Anagrams of vegetarianisms
Word vegetarianisms has
2535 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of vegetarianisms.
- germinative
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adjective,
capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
- Sansevieria
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noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Sansevieria, of the agave family, grown as a houseplant for its stiff, sword-shaped leaves and white or yellow flowers.
- Erastianism
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noun,
the doctrine, advocated by Thomas Erastus, of the supremacy of the state over the church in ecclesiastical matters.
- magisteries
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noun,
an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- negativism
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noun,
a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- variegates
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verb (used with object),
to make varied in appearance, as by adding different colors.
- seminaries
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noun,
a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- savageries
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noun,
an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- reanimates
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verb (used with object),
to restore to life; resuscitate.
- germinates
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verb (used with object),
to cause to develop; produce.
- manageress
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noun,
a woman who is a manager.
- vernissage
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noun,
Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.
- timesaving
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adjective,
(of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- vegetarian
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noun,
a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.
- emarginate
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adjective,
notched at the margin.
- semainiers
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noun,
a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- ingressive
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adjective,
of, relating to, or involving ingress.
- in-migrate
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verb (used without object),
to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- serenatas
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noun,
a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- averments
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noun,
the act of averring.
- agrements
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noun,
Music. ornament (def 9).
- Artemisia
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noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Artemisia, having aromatic foliage and small disk flowers, including the sagebrush, wormwood, and mugwort.
- near-miss
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noun,
a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- negatives
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noun,
a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.:
- genitives
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noun,
the genitive case.
- stravages
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verb (used without object),
Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- gravities
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noun,
the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
- vintagers
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noun,
a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- navigates
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verb (used with object),
to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft:
- resinates
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- arsenites
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- arsenates
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenic acid.
- resistive
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adjective,
capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- emigrates
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- amnesties
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noun,
a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- imageries
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noun,
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:
- stingaree
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noun,
a stingray.
- assertive
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adjective,
confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic:
- tsarevnas
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noun,
czarevna.
- amenities
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noun,
an agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility:
- Manassite
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noun,
a member of the tribe of Manasseh.
- Massinger
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noun,
Philip, 1583–1640, English dramatist: collaborated with John Fletcher.
- naiveties
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noun,
naiveté.
- remissive
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adjective,
characterized by remission or decrease.
- regiments
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noun,
Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- geminates
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noun,
Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.
- evaginate
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verb (used with object),
to turn inside out, or cause to protrude by eversion, as a tubular organ.
- astringes
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verb (used with object),
to compress; bind together; constrict.
- Teiresias
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noun,
Tiresias.
- intarsias
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noun,
an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid patterns, especially of wood mosaic, developed during the Renaissance.
- estranges
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verb (used with object),
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of:
- masteries
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noun,
command or grasp, as of a subject:
- nativisms
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noun,
the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- sangarees
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noun,
sangría.
- man-eater
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noun,
an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
- Neisseria
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noun,
any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Neisseria, certain species of which, as N. gonorrhoeae, are pathogenic for humans.
- reanimate
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verb (used with object),
to restore to life; resuscitate.
- envisages
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verb (used with object),
to contemplate; visualize:
- agentries
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noun,
the profession, business, or activities of an agent:
- grievants
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noun,
a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- seatrains
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noun,
a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- invertase
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noun,
an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- streaming
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noun,
an act or instance of flowing.
- marginate
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adjective,
having a margin.
- taeniasis
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noun,
infestation with tapeworms.
- marinates
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verb (used with object),
to steep (food) in a marinade.
- varieties
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noun,
the state of being varied or diversified:
- ganisters
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noun,
a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- germinate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to develop; produce.
- giantisms
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noun,
Pathology. gigantism.
- sirventes
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noun,
a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- semainier
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noun,
a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- variegate
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verb (used with object),
to make varied in appearance, as by adding different colors.
- magnesite
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noun,
a mineral, magnesium carbonate, MgCO 3 , having a characteristic conchoidal fracture and usually occurring in white masses.
- magnesias
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noun,
a white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.
- gamesters
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noun,
a gambler.
- antimeres
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- varsities
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noun,
any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like:
- arginases
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noun,
a liver enzyme that converts arginine to urea.
- migraines
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noun,
an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- verminate
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verb (used without object),
to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- sensitive
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adjective,
endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- agentives
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noun,
an agentive word or suffix.
- steersman
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noun,
a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
- Mertensia
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- sea-raven
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noun,
a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- Germanist
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noun,
a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- estrange
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verb (used with object),
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of:
- Asnieres
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noun,
a city in N central France, near Paris.
- arenites
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noun,
psammite.
- Armitage
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noun,
Kenneth, 1916–2002, English sculptor.
- arsenite
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- versants
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noun,
a slope of a mountain or mountain chain.
- martinis
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noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- naivetes
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noun,
the quality or state of being naive; natural or artless simplicity.
- steering
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noun,
the discriminatory practice by a real estate agent of maneuvering a client from a minority group away from considering a home in a white neighborhood.
- igniters
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noun,
a person or thing that ignites.
- mintages
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noun,
the act or process of minting.
- gamester
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noun,
a gambler.
- arsenate
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenic acid.
- antimere
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- Magnesia
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noun,
a white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.
- tanagers
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noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- M-series
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noun,
See under M-line.
- imagines
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noun,
Entomology. an adult insect.
- inessive
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noun,
the inessive case.
- verities
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noun,
the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality:
- Artesian
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adjective,
noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- inertias
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noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- Arianism
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noun,
the doctrine, taught by Arius, that Christ the Son was not consubstantial with God the Father.
- retsinas
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noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- steamers
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noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- gaieties
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noun,
the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
- Grassman
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noun,
Hermann Günther [her-mahn gyn-tuh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˈgün tər/ (Show IPA), 1809–77, German mathematician and linguist.
- stearins
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- sterigma
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noun,
a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- resinate
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- arginase
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noun,
a liver enzyme that converts arginine to urea.
- grantees
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noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- granites
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noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- staminas
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noun,
strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
- maitrise
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noun,
mastery; skill.
- etamines
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noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- martians
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noun,
a supposed inhabitant of the planet Mars:
- siamangs
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noun,
a large, black gibbon, Hylobates syndactylus, of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, having very long arms and the second and third digits partially united by a web of skin: an endangered species.
- atresias
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noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- assignat
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noun,
one of the notes issued as paper currency from 1789 to 1796 by the revolutionary government on the security of confiscated lands.
- smarties
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noun,
a smart aleck.
- greatens
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verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- Vasteras
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noun,
a city in central Sweden.
- Maritain
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noun,
Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, French philosopher and diplomat.
- raisings
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noun,
a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- earnests
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- enmities
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noun,
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
- margents
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noun,
margin.
- raiments
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noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- sinister
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adjective,
threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous:
- vanities
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noun,
excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit:
- 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.
- eastings
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noun,
Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- energism
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noun,
the theory that self-realization is the highest good.
- vantages
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noun,
a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.
- enargite
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noun,
a mineral, copper arsenic and sulfide, Cu 3 AsS 4 , occurring in the form of black orthorhombic crystals having perfect cleavage: an important source of copper.
- Ramsgate
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noun,
a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- varmints
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noun,
Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S.
vermin.
an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- smartens
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Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- grievant
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noun,
a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- sirvente
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noun,
a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- marinate
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verb (used with object),
to steep (food) in a marinade.
- variates
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noun,
Statistics. random variable.
- emissive
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adjective,
serving to emit.
- emanates
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verb (used with object),
to send forth; emit.
- emirates
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- variants
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noun,
a person or thing that varies.
- greisens
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noun,
a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- niteries
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noun,
a nightclub.
- emigrant
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noun,
a person who emigrates, as from his or her native country or region:
Synonyms: émigré, expatriate.
- emigrate
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- mantissa
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noun,
Mathematics. the decimal part of a common logarithm.
Compare characteristic (def 3a).
- envisage
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verb (used with object),
to contemplate; visualize:
- assignee
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noun,
a person to whom some right or interest is transferred, either for his or her own enjoyment or in trust.
- nativism
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noun,
the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- tsarevna
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noun,
czarevna.
- ventages
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noun,
a small hole or vent, as one of the fingerholes of a flute.
- asterism
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noun,
Astronomy.
a group of stars.
a constellation.
- tsarinas
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noun,
czarina.
- teniasis
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noun,
taeniasis.
- astringe
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verb (used with object),
to compress; bind together; constrict.
- regiment
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noun,
Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- regimens
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
- nametags
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noun,
an identification tag or label showing one's name and sometimes one's address or business affiliation, attached to an article of clothing or worn around the neck or wrist.
- gravamen
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noun,
the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- atavisms
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noun,
Biology.
the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations.
an individual embodying such a reversion.
- vagaries
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noun,
an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance:
- vaginate
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adjective,
having a vagina or sheath; sheathed.
- manatees
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noun,
any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- magnates
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noun,
a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.:
- Teresina
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noun,
a port in NE Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.
- ergative
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noun,
the ergative case.
- Erasmian
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noun,
a follower of Erasmus.
- Erastian
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noun,
an advocate of Erastianism.
- Teresian
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noun,
a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- aviaries
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noun,
a large cage or a house or enclosure in which birds are kept.
- simitars
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noun,
scimitar.
- negative
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noun,
a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.:
- tamarins
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noun,
any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- vagrants
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noun,
a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
- averment
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noun,
the act of averring.
- averages
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noun,
a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean:
- navigate
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verb (used with object),
to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft:
- vegetism
-
- gravitas
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noun,
seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.
- reagents
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noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- minsters
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- gisarmes
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noun,
guisarme.
- Tiresias
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noun,
a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- 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.
- agentive
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noun,
an agentive word or suffix.
- amentias
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noun,
lack of intellectual development; imbecility; severe mental retardation.
- migraine
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noun,
an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- Santeria
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- Santarem
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noun,
a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- sanities
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noun,
the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- seamster
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noun,
a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.
- agenesis
-
noun,
absence of or failed development of a body part.
- migrants
-
noun,
a person or animal that migrates.
- sangrias
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noun,
an iced drink, typically made with red wine, sugar, fruit juice, soda water, and spices, and containing fruit slices.
- matinees
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noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- vestries
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noun,
a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- inverses
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noun,
an inverted state or condition.
- Germania
-
noun,
an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- sea-star
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noun,
starfish.
- amirates
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noun,
emirate.
- seatings
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noun,
an act or instance of furnishing with, assigning, or escorting to a seat.
- virgates
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noun,
an early English measure of land of varying extent, usually considered equivalent to a quarter of a hide, or about 30 acres (12 hectares).
- tangrams
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noun,
a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures.
- agrement
-
noun,
Music. ornament (def 9).
- vestings
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noun,
cloth that is usually of medium or heavy weight and has figures or ridges, as piqué, jacquard, dobby silk, or Bedford cord, originally used for decorative vests and now also for a variety of other garments.
- seatrain
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noun,
a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- gastrins
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noun,
a hormone that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
- amnesias
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noun,
loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc.
- sangaree
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noun,
sangría.
- stingers
-
noun,
a person or thing that stings.
- Germaine
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noun,
a female given name.
- serenata
-
noun,
a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- interims
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noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- vinegars
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noun,
a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
- genitive
-
noun,
the genitive case.
- Messiaen
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noun,
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles [aw-lee-vyey œ-zhen praw-sper sharl] /ɔ liˈvyeɪ œˈʒɛn prɔˈspɛr ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1908–92, French composer and organist.
- savagism
-
noun,
barbarism; savagery.
- tavernas
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noun,
a small, unpretentious café or restaurant in Greece.
- savarins
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noun,
a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- tear-gas
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noun,
a gas that makes the eyes smart and water, thus producing a temporary blindness, used in modern warfare, to quell riots, etc.
- airiness
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noun,
openness to the air:
- Messenia
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noun,
a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- gentries
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noun,
wellborn and well-bred people.
- vintager
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noun,
a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- mastigia
-
noun,
an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- viremias
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noun,
the presence of a virus in the blood.
- Satanism
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noun,
the worship of Satan or the powers of evil.
- stravage
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verb (used without object),
Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- airtimes
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- agminate
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adjective,
aggregated together.
- vintages
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noun,
the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
- sarsenet
-
noun,
sarcenet.
- intarsia
-
noun,
an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid patterns, especially of wood mosaic, developed during the Renaissance.
- sarmenta
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noun,
a slender running stem; runner.
- sentries
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noun,
a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- geminate
-
noun,
Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.
- gematria
-
noun,
a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- sea-gate
-
noun,
a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- vestigia
-
noun,
a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.
- agametes
-
noun,
an asexual reproductive cell, as a spore, that forms a new organism without fusion with another cell.
- sanative
-
adjective,
having the power to heal; curative.
- ganister
-
noun,
a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- seriatim
-
adverb, adjective,
in a series; one after another.
- giantess
-
noun,
an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- giantism
-
noun,
Pathology. gigantism.
- seriemas
-
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.
- sagenite
-
noun,
a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- Massenet
-
noun,
Jules Émile Frédéric [zhyl ey-meel frey-dey-reek] /ʒül eɪˈmil freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1842–1912, French composer.
- animates
-
adjective,
alive; possessing life:
- seringas
-
noun,
any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- gantries
-
noun,
a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- vitamins
-
noun,
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- minister
-
noun,
a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- segreant
-
adjective,
(of a griffin) rampant.
- vitrains
-
noun,
the material of which the friable, vitreous layers in banded bituminous coal are composed.
- meetings
-
noun,
the act of coming together:
- versines
-
noun,
versed sine.
- vitrines
-
noun,
a glass cabinet or case, especially for displaying art objects.
- servings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that serves.
- minivers
-
noun,
(in the Middle Ages) a fur of white or spotted white and gray used for linings and trimmings.
Compare vair (def 1).
- Ansermet
-
noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- gaminess
-
noun,
the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- ingrates
-
noun,
an ungrateful person.
- Semarang
-
noun,
a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- aegirite
-
noun,
a mineral, mainly sodium-ferric iron silicate, NaFe⋅(Si 2 O 6), occurring in feldspathoid rocks in slender prismatic crystals.
- vineries
-
noun,
a place or enclosure in which vines, especially grapevines, are grown.
- Sergeant
-
noun,
a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- Temesvar
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Timişoara.
- angaries
-
noun,
the right of a belligerent state to seize and use the property of neutrals for purposes of warfare, subject to payment of full compensation.
- seemings
-
noun,
appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance.
- magentas
-
noun,
fuchsin.
- minarets
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- anergies
-
noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- segments
-
noun,
one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section:
- trangams
-
noun,
an odd gadget; gewgaw; trinket.
- masseter
-
noun,
a short, thick, masticatory muscle, the action of which assists in closing the jaws by raising the mandible or lower jaw.
- Geraint
-
noun,
one of the knights of the Round Table, husband of Enid.
- strives
-
noun,
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism:
- Megaera
-
noun,
one of the Furies.
- message
-
noun,
a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- merisis
-
noun,
growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- Gervais
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) an unsalted French cream cheese made from whole milk and cream.
- engrave
-
verb (used with object),
to chase (letters, designs, etc.) on a hard surface, as of metal, stone, or the end grain of wood:
- Sitsang
-
noun,
Tibet (def 1).
- enrages
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- emirate
-
noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- gerents
-
noun,
a ruler or manager.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- engrams
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- ergates
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- Smetana
-
noun,
Bedřich [Czech be-drzhikh] /Czech ˈbɛ drʒɪx/ (Show IPA), 1824–84, Czech composer.
- Vanessa
-
noun,
a female given name.
- vantage
-
noun,
a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.
- gisants
-
noun,
a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- Erigena
-
noun,
Johannes Scotus [joh-han-eez skoh-tuh s,, -han-is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz ˈskoʊ təs,, -ˈhæn ɪs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c810–c877, Irish philosopher and theologian.
- gisarme
-
noun,
guisarme.
- negates
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- Megaris
-
noun,
a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- Sverige
-
noun,
Swedish name of Sweden.
- timings
-
noun,
Theater.
a synchronizing of the various parts of a production for theatrical effect.
the result or effect thus achieved.
(in acting) the act of adjusting one's tempo of speaking and moving for dramatic effect.
- nervate
-
adjective,
(of leaves) having veins.
- germane
-
adjective,
closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent:
- greaves
-
noun,
crackling (def 3).
- menages
-
noun,
a domestic establishment; household.
- Meitner
-
noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- Meissen
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
- greaten
-
verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- Nemesis
-
noun,
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.:
- germens
-
noun,
a germ.
- Matisse
-
noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- enigmas
-
noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- greases
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- enviers
-
noun,
a person who feels envy.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- Nigeria
-
noun,
a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- Niigata
-
noun,
a seaport on NW Honshu, in central Japan.
- matinee
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- meinies
-
noun,
Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
- Maritsa
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- Negress
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a black woman or girl.
- matrass
-
noun,
a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.
- tigress
-
noun,
a female tiger.
- entasis
-
noun,
a slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- gametes
-
noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- Messier
-
noun,
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- minaret
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- minever
-
noun,
miniver.
- tessera
-
noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- Minerva
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek goddess Athena.
- martins
-
noun,
Peter, born 1946, U.S. choreographer and ballet master, born in Denmark.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- stigmas
-
noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- grantee
-
noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- gasters
-
- Massine
-
noun,
Léonide [ley-aw-need] /leɪ ɔˈnid/ (Show IPA), 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- gastrin
-
noun,
a hormone that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
- Martini
-
noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- stimies
-
noun,
stymie.
- Martina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Gratiae
-
plural noun,
grace (def 12).
- 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.
- garnets
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- stamin-
-
- gaiters
-
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).
- minivet
-
noun,
any of several small, long-tailed Asian cuckoo-shrikes of the genus Pericrocotus, having in the male black and red and in the female black and orange plumage.
- mintage
-
noun,
the act or process of minting.
- gamines
-
noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- Massena
-
noun,
a city in N New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- miniver
-
noun,
(in the Middle Ages) a fur of white or spotted white and gray used for linings and trimmings.
Compare vair (def 1).
- massage
-
noun,
the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- 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.
- granita
-
noun,
frozen flavored ice.
- emigres
-
noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- misters
-
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.).
- granite
-
noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- misease
-
noun,
Archaic. discomfort; distress; suffering.
- misgive
-
verb (used with object),
(of one's mind, heart, etc.) to give doubt or apprehension to.
- miniate
-
verb (used with object),
to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- gainers
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- missing
-
noun,
a failure to hit something.
- garment
-
noun,
any article of clothing:
- missive
-
noun,
a written message; letter.
- stamina
-
noun,
strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
- etesian
-
adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- Genista
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Genista, of the legume family, having showy flowers and including many species of broom.
- natives
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.:
- nametag
-
noun,
an identification tag or label showing one's name and sometimes one's address or business affiliation, attached to an article of clothing or worn around the neck or wrist.
- stivers
-
noun,
Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- metisse
-
noun,
a woman of mixed ancestry.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- nasties
-
noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- genesis
-
noun,
an origin, creation, or beginning.
- strains
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- tisanes
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- metages
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- tamarin
-
noun,
any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- genevas
-
noun,
Hollands.
- vagrant
-
noun,
a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
- masting
-
noun,
the masts of a ship, taken as a whole.
- gravies
-
noun,
the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
- strange
-
adverb,
in a strange manner.
- Messina
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Sicily.
- tsarism
-
noun,
czarism.
- massive
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains: second highest in U.S. Rockies. 14,421 feet (4396 meters).
- Gratian
-
noun,
(Flavius Gratianus) a.d. 359–383, Roman emperor 375–383.
- gratine
-
verb (used with object),
to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- etamine
-
noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- trangam
-
noun,
an odd gadget; gewgaw; trinket.
- estrins
-
noun,
estrone.
- Staines
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, on the Thames River near Heathrow airport.
- migrate
-
verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- gateman
-
noun,
a gatekeeper.
- Stagira
-
noun,
an ancient town in NE Greece, in Macedonia on the E Chalcidice peninsula: birthplace of Aristotle.
- gatemen
-
noun,
a gatekeeper.
- gratins
-
noun,
au gratin.
- gearset
-
noun,
a combination of gears that mesh to provide a particular gear ratio.
- naivete
-
noun,
the quality or state of being naive; natural or artless simplicity.
- estamin
-
noun,
a worsted fabric constructed in twill weave with a rough surface.
- migrant
-
noun,
a person or animal that migrates.
- stagers
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- Martian
-
noun,
a supposed inhabitant of the planet Mars:
- namaste
-
noun,
a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- stinger
-
noun,
a person or thing that stings.
- tsarina
-
noun,
czarina.
- Stevens
-
noun,
Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
- teasers
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- marinas
-
noun,
a boat basin offering dockage and other service for small craft.
- samisen
-
noun,
a guitarlike Japanese musical instrument having an extremely long neck and three strings, played with a plectrum.
- serving
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that serves.
- magnate
-
noun,
a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.:
- servant
-
noun,
a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
- ingress
-
noun,
the act of going in or entering.
- seringa
-
noun,
any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- animate
-
adjective,
alive; possessing life:
- serines
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- tangram
-
noun,
a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures.
- 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.
- seriate
-
adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- Magenta
-
noun,
fuchsin.
- anemias
-
noun,
Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- inseams
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- Servite
-
noun,
a member of an order of mendicant friars, founded in Florence in 1233, engaged in fostering devotion to the Virgin Mary.
- samites
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- vestige
-
noun,
a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence:
- amritas
-
noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- vesting
-
noun,
cloth that is usually of medium or heavy weight and has figures or ridges, as piqué, jacquard, dobby silk, or Bedford cord, originally used for decorative vests and now also for a variety of other garments.
- amnesia
-
noun,
loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc.
- amities
-
noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- amirate
-
noun,
emirate.
- sangers
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- sangria
-
noun,
an iced drink, typically made with red wine, sugar, fruit juice, soda water, and spices, and containing fruit slices.
- aminate
-
verb (used with object),
to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- aminase
-
noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of amino compounds, releasing the amino group and liberating nitrogen.
- inserts
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- versine
-
noun,
versed sine.
- versets
-
noun,
Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- santims
-
noun,
a former coin of Latvia, the 100th part of a lat.
- magnet-
-
- Tangier
-
noun,
a seaport in N Morocco, on the W Strait of Gibraltar: capital of the former Tangier Zone.
- revests
-
verb (used with object),
to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.
- inertia
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- revises
-
noun,
an act of revising.
- Sievert
-
noun,
the standard unit in the International System of Units (SI) of dose equivalent having the same biological effect as one joule of x-rays per kilogram of recipient mass (or one gray):
Abbreviation: Sv.
- Sievers
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ du ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, German philologist.
- magnets
-
noun,
a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- greisen
-
noun,
a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- argents
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- Siemens
-
noun,
Electricity. the standard unit of electrical conductance in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the reciprocal of the ohm and replacing the equivalent MKS unit (mho) Abbreviation: S.
- Siamese
-
noun,
a native of Siam.
- siamang
-
noun,
a large, black gibbon, Hylobates syndactylus, of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, having very long arms and the second and third digits partially united by a web of skin: an endangered species.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- sestina
-
noun,
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
- Sevigne
-
noun,
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal [ma-ree duh ra-by-tan-shahn-tal] /maˈri də ra bü tɛ̃ ʃɑ̃ˈtal/ (Show IPA), Marquise de, 1626–96, French writer, especially of letters.
- ingates
-
noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- versant
-
noun,
a slope of a mountain or mountain chain.
- Ingemar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- risings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that rises.
- ingesta
-
plural noun,
substances ingested.
- ingests
-
verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- antiars
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- rivages
-
noun,
a bank, shore, or coast.
- ingrate
-
noun,
an ungrateful person.
- Setaria
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
- Antares
-
noun,
a red supergiant star of the first magnitude in the constellation Scorpius.
- tansies
-
noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- amentia
-
noun,
lack of intellectual development; imbecility; severe mental retardation.
- Armenia
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Asia: now divided between Armenia, Turkey, and Iran.
- visages
-
noun,
the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
- sensate
-
adjective,
perceiving or perceived through the senses.
- seaters
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- seating
-
noun,
an act or instance of furnishing with, assigning, or escorting to a seat.
- virgate
-
noun,
an early English measure of land of varying extent, usually considered equivalent to a quarter of a hide, or about 30 acres (12 hectares).
- agamete
-
noun,
an asexual reproductive cell, as a spore, that forms a new organism without fusion with another cell.
- against
-
Idioms,
over against, in contrast with:
- inverts
-
noun,
a person or thing that is inverted.
- seeings
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- seeming
-
noun,
appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance.
- senegas
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- aerates
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- invests
-
verb (used with object),
to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- segment
-
noun,
one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section:
- Agenais
-
noun,
an ancient region of SW France.
- isatins
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- invites
-
noun,
Informal. an invitation.
- seiners
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Aegates
-
noun,
ancient name of Egadi.
- semites
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- seising
-
noun,
seizing.
- semaise
-
noun,
cymaise.
- vitamin
-
noun,
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- teeming
-
adjective,
abounding or swarming with something, as with people:
- vitrain
-
noun,
the material of which the friable, vitreous layers in banded bituminous coal are composed.
- vitrine
-
noun,
a glass cabinet or case, especially for displaying art objects.
- Semangs
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- ageisms
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- inverse
-
noun,
an inverted state or condition.
- santirs
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- sateens
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- Amen-Ra
-
noun,
a god in whom Amen and Ra were combined: the god of the universe and the supreme Egyptian god during the period of Theban political supremacy.
- veteran
-
noun,
a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation, office, or the like:
- tarsias
-
noun,
intarsia.
- sereins
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- sarangi
-
noun,
(in India) a violinlike instrument used to accompany classical dancing.
- amative
-
adjective,
disposed to love; amorous.
- instars
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- Sargent
-
noun,
Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts) 1895–1967, English conductor.
- Vietnam
-
noun,
Official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). Capital: Hanoi.
Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
- integer
-
noun,
Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero.
Compare whole number.
- airtime
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- Interim
-
noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- airings
-
noun,
an exposure to the air, as for drying.
- Seagirt
-
noun,
surrounded by the sea.
- taverna
-
noun,
a small, unpretentious café or restaurant in Greece.
- savages
-
noun,
an uncivilized human being.
- vinasse
-
noun,
the residuum in a still after distillation; slop.
- vinegar
-
noun,
a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
- savants
-
noun,
a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- savarin
-
noun,
a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- savates
-
noun,
a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- vintage
-
noun,
the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
- tearing
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- agnates
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- savings
-
noun,
a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay:
- viremia
-
noun,
the presence of a virus in the blood.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- simitar
-
noun,
scimitar.
- tamaris
-
noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- meeting
-
noun,
the act of coming together:
- eatings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- Avertin
-
- Raamses
-
noun,
a city that was built for the Pharaoh by the Israelites and from which the Exodus began. Ex. 1:11.
- ravings
-
noun,
Usually, ravings.
irrational, incoherent talk:
wildly extravagant or outrageous talk; bombast.
- varmint
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S.
vermin.
an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- average
-
noun,
a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean:
- simians
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- avenges
-
verb (used with object),
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for:
- reagent
-
noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- sinters
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- tensive
-
adjective,
stretching or straining.
- reagins
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- maneges
-
noun,
the art of training and riding horses.
- atresia
-
noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- raiment
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- Aterian
-
adjective,
of or indicating a Middle Paleolithic industry of northwestern Africa and the Sahara, characterized by the production of tanged points and bifacially worked leaf-shaped points of varying sizes.
- manatee
-
noun,
any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- atavism
-
noun,
Biology.
the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations.
an individual embodying such a reversion.
- Venetia
-
noun,
an ancient district in NE Italy: later a Roman province bounded by the Alps, the Po River, and the Adriatic Sea.
- Avestan
-
noun,
an ancient East Iranian language of the Indo-European family, the language of all the Avesta but the Gathas.
Compare Gathic (def 1).
- Mansart
-
noun,
Jules Hardouin [zhyl ar-dwan] /ʒül arˈdwɛ̃/ (Show IPA), (Jules Hardouin) 1646–1708, French architect: chief architectural director for Louis XIV.
- regimen
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
- mantras
-
noun,
Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- easiest
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- Margate
-
noun,
a red-mouthed grunt, Haemulon album, inhabiting Atlantic waters from Florida to Brazil, valued as a food fish.
- ragtime
-
noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- earings
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- raising
-
noun,
a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- raisins
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- singers
-
noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- easters
-
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.
- ravages
-
noun,
havoc; ruinous damage:
- ramenta
-
noun,
a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- Rameses
-
noun,
Ramses (def 1).
- grivets
-
noun,
a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.
- easting
-
noun,
Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- Eastman
-
noun,
George, 1854–1932, U.S. philanthropist and inventor in the field of photography.
- Sinatra
-
noun,
Frank (Francis Albert) 1915–98, U.S. singer and actor.
- termini
-
noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- ratings
-
noun,
classification according to grade or rank.
- aviates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to fly or fly in an aircraft.
- Teniers
-
noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- regains
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- reginas
-
noun,
queen.
- Artesia
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- tanager
-
noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- ventage
-
noun,
a small hole or vent, as one of the fingerholes of a flute.
- resents
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- Mai-Tai
-
noun,
a cocktail of rum, curaçao, lemon and pineapple juice, grenadine, and orgeat syrup, poured over crushed ice.
- verisms
-
noun,
the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- veritas
-
noun,
truth.
- re-sign
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sign again.
- verites
-
noun,
truth; truthfulness.
- artisan
-
noun,
a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- Artigas
-
noun,
José Gervasio [haw-se her-vah-syaw] /hɔˈsɛ hɛrˈvɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1764–1850, Uruguayan soldier and patriot.
- 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.
- Sistine
-
adjective,
of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
- arsines
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- resting
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- emanate
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth; emit.
- variate
-
noun,
Statistics. random variable.
- restive
-
adjective,
impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- Emerita
-
noun,
a woman with such status.
- sigmate
-
adjective,
having the form of the Greek sigma or the letter S.
- vermian
-
adjective,
resembling or of the nature of a worm.
- variant
-
noun,
a person or thing that varies.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- reseats
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- veriest
-
adverb,
in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly:
- margent
-
noun,
margin.
- ignites
-
verb (used with object),
to set on fire; kindle.
- Igraine
-
noun,
the mother of King Arthur.
- remises
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- assegai
-
noun,
the slender javelin or spear of the Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa.
- imarets
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- signers
-
noun,
a person who signs.
- igniter
-
noun,
a person or thing that ignites.
- venters
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the abdomen or belly.
a bellylike cavity or concavity.
a bellylike protuberance.
- manages
-
verb (used with object),
to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship:
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- signets
-
noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- Astaire
-
noun,
Fred, 1899–1987, U.S. dancer and actor.
- ventri-
-
- Ventris
-
noun,
Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.
- Reigate
-
noun,
a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.
- imagine
-
verb (used with object),
to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- signees
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- Vereins
-
noun,
a union, association, or society.
- manager
-
noun,
a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- matins
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- Irving
-
noun,
Sir Henry (John Henry Brodribb) 1838–1905, English actor.
- Marian
-
noun,
a person who has a particular devotion to the Virgin Mary.
- Isaian
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of Isaiah or of the book of the Bible bearing his name.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Marina
-
noun,
a boat basin offering dockage and other service for small craft.
- Marini
-
noun,
Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), Also, Marino [muh-ree-noh;; Italian mah-ree-naw] /məˈri noʊ;; Italian mɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), ("il Cavalier Marino") 1569–1625, Italian poet.
- Margie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- matri-
-
- mavens
-
noun,
an expert or connoisseur.
- taigas
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- meager
-
adjective,
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
- isatin
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- margin
-
noun,
the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- taenia
-
noun,
Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- manges
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- tarsia
-
noun,
intarsia.
- manger
-
noun,
a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- manege
-
noun,
the art of training and riding horses.
- Manati
-
noun,
a city in N Puerto Rico.
- manage
-
verb (used with object),
to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship:
- maigre
-
adjective,
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- maists
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- masais
-
noun,
a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- Marvin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Maisie
-
noun,
a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- tamari
-
noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- manias
-
noun,
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
- Tarvia
-
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- 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.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- marais
-
noun,
a swamp or bayou.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- mantra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- mantis
-
noun,
any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- Matane
-
noun,
a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- mantas
-
noun,
(in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- tavern
-
noun,
a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- manses
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Tassie
-
noun,
tass.
- Tasman
-
noun,
Abel Janszoon [ah-buh l yahn-sohn] /ˈɑ bəl ˈyɑn soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1602?–59, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- Manisa
-
noun,
a city in W Turkey, near the Aegean: Roman defeat of Antiochus the Great 190 b.c.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- strive
-
verb (used without object),
to exert oneself vigorously; try hard:
- riatas
-
noun,
a lariat.
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- sigmas
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- revest
-
verb (used with object),
to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.
- revets
-
verb (used with object),
to face, as an embankment, with masonry or other material.
- revise
-
noun,
an act of revising.
- siesta
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- sevres
-
noun,
a suburb of Paris in N France.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- sevier
-
noun,
John, 1745–1815, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier and politician: first governor of Tennessee.
- rinses
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- severs
-
verb (used with object),
to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- rising
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that rises.
- Severn
-
noun,
a river in Great Britain, flowing from central Wales through W England into the Bristol Channel. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- sevens
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- rivage
-
noun,
a bank, shore, or coast.
- rivets
-
noun,
a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- resign
-
verb (used with object),
to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- Servia
-
noun,
former name of Serbia.
- reigns
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- reagin
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- simian
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- reatas
-
noun,
riata.
- simars
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Regain
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- regent
-
noun,
a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- regime
-
noun,
a mode or system of rule or government:
- Regina
-
noun,
queen.
- signet
-
noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- remiss
-
adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- 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.
- signer
-
noun,
a person who signs.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- Renata
-
noun,
a female given name.
- signee
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- sesame
-
noun,
a tropical, herbaceous plant, Sesamum indicum, whose small oval seeds are edible and yield an oil.
- serins
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- ravins
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
raven2 .
- Seaver
-
noun,
(George) Thomas ("Tom"; "Tom Terrific") born 1944, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- Savage
-
noun,
an uncivilized human being.
- Savaii
-
noun,
an island in Western Samoa: largest of the Samoa group. 703 sq. mi. (1821 sq. km).
- savant
-
noun,
a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- savate
-
noun,
a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- saving
-
noun,
a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay:
- savins
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- Seaman
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- satins
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- seeing
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- senega
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- Semang
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- semens
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- sansei
-
noun,
a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
- series
-
noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- saigas
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- saints
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Samain
-
noun,
Samhain.
- serges
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- Samian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Samos.
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- sanies
-
noun,
a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- serais
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sarans
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- sarees
-
noun,
sari.
- sarges
-
noun,
sergeant.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Sarnia
-
noun,
a port in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the S shore of Lake Huron, on the St. Clair River, across from Port Huron, Michigan.
- sarsen
-
noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- satang
-
noun,
a monetary unit and former coin of Thailand, the 100th part of a baht.
- Reagan
-
noun,
Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- raving
-
noun,
Usually, ravings.
irrational, incoherent talk:
wildly extravagant or outrageous talk; bombast.
- Megara
-
noun,
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- steres
-
- 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.
- Stevia
-
noun,
a South American perennial shrub, Stevia rebaudiana, having small, white flowers and sweet-tasting leaves.
- Steven
-
noun,
a male given name.
- misers
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- sterns
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- 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.).
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- 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.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- stigma
-
noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- staves
-
noun,
a plural of staff1 .
- starve
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stanes
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- stains
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Nagari
-
noun,
a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- Stevin
-
noun,
Simon [see-mawn] /ˈsi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- megass
-
noun,
bagasse.
- string
-
noun,
a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- menage
-
noun,
a domestic establishment; household.
- mensas
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- menses
-
noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- Strega
-
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- merges
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- stimes
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- Mervin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- messan
-
noun,
a lap dog; small pet dog.
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- metage
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- 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.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- stiver
-
noun,
Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- stings
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- stages
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- Namtar
-
noun,
the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.
- ravine
-
noun,
a narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water.
- ramate
-
adjective,
having branches; branching out or off.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sirees
-
noun,
sirree.
- ragman
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- ragmen
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- singes
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- raises
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- raisin
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- Ramage
-
noun,
a descent group composed of individuals descended from one ancestor through any combination of male and female links.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Sisera
-
noun,
the commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin: killed by Jael. Judges 4:17–22.
- Singer
-
noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- ratans
-
noun,
rattan.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- rating
-
noun,
classification according to grade or rank.
- ravage
-
noun,
havoc; ruinous damage:
- Ravens
-
noun,
any of several large, corvine birds having lustrous, black plumage and a loud, harsh call, especially Corvus corax, of the New and Old Worlds.
- sirens
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Sister
-
noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- Nasser
-
noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- native
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.:
- sneers
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- navies
-
noun,
the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- navig.
-
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- negate
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- Neisse
-
noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- nemat-
-
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- enigma
-
noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- sitars
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- irises
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- Nevers
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Nièvre, in central France, on the Loire River: Romanesque church.
- Neviim
-
noun,
the Prophets, being the second of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- niseis
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- Irvine
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- genera
-
noun,
a plural of genus.
- envies
-
noun,
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
- givens
-
noun,
an established fact, condition, factor, etc.
- grains
-
noun,
an iron instrument with barbed prongs, for spearing or harpooning fish.
- averts
-
verb (used with object),
to turn away or aside:
- Graiae
-
plural noun,
Graeae.
- Graeae
-
plural noun,
three old sea goddesses who had but one eye and one tooth among them and were the protectors of their sisters the Gorgons.
- averse
-
adjective,
having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed:
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- angsts
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- avenge
-
verb (used with object),
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for:
- gneiss
-
noun,
a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
- tiaras
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- Avanti
-
noun,
Kingdom of, an ancient Aryan kingdom of W central India, with its capital near modern Ujjain; flourished in the 6th–4th centuries b.c.
- Animas
-
noun,
soul; life.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- anises
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- Evarts
-
noun,
William Maxwell, 1818–1901, U.S. lawyer and statesman.
- ansate
-
adjective,
having a handle or handlelike part.
- verset
-
noun,
Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- 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.
- verses
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a stanza.
- gisant
-
noun,
a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Girtin
-
noun,
Thomas, 1775–1802, English painter.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Veneti
-
noun,
Also, Venetia. Also called Veneto [ve-ne-taw] /ˈvɛ nɛ tɔ/ (Show IPA). a region in NE Italy. 7095 sq. mi. (18,375 sq. km).
- antiar
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- venges
-
verb (used with object),
to avenge.
- everts
-
noun,
Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- timing
-
noun,
Theater.
a synchronizing of the various parts of a production for theatrical effect.
the result or effect thus achieved.
(in acting) the act of adjusting one's tempo of speaking and moving for dramatic effect.
- Avesta
-
noun,
a collection of sacred Zoroastrian writings, including the Gathas.
- gramas
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- trivia
-
noun,
(in Roman religion) Hecate: so called because she was the goddess of the crossroads.
- Erving
-
noun,
Julius Winfield ("Dr. J") born 1950, U.S. basketball player.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- greets
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- greens
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- amigas
-
noun,
a female friend.
- greave
-
noun,
a piece of plate armor for the leg between the knee and the ankle, usually composed of front and back pieces.
- Greats
-
- grease
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- essive
-
noun,
the essive case.
- Graves
-
noun,
a wine-growing district in Gironde department, in SW France.
- Amrita
-
noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- graven
-
verb,
a past participle of grave3 .
- Vestas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- gratis
-
adverb,
without charge or payment; free:
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- gratin
-
noun,
au gratin.
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- gamete
-
noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- Grasse
-
noun,
François Joseph Paul [frahn-swa zhaw-zef pawl] /frɑ̃ˈswa ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Grasse-Tilly) 1722–1788, French admiral.
- Grants
-
noun,
a town in W New Mexico.
- Granta
-
noun,
Cam.
- esters
-
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 .
- Anemia
-
noun,
Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- vegans
-
noun,
a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- versts
-
noun,
a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- aviate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to fly or fly in an aircraft.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- grani-
-
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Antrim
-
noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- Gretna
-
noun,
a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- gastr-
-
- Gemara
-
noun,
the section of the Talmud consisting essentially of commentary on the Mishnah.
- vermin
-
noun,
noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control, as flies, lice, bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, and rats.
- vermi-
-
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- arsen-
-
- assign
-
noun,
Usually, assigns. Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee:
- gainst
-
preposition,
against.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- verite
-
noun,
truth; truthfulness.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- Asante
-
noun,
Ashanti.
- verism
-
noun,
the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- 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).
- asemia
-
noun,
inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.
- Gemini
-
plural noun,
Astronomy. the Twins, a zodiacal constellation between Taurus and Cancer containing the bright stars Castor and Pollux.
- Gasser
-
noun,
Slang. something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
- gasmen
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- gasman
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- verges
-
noun,
the edge, rim, or margin of something:
- trans.
-
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- Travis
-
noun,
William Barret, 1809–36, U.S. soldier: commander during the battle of the Alamo.
- Garnet
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- ventr-
-
- asians
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- gamins
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- gamine
-
noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- gamet-
-
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Anvers
-
noun,
French name of Antwerp.
- German
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Germany.
- Venite
-
noun,
the 95th Psalm (94th in the Vulgate and Douay), used as a canticle at matins or morning prayers.
- evites
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid; shun.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- Vernet
-
noun,
Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1714–89, French painter.
- gestes
-
noun,
gest.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- 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.
- Gessen
-
noun,
Goshen (def 1).
- Gesner
-
noun,
Konrad von [kon-rad von;; German kawn-raht fuh n] /ˈkɒn ræd vɒn;; German ˈkɔn rɑt fən/ (Show IPA), 1516–65, Swiss naturalist.
- Argent
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Argive
-
noun,
a native of Argos.
- tinges
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- germen
-
noun,
a germ.
- gerent
-
noun,
a ruler or manager.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- Geneva
-
noun,
Hollands.
- Gaines
-
noun,
Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- venter
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the abdomen or belly.
a bellylike cavity or concavity.
a bellylike protuberance.
- vermis
-
noun,
the median lobe or division of the cerebellum.
- Arista
-
noun,
Botany. a bristlelike appendage of the spikelets of grains or grasses; an awn.
- genets
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- arises
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Gainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- tirage
-
noun,
the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
- genies
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- genit.
-
- Ariege
-
noun,
a department in S France. 1893 sq. mi. (4905 sq. km). Capital: Foix.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- Ervine
-
noun,
St. John Greer [greer] /grɪər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1971, Irish dramatist and novelist.
- Verein
-
noun,
a union, association, or society.
- Grieve
-
verb (used with object),
to distress mentally; cause to feel grief or sorrow:
- Aeneas
-
noun,
a Trojan hero, the reputed ancestor of the Romans: protagonist of the Aeneid.
- tenaim
-
noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- erases
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- agnate
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- Erevan
-
noun,
Yerevan.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- imines
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- instr.
-
- ergate
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- inter.
-
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intima
-
noun,
the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- intime
-
adjective,
intimate; cozy.
- images
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- Virgin
-
noun,
a person who has never had sexual intercourse.
- ignite
-
verb (used with object),
to set on fire; kindle.
- egests
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- varies
-
verb (used with object),
to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance:
- intra-
-
- agists
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- insist
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- ageism
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- enter-
-
- agates
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- virgas
-
noun,
streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground (distinguished from praecipitatio).
- eating
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- enrage
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- inmate
-
noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- visage
-
noun,
the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- INGRES
-
noun,
Jean Auguste Dominique [zhahn oh-gyst daw-mee-neek] /ʒɑ̃ oʊˈgüst dɔ miˈnik/ (Show IPA), 1780–1867, French painter.
- aerate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- engram
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- Ingram
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Ingmar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ingest
-
verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- Vanier
-
noun,
Georges P [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1967, Canadian soldier and diplomat: governor-general 1959–67.
- ingate
-
noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- envier
-
noun,
a person who feels envy.
- varnas
-
noun,
Hinduism. class (def 13).
- 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.
- easies
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- Vasari
-
noun,
Giorgio [jawr-jaw] /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/ (Show IPA), 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.
- Egesta
-
noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- egress
-
noun,
the act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place.
- emesis
-
noun,
vomitus.
- invert
-
noun,
a person or thing that is inverted.
- Visine
-
- invest
-
verb (used with object),
to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- invite
-
noun,
Informal. an invitation.
- grivet
-
noun,
a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.
- grists
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- vagina
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the passage leading from the uterus to the vulva in certain female mammals. Compare oviduct.
a sheathlike part or organ.
- tegmen
-
noun,
a cover, covering, or integument.
- visits
-
noun,
the act of or an instance of visiting:
- Varese
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, NW of Milan.
- vatman
-
noun,
the worker who shakes the pulp onto the wire.
- V-sign
-
noun,
a sign of victory formed by the raised index and middle fingers.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- Vtesse
-
- veenas
-
noun,
vina.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- emigre
-
noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- Grimes
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- Vargas
-
noun,
Getulio Dornelles [Portuguese zhi-too-lyoo doo r-ne-lis] /Portuguese ʒɪˈtu lyʊ dʊərˈnɛ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1954, Brazilian statesman.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- a-game
-
noun,
a person’s best effort, abilities, or achievement:
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- airman
-
noun,
an aviator.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- Erivan
-
noun,
Yerevan.
- Vassar
-
noun,
Matthew, 1792–1868, U.S. merchant, philanthropist, and supporter of education for women; born in England: founder of Vassar College.
- Aegean
-
noun,
the. Aegean Sea.
- invars
-
- 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.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- earing
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- Aegina
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Asopus and Metope who was abducted by Zeus and bore him a son, Aeacus.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- vimana
-
noun,
a sanctuary of a Brahman temple.
- airing
-
noun,
an exposure to the air, as for drying.
- vigias
-
noun,
a navigational hazard whose existence or position is uncertain.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- 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.
- signs
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- nitr-
-
- vents
-
noun,
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- 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.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- assn.
-
- siris
-
noun,
lebbek (def 1).
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- 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.
- reive
-
verb (used with or without object),
to rob; plunder.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- assai
-
noun,
any of several slender Brazilian palms of the genus Euterpe, especially E. edulis, a species bearing a purple fruit from which a beverage is made by infusion.
- asst.
-
- Varna
-
noun,
Hinduism. class (def 13).
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- Assam
-
noun,
a state in NE India. 30,285 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Capital: Dispur.
- varia
-
noun,
a variant reading.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- ravin
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
raven2 .
- avgas
-
noun,
gasoline for use in piston-engined aircraft.
- Raven
-
noun,
any of several large, corvine birds having lustrous, black plumage and a loud, harsh call, especially Corvus corax, of the New and Old Worlds.
- vegas
-
noun,
Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- avian
-
adjective,
of or relating to birds.
- vegan
-
noun,
a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- Raman
-
noun,
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata [chuhn-druh-shey-ker-uh veng-kuh-tuh] /ˈtʃʌn drəˈʃeɪ kər ə ˈvɛŋ kə tə/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Indian physicist: Nobel prize 1930.
- Avram
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abram.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- Eagan
-
noun,
a town in SE Minnesota.
- avers
-
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- vasts
-
noun,
Literary. an immense or boundless expanse or space.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- veena
-
noun,
vina.
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Sinai
-
noun,
Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- Sinas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sing.
-
- veers
-
noun,
a change of direction, position, course, etc.:
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- avert
-
verb (used with object),
to turn away or aside:
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Vener
-
noun,
Vänern.
- ragas
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- Regt.
-
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- astr.
-
- veni-
-
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- venge
-
verb (used with object),
to avenge.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- ative
-
- avens
-
noun,
any of various plants of the genus Geum, of the rose family, having yellow, white, or red flowers.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Atman
-
noun,
the principle of life.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- atria
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- simas
-
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.
- Reave
-
verb (used with object),
to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.
- raias
-
noun,
rayah.
- reata
-
noun,
riata.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- veins
-
noun,
one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- 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)
- Avars
-
noun,
a member of a people, probably originating in Asia, who settled in Dacia a.d. c555, later occupied Pannonia, and invaded other parts of central and eastern Europe before their decline in the 9th century.
- avast
-
verb (imperative),
(used as a command to stop or cease):
- sings
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- ratan
-
noun,
rattan.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- sasin
-
noun,
blackbuck.
- vigia
-
noun,
a navigational hazard whose existence or position is uncertain.
- Satan
-
noun,
the chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; the devil.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- 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.
- sates
-
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.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- vimen
-
noun,
a long, flexible shoot of a plant.
- satis
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- vinas
-
noun,
a musical stringed instrument of India, made of rosewood or ebony, consisting of a long, hollow, fretted stick to which one, two, or three gourds are attached to increase the resonance.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- vini-
-
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- Agram
-
noun,
German name of Zagreb.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- vigas
-
noun,
a rough-hewn beam, usually of fir, used to support the roof in adobe construction.
- amain
-
adverb,
with full force.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- Amer.
-
- amin-
-
- sanit
-
- amiga
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Sans.
-
- vests
-
noun,
a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- Santa
-
noun,
Santa Claus.
- veter
-
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- saris
-
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.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- Saran
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- Amati
-
noun,
Nicolò [nee-kaw-law] /ˌni kɔˈlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1684, Italian violinmaker, one of a famous family of 16th- and 17th-century violinmakers: teacher of Antonio Stradivari.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- amate
-
verb (used with object),
to dismay; daunt.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- amass
-
verb (used with object),
to gather for oneself; collect as one's own:
- savin
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- agmas
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- visas
-
noun,
an endorsement issued by an authorized representative of a country and marked in a passport, permitting the passport holder to enter, travel through, or reside in that country for a specified amount of time, for the purpose of tourism, education, employment, etc.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- aemia
-
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- 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.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- aeri-
-
- vises
-
noun,
any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- visit
-
noun,
the act of or an instance of visiting:
- VISTA
-
noun,
a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- 30-30
-
- semi-
-
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seems
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- virga
-
noun,
streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground (distinguished from praecipitatio).
- agist
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- Viren
-
noun,
Lasse [lahs-se] /ˈlɑs sɛ/ (Show IPA), born 1949, Finnish distance runner.
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- agent
-
noun,
a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
- Agena
-
noun,
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- Agave
-
noun,
any of numerous American plants belonging to the genus Agave, of the agave family, species of which are cultivated for economic or ornamental purposes: A. arizonica, of central Arizona, is an endangered species.
- Agate
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- agars
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- seats
-
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.
- Aetna
-
noun,
Mount. Etna, Mount.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- amiss
-
Idioms,
take amiss, to be offended at or resentful of (something not meant to cause offense or resentment); misunderstand:
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- 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.
- arias
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- sieve
-
noun,
an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- riata
-
noun,
a lariat.
- Verna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Verne
-
noun,
Jules [joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1828–1905, French novelist.
- revet
-
verb (used with object),
to face, as an embankment, with masonry or other material.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- rings
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- verse
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a stanza.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- sever
-
verb (used with object),
to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- ASEAN
-
- reni-
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- Asian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- signa
-
verb,
(used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- Verge
-
noun,
the edge, rim, or margin of something:
- asgmt
-
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Sigma
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- arsis
-
noun,
Music. the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
Compare thesis (def 4).
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Armen
-
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- angas
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- sains
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- angi-
-
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Saiva
-
noun,
Shaiva.
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- Saman
-
noun,
a Persian noble who lived in the 8th century a.d., progenitor of the Samanid dynasty.
- saiga
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- Samar
-
noun,
an island in the E central Philippines. 5309 sq. mi. (13,750 sq. km).
- Samas
-
noun,
the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- verts
-
noun,
English Forest Law.
vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer.
the right to cut such vegetation.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- anat.
-
- Vesta
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- angst
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- sages
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- seven
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- Anita
-
noun,
a female given name: Spanish form of Anna.
- anti-
-
- riven
-
verb,
a past participle of rive.
- rivet
-
noun,
a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- ante-
-
- seti-
-
- antas
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- Ansar
-
noun,
the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- serve
-
noun,
the act, manner, or right of serving, as in tennis.
- verst
-
noun,
a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- anis-
-
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- anima
-
noun,
soul; life.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sagan
-
noun,
Carl (Edward) 1934–96, U.S. astronomer and writer.
- sagas
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- anim.
-
- vari-
-
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- Mavis
-
noun,
a song thrush.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- tiara
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- matr-
-
- 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.
- maven
-
noun,
an expert or connoisseur.
- 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.
- G-man
-
noun,
an agent for the FBI.
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- taiga
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- Given
-
noun,
an established fact, condition, factor, etc.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- Tigre
-
noun,
a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- gitim
-
noun,
a plural of get.
- gists
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- grain
-
noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Masan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- GRASS
-
noun,
any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains.
Compare grass family.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Tamar
-
noun,
the daughter of David and half-sister of Absalom. II Sam. 13.
- Taira
-
noun,
a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- Masai
-
noun,
a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- Grant
-
noun,
something granted, as a privilege or right, a sum of money, or a tract of land:
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mast-
-
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Massa
-
noun,
marse.
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- Grana
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- grama
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- gram.
-
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- mega-
-
- Marta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Genie
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- mesas
-
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.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- genre
-
noun,
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like:
- genii
-
noun,
a plural of genius.
- meta-
-
- 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.
- tinge
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- 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.
- Genet
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- metr-
-
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- tings
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- 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.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- Megan
-
noun,
a female given name.
- girns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- Meges
-
noun,
a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- Meigs
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Meigs.
- 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.
- giant
-
noun,
(in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- 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.
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- merge
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- gests
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- grave
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- 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:
- init.
-
- Tarai
-
noun,
Terai.
- maars
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Maera
-
noun,
Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- tangs
-
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- Magna
-
noun,
a town in N Utah.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Tanga
-
noun,
either of two former coins of India, one gold and one silver, issued by various Muslim rulers.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- imit.
-
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- Iran.
-
- invt.
-
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- tears
-
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- Invar
-
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- intr.
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- inst.
-
- ivies
-
noun,
Also called English ivy. a climbing vine, Hedera helix, having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, small, yellowish flowers, and black berries, grown as an ornamental.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- imine
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- Maria
-
noun,
calaba.
- Tamas
-
noun,
See under guna.
- marg.
-
- Marga
-
noun,
any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- grins
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- grime
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- maras
-
noun,
a city in S Turkey, NE of Adana.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- greet
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- Green
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- Marat
-
noun,
Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1743–93, French politician and journalist: leader in the French Revolution; assassinated by Charlotte Corday d'Armont.
- grist
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- mange
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- image
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- manas
-
noun,
the rational faculty of the mind.
- Manat
-
noun,
a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess personifying fortune, sometimes considered a daughter of Allah.
- IATSE
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- iasis
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- manga
-
noun,
a Japanese graphic novel, typically intended for adults, characterized by highly stylized art.
- tera-
-
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- mania
-
noun,
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- term.
-
- Manta
-
noun,
(in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- 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.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Miass
-
noun,
a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- naive
-
adjective,
having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Naima
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “benevolent.”.
- 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 .
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Tsana
-
noun,
Lake. Tana, Lake.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- ErvIn
-
noun,
Samuel James, Jr ("Sam") 1896–1985, U.S. jurist and politician: senator 1954–74.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- Narva
-
noun,
a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.
- Srta.
-
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Msgr.
-
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- evens
-
- evase
-
adjective,
widened at the top, as a vase or chimney flue.
- MSEnt
-
- Evans
-
noun,
Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
- Evang
-
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- trigs
-
noun,
trigonometry.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- stave
-
noun,
one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- trig.
-
- triga
-
noun,
a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- stang
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Evers
-
noun,
(James) Charles, born 1922, U.S. civil-rights leader.
- varas
-
noun,
a unit of length in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, varying from about 32 inches (81 cm) to about 43 inches (109 cm).
- engr.
-
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- never
-
Idioms,
never mind, don't bother; don't concern yourself.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Nevis
-
noun,
one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- nieve
-
noun,
Archaic Northern British and Scot. Dialect. a clenched or closed hand; fist.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Sivas
-
noun,
a city in central Turkey.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Sivan
-
noun,
the ninth month of the Jewish calendar.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Vanir
-
noun,
a race of gods, first in conflict with the Aesir, later allied with them. They function as fertility divinities and include Njord, Frey, and Freyja.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- snags
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- vairs
-
noun,
a fur much used for lining and trimming garments in the 13th and 14th centuries, generally assumed to have been that of a variety of squirrel with a gray back and white belly.
Compare miniver (def 1).
- nears
-
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- Negev
-
noun,
a partially reclaimed desert region and district in S Israel, bordering on the Sinai Peninsula. 4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital: Beersheba.
- nerve
-
noun,
one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- vangs
-
noun,
a rope extending from the peak of a gaff to the ship's rail or to a mast, used to steady the gaff.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Neiva
-
noun,
a city in W Colombia.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- Nerva
-
noun,
Marcus Cocceius [kok-see-yuh s] /kɒkˈsi yəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 32?–98, emperor of Rome 96–98.
- event
-
noun,
something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- Evert
-
noun,
Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- Gaeta
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- Missa
-
noun,
Mass.
- Miss.
-
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- gains
-
- gasts
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- Steve
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Steven or Stephen.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- mirvs
-
noun,
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Mists
-
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.
- garni
-
adjective,
garnished.
- mini-
-
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- gaits
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- minis
-
noun,
miniskirt.
- trave
-
noun,
a crossbeam.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- treas
-
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- Gamin
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- trama
-
noun,
a specialized hyphal tissue constituting the internal structure of mushroom gills, pore tubes, or spines.
- 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.
- Evita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Eva.
- ster.
-
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Gavin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- evite
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid; shun.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- 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.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- sting
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- stge.
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- var.
-
- tavs
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- 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.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- ten.
-
- vars
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2326 sq. mi. (6025 sq. km). Capital: Draguignan.
- Ting
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- Virg
-
- Siva
-
noun,
Shiva.
- vara
-
noun,
a unit of length in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, varying from about 32 inches (81 cm) to about 43 inches (109 cm).
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- vang
-
noun,
a rope extending from the peak of a gaff to the ship's rail or to a mast, used to steady the gaff.
- Vane
-
noun,
weather vane.
- SMSA
-
- vas-
-
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- Mngr
-
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- trav
-
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- Vite
-
adverb,
briskly; lively.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- vise
-
noun,
any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- Vins
-
noun,
wine.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Sig.
-
- Tasm
-
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- 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.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Vern
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Vernon.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- visa
-
noun,
an endorsement issued by an authorized representative of a country and marked in a passport, permitting the passport holder to enter, travel through, or reside in that country for a specified amount of time, for the purpose of tourism, education, employment, etc.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Tara
-
noun,
a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- str.
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- VITA
-
noun,
curriculum vitae (def 1).
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- vain
-
Idioms,
in vain,
without effect or avail; to no purpose:
in an improper or irreverent manner:
- Tana
-
noun,
thana.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- vet.
-
- vees
-
noun,
anything shaped like or suggesting a V .
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Vega
-
noun,
Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Seve
-
noun,
the characteristic flavor and body of a wine.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- tri-
-
- vest
-
noun,
a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- 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.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- vert
-
noun,
English Forest Law.
vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer.
the right to cut such vegetation.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Vent
-
noun,
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.
- 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.
- 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.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- serv
-
- Vena
-
noun,
a vein.
- svgs
-
- Ven.
-
- Ste.
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- vein
-
noun,
one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- 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.
- Veii
-
noun,
an ancient city in central Italy, in Etruria, near Rome: Etruscan city destroyed by the Romans 396 b.c.
- tRNA
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- vims
-
noun,
lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.
- ter.
-
- stg.
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- VAST
-
noun,
Literary. an immense or boundless expanse or space.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- vin-
-
- Sra.
-
- Vina
-
noun,
a musical stringed instrument of India, made of rosewood or ebony, consisting of a long, hollow, fretted stick to which one, two, or three gourds are attached to increase the resonance.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Vera
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Russian word meaning “faith.”.
- VINE
-
noun,
any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
- vair
-
noun,
a fur much used for lining and trimming garments in the 13th and 14th centuries, generally assumed to have been that of a variety of squirrel with a gray back and white belly.
Compare miniver (def 1).
- vase
-
noun,
a vessel, as of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or metal, usually higher than it is wide, used chiefly to hold cut flowers or for decoration.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- Vat.
-
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- vias
-
noun,
Architecture. a space between two mutules.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- vets
-
noun,
veterinarian.
- 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.
- veer
-
noun,
a change of direction, position, course, etc.:
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Viet
-
noun,
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or both.
- Tver
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Moscow, on the Volga.
Formerly (1934–90) Kalinin.
- vers
-
- viga
-
noun,
a rough-hewn beam, usually of fir, used to support the roof in adobe construction.
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- SRAM
-
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- 1080
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- 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.
- Marv
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Marvin.
- 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.
- masa
-
noun,
flour or dough made of dried, ground corn, used especially for tortillas.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Mara
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of death, sometimes seen as one aspect of a god whose other aspect is Kama, or erotic desire.
- meas
-
- avn.
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- Avis
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “bird.”.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- avg.
-
- 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.
- men-
-
- Meng
-
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Mar.
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- eave
-
noun,
Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
- 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.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- maar
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- Maas
-
noun,
Dutch name of the Meuse.
- Maat
-
noun,
the goddess personifying law and righteousness.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- mag.
-
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- Magi
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- Maia
-
noun,
the eldest of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes by Zeus.
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- Man.
-
- Mana
-
noun,
a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- ment
-
- 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.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- MSAE
-
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- 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.
- ASTM
-
- MNAS
-
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- ASSR
-
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- mRNA
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- ASME
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- MSEE
-
- MSgt
-
- MSIE
-
- asis
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- MSTS
-
- Asia
-
noun,
a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. About 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
- mtg.
-
- mtge
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- 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.
- mis-
-
- mes-
-
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- 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.
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Aves
-
noun,
a class of vertebrates comprising the birds.
- Ave.
-
- Avar
-
noun,
a member of a people, probably originating in Asia, who settled in Dacia a.d. c555, later occupied Pannonia, and invaded other parts of central and eastern Europe before their decline in the 9th century.
- ates
-
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- atar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- MIRV
-
noun,
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- migs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- min.
-
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Ming
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 1368–1644, marked by the restoration of traditional institutions and the development of the arts, especially in porcelain, textiles, and painting.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- atm.
-
- 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.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- Ives
-
noun,
Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) [burl ik-uh l] /bɜrl ˈɪk əl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1995, U.S. actor and folk singer.
- Asat
-
noun,
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
Compare sat2 (def 1).
- 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.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- 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:
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- give
-
noun,
the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- Gmat
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- ESIS
-
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- gnat
-
noun,
any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- GNMA
-
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- gave
-
noun,
the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- Gama
-
noun,
Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- 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.
- gait
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- gata
-
noun,
the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- 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:
- ever
-
Idioms,
ever and again, now and then; from time to time.
Also, Literary, ever and anon.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- Evan
-
noun,
a male given name, Welsh form of John.
- Gen.
-
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Ger.
-
- gras
-
- gres
-
- Ivar
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Ens.
-
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Eng.
-
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Sem.
-
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- ISSN
-
- Ire.
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emia
-
- EMet
-
- 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:
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- itis
-
- Ivan
-
noun,
iwan.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Grim
-
adjective,
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- 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.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- IAEA
-
- iana
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- IATA
-
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- inv.
-
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- ign.
-
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- inae
-
- 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).
- ergs
-
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- INRI
-
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- agr.
-
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- 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.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- Rev.
-
- revs
-
noun,
a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- AGMA
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- 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.
- agit
-
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- 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.
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- Rama
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) any of the three avatars of Vishnu: Balarama, Parashurama, or Ramachandra.
- AIME
-
- 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)
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rave
-
noun,
an act of raving.
- Ravi
-
noun,
a river in NW India and NE Pakistan, flowing from the Himlayas SW to the Chenab River: a headwater of the Indus River and one of the “five rivers” of the Punjab. 475 miles (764 km) long.
- agst
-
- 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).
- 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:
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Sava
-
noun,
a river flowing E from W Slovenia, through Croatia to the Danube at Belgrade, Serbia. 450 miles (725 km) long.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- 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.
- SASE
-
- 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.
- Save
-
noun,
an act or instance of saving, especially in sports.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- 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.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- SAMA
-
noun,
the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- RNAS
-
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- 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:
- riv.
-
- rive
-
verb (used with object),
to tear or rend apart:
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- agas
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Sam.
-
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- aet.
-
- aer-
-
- AAEE
-
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- SAGA
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- sags
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Sais
-
noun,
an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- Aire
-
- Reg.
-
- neem
-
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- ansa
-
noun,
Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ARIS
-
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- NIRA
-
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Nama
-
noun,
a member of a Khoikhoi people of Namaqualand, in SW Africa.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Arg.
-
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nav.
-
- nave
-
noun,
the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the congregation.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- Neve
-
noun,
granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- Neva
-
noun,
a river in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from Lake Ladoga through St. Petersburg into the Gulf of Finland: canalized for ships. 40 miles (65 km) long.
- Nev.
-
- amt.
-
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- art.
-
- Anas
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- AISI
-
- Anam
-
noun,
Annam.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Aman
-
noun,
Haman.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Aram
-
noun,
Biblical name of ancient Syria.
- NTIA
-
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- amas
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- anga
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Naga
-
noun,
a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Burma.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- ANTA
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- ant.
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Arm.
-
- NASA
-
noun,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ANSI
-
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- vim
-
noun,
lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.
- ESR
-
- ASV
-
- Ar.
-
- av.
-
- AAE
-
- AAM
-
- ese
-
- ESA
-
- ERV
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- Aar
-
- an.
-
- ASN
-
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- VRM
-
- Vte
-
- Vt.
-
- ase
-
- ARS
-
- ASI
-
- VSS
-
- gi.
-
- 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.
- Ga.
-
- evg
-
- Eve
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event:
- Am.
-
- EVA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Eve.
- ast
-
- ETV
-
- ag-
-
- ASM
-
- Ver
-
- AIA
-
- ETS
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- ETR
-
- AMA
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- ASR
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- 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.
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- 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:
- TSS
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EIS
-
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- Avi
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- eir
-
- AME
-
- EEG
-
- VGA
-
- veg
-
noun,
a vegetable.
- Agt
-
- Eg.
-
- Vee
-
noun,
anything shaped like or suggesting a V .
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ea.
-
- EAA
-
- Via
-
noun,
Architecture. a space between two mutules.
- EAM
-
- ean
-
- 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.
- vie
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to put forward in competition or rivalry.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- EMR
-
- EMT
-
- ae.
-
- ATA
-
- AEA
-
- at.
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- vis
-
noun,
strength; force; power.
- TVA
-
- ERT
-
- Va.
-
- vs.
-
- V-1
-
noun,
a robot bomb developed by the Germans in World War II and launched from bases on the ground, chiefly against England.
- V-2
-
noun,
a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- en-
-
- VAN
-
noun,
the foremost or front division of an army, a fleet, or any group leading an advance or in position to lead an advance.
- ANG
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ATV
-
- a-v
-
- env
-
- VIR
-
noun,
husband (used chiefly in the legal phrase et vir).
- Ava
-
noun,
a female given name.
- AGM
-
- ene
-
- AMS
-
- ARV
-
noun,
a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
- ise
-
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- ss.
-
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- SSR
-
- SSN
-
- SSM
-
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- SSA
-
- SRS
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- Sr.
-
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- SMS
-
- NES
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NIA
-
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- NAA
-
- SMA
-
- MRA
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MIE
-
- Mig
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- STI
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIT
-
- MNA
-
- MNE
-
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRE
-
- MTV
-
- MRI
-
- MSA
-
- 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.
- MSI
-
- MSN
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- MTI
-
- mtn
-
- MTS
-
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- mi.
-
- rte
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RNA
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- RSS
-
- RSV
-
- rt.
-
- RTS
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- SAA
-
- SAE
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- 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).
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Sgt
-
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- NMI
-
- NMR
-
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- NSA
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Re.
-
- RMA
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- 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.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- REA
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MNS
-
- MGT
-
- IGM
-
- GSR
-
- gt.
-
- GTS
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Ia.
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- ier
-
- MGr
-
- in.
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- ing
-
- Ir.
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- IRS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ISA
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- GSA
-
- gre
-
- ist
-
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- tra
-
- tr.
-
- Tng
-
- TMV
-
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- Tiv
-
noun,
a member of an African people living N and S of the lower Benue River in E Nigeria.
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- Ges
-
- GeV
-
- Gr.
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- 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.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- GMT
-
- TIA
-
- TGV
-
- TGN
-
- ISR
-
- VTR
-
noun,
a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
- ISV
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- STM
-
- MeV
-
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- STV
-
- SVR
-
- SVS
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- 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:
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- 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.
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- MAA
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Me.
-
- ITA
-
- Iva
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Iva, characterized by usually opposite leaves and inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers.
- ite
-
- ITV
-
- Tav
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- 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.
- 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.
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
-
- MN
-
- RV
-
- S.
-
- t.
-
- SA
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- SG
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- AA
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noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- SM
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- EI
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- TM
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- SV
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- TN
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- G.
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- 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.
- SN
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- VM
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- VN
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- MG
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- GM
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- gv
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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.
- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- EV
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- VI
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- NI
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- NV
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- NG
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- R.
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- IV
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noun,
an intravenous device for delivering electrolyte solutions, medicines, and nutrients.
- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
- RI
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- i.
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- N.
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- RN
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- VR
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- VG
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- TG
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- MV
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- V.
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- NM
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- TV
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noun,
television.
- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
- M.
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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.
- rg
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- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- GN
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
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- IG
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