noun,
autogiro.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- geoid
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- gismo
-
noun,
a gadget or device:
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- triac
-
noun,
a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- cadge
-
noun,
a frame on which hawks are carried to the field.
- gitim
-
noun,
a plural of get.
- Cadet
-
noun,
a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- Cades
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- caids
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- Cameo
-
noun,
a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- gamo-
-
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- marcs
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- gamic
-
adjective,
sexual (def 3).
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- cargo
-
noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- Odets
-
noun,
Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- marg.
-
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- aeri-
-
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- Triad
-
noun,
a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- gaits
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- Maroc
-
noun,
French name of Morocco.
- carom
-
noun,
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- Carme
-
noun,
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- cards
-
noun,
a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder:
- magot
-
noun,
Barbary ape.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- maids
-
noun,
a female servant.
- Meigs
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Meigs.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- ogams
-
noun,
ogham.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- gemot
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- tears
-
- Meges
-
noun,
a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.
- geod.
-
- geode
-
noun,
a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- AMEDS
-
- Caird
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- cames
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- Merca
-
noun,
a city in S Somalia.
- Card.
-
- retd.
-
- GATED
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- gator
-
noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- tomia
-
noun,
the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- camis
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- image
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- idiot
-
noun,
Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- trade
-
noun,
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- idiom
-
noun,
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- togas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- imago
-
noun,
Entomology. an adult insect.
- amigo
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- armed
-
noun,
Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- timid
-
adjective,
lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- imide
-
noun,
a compound derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by acidic groups, characterized by the =NH group.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- idio-
-
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Ascot
-
noun,
a necktie or scarf with broad ends, tied and arranged so that the ends are laid flat, one across the other, sometimes with a pin to secure them.
- matr-
-
- IATSE
-
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- ASDIC
-
noun,
sonar.
- Radom
-
noun,
a city in E Poland.
- radii
-
noun,
a plural of radius.
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- asco-
-
- ASCII
-
noun,
a standard code, consisting of 128 7-bit combinations, for characters stored in a computer or to be transmitted between computers.
- Oreg.
-
- ideo-
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- agro-
-
- imido
-
adjective,
containing the imido group.
- tiger
-
noun,
a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several subspecies from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some subspecies thought to be extinct.
- irids
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- irid-
-
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- orig.
-
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- areo-
-
- McRae
-
noun,
Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- OSCAR
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter O.
- tired
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Meade
-
noun,
George Gordon, 1815–72, Union general in the American Civil War.
- imit.
-
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- istic
-
- iodic
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the pentavalent state.
- AMORC
-
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- Argos
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis: a powerful rival of Sparta, Athens, and Corinth.
- Meads
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- argot
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- oste-
-
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Tigre
-
noun,
a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- asgmt
-
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- greed
-
noun,
excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- greet
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- maces
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- AMICE
-
noun,
an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- grice
-
noun,
a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
- macer
-
noun,
macebearer.
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- gride
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- amid-
-
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- astr.
-
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- grime
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- gotra
-
noun,
a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Grace
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- grade
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- grads
-
noun,
a graduate.
- term.
-
- mast-
-
- gram.
-
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- treas
-
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- omega
-
noun,
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- atmo-
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- Medic
-
noun,
a member of a military medical corps; corpsman.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- Media
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- octad
-
noun,
a group or series of eight.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- ridge
-
noun,
a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- octa-
-
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Medea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children.
- amide
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Orcas
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- griot
-
noun,
a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- tides
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- tread
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- grist
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- groat
-
noun,
a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- groma
-
noun,
an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- agist
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Grote
-
noun,
George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- grots
-
noun,
a grotto.
- agios
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Tosca
-
noun,
an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- meta-
-
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Stead
-
noun,
the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
- disc.
-
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- corgi
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- cores
-
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- dist.
-
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- cords
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) clothing, especially trousers, of corded fabric; corduroys.
- semi-
-
- dites
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- acids
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- dirts
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- doats
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- digit
-
noun,
a finger or toe.
- Craig
-
noun,
Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
- acet-
-
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- staid
-
noun,
the act of stopping or being stopped.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- dirge
-
noun,
a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- Costa
-
noun,
a rib or riblike part.
- misc.
-
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- Dirac
-
noun,
Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- Comr.
-
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- codes
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- trigo
-
noun,
wheat; field of wheat.
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- dorts
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- codas
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- coeds
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- stge.
-
- Coats
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- dotes
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- scrog
-
noun,
any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
- Drago
-
noun,
Luis María [loo-is muh-ree-uh;; Spanish loo-ees mah-ree-ah] /ˈlu ɪs məˈri ə;; Spanish luˈis mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1921, Argentine jurist and statesman.
- drags
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- Doric
-
noun,
a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- doges
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- trigs
-
noun,
trigonometry.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- sedge
-
noun,
any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places.
Compare sedge family.
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- doest
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- steed
-
noun,
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- dogie
-
noun,
a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- ster.
-
- dogma
-
noun,
an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church. Synonyms: doctrine, teachings, set of beliefs, philosophy.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- COMAS
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- sect.
-
- doits
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- acmes
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- crams
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- drams
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- Degas
-
noun,
Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- siege
-
noun,
the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- dames
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- deets
-
plural noun,
details:
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- dagos
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- deice
-
verb (used with object),
to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- deist
-
noun,
a person who believes in deism.
- daces
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- tsadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- sodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing sodium:
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- Sigma
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- deca-
-
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- datos
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- dates
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- deci-
-
- 30-30
-
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- darts
-
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- daric
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- sito-
-
- decos
-
noun,
art deco.
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- demi-
-
- cream
-
noun,
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- diam.
-
- crim.
-
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- sero-
-
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- stade
-
noun,
a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- creed
-
noun,
any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- dices
-
Idioms,
no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
- dicot
-
noun,
a dicotyledon.
- dict.
-
- dicta
-
noun,
a plural of dictum.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Seric
-
- diets
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- diag.
-
- seti-
-
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- derm-
-
- demit
-
noun,
Also, dimit. (especially in Freemasonry) a written certification of honorable withdrawal or resignation, as from membership.
- trogs
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- demo-
-
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- Troad
-
noun,
The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- miso-
-
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- derma
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- 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.
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- Srta.
-
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- Croat
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Croatia; Croatian.
- crit.
-
- desc.
-
- deter
-
verb (used with object),
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding:
- scrod
-
noun,
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- coati
-
noun,
any tropical American carnivore of the genus Nasua, related to the raccoon, having an elongated body, long, ringed tail, and a slender, flexible snout.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- adits
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Ceram
-
noun,
an island of the Moluccas in Indonesia, W of New Guinea. 7191 sq. mi. (18,625 sq. km).
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- cedis
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- cedes
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- cert.
-
- Egadi
-
noun,
a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- egads
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- drats
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- EGRET
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- cero-
-
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- Adige
-
noun,
a river in N Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic Sea. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- metr-
-
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- Tarde
-
noun,
Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1843–1904, French sociologist.
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- mero-
-
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- meso-
-
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- adret
-
noun,
a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- etrog
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- rigid
-
adjective,
stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard:
- merge
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- ergo-
-
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- ergot
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- tardo
-
adjective,
slow (used as a musical direction).
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- admit
-
verb (used with object),
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- Roget
-
noun,
Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- adeem
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Sadoc
-
noun,
Zadok.
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- tried
-
noun,
an attempt or effort:
- scrag
-
noun,
a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- actg.
-
- Actis
-
noun,
a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- MIDAS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- Actor
-
noun,
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- cigar
-
noun,
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- actos
-
- Midis
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- sargo
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- scat-
-
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- acro-
-
- acrid
-
adjective,
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
- triga
-
noun,
a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- stome
-
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- Midge
-
noun,
any of numerous minute dipterous insects, especially of the family Chironomidae, somewhat resembling a mosquito.
Compare gnat (def 1).
- Scot.
-
- trig.
-
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- droit
-
noun,
a legal right or claim.
- ectad
-
adverb,
outward.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- edits
-
noun,
an instance of or the work of editing:
- drest
-
noun,
an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dregs
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- Cmdr.
-
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- ecto-
-
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- saice
-
noun,
syce.
- Dream
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- coast
-
noun,
the land next to the sea; seashore:
- tacos
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- edit.
-
- micas
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- edger
-
noun,
a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- micra
-
noun,
a plural of micron.
- edema
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- EDGAR
-
noun,
an award given annually in various categories of mystery writing.
- sarc-
-
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- edges
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- edict
-
noun,
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- SCRAM
-
noun,
the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- trog
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- tri-
-
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- MSIE
-
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- MSgt
-
- ocas
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- trid
-
- OCDM
-
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- MSEE
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Oct.
-
- mogs
-
noun,
moggy.
- mtg.
-
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- trod
-
noun,
the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- msec
-
- MSCE
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- MScD
-
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- mtge
-
- MSAE
-
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- std.
-
- Saco
-
noun,
a city in SW Maine.
- tads
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- Sam.
-
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- taco
-
noun,
Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- Sat.
-
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- str.
-
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- scag
-
noun,
heroin.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Rom.
-
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- SCAD
-
noun,
any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- scam
-
noun,
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- sgd.
-
- SRAM
-
- Sra.
-
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- smog
-
noun,
smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- Sig.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- sec.
-
- sci.
-
- scr.
-
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- stg.
-
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- mod.
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- Sem.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Ste.
-
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- OSRD
-
- toed
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- TODS
-
- toad
-
noun,
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
Compare frog1 (def 1).
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- org.
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- rad.
-
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- RADM
-
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- toga
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- 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.
- OECD
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- OEEC
-
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ogam
-
noun,
ogham.
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- Ogma
-
noun,
a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- ord.
-
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- togs
-
noun,
a coat.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- TDRS
-
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Rida
-
- Tasm
-
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- Rigi
-
noun,
a mountain in central Switzerland, near the Lake of Lucerne. 5906 feet (1800 meters).
- RIIA
-
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- ter.
-
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- tide
-
noun,
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- rcd.
-
- RdAc
-
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- teds
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- 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.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Reg.
-
- regd
-
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- deet
-
plural noun,
details:
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- grad
-
noun,
a graduate.
- gras
-
- cat.
-
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Dame
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- gres
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Cato
-
noun,
Marcus Porcius [pawr-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈpɔr ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder"or"the Censor") 234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
- grid
-
noun,
a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- Grim
-
adjective,
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- Grit
-
noun,
abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- gro.
-
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- grot
-
noun,
a grotto.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- girt
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- dags
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- Gmat
-
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- ect-
-
- Cdr.
-
- cede
-
verb (used with object),
to yield or formally surrender to another:
- goad
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- Goat
-
noun,
any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- eco-
-
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- crat
-
- dioc
-
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- cams
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- Edam
-
noun,
a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- Idas
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- dato
-
noun,
(in the Philippines) a native chief.
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- EMet
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- Cres
-
- ator
-
- date
-
noun,
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
- IMCO
-
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- iod-
-
- atic
-
- ates
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- atm.
-
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Dec.
-
- idae
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- Cami
-
noun,
camisole (def 1).
- darg
-
noun,
Scot. and North England. a day's work.
- Came
-
noun,
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- gtd.
-
- caid
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Cage
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- cads
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- cadi
-
noun,
qadi.
- emia
-
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- Iago
-
noun,
the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- ICAO
-
- Ice.
-
- dat.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- gird
-
noun,
a gibe.
- gids
-
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- coat
-
noun,
an outer garment with sleeves, covering at least the upper part of the body:
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- etc.
-
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- cods
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- est.
-
- cmdg
-
- Dom.
-
- ergs
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- cit.
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- gads
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- gait
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- cog.
-
- cis-
-
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Cort
-
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- eso-
-
- Cor.
-
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- Esd.
-
- comd
-
- coma
-
noun,
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
- Com.
-
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- cogs
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- Edge
-
noun,
a line or border at which a surface terminates:
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- geds
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- cet-
-
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- CRAM
-
noun,
Informal. the act of cramming for an examination.
- geo-
-
- Ger.
-
- Gerd
-
noun,
the daughter of a giant and the consort of Frey, who wooed her through his servant Skirnir.
- gds.
-
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- Dago
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Gide
-
noun,
André (Paul Guillaume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pɔl giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- egad
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- Gard
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- cir.
-
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- CIGS
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- EDTA
-
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- cide
-
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- Crag
-
noun,
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- Ceto
-
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- ASTM
-
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- aer-
-
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- aged
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the):
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- aet.
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- DOCS
-
noun,
doctor.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- doat
-
verb (used without object),
dote.
- Adm.
-
- adit
-
noun,
an entrance or a passage.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- agio
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mead
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- AIME
-
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- MDES
-
- AIDS
-
noun,
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
- mdse
-
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- agit
-
- doit
-
noun,
Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- meas
-
- ctr.
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- agst
-
- dia-
-
- agr.
-
- Doge
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- DIRT
-
noun,
any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- dits
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- dite
-
noun,
a bit (usually used in negative constructions):
- migs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- dis-
-
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- MIDI
-
noun,
a skirt, dress, or coat, of mid-calf length.
- mis-
-
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- dir.
-
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- dim.
-
- Mid.
-
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- acme
-
noun,
the highest point; summit; peak:
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- DMSO
-
- Diet
-
noun,
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health:
- mes-
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- met.
-
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- acr-
-
- Acis
-
noun,
the lover of Galatea, killed by Polyphemus out of jealousy.
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- acid
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- dig.
-
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- digs
-
noun,
thrust; poke:
- AMDG
-
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mic.
-
- mica
-
noun,
any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- Aire
-
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Arm.
-
- ARIS
-
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- Arg.
-
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- itis
-
- drat
-
interjection,
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like):
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- DRAM
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drag
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- Dem.
-
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- med.
-
- EGmc
-
- iso-
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- asgd
-
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- 1080
-
- ASME
-
- deg.
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- dreg
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Ire.
-
- art.
-
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- asci
-
noun,
plural of ascus.
- asc-
-
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- amt.
-
- der.
-
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- MARC
-
noun,
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
- Magi
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- maid
-
noun,
a female servant.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- amdt
-
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- Dort
-
noun,
Dordrecht.
- Mar.
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- mag.
-
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- AISI
-
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- Mac-
-
- Mace
-
noun,
a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
- maco
-
noun,
an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- dost
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- macs
-
noun,
fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- made
-
noun,
the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- amic
-
adjective,
of or relating to an amide or amine.
- mads
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- DOTE
-
noun,
decay of wood.
- cts.
-
- MAEd
-
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- EEOC
-
- ctg
-
- DCM
-
- do.
-
- DCS
-
- DOA
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- di.
-
- DET
-
- Sgt
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- DEA
-
- de-
-
- CTA
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DSC
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- SMA
-
- DAR
-
- SMD
-
- Dam
-
noun,
a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
- Dag
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- DAE
-
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- cte
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- CST
-
- aor
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- AMC
-
- AME
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- tog
-
noun,
a coat.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- AMS
-
- TMO
-
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ard
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ARS
-
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- ase
-
- ASI
-
- ASM
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- TID
-
- at.
-
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- tr.
-
- TIA
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- Am.
-
- ac-
-
- ad-
-
- ADC
-
- ag-
-
- Tro
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- Ar.
-
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- ACS
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- tra
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- ae.
-
- AEC
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- AGC
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- AGM
-
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- Agt
-
- AIC
-
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- CMD
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- Tad
-
noun,
a small child, especially a boy.
- CGI
-
- CGM
-
- CGS
-
- CIA
-
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- CIE
-
- cig
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- CIM
-
- CMA
-
- STM
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- STI
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- CRS
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- CRT
-
- CSA
-
- Sr.
-
- CSO
-
- CSR
-
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- ATC
-
- Ted
-
noun,
British Slang. Teddy boy.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ca.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- CMG
-
- Co.
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- cr.
-
- cs.
-
- ct.
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- CAD
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- CEO
-
- CAI
-
- CAM
-
noun,
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TCS
-
- TCA
-
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- CEA
-
- CED
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- CDT
-
- SAR
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Rd.
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- ote
-
- IOT
-
- 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.
- OTS
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- IRC
-
- RCS
-
- Re.
-
- RMA
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- ior
-
- IOC
-
- IGM
-
- Ir.
-
- IRO
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- ITA
-
- Md.
-
- Mc-
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ite
-
- ITC
-
- ist
-
- IRS
-
- ISR
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ise
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ISA
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ose
-
- ier
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- gre
-
- RCA
-
- RCT
-
- RDA
-
- RDC
-
- dit
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- REA
-
- Gr.
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- got
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- God
-
noun,
the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- GMT
-
- GSA
-
- GSC
-
- ide
-
- io-
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- IAS
-
- Ia.
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- id.
-
- ics
-
- GTS
-
- GTO
-
- GTC
-
- gt.
-
- GSR
-
- Me.
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- GMC
-
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- MSA
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MSD
-
- MSE
-
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MSI
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- MTI
-
- MTO
-
- MTS
-
- MRA
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- OED
-
- Mig
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- MIT
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MOG
-
noun,
moggy.
- MOI
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIE
-
- mgd
-
- MOR
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- mi.
-
- MGT
-
- MGr
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- Oc.
-
- OSA
-
- Mo.
-
- OIt
-
- Mao
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- oic
-
- oid
-
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- OIr
-
- Om.
-
- ODT
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- MAD
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- MSC
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- OEM
-
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OSD
-
- OCD
-
- OTC
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MDT
-
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- OCR
-
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- MCR
-
- MCI
-
- OCS
-
- mcg
-
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- RDS
-
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- EEO
-
- SAE
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- EEG
-
- EEC
-
- EDT
-
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- EDC
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ed.
-
- ECM
-
- ECG
-
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- ec-
-
- eir
-
- EMT
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMR
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EIS
-
- Rs.
-
- SRO
-
- RSA
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- sd.
-
- So.
-
- ECA
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- Doi
-
- SDI
-
- SDR
-
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- DOT
-
noun,
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- SED
-
- Dr.
-
- dog
-
noun,
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- DMT
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- DMS
-
- DMA
-
- SDA
-
- DRE
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- sc.
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- EAM
-
- ead
-
- ea.
-
- ETD
-
- ScD
-
- DRG
-
- EOM
-
- eo-
-
- SCM
-
- Eg.
-
- DST
-
- DSR
-
- DSA
-
- EOE
-
- RSE
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- GCD
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- Ga.
-
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- GCM
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- gi.
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- rig
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noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- Gad
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noun,
the act of gadding.
- RID
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noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- GAO
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noun,
a city in E Mali.
- ERE
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preposition, conjunction,
before.
- GAS
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noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- Gat
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noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- ret
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verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- GCA
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- GCE
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- ETR
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- GCI
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- GCR
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- res
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noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- GCT
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- Gde
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- GDR
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- REM
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noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Ged
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noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- Gee
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noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- GEM
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noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- Ges
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- get
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noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Ree
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noun,
reeve3 .
- gie
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noun,
gi.
- ETS
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- Ria
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noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- ETO
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- rm.
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plural,
ream.
- ROI
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- ROG
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- ROE
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noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Rod
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noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- ERS
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noun,
ervil.
- ROC
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noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ERT
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- ESA
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- Esc
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- ROA
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- RMC
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- TSR
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noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- ESR
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- ese
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- GO
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noun,
the act of going:
- M.
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- TC
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- D.
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- MG
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- DA
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noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- DC
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noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- GD
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- AO
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- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
- DG
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- CM
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- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- AI
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noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- CE
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- G.
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- IT
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noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- IG
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- A.
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noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- 3D
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noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- 2D
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noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- RI
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- DM
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- RO
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- T1
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- OD
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noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- GM
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- SM
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- SG
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- rg
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- OA
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- SA
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- ic
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- OG
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- i.
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- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- RC
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- O.
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- S.
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- GC
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- R.
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- EI
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- ee
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- DT
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noun,
a withdrawal syndrome occurring in persons who have developed physiological dependence on alcohol, characterized by tremor, visual hallucinations, and autonomic instability. Abbreviation: d.t.
- t.
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- TG
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- TD
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- TM
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