Anagrams of volunteerism
Word volunteerism has
1884 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of volunteerism.
- Leominster
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noun,
a city in N Massachusetts.
- volunteers
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noun,
a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- resolutive
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adjective,
having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- trueloves
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noun,
a sweetheart; a truly loving or loved person.
- unmortise
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verb (used with object),
to unfasten or separate (something mortised).
- mutineers
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noun,
a person who mutinies.
- involutes
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noun,
Geometry. any curve of which a given curve is the evolute.
- limestone
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noun,
a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime.
- Montreuil
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noun,
a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- neoterism
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noun,
an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- relumines
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verb (used with object),
to relume.
- vinometer
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noun,
a hydrometer for measuring the percentage of alcohol in wine.
- musteline
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adjective,
belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- volunteer
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noun,
a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- revulsion
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noun,
a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike:
- resolvent
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noun,
something resolvent.
- verminous
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adjective,
of the nature of or resembling vermin.
- milestone
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noun,
a stone functioning as a milepost.
- Louvertie
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noun,
a female given name.
- Menoetius
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noun,
a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- televisor
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noun,
an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- novelties
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noun,
state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness:
- vermeils
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noun,
vermilion red.
- eversion
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noun,
a turning or being turned outward or inside out.
- one-time
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adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- souvenir
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noun,
a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- evulsion
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noun,
the act of plucking or pulling out; forcible extraction.
- reenlist
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verb (used with or without object),
to enlist again.
- outliers
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noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- outlines
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noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- overline
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noun,
a cutline, usually of one line, appearing over a picture, cartoon, etc.
- overtime
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noun,
working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours; extra working time.
- esurient
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adjective,
hungry; greedy.
- relievos
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noun,
Obsolete. relief2 (defs 2, 3).
- relumine
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verb (used with object),
to relume.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- resolute
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adjective,
firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion:
- entresol
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noun,
a low floor between two higher floors, the lower one usually being a ground floor; mezzanine.
- retinols
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noun,
vitamin A.
- retinues
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noun,
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- reunites
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verb (used with or without object),
to unite again, as after separation.
- virulent
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adjective,
actively poisonous; intensely noxious:
- involute
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noun,
Geometry. any curve of which a given curve is the evolute.
- veinlets
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noun,
a small vein.
- novelist
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noun,
a person who writes novels.
- monsieur
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noun,
the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- Truelove
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noun,
a sweetheart; a truly loving or loved person.
- melitose
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noun,
raffinose.
- mesolite
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noun,
a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- turnsole
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noun,
any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- minstrel
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noun,
a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- universe
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noun,
the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- unmiters
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- ton-mile
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noun,
a unit of freight transportation measurement equivalent to a ton of freight transported one mile.
- unmitres
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verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- moisture
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noun,
condensed or diffused liquid, especially water:
- toluenes
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noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable liquid, C 7 H 8 , having a benzenelike odor, obtained chiefly from coal tar and petroleum: used as a solvent in the manufacture of benzoic acid, benzaldehyde, TNT, and other organic compounds.
- line-out
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noun,
a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- venulose
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adjective,
having venules.
- Tirolese
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adjective, noun,
Tyrolese.
- Moultrie
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noun,
William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mounters
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- Muenster
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noun,
a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- mutineer
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noun,
a person who mutinies.
- Terminus
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noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- Leinster
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noun,
a province in the E Republic of Ireland. 7576 sq. mi. (19,620 sq. km).
- veinules
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noun,
venule.
- nervules
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noun,
a small branch of a nerve in the wing of an insect.
- veloutes
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noun,
a smooth white sauce made with meat, poultry, or fish stock.
- revolute
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adjective,
rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.
- ventures
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noun,
an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one:
- rimstone
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noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- emeritus
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noun,
an emeritus professor, minister, etc.
- semitone
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noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- Seminole
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noun,
a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- emersion
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- volutins
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noun,
basophilic nucleoprotein granules in the cytoplasm or the vacuoles of certain microorganisms.
- vitreous
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adjective,
of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.:
- Elsinore
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noun,
Helsingør.
- routines
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noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- selenium
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noun,
a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- sirvente
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noun,
a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- routemen
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noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- voitures
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noun,
a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle.
- emulsion
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noun,
Physical Chemistry. any colloidal suspension of a liquid in another liquid.
- leisure
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noun,
freedom from the demands of work or duty:
- veinule
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noun,
venule.
- veinlet
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noun,
a small vein.
- nervous
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adjective,
highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive:
- leister
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noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- nervule
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noun,
a small branch of a nerve in the wing of an insect.
- misrule
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noun,
bad or unwise rule; misgovernment.
- Lenotre
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noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1613–1700, French architect and landscape designer.
- tensile
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adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- lemures
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plural noun,
the ghosts of the dead of a family, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or propitiated; larvae.
- tensive
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adjective,
stretching or straining.
- tenures
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noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- rutiles
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noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- murines
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noun,
a murine rodent.
- Leotine
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noun,
a female given name.
- Munster
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noun,
muenster.
- uterine
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adjective,
of or relating to the uterus or womb.
- utensil
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noun,
any of the instruments or vessels commonly used in a kitchen, dairy, etc.:
- Sievert
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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.
- timeous
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adjective,
timely; sufficiently early.
- leviers
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noun,
a person who levies.
- velours
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noun,
a velvetlike fabric of rayon, wool, or any of several other natural or synthetic fibers, used for outerwear and upholstery.
- neuters
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noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- veloute
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noun,
a smooth white sauce made with meat, poultry, or fish stock.
- venture
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noun,
an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one:
- stuiver
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noun,
stiver (def 1).
- veriest
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adverb,
in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly:
- inverse
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noun,
an inverted state or condition.
- inverts
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noun,
a person or thing that is inverted.
- elusive
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adjective,
eluding or failing to allow for or accommodate a clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define:
- elusion
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noun,
the act of eluding; evasion.
- Vereins
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noun,
a union, association, or society.
- venules
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noun,
a small vein.
- nostrum
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noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- nostril
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noun,
either of the two external openings of the nose.
- venturi
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noun,
Robert Charles, born 1925, U.S. architect.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- surveil
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verb (used with object),
to place under surveillance.
- soilure
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noun,
a stain.
- ventro-
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- Ventris
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noun,
Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.
- ventri-
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- niveous
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adjective,
resembling snow, especially in whiteness; snowy.
- Ventose
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noun,
(in the French Revolutionary calendar) the sixth month of the year, extending from February 19 to March 20.
- nitrous
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adjective,
pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- venters
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the abdomen or belly.
a bellylike cavity or concavity.
a bellylike protuberance.
- Nilotes
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noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Temenus
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noun,
a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- neutro-
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- Mountie
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noun,
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- velures
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noun,
velvet or a substance resembling it.
- Teniers
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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.
- leviter
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adverb,
(in prescriptions) lightly.
- motives
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noun,
something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- liernes
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noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- merlons
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noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- loments
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noun,
a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- tourism
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noun,
the activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure.
- Miletus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a son of Apollo and Aria, and the founder of the city of Miletus.
- vomitus
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noun,
the act of vomiting.
- Lorient
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noun,
a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- Trevino
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noun,
Lee ("Super Mex") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- Treviso
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy.
- metiers
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- turmoil
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noun,
a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet:
- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- tureens
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noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- merlots
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noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- merlins
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noun,
a small, bold falcon, Falco columbarius, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- loiters
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- louvers
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noun,
any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
- louvres
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noun,
a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.
- merinos
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- meltons
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noun,
a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- melters
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- Lumiere
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noun,
Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas [oh-gyst ma-ree lwee nee-kaw-lah] /oʊˈgüst maˈri lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean [lwee zhahn] /lwi ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA) 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.
- Melrose
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noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- meletin
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noun,
quercetin.
- Meitner
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noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- triunes
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noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- Troilus
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noun,
a warrior son of Priam, mentioned by Homer and Vergil and later represented as the lover of Cressida.
- luteins
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noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- milters
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noun,
a male fish in breeding time.
- minever
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noun,
miniver.
- mounter
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- Servite
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noun,
a member of an order of mendicant friars, founded in Florence in 1233, engaged in fostering devotion to the Virgin Mary.
- Moulins
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noun,
a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- elevons
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noun,
a control surface functioning both as an elevator and as an aileron.
- oeuvres
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noun,
the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
- limners
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noun,
a person who paints or draws.
- unveils
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verb (used with object),
to remove a veil or other covering from; display; reveal:
- mortise
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- monster
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noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- seleno-
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- unsteel
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verb (used with object),
to bring out of a steeled condition; soften.
- linters
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noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- toluene
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable liquid, C 7 H 8 , having a benzenelike odor, obtained chiefly from coal tar and petroleum: used as a solvent in the manufacture of benzoic acid, benzaldehyde, TNT, and other organic compounds.
- Moliere
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noun,
(Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622–73, French actor and playwright.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- volutes
-
noun,
a spiral or twisted formation or object.
- unreels
-
verb (used with object),
to unwind from or as if from a reel:
- lisente
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noun,
plural of sente.
- moisten
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- volutin
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noun,
basophilic nucleoprotein granules in the cytoplasm or the vacuoles of certain microorganisms.
- tonemes
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- servile
-
adjective,
slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- unmitre
-
verb (used with object),
unmiter.
- Semenov
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noun,
Nicolai N [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Russian chemist: Nobel prize 1956.
- unmiter
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- minutes
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minuets
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- verismo
-
noun,
the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
- silvern
-
adjective,
made of or like silver.
- Soleure
-
noun,
French name of Solothurn.
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- entoils
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- version
-
noun,
a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account:
- stereo-
-
- sterile
-
adjective,
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic:
- evolute
-
noun,
the locus of the centers of curvature of, or the envelope of the normals to, another curve.
Compare involute (def 5).
- retinue
-
noun,
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- voiture
-
noun,
a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle.
- etoiles
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- vitreum
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) glass.
- vesture
-
noun,
Law.
everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees.
any such covering, as grass or wheat.
- versine
-
noun,
versed sine.
- sterno-
-
- estrone
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Oriente
-
noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- retinol
-
noun,
vitamin A.
- violent
-
adjective,
acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force:
- resolve
-
noun,
a resolution or determination made, as to follow some course of action.
- restive
-
adjective,
impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- overmen
-
noun,
a foreman, supervisor, or overseer.
- overset
-
noun,
the act or fact of oversetting; upset; overturn.
- envious
-
adjective,
full of, feeling, or expressing envy:
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- overlie
-
verb (used with object),
to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- enviers
-
noun,
a person who feels envy.
- Steiner
-
noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- Soutine
-
noun,
Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- outlive
-
verb (used with object),
to live longer than; survive (a person, period, etc.):
- outline
-
noun,
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outlier
-
noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- relumes
-
verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- Eventus
-
noun,
Bonus Eventus.
- overuse
-
noun,
excessive use:
- entero-
-
- routine
-
noun,
a customary or regular course of procedure.
- emotive
-
adjective,
characterized by or pertaining to emotion:
- rivulet
-
noun,
a small stream; streamlet; brook.
- vermeil
-
noun,
vermilion red.
- relents
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- reviles
-
verb (used with object),
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- erosive
-
adjective,
serving to erode; causing erosion.
- omelets
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- remount
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- Sirenum
-
noun,
Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- verites
-
noun,
truth; truthfulness.
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- relievo
-
noun,
Obsolete. relief2 (defs 2, 3).
- estriol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- sternum
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- smelter
-
noun,
a person or thing that smelts.
- removes
-
noun,
the act of removing.
- Slovene
-
noun,
one of a Slavic people dwelling in Slovenia.
- reunite
-
verb (used with or without object),
to unite again, as after separation.
- Vermont
-
noun,
a state of the NE United States: a part of New England. 9609 sq. mi. (24,885 sq. km). Capital: Montpelier.
Abbreviation: VT (for use with zip code), Vt.
- solvent
-
noun,
a substance that dissolves another to form a solution:
- revolts
-
noun,
the act of revolting; an insurrection or rebellion.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- sloven
-
noun,
a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.
- 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.
- minuet
-
noun,
a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- snivel
-
noun,
weak, whining, or pretended weeping.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- molten
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- 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.
- Milton
-
noun,
John, 1608–74, English poet.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- minute
-
noun,
the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- M-line
-
noun,
one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- remove
-
noun,
the act of removing.
- renvoi
-
noun,
the expulsion by a government of an alien, especially a foreign diplomat, from the country.
- 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.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Moline
-
noun,
a city in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi.
- 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.
- 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.).
- misrun
-
noun,
an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- molest
-
verb (used with object),
to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- solute
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- molies
-
noun,
an herb given to Odysseus by Hermes to counteract the spells of Circe.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- milter
-
noun,
a male fish in breeding time.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Melvin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- solemn
-
adjective,
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood:
- Melton
-
noun,
a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- revels
-
noun,
Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- melter
-
noun,
a person or thing that melts.
- revest
-
verb (used with object),
to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.
- soever
-
adverb,
at all; in any case; of any kind; in any way (used with generalizing force after who, what, when, where, how, any, all, etc., sometimes separated by intervening words):
- merles
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- revets
-
verb (used with object),
to face, as an embankment, with masonry or other material.
- revile
-
verb (used with object),
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- revise
-
noun,
an act of revising.
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- Triune
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) the Trinity.
- revolt
-
noun,
the act of revolting; an insurrection or rebellion.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- troves
-
noun,
a collection of objects.
- revues
-
noun,
a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- 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;
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- 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.
- Milner
-
noun,
Alfred, 1st Viscount, 1854–1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
- result
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- milers
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- tousle
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- Merlin
-
noun,
a small, bold falcon, Falco columbarius, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- Mervin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- merous
-
- merlot
-
noun,
a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- merlon
-
noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- moulvi
-
noun,
maulvi.
- selen-
-
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- sutler
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- svelte
-
adjective,
slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Nivose
-
noun,
(in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fourth month of the year, extending from December 21 to January 19.
- teleo-
-
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- nitro-
-
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Nistru
-
noun,
Romanian name of Dniester.
- telium
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- Nevers
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Nièvre, in central France, on the Loire River: Romanesque church.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- steno-
-
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- neurol
-
- neuro-
-
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- ostium
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Soviet
-
noun,
(before the revolution) any governmental council.
(after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration.
(after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- Silver
-
noun,
Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- oleums
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- Stover
-
noun,
coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- strive
-
verb (used without object),
to exert oneself vigorously; try hard:
- oilmen
-
noun,
a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- strove
-
verb,
simple past tense of strive.
- omelet
-
noun,
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
- oeuvre
-
noun,
the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- Struve
-
noun,
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von [free-drikh gey-awrk vil-helm fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx geɪˈɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, Russian astronomer, born in Germany.
- numis.
-
- truism
-
noun,
a self-evident, obvious truth.
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- stiver
-
noun,
Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- Stevin
-
noun,
Simon [see-mawn] /ˈsi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.
- sunlit
-
adjective,
lighted by the sun.
- Steven
-
noun,
a male given name.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- silure
-
plural noun,
a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- morels
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- Oliver
-
noun,
one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne.
Compare Roland.
- sevier
-
noun,
John, 1745–1815, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier and politician: first governor of Tennessee.
- Timour
-
noun,
Tamerlane.
- tinsel
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- Severn
-
noun,
a river in Great Britain, flowing from central Wales through W England into the Bristol Channel. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- movers
-
noun,
a person or thing that moves.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- somni-
-
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- moults
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- moulin
-
noun,
a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- servo-
-
- motive
-
noun,
something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- motile
-
adjective,
Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously:
- sliver
-
noun,
a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- relive
-
verb (used with object),
to experience again, as an emotion.
- relume
-
verb (used with object),
to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- morsel
-
noun,
a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- muesli
-
noun,
a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- Rustin
-
noun,
Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- rustle
-
noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tenuis
-
noun,
an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- rutile
-
noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- rutins
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- mulier
-
noun,
a woman or wife.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- muslin
-
noun,
a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- murine
-
noun,
a murine rodent.
- Muriel
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- munite
-
verb (used with object),
to fortify.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- ovines
-
adjective,
pertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep.
- ovules
-
noun,
Botany.
a rudimentary seed.
the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed.
- multi-
-
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- lutose
-
adjective,
covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- venoms
-
noun,
the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- V/STOL
-
- leones
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Lenore
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- lemurs
-
noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- Lemnos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 186 sq. mi. (480 sq. km). Capital: Myrina.
- velour
-
noun,
a velvetlike fabric of rayon, wool, or any of several other natural or synthetic fibers, used for outerwear and upholstery.
- Velsen
-
noun,
a seaport in W Netherlands.
- velure
-
noun,
velvet or a substance resembling it.
- 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).
- Venite
-
noun,
the 95th Psalm (94th in the Vulgate and Douay), used as a canticle at matins or morning prayers.
- venose
-
adjective,
having many or prominent veins.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- venous
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or of the nature of a vein.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- venter
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the abdomen or belly.
a bellylike cavity or concavity.
a bellylike protuberance.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- ventr-
-
- Iseult
-
noun,
Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance.
the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- venues
-
noun,
Law.
the place of a crime or cause of action.
the county or place where the jury is gathered and the cause tried.
the designation, in the pleading, of the jurisdiction where a trial will be held.
the statement naming the place and person before whom an affidavit was sworn.
- venule
-
noun,
a small vein.
- Verein
-
noun,
a union, association, or society.
- 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.
- invert
-
noun,
a person or thing that is inverted.
- inures
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- utero-
-
- usenet
-
noun,
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
- 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.
- linums
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- livres
-
noun,
a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- livers
-
noun,
Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- livens
-
verb (used with object),
to put life into; rouse; enliven; cheer (often followed by up):
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- litmus
-
noun,
a blue coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria. In alkaline solution litmus turns blue, in acid solution, red: widely used as a chemical indicator.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- unreel
-
verb (used with object),
to unwind from or as if from a reel:
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- unrove
-
adjective,
withdrawn from a block, thimble, etc.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- linter
-
noun,
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- ursine
-
adjective,
of or relating to a bear or bears.
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- unveil
-
verb (used with object),
to remove a veil or other covering from; display; reveal:
- limner
-
noun,
a person who paints or draws.
- limens
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- Lieut.
-
- urines
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- lierne
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- urino-
-
- Levite
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Levi.
- Levins
-
noun,
lightning.
- Levine
-
noun,
Jack, 1915–2010, U.S. painter.
- levies
-
noun,
an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
- levier
-
noun,
a person who levies.
- intro.
-
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- unlive
-
verb (used with object),
to undo or reverse (past life, experiences, etc.):
- elvers
-
noun,
a young eel, especially one that is migrating up a stream from the ocean.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- 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:
- enter-
-
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- ensoul
-
verb (used with object),
to endow with a soul.
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- vitrum
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) glass.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- voiles
-
noun,
a lightweight, semisheer fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton constructed in plain weave.
- elutes
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Elmont
-
noun,
a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- volume
-
noun,
a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- elints
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- elevon
-
noun,
a control surface functioning both as an elevator and as an aileron.
- volute
-
noun,
a spiral or twisted formation or object.
- elemis
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- vomers
-
noun,
a bone of the skull in most vertebrates, in humans forming a large part of the septum between the right and left cavities of the nose.
- vomits
-
noun,
the act of vomiting.
- voters
-
noun,
a person who votes.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- virtue
-
noun,
moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- inter.
-
- evulse
-
verb (used with object),
to extract forcibly:
- verite
-
noun,
truth; truthfulness.
- insure
-
verb (used with object),
to guarantee against loss or harm.
- insult
-
noun,
an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- instr.
-
- insoul
-
verb (used with object),
ensoul.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- vermi-
-
- 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.
- vermis
-
noun,
the median lobe or division of the cerebellum.
- Vernet
-
noun,
Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1714–89, French painter.
- verset
-
noun,
Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- evites
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid; shun.
- envier
-
noun,
a person who feels envy.
- everts
-
noun,
Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- vetoes
-
noun,
the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- Ervine
-
noun,
St. John Greer [greer] /grɪər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1971, Irish dramatist and novelist.
- ervils
-
noun,
a vetch, Vicia ervilia, grown in Europe for forage.
- vinous
-
adjective,
of, resembling, or containing wine.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- 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.
- Violet
-
noun,
any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers.
Compare violet family.
- vireos
-
noun,
any of several small, insectivorous American birds of the family Vireonidae, having the plumage usually olive-green or gray above and white or yellow below.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- envies
-
noun,
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
- unmeet
-
adjective,
not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- lovers
-
noun,
a person who is in love with another.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- luster
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- lumens
-
noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- loment
-
noun,
a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- Louvre
-
noun,
a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.
- ultimo
-
adverb,
in or of the month preceding the current one:
Abbreviation: ult., ulto.
Compare instant (def 11), proximo.
- lustre
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- turves
-
noun,
plural of turf.
- Ulster
-
noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- lunies
-
noun,
a lunatic.
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- lumine
-
verb (used with object),
to illumine.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- unites
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- louver
-
noun,
any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
- louies
-
noun,
looie.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- turion
-
noun,
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- luteo-
-
- Louise
-
noun,
Lake, a glacial lake in W Canada, in SW Alberta in the Canadian Rockies: resort. 5670 feet (1728 meters) above sea level.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- lutein
-
noun,
Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- veter
-
- ovine
-
adjective,
pertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep.
- ovule
-
noun,
Botany.
a rudimentary seed.
the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- overt
-
adjective,
open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret:
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Univ.
-
- overs
-
noun,
an amount in excess or addition; extra.
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- vertu
-
noun,
virtu.
- over-
-
- Euler
-
noun,
Leonhard [German ley-awn-hahrt] /German ˈleɪ ɔnˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1707–83, Swiss mathematician.
- 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.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Euro-
-
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- verst
-
noun,
a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- evens
-
- event
-
noun,
something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- reive
-
verb (used with or without object),
to rob; plunder.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- 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.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- solum
-
noun,
the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- reni-
-
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- solve
-
verb (used with object),
to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain:
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- 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.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- vinum
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a solution of a medicinal substance in wine.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- vinos
-
noun,
wine; specifically, red Italian wine, as chianti.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- ervil
-
noun,
a vetch, Vicia ervilia, grown in Europe for forage.
- TUNIS
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part.
- ErvIn
-
noun,
Samuel James, Jr ("Sam") 1896–1985, U.S. jurist and politician: senator 1954–74.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- vino-
-
- vimen
-
noun,
a long, flexible shoot of a plant.
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- 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 .
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- 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.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- verso
-
noun,
a left-hand page of an open book or manuscript (opposed to recto).
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- stome
-
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- minus
-
noun,
minus sign.
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- Olive
-
noun,
an evergreen tree, Olea europaea, of Mediterranean and other warm regions, cultivated chiefly for its fruit.
Compare olive family.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- oleum
-
noun,
Pharmacology. oil.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- inst.
-
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- stove
-
noun,
a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
- mero-
-
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Turin
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- intr.
-
- Louie
-
noun,
looie.
- inure
-
verb (used with object),
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- omni-
-
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Evers
-
noun,
(James) Charles, born 1922, U.S. civil-rights leader.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- Evert
-
noun,
Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- loves
-
noun,
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- oste-
-
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- evils
-
noun,
that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct:
- ster.
-
- evite
-
verb (used with object),
to avoid; shun.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- ileo-
-
- onium
-
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- ileus
-
noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- Steve
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Steven or Stephen.
- ileum
-
noun,
Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Verne
-
noun,
Jules [joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1828–1905, French novelist.
- Merle
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- verse
-
noun,
(not in technical use) a stanza.
- Lover
-
noun,
a person who is in love with another.
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- 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.
- meno-
-
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- volti
-
verb (imperative),
turn; turn over: a direction to turn the page.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- simul
-
adverb,
(in prescriptions) together.
- Sino-
-
- elute
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- ruins
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- Elmer
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”.
- vols.
-
- 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.
- elver
-
noun,
a young eel, especially one that is migrating up a stream from the ocean.
- sito-
-
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- roves
-
noun,
an act or instance of roving.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- lunts
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- elves
-
noun,
plural of elf.
- Elvis
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Elwin.
- voles
-
noun,
any of several small mouselike or ratlike rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, having short limbs and a short tail.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- slime
-
noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- volts
-
noun,
the standard unit of potential difference and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the difference of electric potential between two points of a conductor carrying a constant current of one ampere, when the power dissipated between these points is equal to one watt. Abbreviation: V.
- rutin
-
noun,
a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 27 H 30 O 16 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- vomer
-
noun,
a bone of the skull in most vertebrates, in humans forming a large part of the septum between the right and left cavities of the nose.
- 30-30
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- votes
-
noun,
a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- Serov
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, E of the Ural Mountains.
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- voter
-
noun,
a person who votes.
- serve
-
noun,
the act, manner, or right of serving, as in tennis.
- vomit
-
noun,
the act of vomiting.
- semi-
-
- trove
-
noun,
a collection of objects.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- elem.
-
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- elemi
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seti-
-
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- seven
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- sever
-
verb (used with object),
to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- 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.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- viols
-
noun,
a bowed musical instrument, differing from the violin in having deeper ribs, sloping shoulders, a greater number of strings, usually six, and frets: common in the 16th and 17th centuries in various sizes from the treble viol to the bass viol.
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- melon
-
noun,
the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- virus
-
noun,
an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- revet
-
verb (used with object),
to face, as an embankment, with masonry or other material.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- revel
-
noun,
boisterous merrymaking or festivity; revelry.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- Lumen
-
noun,
Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- ento-
-
- melts
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- visor
-
noun,
Armor.
(on a close helmet) a piece having slits or holes for vision, situated above and pivoted with a beaver or a ventail and beaver.
a similar piece of plate having holes or slits for vision and breathing, attached to or used with any of various other helmets, as the armet, sallet, basinet, or helm.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- Melun
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-et-Marne, in N France.
- virtu
-
noun,
excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- viron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- virls
-
noun,
ferrule (def 1).
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- Nurmi
-
noun,
Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- vireo
-
noun,
any of several small, insectivorous American birds of the family Vireonidae, having the plumage usually olive-green or gray above and white or yellow below.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- 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.
- Viren
-
noun,
Lasse [lahs-se] /ˈlɑs sɛ/ (Show IPA), born 1949, Finnish distance runner.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- revue
-
noun,
a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- lunes
-
noun,
Archaic. fits of madness.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Emile
-
noun,
a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- tules
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- sluit
-
noun,
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- voile
-
noun,
a lightweight, semisheer fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton constructed in plain weave.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- smile
-
noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- smolt
-
noun,
a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- 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.
- riven
-
verb,
a past participle of rive.
- rivel
-
noun,
a very small dumpling made of a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning, cooked in broth.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- 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).
- emuls
-
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- insol
-
- nurls
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- Levin
-
noun,
lightning.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- MSEnt
-
- tious
-
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- movie
-
noun,
motion picture.
- moves
-
noun,
an act or instance of moving; movement.
- Milos
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- mover
-
noun,
a person or thing that moves.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- levo-
-
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- lieve
-
adverb,
lief.
- moult
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- urine
-
noun,
the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- Uriel
-
noun,
one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- limen
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- motel
-
noun,
a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- limns
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- Milne
-
noun,
A(lan) A(lexander) 1882–1956, English novelist, playwright, and author of prose and verse for children.
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- term.
-
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- 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.
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- veers
-
noun,
a change of direction, position, course, etc.:
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- Musil
-
noun,
Robert, 1880–1942, Austrian writer.
- 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.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- 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.
- utile
-
adjective,
useful.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- 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.
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- miler
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Leven
-
noun,
Loch, a lake in E Scotland: ruins of a castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
- Lever
-
noun,
Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
Compare machine (def 4b).
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- Mosul
-
noun,
a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- veils
-
noun,
a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- unite
-
noun,
a former gold coin of England, equal to 20 shillings, issued under James I and Charles I.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- MNurs
-
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- liven
-
verb (used with object),
to put life into; rouse; enliven; cheer (often followed by up):
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- 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.
- 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.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- liver
-
noun,
Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- sero-
-
- miso-
-
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- lives
-
noun,
plural of life.
- livre
-
noun,
a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- mirvs
-
noun,
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- moils
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- untie
-
verb (used with object),
to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- Limon
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1908–72, Mexican dancer and choreographer in the U.S.
- limos
-
noun,
a limousine.
- milts
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Morel
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- until
-
conjunction,
up to the time that or when; till:
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Mont.
-
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- molvi
-
noun,
maulvi.
- molts
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- Linum
-
noun,
any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Linus
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 76? pope 67?–76?.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- Unit.
-
- molet
-
noun,
mullet2 .
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- veni-
-
- Venlo
-
noun,
a city in SE Netherlands.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- never
-
Idioms,
never mind, don't bother; don't concern yourself.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- metr-
-
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- 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.
- neut.
-
- ulent
-
- Vener
-
noun,
Vänern.
- Luton
-
noun,
a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- surv.
-
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- velum
-
noun,
Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
- Nevil
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Neville.
- nevus
-
noun,
any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- teno-
-
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- 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.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nitr-
-
- tele-
-
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- telo-
-
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Metol
-
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- venom
-
noun,
the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- nieve
-
noun,
Archaic Northern British and Scot. Dialect. a clenched or closed hand; fist.
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- neur-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- invt.
-
- veins
-
noun,
one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- novel
-
noun,
a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- meso-
-
- Lemon
-
noun,
the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- lemur
-
noun,
any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- suint
-
noun,
the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- vents
-
noun,
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- venue
-
noun,
Law.
the place of a crime or cause of action.
the county or place where the jury is gathered and the cause tried.
the designation, in the pleading, of the jurisdiction where a trial will be held.
the statement naming the place and person before whom an affidavit was sworn.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- 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.
- Venus
-
noun,
an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- Suomi
-
noun,
Finnish name of Finland.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- tel-
-
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- 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.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- str.
-
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Tver
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Moscow, on the Volga.
Formerly (1934–90) Kalinin.
- SLIM
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- VTOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane capable of taking off and landing vertically, having forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- Tues
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- volt
-
noun,
the standard unit of potential difference and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the difference of electric potential between two points of a conductor carrying a constant current of one ampere, when the power dissipated between these points is equal to one watt. Abbreviation: V.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- tule
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- 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.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- serv
-
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sur-
-
- Vote
-
noun,
a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Seve
-
noun,
the characteristic flavor and body of a wine.
- tron
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- sumi
-
noun,
black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- Vern
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Vernon.
- Vul.
-
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- 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.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- 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.
- veto
-
noun,
the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vel.
-
- vets
-
noun,
veterinarian.
- soln
-
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- vet.
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- 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.
- tri-
-
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- vil.
-
- VILE
-
adjective,
wretchedly bad:
- vein
-
noun,
one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- vims
-
noun,
lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.
- vin-
-
- 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.
- ter.
-
- 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.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- veil
-
noun,
a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- vees
-
noun,
anything shaped like or suggesting a V .
- Vins
-
noun,
wine.
- Soni
-
- viol
-
noun,
a bowed musical instrument, differing from the violin in having deeper ribs, sloping shoulders, a greater number of strings, usually six, and frets: common in the 16th and 17th centuries in various sizes from the treble viol to the bass viol.
- Viet
-
noun,
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or both.
- veer
-
noun,
a change of direction, position, course, etc.:
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- vest
-
noun,
a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- 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.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- uni-
-
- uret
-
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- slum
-
noun,
Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Vent
-
noun,
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- Uele
-
noun,
a river in central Africa flowing W from the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Ubangi River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- vole
-
noun,
any of several small mouselike or ratlike rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, having short limbs and a short tail.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- vers
-
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Veno
-
- ulto
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Sol.
-
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- 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.
- Ven.
-
- tion
-
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- 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.
- ten.
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Vite
-
adverb,
briskly; lively.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- Vito
-
noun,
a male given name.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- uro-
-
- Ste.
-
- VLSI
-
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- virl
-
noun,
ferrule (def 1).
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mil.
-
- Mile
-
noun,
Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- Milo
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- MILR
-
- mils
-
noun,
a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
- Milt
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- min.
-
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- MIRV
-
noun,
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- 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.
- moil
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- met.
-
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- 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.
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Love
-
noun,
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- Lune
-
noun,
anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
- Lunt
-
noun,
a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- 1080
-
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- luvs
-
noun,
love.
- 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.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- mes-
-
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- 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.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- melt
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- men-
-
- ment
-
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mol.
-
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- loun
-
noun,
loon2 .
- 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.
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- neem
-
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neo-
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Nev.
-
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- Neve
-
noun,
granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- 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.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Niue
-
noun,
an island in the S Pacific between Tonga and Cook Islands: possession of New Zealand. 5128; about 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mus.
-
- molt
-
noun,
an act, process, or an instance of molting.
- mout
-
- Mon.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- move
-
noun,
an act or instance of moving; movement.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MSEE
-
- MSIE
-
- Muir
-
noun,
Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- mule
-
noun,
the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.
Compare hinny.
- mult
-
- mun.
-
- Muni
-
noun,
a municipal bond.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- evil
-
noun,
that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct:
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Eur.
-
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- ever
-
Idioms,
ever and again, now and then; from time to time.
Also, Literary, ever and anon.
- ile-
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- intl
-
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- inv.
-
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- ious
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- elev
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- elve
-
noun,
an extremely dim, flattened, expanding, reddish glow briefly seen over a thunderstorm, due to electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- Emil
-
noun,
a male given name: from Latin Aemilius, a family name.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- enl.
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- eous
-
- 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).
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Ire.
-
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- lit.
-
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- litu
-
noun,
a plural of litas.
- limo
-
noun,
a limousine.
- live
-
Idioms,
live high off / on the hog. hog (def 16).
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- lin.
-
- limn
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- iso-
-
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- itol
-
- Ives
-
noun,
Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) [burl ik-uh l] /bɜrl ˈɪk əl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1995, U.S. actor and folk singer.
- Ivor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lime
-
noun,
Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Lev.
-
- Levi
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:34.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lieu
-
noun,
place; stead.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Rom.
-
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- out-
-
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rove
-
noun,
an act or instance of roving.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Ont.
-
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- revs
-
noun,
a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- rel.
-
- Sem.
-
- Rev.
-
- 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.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- nom.
-
- 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.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- 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.
- oven
-
noun,
a chamber or compartment, as in a stove, for baking, roasting, heating, drying, etc.
- riv.
-
- ovi-
-
- ovum
-
noun,
Cell Biology.
the female reproductive cell or gamete of animals, which is capable of developing, usually only after fertilization, into a new individual.
the female reproductive cell or gamete of plants.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- rive
-
verb (used with object),
to tear or rend apart:
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- rit.
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- 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).
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- ole-
-
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- ruin
-
noun,
ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
- not-
-
- Rus.
-
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- Nov.
-
- Novi
-
noun,
a town in SE Michigan.
- nurl
-
noun,
a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- Rumi
-
noun,
Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- nos-
-
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Nor.
-
- UNO
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- USM
-
- USN
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- VIR
-
noun,
husband (used chiefly in the legal phrase et vir).
- USO
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- USR
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- 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.
- ESU
-
- USV
-
- vo.
-
- vie
-
verb (used with object),
Archaic. to put forward in competition or rivalry.
- se-
-
- ETO
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ROI
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- vim
-
noun,
lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- ERT
-
- ese
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- uns
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- ESL
-
- SNU
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- SRO
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- ETR
-
- ur-
-
- ure
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- env
-
- LIM
-
- ESR
-
- LMT
-
- EOE
-
- ERV
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- ETS
-
- ise
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- imu
-
noun,
a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- in.
-
- ite
-
- ine
-
- ene
-
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- ISV
-
- ist
-
- ISR
-
- RTS
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Rs.
-
- Isl
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ium
-
- Ir.
-
- ior
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- rt.
-
- IOT
-
- IOU
-
- RSV
-
- SLE
-
- IRS
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- rte
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- IRL
-
- IRO
-
- RSE
-
- ITV
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Les
-
- V-2
-
noun,
a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- Eve
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event:
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- eu-
-
- ETV
-
- Vee
-
noun,
anything shaped like or suggesting a V .
- V-1
-
noun,
a robot bomb developed by the Germans in World War II and launched from bases on the ground, chiefly against England.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- vs.
-
- EMR
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- Ver
-
- uti
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- vis
-
noun,
strength; force; power.
- ILS
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- ILO
-
- en-
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- Lt.
-
- EMT
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- il-
-
- ITU
-
- SLR
-
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- ier
-
- io-
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- IUS
-
- So.
-
- Une
-
- MSI
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- OIt
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- MSE
-
- OIr
-
- MSN
-
- Tiv
-
noun,
a member of an African people living N and S of the lower Benue River in E Nigeria.
- 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.
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- MTI
-
- mtn
-
- MTO
-
- MTS
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- EEO
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- MOR
-
- UMT
-
- ONI
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- STL
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- STM
-
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- tlo
-
- Om.
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- 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).
- TMV
-
- TMO
-
- eir
-
- tlr
-
- MTV
-
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- ons
-
- Vt.
-
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- 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:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- 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.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Vte
-
- NSU
-
- NMI
-
- NMR
-
- NMU
-
- VTO
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- VTR
-
noun,
a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
- SVR
-
- nr.
-
- VRM
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- OEM
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- Von
-
preposition,
from; of (used in German and Austrian personal names, originally to indicate place of origin and later to indicate nobility):
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- VOR
-
- EOM
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- STV
-
- NUL
-
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- NUM
-
- eo-
-
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- ne-
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- ONR
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- MOI
-
- tue
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Tu.
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- 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.
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- luv
-
noun,
love.
- Re.
-
- lv.
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- ltr
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- LON
-
- ult
-
- Ulm
-
noun,
a city in E Baden-Württemberg, in S Germany, on the Danube.
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- vol
-
- UIT
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- LST
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- LSI
-
- LSM
-
- Mo.
-
- Me.
-
- MSL
-
- ot-
-
- MIE
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- MLS
-
- tr.
-
- OTS
-
- ote
-
- ose
-
- EIS
-
- Orv
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- MIT
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- STI
-
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- ml.
-
- MLR
-
- Sr.
-
- 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.
- Tro
-
- MNS
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- ov-
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MNE
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- St.
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- MeV
-
- mi.
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- VU
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- VL
-
- EV
-
- VM
-
- VN
-
- ee
-
- EI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SV
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- O.
-
- RI
-
- M.
-
- R.
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- MN
-
- TN
-
- TM
-
- TL
-
- ol
-
- MU
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- NV
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- MV
-
- N.
-
- NI
-
- NU
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- NL
-
- NM
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- T1
-
- t.
-
- RN
-
- LR
-
- SM
-
- L2
-
- SL
-
- S.
-
- RV
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- i.
-
- IV
-
noun,
an intravenous device for delivering electrolyte solutions, medicines, and nutrients.
- RU
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- L.
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- L1
-
- le
-
- TV
-
noun,
television.
- VR
-
- VI
-
- V.
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- RO
-
- SN
-
- LM
-
- ln
-
- UL
-
- UI
-
- UV
-
- U.
-
- SU
-