Anagrams of anesthesiologist
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- single-shot
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adjective,
(of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- aetiologies
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noun,
etiology.
- ethnologies
-
noun,
a branch of anthropology that analyzes cultures, especially in regard to their historical development and the similarities and dissimilarities between them.
- theologians
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noun,
a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
- hesitations
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noun,
the act of hesitating; a delay due to uncertainty of mind or fear:
- lightnesses
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noun,
the state or quality of being light in weight:
- anthologies
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noun,
a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject:
- histologist
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noun,
a specialist in histology.
- histologies
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noun,
the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- astonishes
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verb (used with object),
to fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze:
- theogonies
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noun,
the origin of the gods.
- nostalgies
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noun,
nostalgia.
- ethologies
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noun,
the study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments.
- antitheses
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noun,
opposition; contrast:
- slingshots
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noun,
a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- etiologies
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noun,
Pathology.
the study of the causes of diseases.
the cause or origin of a disease.
- antithesis
-
noun,
opposition; contrast:
- instigates
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verb (used with object),
to cause by incitement; foment:
- tonalities
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noun,
Music.
the sum of relations, melodic and harmonic, existing between the tones of a scale or musical system.
a particular scale or system of tones; a key.
- giantesses
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noun,
an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- hesitation
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noun,
the act of hesitating; a delay due to uncertainty of mind or fear:
- hailstones
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noun,
a pellet of hail.
- stalinists
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noun,
an advocate or supporter of Stalin or Stalinism.
- gestations
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noun,
the process, state, or period of gestating.
- essentials
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noun,
a basic, indispensable, or necessary element; chief point:
- negotiates
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verb (used with object),
to arrange for or bring about by discussion and settlement of terms:
- Sinologist
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noun,
a person who specializes in Sinology.
- theologian
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noun,
a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
- holinesses
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noun,
the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- leontiasis
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noun,
a lionlike facial distortion.
- ateleiosis
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noun,
ateliosis.
- isolations
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noun,
an act or instance of isolating.
- sitologies
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noun,
the branch of medicine dealing with nutrition and dietetics.
- Singhalese
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adjective, noun,
Sinhalese.
- theologies
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noun,
the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- antilogies
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noun,
a contradiction in terms or ideas.
- telegnosis
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noun,
supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
- gentisate
-
noun,
a salt or ester of gentisic acid.
- hessonite
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noun,
essonite.
- teethings
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noun,
eruption of the deciduous teeth, especially the phenomena associated with their eruption.
- ensilages
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noun,
the preservation of green fodder in a silo or pit.
- lightness
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noun,
the state or quality of being light in weight:
- glossinas
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noun,
tsetse fly.
- isolating
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noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- isolation
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noun,
an act or instance of isolating.
- glassines
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noun,
a strong, thin, glazed, semitransparent paper, often made into small bags, used for packaging foods, for book jackets, etc.
- intaglios
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noun,
incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
- oilstones
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noun,
a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- neologies
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noun,
neologism.
- anisettes
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noun,
a cordial or liqueur flavored with aniseed.
- gestation
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noun,
the process, state, or period of gestating.
- teosintes
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- slashings
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noun,
a slash.
- telethons
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noun,
a television broadcast lasting several hours, especially one soliciting support for a charity.
- satieties
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noun,
the state of being satiated; surfeit.
- stealings
-
noun,
the act of a person who steals.
- ligations
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noun,
the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- anetholes
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noun,
a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 12 O, having a sweet taste, obtained from anise or fennel oils or synthesized: used chiefly in perfumes, dentifrices, flavoring, synthesis of anisaldehyde, and in medicine as an antiseptic and carminative.
- slingshot
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noun,
a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- elongates
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adjective,
extended; lengthened.
- legations
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noun,
a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- sightsees
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verb (used without object),
to go about seeing places and things of interest:
- anglesite
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noun,
a mineral, lead sulfate, PbSO 4 , found in massive deposits and in colorless or variously tinted crystals: a minor ore of lead.
- tithonias
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noun,
any of several tall composite plants of the genus Tithonia, native to Mexico and Central America, having yellow or orange-red ray flowers.
- isogonals
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noun,
isogonal line.
- sightless
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adjective,
unable to see; blind.
- noiseless
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adjective,
accompanied by or making little or no noise; silent; quiet:
- heliostat
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noun,
an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- isohaline
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noun,
a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isinglass
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noun,
a pure, transparent or translucent form of gelatin, obtained from the air bladders of certain fish, especially the sturgeon: used in glue and jellies and as a clarifying agent.
- Gilsonite
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noun,
an extremely pure asphalt particularly valuable for the manufacture of paints and varnishes.
- egestions
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noun,
the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- englishes
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noun,
the people of England collectively, especially as distinguished from the Scots, Welsh, and Irish.
- glossitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the tongue.
- gnathites
-
noun,
any of the mouth appendages of an insect or other arthropod.
- enologies
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noun,
oenology.
- hesitates
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verb (used without object),
to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination:
- alienists
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noun,
(formerly) a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness.
- stateless
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adjective,
lacking nationality.
- gasolines
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noun,
a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- hailstone
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noun,
a pellet of hail.
- natheless
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adverb,
nevertheless.
- taintless
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adjective,
free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- inositols
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noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, C 6 H 12 O 6 , derivative of cyclohexane, widely distributed in plants and seeds as phytin, and occurring in animal tissue and in urine: an essential growth factor for animal life, present in the vitamin B complex.
- ateliosis
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noun,
a form of infantilism caused by pituitary malfunction, characterized by a childish face and voice and associated physical underdevelopment, but not affecting intelligence.
- gelations
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noun,
solidification by cold; freezing.
- stainless
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adjective,
having no stain; spotless.
- siltstone
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noun,
a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- settlings
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noun,
the act of a person or thing that settles.
- athelings
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noun,
a man of royal blood; a prince.
- lionesses
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noun,
a female lion.
- toothless
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adjective,
lacking teeth.
- Ethelstan
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noun,
Athelstan.
- tasteless
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adjective,
having no taste or flavor; insipid.
- shealings
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noun,
shieling.
- halitosis
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noun,
a condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath.
- Sinhalese
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noun,
a member of the Sinhalese people.
- shielings
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noun,
a pasture or grazing ground.
- etiolates
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verb (used with object),
to cause (a plant) to whiten or grow pale by excluding light:
- Stalinist
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noun,
an advocate or supporter of Stalin or Stalinism.
- oogenesis
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noun,
the origin and development of the ovum.
- holsteins
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noun,
Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- essential
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noun,
a basic, indispensable, or necessary element; chief point:
- stolonate
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adjective,
having stolons; developing from a stolon.
- instigate
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verb (used with object),
to cause by incitement; foment:
- ostinatos
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noun,
a constantly recurring melodic fragment.
- hooligans
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noun,
a ruffian or hoodlum.
- negotiate
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verb (used with object),
to arrange for or bring about by discussion and settlement of terms:
- aetheling
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noun,
atheling.
- loathings
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noun,
strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- gasolenes
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noun,
gasoline.
- tensities
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noun,
the state of being tense; tenseness.
- esthesias
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noun,
capacity for sensation or feeling; sensitivity.
- Eastleigh
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noun,
a borough in Hampshire, S England.
- histogens
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noun,
a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- essonites
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noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- honesties
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noun,
the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- goethites
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noun,
a very common mineral, iron hydroxide, HFeO 2 , occurring in crystals, but more commonly in yellow or brown earthy masses: an ore of iron.
- insolates
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verb (used with object),
to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- athetosis
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noun,
a condition, chiefly in children, of slow, involuntary, wormlike movements of the fingers, toes, hands, and feet, usually resulting from a brain lesion.
- sheetings
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noun,
the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets.
- litigants
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noun,
a person engaged in a lawsuit.
- Goethals
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noun,
George Washington, 1858–1928, U.S. major general and engineer: chief engineer of the Panama Canal 1907–14; governor of the Canal Zone 1914–16.
- Tlingits
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noun,
a member of any of a number of American Indian peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Colmbia.
- Ossetian
-
noun,
an Osset.
- Glossina
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noun,
tsetse fly.
- Latinist
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noun,
a specialist in Latin.
- osteitis
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noun,
inflammation of the substance of bone.
- glossies
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noun,
slick1 (def 9).
- oiltight
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adjective,
constructed to be impervious to oil:
- tintless
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adjective,
without tint or tints; colorless.
- elastins
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noun,
a protein constituting the basic substance of elastic tissue.
- eighties
-
noun,
a cardinal number, ten times eight.
- legation
-
noun,
a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- lean-tos
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- legatine
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adjective,
of, relating to, or authorized by a legate.
- leasings
-
noun,
lying; falsehood.
- teosinte
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noun,
a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- one-shot
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noun,
a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- tithonia
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noun,
any of several tall composite plants of the genus Tithonia, native to Mexico and Central America, having yellow or orange-red ray flowers.
- tithings
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noun,
a tithe.
- goethite
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noun,
a very common mineral, iron hydroxide, HFeO 2 , occurring in crystals, but more commonly in yellow or brown earthy masses: an ore of iron.
- eastings
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noun,
Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- gneisses
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noun,
a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
- egalites
-
noun,
equality.
- tentages
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noun,
tents collectively; equipment or supply of tents.
- Sisseton
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noun,
a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- egestion
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noun,
the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- easiness
-
noun,
the quality or condition of being easy.
- gnathite
-
noun,
any of the mouth appendages of an insect or other arthropod.
- goliaths
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noun,
the giant warrior of the Philistines whom David killed with a stone from a sling. I Sam. 17:48–51.
- goloshes
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noun,
galosh.
- stenosis
-
noun,
a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
- singlets
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noun,
a sleeveless athletic jersey, especially a loose-fitting top worn by runners, joggers, etc.
- egotists
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noun,
a conceited, boastful person.
- oilstone
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noun,
a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- hotlines
-
noun,
hot line.
- sittings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that sits.
- etiolate
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verb (used with object),
to cause (a plant) to whiten or grow pale by excluding light:
- lineages
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noun,
lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction:
- genitals
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plural noun,
genitalia.
- essonite
-
noun,
Mineralogy. a variety of grossularite garnet.
- tightens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become tight or tighter.
- esthesia
-
noun,
capacity for sensation or feeling; sensitivity.
- esthesis
-
noun,
sensation; feeling.
- Esthonia
-
noun,
Estonia.
- gelation
-
noun,
solidification by cold; freezing.
- gelatins
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noun,
a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- ethanols
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noun,
alcohol (def 1).
- thelitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the nipple.
- soloists
-
noun,
a person who performs a solo.
- litanies
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noun,
a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
- songless
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adjective,
devoid of song; lacking the power of a song, as a bird.
- Lothians
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noun,
a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- soilages
-
noun,
grass or leafy plants raised as feed for fenced-in livestock.
- litigant
-
noun,
a person engaged in a lawsuit.
- gastness
-
noun,
terror or fright.
- thistles
-
noun,
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- gasoline
-
noun,
a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gasolene
-
noun,
gasoline.
- gasohols
-
noun,
a mixture of gasoline and ethyl alcohol, generally containing no more than 10 percent alcohol, used as an alternative fuel for some automobiles.
- soothing
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adjective,
that soothes:
- litigate
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verb (used with object),
to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- gahnites
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noun,
a dark-green to black mineral of the spinel group, zinc aluminate, ZnAl 2 O 4 .
- gaieties
-
noun,
the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
- gainless
-
adjective,
unprofitable.
- gantlets
-
noun,
Railroads. a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
- loathing
-
noun,
strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- galoshes
-
noun,
a waterproof overshoe, especially a high one.
- genoises
-
noun,
a light yellow cake made with eggs and butter and typically layered, filled, and frosted or made into petits fours for serving.
- Theatine
-
noun,
a member of a congregation of regular clerics, founded in Italy in 1524 to combat Protestantism and promote higher morality among Roman Catholics.
- glistens
-
noun,
a glistening; sparkle.
- elongate
-
adjective,
extended; lengthened.
- elations
-
noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- Leighton
-
noun,
Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- elegists
-
noun,
the author of an elegy.
- lenities
-
noun,
the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- slashing
-
noun,
a slash.
- stealths
-
noun,
secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- slatings
-
noun,
the act or work of covering something with slates.
- slatting
-
noun,
the act of furnishing with or making from slats.
- glassine
-
noun,
a strong, thin, glazed, semitransparent paper, often made into small bags, used for packaging foods, for book jackets, etc.
- sleights
-
noun,
skill; dexterity.
- elisions
-
noun,
the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
- noteless
-
adjective,
not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.
- stealing
-
noun,
the act of a person who steals.
- elitists
-
noun,
a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society:
- tetanies
-
noun,
a state marked by severe, intermittent tonic contractions and muscular pain, due to abnormal calcium metabolism.
- neoliths
-
noun,
a Neolithic stone implement.
- ensilage
-
noun,
the preservation of green fodder in a silo or pit.
- gentiles
-
noun,
a person who is not Jewish, especially a Christian.
- lignites
-
noun,
a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- entitles
-
verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- gestalts
-
noun,
a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
- entities
-
noun,
something that has a real existence; thing:
- gestates
-
verb (used with object),
to carry in the womb during the period from conception to delivery.
- lightens
-
verb (used with object),
to give light to; illuminate:
- noisette
-
noun,
a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat:
- ligation
-
noun,
the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- ghettoes
-
noun,
a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- enhaloes
-
verb (used with object),
to surround with or as with a halo.
- giantess
-
noun,
an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- lathings
-
noun,
the act or process of applying lath.
- stations
-
noun,
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- latigoes
-
noun,
a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
- Goossens
-
noun,
Sir Eugene, 1893–1962, English composer and conductor.
- osteosis
-
noun,
the formation of bony tissue, usually infiltrating connective tissue.
- anethole
-
noun,
a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 12 O, having a sweet taste, obtained from anise or fennel oils or synthesized: used chiefly in perfumes, dentifrices, flavoring, synthesis of anisaldehyde, and in medicine as an antiseptic and carminative.
- tailings
-
noun,
the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- shotting
-
noun,
the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower.
- Iolanthe
-
noun,
an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- teething
-
noun,
eruption of the deciduous teeth, especially the phenomena associated with their eruption.
- hessites
-
noun,
a rare mineral, silver telluride, Ag 2 Te, found in silver ores: sometimes contains gold.
- seisings
-
noun,
seizing.
- hessians
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Hesse.
- seilenos
-
noun,
Silenus.
- hesitate
-
verb (used without object),
to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination:
- seatings
-
noun,
an act or instance of furnishing with, assigning, or escorting to a seat.
- hesitant
-
adjective,
hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- sea-lion
-
noun,
any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sea-legs
-
plural noun,
the ability to adjust one's sense of balance to the motion of a ship at sea:
- tonalist
-
noun,
a person who works with or uses tonality, especially one who uses traditional tonality rather than atonality in composing music.
- stoolies
-
- INTELSAT
-
noun,
a global communications satellite network under international control.
- satinets
-
noun,
a satin-weave fabric made with cotton warp and wool filling, fulled and finished to resemble wool.
- isogloss
-
noun,
(in the study of the geographical distribution of dialects) a line on a map marking the limits of an area within which a feature of speech occurs, as the use of a particular word or pronunciation.
- isogonal
-
noun,
isogonal line.
- sightsee
-
verb (used without object),
to go about seeing places and things of interest:
- Angolese
-
noun,
a member of any of the tribes residing in Angola.
- isolates
-
noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- Hegelian
-
noun,
a person who accepts the philosophical principles of Hegel.
- isolette
-
- sanities
-
noun,
the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- anisette
-
noun,
a cordial or liqueur flavored with aniseed.
- isolines
-
noun,
isogram.
- anisoles
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, having a pleasant, aromatic odor, used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis, and as a vermicide.
- saltness
-
noun,
the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- isotones
-
noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- intitles
-
verb (used with object),
entitle.
- alienist
-
noun,
(formerly) a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness.
- Hastings
-
noun,
Thomas, 1860–1929, U.S. architect.
- Holstein
-
noun,
Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- Tsinghai
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Qinghai.
- hostiles
-
noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- shieling
-
noun,
a pasture or grazing ground.
- tangelos
-
noun,
a hybrid citrus fruit, Citrus tangelo, that is a cross between the grapefruit and the tangerine and is cultivated in several varieties.
- shelties
-
noun,
Shetland pony.
- tao-tieh
-
noun,
the face of a mythical animal with a gaping mouth appearing as a motif in ancient Chinese art.
- sheitans
-
noun,
Ash-Shaytān.
- Taliesin
-
noun,
flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
- agenesis
-
noun,
absence of or failed development of a body part.
- hooligan
-
noun,
a ruffian or hoodlum.
- sheeting
-
noun,
the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets.
- shealing
-
noun,
shieling.
- shanties
-
noun,
a crudely built hut, cabin, or house.
- aglisten
-
adjective,
refulgent; glistening.
- Shang-ti
-
noun,
the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- intaglio
-
noun,
incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
- Holiness
-
noun,
the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- agonists
-
noun,
a person engaged in a contest, conflict, struggle, etc., especially the protagonist in a literary work.
- shootist
-
noun,
a marksman with a pistol or rifle.
- settling
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that settles.
- inositol
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, C 6 H 12 O 6 , derivative of cyclohexane, widely distributed in plants and seeds as phytin, and occurring in animal tissue and in urine: an essential growth factor for animal life, present in the vitamin B complex.
- toolings
-
noun,
work done with a tool or tools; tooled ornamentation, as on wood, stone, or leather.
- settings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that sets.
- insolate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- histones
-
noun,
any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- sestinas
-
noun,
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
- histogen
-
noun,
a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- tonights
-
noun,
this present or coming night; the night of this present day.
- hissings
-
noun,
the act of emitting a hiss.
- instates
-
verb (used with object),
to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- saltines
-
noun,
a crisp, salted cracker.
- altoists
-
noun,
a performer on the alto saxophone.
- antheses
-
noun,
the period or act of expansion in flowers, especially the maturing of the stamens.
- astonish
-
verb (used with object),
to fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze:
- atheling
-
noun,
a man of royal blood; a prince.
- teleosts
-
noun,
Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.
- ostioles
-
noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- lastings
-
noun,
a strong, durable, closely woven fabric for shoe uppers, coverings on buttons, etc.
- Laoighis
-
noun,
a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- otoliths
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a calcareous concretion in the internal ear of vertebrates.
- toenails
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- toeshoes
-
noun,
a dance slipper fitted with a thick, reinforced toe to enable the ballet dancer to toe-dance.
- Otaheite
-
noun,
former name of Tahiti.
- telethon
-
noun,
a television broadcast lasting several hours, especially one soliciting support for a charity.
- stetsons
-
- sagenite
-
noun,
a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- Togolese
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Togo.
- Othoniel
-
noun,
Othniel.
- halogens
-
noun,
any of the electronegative elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and astatine, that form binary salts by direct union with metals.
- assholes
-
noun,
anus.
- silesias
-
noun,
a lightweight, smoothly finished, twilled fabric of acetate, rayon, or cotton, for garment linings.
- assignee
-
noun,
a person to whom some right or interest is transferred, either for his or her own enjoyment or in trust.
- lashings
-
noun,
an abundance; plenty (usually followed by of):
- Sthenias
-
noun,
strength; excessive vital force.
- salients
-
noun,
a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
- sailings
-
noun,
the activity of a person or thing that sails.
- antilogs
-
noun,
antilogarithm.
- stithies
-
noun,
an anvil.
- ostinato
-
noun,
a constantly recurring melodic fragment.
- teniasis
-
noun,
taeniasis.
- anthesis
-
noun,
the period or act of expansion in flowers, especially the maturing of the stamens.
- stoating
-
noun,
the process or technique of finishing a facing, collar, or the like, or of mending material with concealed stitching.
- athonite
-
adjective,
of or relating to Mount Athos.
- insoles
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- Genista
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Genista, of the legume family, having showy flowers and including many species of broom.
- Stalino
-
noun,
a former name of Donetsk.
- gantlet
-
noun,
Railroads. a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
- tangelo
-
noun,
a hybrid citrus fruit, Citrus tangelo, that is a cross between the grapefruit and the tangerine and is cultivated in several varieties.
- hoagies
-
noun,
a hero sandwich.
- histone
-
noun,
any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- sthenia
-
noun,
strength; excessive vital force.
- insists
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- lioness
-
noun,
a female lion.
- insight
-
noun,
an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding:
- loathes
-
verb (used with object),
to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor:
- lingoes
-
noun,
the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
- genital
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- Goliath
-
noun,
the giant warrior of the Philistines whom David killed with a stone from a sling. I Sam. 17:48–51.
- lineate
-
adjective,
marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- galoots
-
noun,
an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
- hotline
-
noun,
hot line.
- teasels
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- genoise
-
noun,
a light yellow cake made with eggs and butter and typically layered, filled, and frosted or made into petits fours for serving.
- loesses
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- lassoes
-
noun,
a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- instate
-
verb (used with object),
to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- leashes
-
noun,
a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- tansies
-
noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- hissing
-
noun,
the act of emitting a hiss.
- leasing
-
noun,
lying; falsehood.
- instals
-
verb (used with object),
install.
- genito-
-
- telsons
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- genesis
-
noun,
an origin, creation, or beginning.
- Staines
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, on the Thames River near Heathrow airport.
- lisente
-
noun,
plural of sente.
- hostile
-
noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- talents
-
noun,
a special natural ability or aptitude:
- latests
-
noun,
the latest, the most recent news, development, disclosure, etc.:
- lithias
-
noun,
Chemistry. lithium oxide.
- lattens
-
noun,
a brasslike alloy commonly made in thin sheets and formerly much used for church utensils.
- ingates
-
noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- tassets
-
noun,
either of two pieces of plate armor hanging from the fauld to protect the upper parts of the thighs.
- galiots
-
noun,
a small galley propelled by both sails and oars.
- tensile
-
adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- ingesta
-
plural noun,
substances ingested.
- Stetson
-
- gossans
-
noun,
a rust-colored deposit of mineral matter at the outcrop of a vein or orebody containing iron-bearing materials.
- hostage
-
noun,
a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- latinos
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- gasohol
-
noun,
a mixture of gasoline and ethyl alcohol, generally containing no more than 10 percent alcohol, used as an alternative fuel for some automobiles.
- talions
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- ignites
-
verb (used with object),
to set on fire; kindle.
- tangles
-
noun,
a tangled condition or situation.
- stetho-
-
- geneal.
-
- theines
-
noun,
caffeine, especially in tea.
- latigos
-
noun,
a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
- lasting
-
noun,
a strong, durable, closely woven fabric for shoe uppers, coverings on buttons, etc.
- inhales
-
verb (used with object),
to breathe in; draw in by breathing:
- gelatin
-
noun,
a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- listens
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- hostess
-
noun,
a woman who receives and entertains guests in her own home or elsewhere.
- tentage
-
noun,
tents collectively; equipment or supply of tents.
- lean-to
-
noun,
a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- in-goal
-
noun,
the area at either end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- ingests
-
verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- geishas
-
noun,
a Japanese woman trained as a professional singer, dancer, and companion for men.
- litotes
-
noun,
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
- listing
-
noun,
a list; record; catalog.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- hostels
-
noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- instils
-
verb (used with object),
instill.
- Gentoos
-
noun,
a Hindu.
- lineage
-
noun,
lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction:
- gitalin
-
noun,
a mixture of glycosides from Digitalis purpurea, used chiefly in the management of congestive heart failure.
- glotto-
-
- glassie
-
noun,
glassy (def 4).
- gnashes
-
noun,
an act of gnashing.
- glasses
-
noun,
a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
- isolate
-
noun,
a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
- isohels
-
noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- isogons
-
noun,
a polygon having all angles equal.
- Leotine
-
noun,
a female given name.
- glottis
-
noun,
the opening at the upper part of the larynx, between the vocal cords.
- stingos
-
noun,
strong beer.
- hansels
-
noun,
a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- testons
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- gisants
-
noun,
a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- lesions
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- laities
-
noun,
the body of religious worshipers, as distinguished from the clergy.
- Heloise
-
noun,
1101?–64, French abbess: pupil of and secretly married to Pierre Abélard.
Compare Abélard.
- stooges
-
noun,
an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
- stealth
-
noun,
secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- isoline
-
noun,
isogram.
- lessens
-
verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- glisten
-
noun,
a glistening; sparkle.
- glossas
-
noun,
Anatomy. the tongue.
- hassles
-
noun,
a disorderly dispute.
- stogies
-
noun,
a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
- hastens
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to hasten; accelerate:
- legists
-
noun,
an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- telegas
-
noun,
a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.
- stolons
-
noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- healing
-
noun,
the act or process of regaining health:
- lentigo
-
noun,
a freckle or other pigmented spot.
- gliosis
-
noun,
an increase in the size and number of astrocytes of the brain.
- lengths
-
noun,
the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end:
- haslets
-
noun,
the heart, liver, etc., of a hog or other animal used for food.
- teleost
-
noun,
Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.
- steato-
-
- isotone
-
noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- glosso-
-
- Gleason
-
noun,
Jackie (Herbert John Gleason"The Great One") 1916–87, U.S. comedian and actor.
- Lesotho
-
noun,
a monarchy in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 11,716 sq. mi. (30,344 sq. km). Capital: Maseru.
- telesis
-
noun,
deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
- Gentile
-
noun,
a person who is not Jewish, especially a Christian.
- gestate
-
verb (used with object),
to carry in the womb during the period from conception to delivery.
- Hessian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Hesse.
- hessite
-
noun,
a rare mineral, silver telluride, Ag 2 Te, found in silver ores: sometimes contains gold.
- goatish
-
adjective,
of or like a goat.
- halogen
-
noun,
any of the electronegative elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and astatine, that form binary salts by direct union with metals.
- lashing
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that lashes.
- tahinis
-
noun,
a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- tailing
-
noun,
the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- iolites
-
noun,
cordierite.
- Stiegel
-
noun,
Henry William, 1729–85, German iron and glass manufacturer in America.
- halites
-
noun,
a soft white or colorless mineral, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring in cubic crystals with perfect cleavage; rock salt.
- Gestalt
-
noun,
a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
- gessoes
-
noun,
gypsum or plaster of Paris prepared with glue for use as a surface for painting.
- lignite
-
noun,
a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- glosses
-
noun,
a superficial luster or shine; glaze:
- linages
-
noun,
the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- gentles
-
adjective,
kindly; amiable:
- intitle
-
verb (used with object),
entitle.
- lighten
-
verb (used with object),
to give light to; illuminate:
- ligates
-
verb (used with object),
to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).
- Lessing
-
noun,
Doris (May) 1919–2013, British novelist in Africa; born in Persia; Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
- Lettish
-
noun,
Latvian (def 3).
- Stilton
-
- halting
-
noun,
a temporary or permanent stop.
- legates
-
noun,
an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- Hengelo
-
noun,
a city in the E Netherlands.
- Letitia
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “gladness.”.
- station
-
noun,
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- lathing
-
noun,
the act or process of applying lath.
- Hengist
-
noun,
died a.d. 488? chief of the Jutes: with his brother Horsa led the Teutonic invasion of southern Britain c440.
- ligases
-
noun,
any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the joining of two molecules by formation of a covalent bond accompanied by the hydrolysis of ATP.
- stoting
-
noun,
stoating.
- isation
-
- isatins
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- liaises
-
verb (used without object),
to form a liaison.
- liaison
-
noun,
the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
- ghettos
-
noun,
a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- Stassen
-
noun,
Harold Edward, 1907–2001, U.S. politician and university president.
- stashes
-
noun,
something put away or hidden:
- sottish
-
adjective,
stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
- silages
-
noun,
fodder preserved through fermentation in a silo; ensilage.
- elitist
-
noun,
a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society:
- Senegal
-
noun,
a republic in W Africa: independent member of the French Community; formerly part of French West Africa. 76,084 sq. mi. (197,057 sq. km). Capital: Dakar.
- seniles
-
noun,
a senile person.
- toenail
-
noun,
a nail of a toe.
- tingles
-
noun,
a tingling sensation.
- eloigns
-
verb (used with object),
to remove to a distance, especially to take beyond the jurisdiction of a law court.
- Sassoon
-
noun,
Siegfried (Loraine) [seeg-freed law-reyn,, loh-] /ˈsig frid lɔˈreɪn,, loʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1886–1967, English poet and novelist.
- Elohist
-
noun,
a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.
- senegas
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- salines
-
noun,
a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
- notates
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- Sesotho
-
noun,
the Bantu language of Lesotho; Sotho.
- elision
-
noun,
the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
- slights
-
- alights
-
adverb, adjective,
provided with light; lighted up.
- Anglist
-
noun,
Anglicist.
- shotten
-
adjective,
(of fish, especially herring) having recently ejected the spawn.
- sleight
-
noun,
skill; dexterity.
- sleighs
-
noun,
a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- slating
-
noun,
the act or work of covering something with slates.
- sensate
-
adjective,
perceiving or perceived through the senses.
- tonight
-
noun,
this present or coming night; the night of this present day.
- elegits
-
noun,
a writ of execution against a judgment debtor's goods, property, or land, held by the judgment creditor until payment of the debt, as from rents on the land.
- Nilotes
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- setting
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that sets.
- tooling
-
noun,
work done with a tool or tools; tooled ornamentation, as on wood, stone, or leather.
- ooliths
-
noun,
any of the component concretions of a piece of oolite.
- nilgais
-
noun,
a large, Indian antelope, Boselaphus tragocamelus, the male of which is bluish gray with small horns, the female tawny and hornless.
- atheist
-
noun,
a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
- ostiole
-
noun,
Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- tonsils
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- enlists
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- athlete
-
noun,
a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
- snashes
-
noun,
insolence; impertinence.
- sessile
-
adjective,
Botany. attached by the base, or without any distinct projecting support, as a leaf issuing directly from the stem.
- enisles
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- sestina
-
noun,
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
- sestets
-
noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- sloshes
-
noun,
watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
- English
-
noun,
the people of England collectively, especially as distinguished from the Scots, Welsh, and Irish.
- tonlets
-
noun,
a skirt of plates.
- session
-
noun,
the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business:
- Nogales
-
noun,
a town in S Arizona.
- atingle
-
adjective,
tingling; stimulated.
- tinsels
-
noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- slashes
-
noun,
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- ostosis
-
noun,
the formation of bone; ossification.
- Onitsha
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- Sistine
-
adjective,
of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
- egalite
-
noun,
equality.
- Onassis
-
noun,
Aristotle Socrates, 1906–75, Greek businessman, born in Turkey.
- Seattle
-
noun,
(Seatlh) c1790–1866, Suquamish leader: Seattle, Washington, named after him.
- Althing
-
noun,
the parliament of Iceland, consisting of an upper and a lower house.
- tithing
-
noun,
a tithe.
- seating
-
noun,
an act or instance of furnishing with, assigning, or escorting to a seat.
- eatings
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- seasons
-
noun,
one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- altoist
-
noun,
a performer on the alto saxophone.
- singles
-
noun,
one person or thing; a single one.
- onliest
-
Idioms,
only too,
as a matter of fact; extremely:
unfortunately; very:
- onstage
-
adverb,
on or onto the stage (opposed to offstage): .
- sinless
-
adjective,
free from or without sin.
- easting
-
noun,
Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- easiest
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- eaglets
-
noun,
a young eagle.
- oolites
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- siestas
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- singlet
-
noun,
a sleeveless athletic jersey, especially a loose-fitting top worn by runners, joggers, etc.
- ologies
-
noun,
any science or branch of knowledge.
- seeings
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- elegist
-
noun,
the author of an elegy.
- seisins
-
noun,
seizin.
- seleno-
-
- Selenga
-
noun,
a river in N central Asia, flowing E and N through the NW Mongolian People's Republic through the Buryat Autonomous Republic in the SE Russian Federation to Lake Baikal. About 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- Ossetia
-
noun,
a region in Caucasia: divided between North Ossetia of the Russian Federation and the South Ossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian Republic.
- elegant
-
adjective,
tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.:
- sateens
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- osselet
-
noun,
a hard nodule on the leg of a horse, especially one on the inner side of the knee or the outer side of the fetlock.
- elation
-
noun,
a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
- osseins
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- elastin
-
noun,
a protein constituting the basic substance of elastic tissue.
- seising
-
noun,
seizing.
- Angeles
-
noun,
a city in the Philippines, on S central Luzon.
- sitting
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that sits.
- Sitsang
-
noun,
Tibet (def 1).
- Tlingit
-
noun,
a member of any of a number of American Indian peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Colmbia.
- satinet
-
noun,
a satin-weave fabric made with cotton warp and wool filling, fulled and finished to resemble wool.
- tisanes
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- egotist
-
noun,
a conceited, boastful person.
- oleates
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- egoists
-
noun,
a self-centered or selfish person (opposed to altruist).
- shtetls
-
noun,
(formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
- ailette
-
noun,
either of two standing pieces of metal or cuir-bouilli, attached to the shoulders as an ornament or as a means of displaying the wearer's arms: used c1275–c1350.
- enolate
-
noun,
any metallic derivative of an enol.
- nightie
-
noun,
a nightgown.
- silanes
-
noun,
Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- lotions
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- saltine
-
noun,
a crisp, salted cracker.
- sheitel
-
noun,
a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- ethnol.
-
- Songhai
-
noun,
a member of a group of peoples living along the Niger River in the area of Timbuktu and Gao in Mali and in adjacent areas of Niger and Burkina Faso.
- ageless
-
adjective,
not aging or appearing to age.
- ethions
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- soloist
-
noun,
a person who performs a solo.
- ethanol
-
noun,
alcohol (def 1).
- anstoss
-
noun,
(in the philosophy of Fichte) any of the six successive steps by which the absolute ego attains self-knowledge.
- ethanes
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, C 2 H 6 , of the methane series, present in natural gas, illuminating gas, and crude petroleum: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a fuel gas.
- soliton
-
- solions
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- nasties
-
noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- Sheitan
-
noun,
Ash-Shaytān.
- sheilas
-
noun,
a girl or young woman.
- ensiles
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- assents
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- etesian
-
adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- sheltas
-
noun,
a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- sailing
-
noun,
the activity of a person or thing that sails.
- silents
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- signees
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- galette
-
noun,
any of various thin, round cakes or pastries, often with a filling or topping:
- logions
-
noun,
a traditional saying or maxim, as of a religious teacher.
- antilog
-
noun,
antilogarithm.
- loiasis
-
noun,
infestation with the parasitic eye worm, Loa loa, of the subcutaneous tissues and orbit: endemic in West Africa.
- Antheil
-
noun,
George, 1900–59, U.S. composer.
- shingle
-
noun,
a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- longies
-
noun,
long underwear, especially for winter use.
- longish
-
adjective,
somewhat long.
- salient
-
noun,
a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
- loosens
-
verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- Lothian
-
noun,
a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- gahnite
-
noun,
a dark-green to black mineral of the spinel group, zinc aluminate, ZnAl 2 O 4 .
- signals
-
noun,
anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.:
- signets
-
noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- losings
-
noun,
losings, losses.
- soothes
-
verb (used with object),
to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh:
- Thistle
-
noun,
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- tanists
-
noun,
the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- Shelton
-
noun,
a city in SW Connecticut.
- etoiles
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- etalons
-
noun,
an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
- titians
-
noun,
(Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
- Silesia
-
noun,
a lightweight, smoothly finished, twilled fabric of acetate, rayon, or cotton, for garment linings.
- entoils
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- soilage
-
noun,
grass or leafy plants raised as feed for fenced-in livestock.
- otolith
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a calcareous concretion in the internal ear of vertebrates.
- assoils
-
verb (used with object),
to absolve; acquit; pardon.
- tootles
-
noun,
the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.
- asshole
-
noun,
anus.
- shoo-in
-
noun,
a candidate, competitor, etc., regarded as certain to win.
- agonies
-
noun,
extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- nestles
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- agonist
-
noun,
a person engaged in a contest, conflict, struggle, etc., especially the protagonist in a literary work.
- tilings
-
noun,
the operation of covering with tiles.
- sanseis
-
noun,
a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
- Othniel
-
noun,
a judge of Israel. Judges 3:9.
- nettles
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- entitle
-
verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- settles
-
noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- entasis
-
noun,
a slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.
- entails
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- toeshoe
-
noun,
a dance slipper fitted with a thick, reinforced toe to enable the ballet dancer to toe-dance.
- neolith
-
noun,
a Neolithic stone implement.
- eoliths
-
noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- negates
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- Estonia
-
noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- assigns
-
noun,
Usually, assigns. Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee:
- solates
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- tighten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become tight or tighter.
- anoesis
-
noun,
a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.
- anisole
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, having a pleasant, aromatic odor, used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis, and as a vermicide.
- tiglons
-
noun,
the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
- shantis
-
noun,
peace.
- essoins
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- Tootsie
-
noun,
a sweetheart; darling.
- saltish
-
adjective,
somewhat salty.
- stooge
-
noun,
an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
- saloon
-
noun,
a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
- Santos
-
noun,
a seaport in S Brazil: world's largest coffee-exporting port.
- Saseno
-
noun,
an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- siglos
-
noun,
a silver coin of ancient Persia, the 20th part of a daric.
- stolas
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- stoats
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- satins
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- stolon
-
noun,
Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
- signee
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- stolen
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- isogon
-
noun,
a polygon having all angles equal.
- sansei
-
noun,
a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
- isseis
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- sanies
-
noun,
a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.
- signal
-
noun,
anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.:
- sigils
-
noun,
a seal or signet.
- Salten
-
noun,
Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- sasins
-
noun,
blackbuck.
- isohel
-
noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- sights
-
noun,
the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- saltie
-
noun,
an ocean-going sailor.
- sashes
-
noun,
a long band or scarf worn over one shoulder or around the waist, as by military officers as a part of the uniform or by women and children for ornament.
- istles
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- logins
-
noun,
the act of logging in to a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
- stools
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- talion
-
noun,
lex talionis.
- Shansi
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Shanxi.
- ingest
-
verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- shanti
-
noun,
peace.
- Sheena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ingate
-
noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- sheens
-
noun,
luster; brightness; radiance.
- taints
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- Taisho
-
noun,
the designation of the period of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, 1912–26.
- Sheets
-
noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- talent
-
noun,
a special natural ability or aptitude:
- Sheila
-
noun,
a girl or young woman.
- Talien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- Ilesha
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- Shelta
-
noun,
a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- Ingles
-
noun,
a fire burning in a hearth.
- Shiite
-
noun,
a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- Shinto
-
noun,
Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- Hsiang
-
noun,
a Chinese language spoken in Hunan province in southern China.
- tanist
-
noun,
the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- tangos
-
noun,
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.
- shines
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- Sholes
-
noun,
Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
- shiest
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- ignite
-
verb (used with object),
to set on fire; kindle.
- shiels
-
noun,
shieling.
- tangle
-
noun,
a tangled condition or situation.
- sheols
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- Shensi
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Shaanxi.
- igloos
-
noun,
an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
- talons
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- shales
-
noun,
a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- ingots
-
noun,
a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
- Season
-
noun,
one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- selahs
-
noun,
an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- shotts
-
noun,
chott.
- iolite
-
noun,
cordierite.
- Tahiti
-
noun,
the principal island of the Society Islands, in the S Pacific. 402 sq. mi. (1041 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- selen-
-
- tahini
-
noun,
a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- shtetl
-
noun,
(formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- seises
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- isatin
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- seines
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seeing
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- siesta
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- senega
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- instil
-
verb (used with object),
instill.
- inhale
-
verb (used with object),
to breathe in; draw in by breathing:
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- set-to
-
noun,
a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- Settle
-
noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- insist
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- shoots
-
noun,
the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Sestos
-
noun,
an ancient Thracian town on the Hellespont opposite Abydos: Xerxes crossed the Hellespont here when he began his invasion of Greece.
- sestet
-
noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- instal
-
verb (used with object),
install.
- shotes
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- senses
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- Salish
-
noun,
a member of any of various North American Indian peoples speaking a Salishan language.
- latish
-
adjective,
somewhat or rather late.
- saline
-
noun,
a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
- Nettle
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- Ligeti
-
noun,
György Sándor [jawr-jee shahn-dawr,, dyawr-] /ˈdʒɔr dʒi ˈʃɑn dɔr,, ˈdyɔr-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2006, Austrian composer, born in Hungary.
- sneesh
-
noun,
snuff1 (def 9).
- nights
-
noun,
the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- snoose
-
noun,
finely powdered tobacco; snuff.
- snoots
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- lights
-
noun,
something that makes things visible or affords illumination:
- lignes
-
noun,
(in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- nilgai
-
noun,
a large, Indian antelope, Boselaphus tragocamelus, the male of which is bluish gray with small horns, the female tawny and hornless.
- ligni-
-
- ligno-
-
- linage
-
noun,
the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- soigne
-
adjective,
carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
- stanes
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Nessie
-
noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- snaths
-
noun,
the shaft or handle of a scythe.
- ligate
-
verb (used with object),
to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).
- Neisse
-
noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- Lettie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Laetitia.
- Sloane
-
noun,
Sir Hans, 1660–1753, English physician and naturalist.
- lesson
-
noun,
a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject:
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- no-hit
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team:
- lethes
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- slogan
-
noun,
a distinctive cry, phrase, or motto of any party, group, manufacturer, or person; catchword or catch phrase.
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- sloths
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- ligase
-
noun,
any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the joining of two molecules by formation of a covalent bond accompanied by the hydrolysis of ATP.
- liaise
-
verb (used without object),
to form a liaison.
- niseis
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- liangs
-
noun,
a Chinese unit of weight, equal to 1/16 (0.0625) catty, and equivalent to about 1.33 ounces (38 grams).
- stasis
-
noun,
the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.
- Nilote
-
noun,
a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- lieges
-
noun,
a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
- ligans
-
noun,
lagan.
- nesses
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- Neilah
-
noun,
the Jewish religious service marking the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
- nooses
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- litten
-
adjective,
lighted1 .
- lithos
-
noun,
lithography.
- soothe
-
verb (used with object),
to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh:
- losing
-
noun,
losings, losses.
- sooths
-
noun,
truth, reality, or fact.
- looses
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- loosen
-
verb (used with object),
to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- looies
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- lotion
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
- stages
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- loathe
-
verb (used with object),
to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor:
- Sothis
-
noun,
the name for the star Sirius, the Dog Star, given by the ancient Egyptians.
- longi-
-
- longes
-
noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- sotols
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- logans
-
noun,
pokelogan.
- Sontag
-
noun,
Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.
- litho.
-
- neighs
-
noun,
the cry of a horse; whinny.
- Stalin
-
noun,
Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- lingoe
-
noun,
a metal weight attached to the cords of a Jacquard harness, for lowering the warp threads after they have been raised and for keeping the harness cords taut.
- negate
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- solans
-
noun,
a gannet.
- shoats
-
noun,
Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- Solent
-
noun,
The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- lionet
-
noun,
a young or small lion.
- soling
-
noun,
pitching.
- Li-sao
-
noun,
a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan.
- Lottie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- stales
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- solion
-
noun,
Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- listen
-
Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- solons
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- stains
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Lithia
-
noun,
Chemistry. lithium oxide.
- lesses
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- noshes
-
noun,
a snack.
- lagoon
-
noun,
an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
Compare laguna.
- lathes
-
noun,
a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- lassos
-
noun,
a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- lateen
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having a lateen sail or sails.
- latens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- latent
-
adjective,
present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential:
- latest
-
noun,
the latest, the most recent news, development, disclosure, etc.:
- osteo-
-
- Lassie
-
noun,
a young girl; lass.
- lathis
-
noun,
a heavy pole or stick, especially one used as a club by police.
- latigo
-
noun,
a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
- osteal
-
adjective,
osseous.
- Ossian
-
noun,
a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
- Latino
-
noun,
a person of Latin-American descent:
- latins
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- logion
-
noun,
a traditional saying or maxim, as of a religious teacher.
- otitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the ear.
- lasses
-
noun,
a girl or young woman, especially one who is unmarried.
- latten
-
noun,
a brasslike alloy commonly made in thin sheets and formerly much used for church utensils.
- stilts
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- stints
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- laighs
-
noun,
a small valley or hollow.
- stings
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- signet
-
noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- saithe
-
noun,
pollock.
- stingo
-
noun,
strong beer.
- lanose
-
adjective,
lanate.
- saints
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- silage
-
noun,
fodder preserved through fermentation in a silo; ensilage.
- Saigon
-
noun,
former name of Ho Chi Minh City: capital of former South Vietnam 1954–76.
- silane
-
noun,
Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- silent
-
noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- lashes
-
noun,
the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- Lashio
-
noun,
a town in N Burma (Myanmar), NE of Mandalay: the SW terminus of the Burma Road.
- lasing
-
noun,
the generation of coherent light by a laser.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- singes
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- lessen
-
verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- slates
-
noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slangs
-
noun,
very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- slants
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- stego-
-
- steels
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- length
-
noun,
the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end:
- sleets
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- legist
-
noun,
an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- sleigh
-
noun,
a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
- sliest
-
adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- steals
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- leones
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- notate
-
verb (used with object),
to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation:
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- slings
-
- legits
-
noun,
the legitimate theater or stage.
- legion
-
noun,
a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers.
- single
-
noun,
one person or thing; a single one.
- steles
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Osages
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- leases
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- oolith
-
noun,
any of the component concretions of a piece of oolite.
- oolite
-
noun,
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- leasts
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- steno-
-
- legate
-
noun,
an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- sitten
-
verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- sisals
-
noun,
Also called sisal hemp. a fiber yielded by an agave, Agave sisalana, of Yucatán, used for making rope, rugs, etc.
- oligo-
-
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- 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.
- legato
-
adjective, adverb,
smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.
- oleate
-
noun,
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- Olathe
-
noun,
a city in E Kansas.
- losses
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- solate
-
verb (used with object),
to change from a gel to a sol.
- hottie
-
noun,
a sexually attractive person.
- gleans
-
verb (used with object),
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- Ateste
-
noun,
ancient name of Este.
- gisant
-
noun,
a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- teston
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- testis
-
noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- testes
-
noun,
plural of testis.
- togate
-
adjective,
dressed in a toga.
- assoil
-
verb (used with object),
to absolve; acquit; pardon.
- assist
-
noun,
Sports.
Baseball. a play that helps to put out a batter or base runner.
Basketball, Ice Hockey. a play that helps a teammate in gaining a goal.
the official credit scored for such plays.
- Athens
-
noun,
Greek Athenai. a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part.
- Assisi
-
noun,
a town in E Umbria, in central Italy: birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi.
- gleets
-
noun,
Pathology.
a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- assign
-
noun,
Usually, assigns. Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee:
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- glints
-
noun,
a tiny, quick flash of light.
- Giotto
-
noun,
(Giotto di Bondone) 1266?–1337, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- gloats
-
noun,
an act or feeling of gloating.
- easels
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- Gessen
-
noun,
Goshen (def 1).
- gestes
-
noun,
gest.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- Titian
-
noun,
(Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
- Thanet
-
noun,
Octave [ok-tiv,, -teyv] /ˈɒk tɪv,, -teɪv/ (Show IPA) pen name of Alice French.
- easies
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- thanes
-
noun,
Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.
- Thales
-
noun,
c640–546? b.c, Greek philosopher, born in Miletus.
- Gilson
-
noun,
Étienne Henry [ey-tyen ahn-ree] /eɪˈtyɛn ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1884–1978, French historian.
- Ealing
-
noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- eaglet
-
noun,
a young eagle.
- titles
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- ghetto
-
noun,
a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- Ghosts
-
noun,
a play (1881) by Henrik Ibsen.
- toasts
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- Attlee
-
noun,
Clement (Richard) 1883–1967, British statesman: prime minister 1945–51.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- eolith
-
noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- gloss.
-
- tithes
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- angsts
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- aniso-
-
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- anises
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- tenets
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- hagio-
-
- telson
-
noun,
the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- Anglos
-
noun,
a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.
- anoles
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- Anglo-
-
- Angles
-
noun,
Geometry.
the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
the figure so formed.
the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
- halite
-
noun,
a soft white or colorless mineral, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring in cubic crystals with perfect cleavage; rock salt.
- haloes
-
noun,
Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- angio-
-
- Angelo
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Hansel
-
noun,
a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- gotten
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- tolans
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- tentie
-
adjective,
tenty.
- Glossa
-
noun,
Anatomy. the tongue.
- Ashton
-
noun,
Sir Frederick (William) 1906–1988, English dancer and choreographer, born in Ecuador.
- teslas
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- gneiss
-
noun,
a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
- gnosis
-
noun,
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.
- goalie
-
noun,
a goalkeeper.
- goatee
-
noun,
a man's beard trimmed to a tuft or point on the chin.
- Goethe
-
noun,
Johann Wolfgang von [yoh-hahn vawlf-gahng fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈvɔlf gɑŋ fən/ (Show IPA), 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- tenths
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- toilet
-
noun,
a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
- golosh
-
noun,
galosh.
- anthol
-
- antho-
-
- gooses
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- Goshen
-
noun,
a pastoral region in Lower Egypt, occupied by the Israelites before the Exodus. Gen. 45:10.
- gossan
-
noun,
a rust-colored deposit of mineral matter at the outcrop of a vein or orebody containing iron-bearing materials.
- eating
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- Gentoo
-
noun,
a Hindu.
- aneles
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- ethnog
-
- ethnos
-
noun,
an ethnic group.
- Engels
-
noun,
Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- thongs
-
noun,
a strip of material, especially of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something.
- tholos
-
noun,
a circular building.
a small, round structure, as a lantern.
a circular subterranean tomb, lined with masonry.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- tholes
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- ethno-
-
- thiols
-
- tinges
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- things
-
noun,
a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- tingle
-
noun,
a tingling sensation.
- Gaines
-
noun,
Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- eloign
-
verb (used with object),
to remove to a distance, especially to take beyond the jurisdiction of a law court.
- enhalo
-
verb (used with object),
to surround with or as with a halo.
- ethion
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- Iletin
-
- entail
-
noun,
the act of entailing.
- Tilsit
-
noun,
former name of Sovetsk.
- tilths
-
noun,
the act or operation of tilling land; tillage.
- eosins
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- tiling
-
noun,
the operation of covering with tiles.
- entoil
-
verb (used with object),
to take in toils; ensnare; enmesh.
- tiglon
-
noun,
the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
- tights
-
noun,
a skin-tight, one-piece garment for the lower part of the body and the legs, now often made of stretch fabric, originally worn by dancers, acrobats, gymnasts, etc., and later made for general wear for adults and children.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- ethine
-
noun,
acetylene.
- estate
-
noun,
a piece of landed property, especially one of large extent with an elaborate house on it:
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- etalon
-
noun,
an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- enlist
-
verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- ethane
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, C 2 H 6 , of the methane series, present in natural gas, illuminating gas, and crude petroleum: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a fuel gas.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- gainst
-
preposition,
against.
- gentle
-
adjective,
kindly; amiable:
- genets
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Geisel
-
noun,
Theodor Seuss [soos] /sus/ (Show IPA), ("Dr. Seuss") 1904–91, U.S. humorist, illustrator, and author of children's books.
- geisha
-
noun,
a Japanese woman trained as a professional singer, dancer, and companion for men.
- gelati
-
noun,
a rich ice cream, made with eggs and usually containing a relatively low percentage of butterfat.
- theine
-
noun,
caffeine, especially in tea.
- eights
-
noun,
crazy eights.
- thegns
-
noun,
thane.
- Tissot
-
noun,
James Joseph Jacques [zham zhaw-zef zhahk,, zheymz] /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk,, ʒeɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1836–1902, French painter.
- genial
-
adjective,
warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial:
- Elaine
-
noun,
any of several women in Arthurian romance, as the daughter of King Pelles and the mother, by Lancelot, of Sir Galahad.
- genies
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- egoist
-
noun,
a self-centered or selfish person (opposed to altruist).
- titans
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of the sons of Uranus and Gaea, including Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus.
Also, Titaness. any of the sisters of these, including Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Themis, and Thia.
any of the offspring of the children of Uranus and Gaea.
- genit.
-
- egests
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- Egesta
-
noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- genoas
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- elates
-
adjective,
elated.
- Elissa
-
noun,
Phoenician name of Dido.
- galosh
-
noun,
a waterproof overshoe, especially a high one.
- Elisha
-
noun,
Also, Douay Bible, Eliseus [el-i-see-uh s] /ˌɛl ɪˈsi əs/ (Show IPA). a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century b.c., the successor of Elijah. II Kings 3–9.
- Thetis
-
noun,
a Nereid, the wife of Peleus and the mother of Achilles.
- 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.
- 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.
- Galion
-
noun,
a city in N central Ohio.
- galiot
-
noun,
a small galley propelled by both sails and oars.
- galoot
-
noun,
an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
- thetas
-
noun,
the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (Θ, θ).
- theol.
-
- Galton
-
noun,
Sir Francis, 1822–1911, English scientist and writer.
- Thess.
-
- thesis
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- elegit
-
noun,
a writ of execution against a judgment debtor's goods, property, or land, held by the judgment creditor until payment of the debt, as from rents on the land.
- theses
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- gashes
-
noun,
a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- gaslit
-
noun,
light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- Gaston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- hanses
-
noun,
Hansa.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- teasel
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- heists
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- aligns
-
verb (used with object),
to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- Tassie
-
noun,
tass.
- Helios
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens; identified by the Romans with Sol.
- helio-
-
- A-line
-
noun,
(especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- Helena
-
noun,
Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
- agists
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- alines
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- tasset
-
noun,
either of two pieces of plate armor hanging from the fauld to protect the upper parts of the thighs.
- Alison
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alice.
- honest
-
adjective,
honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair:
- helots
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- Heinie
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.
- tasses
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Tongas
-
noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used in India.
- toshes
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- aloins
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- Alonso
-
noun,
Alicia (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoyo) born 1921, Cuban ballerina.
- tassel
-
noun,
a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- teleg.
-
- tosses
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- aethon
-
noun,
triethyl orthoformate.
- totals
-
noun,
the total amount; sum; aggregate:
- alight
-
adverb, adjective,
provided with light; lighted up.
- holies
-
noun,
a place of worship; sacred place; sanctuary.
- Hastie
-
noun,
William Henry, 1904–76, U.S. jurist: first black judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- aisles
-
noun,
a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- hisses
-
noun,
a hissing sound, especially one made in disapproval.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- histo-
-
- hinges
-
noun,
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- Aileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- ailing
-
adjective,
sickly; unwell.
- Tooele
-
noun,
a town in NW Utah.
- Hilton
-
noun,
Conrad (Nicholson) 1887–1979, U.S. hotel owner and developer.
- aiolis
-
noun,
a garlic-flavored mayonnaise of Provence, served with fish and seafood and often with vegetables.
- hogans
-
noun,
a Navajo Indian dwelling constructed of earth and branches and covered with mud or sod.
- tonsil
-
noun,
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- hogtie
-
verb (used with object),
to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- algins
-
noun,
any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- tooths
-
noun,
(in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- tonlet
-
noun,
a skirt of plates.
- hoises
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- Aletes
-
noun,
a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- Alette
-
noun,
(in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch.
- Hestia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the hearth.
- tootle
-
noun,
the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.
- hoists
-
- tastes
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- aglint
-
adjective,
displaying bright points of light, as by reflection; glittering:
- aglets
-
noun,
a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- telega
-
noun,
a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.
- Alioth
-
noun,
a star of the second magnitude in the constellation Ursa Major.
- hastes
-
noun,
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity:
- hostas
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- Haslet
-
noun,
the heart, liver, etc., of a hog or other animal used for food.
- hostel
-
noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- toting
-
noun,
the practice of taking home food from an employer by a person engaged in domestic service.
- hosing
-
noun,
an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
- teleo-
-
- hassle
-
noun,
a disorderly dispute.
- hassel
-
noun,
Odd [awd] /ɔd/ (Show IPA), 1897–1981, Norwegian chemist: Nobel Prize 1969.
- hosels
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- Tsonga
-
noun,
a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa.
- hasten
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to hasten; accelerate:
- Aeolis
-
noun,
an ancient coastal region and Greek colony in NW Asia Minor: settled by Aeolians.
- Hosein
-
noun,
Hussein (def 1).
- Hotien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- haoles
-
noun,
(among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- Alston
-
noun,
a male given name.
- slash
-
noun,
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slang
-
noun,
very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- Elath
-
noun,
Eilat.
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- Shang
-
noun,
a Chinese dynasty whose dates are usually given as 1766–1122 b.c. and sometimes as 1523–1027 b.c.
- snogs
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- ogles
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- slate
-
noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- nighs
-
adverb,
near in space, time, or relation:
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Nigel
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Neil.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- agnel
-
noun,
a gold coin of France of the 13th–16th centuries, bearing the figure of a lamb.
- Elgin
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois.
- oaths
-
noun,
a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.:
- shins
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- slags
-
noun,
Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- Shane
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Neth.
-
- shoos
-
interjection,
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
- shoot
-
noun,
the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- sito-
-
- tooth
-
noun,
(in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- eight
-
noun,
a cardinal number, seven plus one.
- shogi
-
noun,
the Japanese version of chess.
- shoon
-
noun,
plural of shoe.
- setts
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- shoal
-
noun,
a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- 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.
- shoat
-
noun,
Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- shits
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- shags
-
noun,
rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
- 30-30
-
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- slain
-
noun,
sley.
- oasis
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- shalt
-
verb,
2nd person singular of shall.
- ohone
-
interjection,
alas!
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- shogs
-
noun,
a shake; jolt.
- Eilat
-
noun,
a seaport at the N tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, in S Israel.
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- ento-
-
- agone
-
adverb, adjective,
ago.
- shale
-
noun,
a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- Elgon
-
noun,
an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the boundary between Uganda and Kenya. 14,176 feet (4321 meters).
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- shone
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- agile
-
adjective,
quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe:
- snash
-
noun,
insolence; impertinence.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Sloan
-
noun,
John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- snail
-
noun,
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- Elton
-
noun,
a male given name.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- agent
-
noun,
a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
- nolos
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- tinge
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- snags
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- shiel
-
noun,
shieling.
- noso-
-
- Nitti
-
noun,
Francesco Saverio [frahn-ches-kaw sah-ve-ryaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ sɑˈvɛ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1868–1953, Italian lawyer, statesman, and economist.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- total
-
noun,
the total amount; sum; aggregate:
- Engel
-
noun,
Lehman [ley-muh n] /ˈleɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1910–1982, U.S. conductor and composer.
- no-go
-
adjective,
inoperative; canceled:
- Nogai
-
noun,
a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
- slogs
-
noun,
a long, tiring walk or march.
- Engle
-
noun,
Paul (Hamilton) 1908–91, U.S. poet and educator.
- sloth
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- slosh
-
noun,
watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Sheol
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- agios
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- aglet
-
noun,
a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- night
-
noun,
the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- Elias
-
noun,
Douay Bible. Elijah (def 1).
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- 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.
- toots
-
noun,
an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- tings
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- Elisa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- tilts
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- sheas
-
noun,
shea tree.
- Shona
-
noun,
Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- noto-
-
- shine
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- Sheen
-
noun,
luster; brightness; radiance.
- snath
-
noun,
the shaft or handle of a scythe.
- shies
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- Sligo
-
noun,
a county in Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 694 sq. mi. (1795 sq. km).
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- agist
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- oleo-
-
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- toti-
-
- sheet
-
noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- totes
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Alton
-
noun,
a city in SW Illinois.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- oleos
-
noun,
margarine.
- segno
-
noun,
a sign.
- Alost
-
noun,
a city in central Belgium, NW of Brussels.
- shtg.
-
- salon
-
noun,
a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- anth-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- ante-
-
- segos
-
noun,
sego lily.
- tolan
-
noun,
a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- anole
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- tolas
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- Salto
-
noun,
a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- Segal
-
noun,
George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- salts
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- sials
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- anti-
-
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Ashes
-
noun,
the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning.
- tongs
-
noun,
any of various implements consisting of two arms hinged, pivoted, or otherwise fastened together, for seizing, holding, or lifting something (usually used with pair of).
- sails
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- signs
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Alogi
-
noun,
a group of Christians in the 2nd century a.d. who rejected the doctrine of the Logos.
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- sains
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- ashen
-
adjective,
ash-colored; gray.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- along
-
Idioms,
all along, all the time; throughout:
- saith
-
verb,
third person singular present of say1 .
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- signa
-
verb,
(used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- Sango
-
noun,
a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- alist
-
adjective,
inclined to one side; heeling or listing.
- Angel
-
noun,
one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- Angl.
-
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- angi-
-
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- altho
-
conjunction,
although.
- tonal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or having tonality.
- Angle
-
noun,
Geometry.
the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
the figure so formed.
the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
- satis
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- sight
-
noun,
the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sighs
-
noun,
the act or sound of sighing.
- alti-
-
- alto-
-
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- siege
-
noun,
the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- sanit
-
- Tonga
-
noun,
a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used in India.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- Sans.
-
- anis-
-
- anils
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- anigh
-
adverb,
nearby; close by.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- angst
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- sasin
-
noun,
blackbuck.
- sigil
-
noun,
a seal or signet.
- Selah
-
noun,
an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- title
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- aisle
-
noun,
a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- titis
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- tono-
-
- sings
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- shote
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- Eagle
-
noun,
any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family Accipitridae, noted for their size, strength, and powers of flight and vision: formerly widespread in North America, eagles are mostly confined to Alaska and a few isolated populations.
Compare bald eagle, golden eagle.
- Titos
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- Singh
-
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- sing.
-
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- sinhs
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- seti-
-
- atto-
-
- aioli
-
noun,
a garlic-flavored mayonnaise of Provence, served with fish and seafood and often with vegetables.
- olig-
-
- tools
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- olios
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- aholt
-
noun,
ahold.
- Olson
-
noun,
Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- tithe
-
noun,
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
- Onega
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- Sino-
-
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- SISAL
-
noun,
Also called sisal hemp. a fiber yielded by an agave, Agave sisalana, of Yucatán, used for making rope, rugs, etc.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- seals
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- onto-
-
- toast
-
noun,
sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sagos
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- silts
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- sinal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- Othin
-
noun,
Odin.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- togas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- Sinai
-
noun,
Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- asst.
-
- align
-
verb (used with object),
to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- assn.
-
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- silos
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- ottos
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- asses
-
noun,
plural of ass1 .
- Silas
-
noun,
a male given name.
- sages
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- alien
-
noun,
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).
See also resident alien, illegal alien.
- Sinas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- ation
-
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- ossia
-
conjunction,
(indicating an alternative, usually easier, version of a passage in a musical score) or; or else.
- shott
-
noun,
chott.
- tonia
-
- oste-
-
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- atilt
-
adjective, adverb,
with a tilt or inclination; tilted:
- algo-
-
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- Athos
-
noun,
Mount, the easternmost of three prongs of the peninsula of Chalcidice, in NE Greece: site of an autonomous theocracy constituted of 20 monasteries. 131 sq. mi. (340 sq. km); about 35 miles (56 km) long.
- Athol
-
noun,
a city in central Massachusetts.
- Algie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Algernon.
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- Athel
-
noun,
a male given name.
- algin
-
noun,
any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- gains
-
- tilth
-
noun,
the act or operation of tilling land; tillage.
- gloat
-
noun,
an act or feeling of gloating.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- gnash
-
noun,
an act of gnashing.
- leges
-
noun,
plural of lex.
- Legis
-
- legit
-
noun,
the legitimate theater or stage.
- hinge
-
noun,
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- hints
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- Leigh
-
noun,
Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) 1913–67, English actress.
- glint
-
noun,
a tiny, quick flash of light.
- glias
-
noun,
neuroglia.
- Leith
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- Goias
-
noun,
a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- gleet
-
noun,
Pathology.
a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- Stets
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- goths
-
noun,
one of a Teutonic people who in the 3rd to 5th centuries invaded and settled in parts of the Roman Empire.
- Latin
-
noun,
an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- Gotha
-
noun,
a city in S Thuringia, in central Germany.
- Goth.
-
- Gosse
-
noun,
Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- teats
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- goose
-
noun,
any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- goons
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- leash
-
noun,
a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- intel
-
noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- Stent
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Hines
-
noun,
Earl ("Fatha") 1905–83, U.S. jazz pianist.
- gono-
-
- tenth
-
noun,
one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
- lease
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- 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.
- laths
-
noun,
a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
- Letts
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- Letha
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lethe
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- Teton
-
noun,
the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- Giles
-
noun,
Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- Hogan
-
noun,
a Navajo Indian dwelling constructed of earth and branches and covered with mud or sod.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- State
-
noun,
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
- stats
-
noun,
Also, 'stat. thermostat.
- lgth.
-
- stat.
-
- giant
-
noun,
(in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- Henie
-
noun,
Sonja, 1912–69, U.S. figure-skater and film actress, born in Norway.
- ghost
-
noun,
the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- liang
-
noun,
a Chinese unit of weight, equal to 1/16 (0.0625) catty, and equivalent to about 1.33 ounces (38 grams).
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- Ghent
-
noun,
a port in NW Belgium, at the confluence of the Scheldt and Lys rivers: treaty 1814.
- teths
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- insol
-
- hist.
-
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- 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.
- glees
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- lento
-
adverb,
slowly.
- inst.
-
- glean
-
verb (used with object),
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- Glass
-
noun,
a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- glans
-
noun,
the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- gilts
-
noun,
the thin layer of gold or other material applied in gilding.
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- testa
-
noun,
the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- gists
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Giono
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, French novelist.
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- gotta
-
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Thais
-
noun,
flourished late 4th century b.c, Athenian courtesan: mistress of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I.
- 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).
- Isth.
-
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- Hatti
-
noun,
an ancient people who lived in central Anatolia before its conquest by the Hittites.
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- hates
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- Ital.
-
- ition
-
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- heals
-
verb (used with object),
to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- stola
-
noun,
a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- hests
-
noun,
behest.
- haste
-
noun,
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity:
- teeth
-
noun,
plural of tooth.
- Stoat
-
noun,
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- Tahoe
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: resort. About 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km); 6225 feet (1897 meters) above sea level.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- Lagos
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Nigeria: former capital.
- Helen
-
noun,
Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- henge
-
noun,
a Neolithic monument of the British Isles, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank and ditch and often containing additional features including one or more circles of upright stone or wood pillars: probably used for ritual purposes or for marking astronomical events, as solstices and equinoxes.
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- stool
-
noun,
a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- Helot
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- heli-
-
- Helga
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “holy.”.
- helas
-
interjection,
alas!
- tele-
-
- hents
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- Hesse
-
noun,
Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- heist
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- Heine
-
noun,
Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1797–1856, German lyric and satiric poet, journalist, and critic.
- Heian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- Hegel
-
noun,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [gey-awrk vil-helm free-drikh] /ˈgeɪ ɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1831, German philosopher.
- heels
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- heats
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- lagen
-
noun,
laggin.
- Lahti
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, NNE of Helsinki.
- lathi
-
noun,
a heavy pole or stick, especially one used as a club by police.
- lasts
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- telo-
-
- Haiti
-
noun,
Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
- hails
-
noun,
a shout or call to attract attention:
- lasso
-
noun,
a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- Hagen
-
noun,
Walter, 1892–1969, U.S. golfer.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- stge.
-
- hales
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a simple thatched-roof dwelling.
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- haets
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- Lathe
-
noun,
a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- teno-
-
- tails
-
noun,
tail1 (def 6).
- telia
-
noun,
the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- halo-
-
- stint
-
noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Lange
-
noun,
Christian Louis [kris-tyahn loo-ee,, -is] /ˈkrɪs tyɑn ˈlu i,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1938, Norwegian historian: Nobel Peace Prize 1921.
- laigh
-
noun,
a small valley or hollow.
- haole
-
noun,
(among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- Hants
-
noun,
Hampshire (def 1).
- Laing
-
noun,
R(onald) D(avid) 1927–1989, British psychiatrist and author, born in Scotland.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Laith
-
adjective,
loath.
- Hanse
-
noun,
Hansa.
- lang.
-
- sting
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- halos
-
noun,
Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- Hanoi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
- hangs
-
- halts
-
noun,
a temporary or permanent stop.
- stilt
-
noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- 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.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- lases
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- ghees
-
noun,
a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- Liege
-
noun,
a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
- sooth
-
noun,
truth, reality, or fact.
- thing
-
noun,
a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- gaels
-
noun,
a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
- loots
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- thins
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- thio-
-
- thole
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- ileo-
-
- soots
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- lotas
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Soong
-
noun,
Charles Jones, 1866–1918, Chinese merchant (father of Ai-ling, Ch'ing-ling, Mei-ling, and Tse-ven Soong).
- hoots
-
noun,
the cry of an owl.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- thong
-
noun,
a strip of material, especially of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something.
- Hosea
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- lotos
-
noun,
lotus.
- Lotta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- loose
-
Idioms,
break loose, to free oneself; escape:
- loons
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- ethos
-
noun,
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period:
- sotol
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
- login
-
noun,
the act of logging in to a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
- galet
-
noun,
spall (def 1).
- logis
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- logo-
-
- Logos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
- gales
-
noun,
a very strong wind.
- Ghats
-
noun,
Eastern Ghats.
- 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.
- so-so
-
adverb,
in an indifferent or passable manner; indifferently; tolerably.
- Sotho
-
noun,
a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Lesotho and South Africa.
- longa
-
noun,
the second longest note in medieval mensural notation.
- longe
-
noun,
a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
- shoes
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- gaits
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- thine
-
pronoun,
the possessive case of thou1. used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
- Longs
-
- looie
-
noun,
a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- Lotte
-
noun,
angler (def 3).
- lotto
-
noun,
a game of chance in which a leader draws numbered disks at random from a stock and the players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards, the winner being the first to cover a complete row.
- ilio-
-
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Hosta
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- neath
-
preposition,
beneath.
- solan
-
noun,
a gannet.
- tango
-
noun,
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.
- hosts
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- esses
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- tangs
-
- tight
-
Idioms,
sit tight, to take no action.
- neigh
-
noun,
the cry of a horse; whinny.
- soils
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- 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.
- hotel
-
noun,
a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
- 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.
- hsien
-
noun,
(in popular Chinese religion) one of a group of benevolent spirits promoting good in the world.
- Esth.
-
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- iasis
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- talon
-
noun,
a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- hosel
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- igloo
-
noun,
an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
- Talos
-
noun,
a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- IATSE
-
- Solon
-
noun,
c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- tanto
-
adverb,
(of a musical direction) too much; so much.
- nails
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- Ethel
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- naso-
-
- Ethan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “strength.”.
- ethal
-
noun,
cetyl alcohol.
- those
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- natl.
-
- logia
-
noun,
a plural of logion.
- Galen
-
noun,
Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- loges
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- holo-
-
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- theat
-
- Genoa
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- ling.
-
- lingo
-
noun,
the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
- Genl.
-
- Ingle
-
noun,
a fire burning in a hearth.
- lings
-
noun,
an elongated, marine, gadid food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and northern Europe.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- Logan
-
noun,
pokelogan.
- holts
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- genii
-
noun,
a plural of genius.
- lints
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Genie
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- stang
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- taste
-
noun,
the act of tasting food or drink.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Light
-
noun,
something that makes things visible or affords illumination:
- stash
-
noun,
something put away or hidden:
- ligan
-
noun,
lagan.
- init.
-
- ghast
-
adjective,
ghastly.
- ghain
-
noun,
the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Thane
-
noun,
Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- Thant
-
noun,
U, U Thant.
- geol.
-
- gests
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- lign-
-
- ingot
-
noun,
a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
- ligne
-
noun,
(in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- holes
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- gesso
-
noun,
gypsum or plaster of Paris prepared with glue for use as a surface for painting.
- Genet
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Holst
-
noun,
Gustav Theodore [goo s-tahv] /ˈgʊs tɑv/ (Show IPA), 1874–1934, English composer.
- Stoss
-
noun,
Veit [fahyt] /faɪt/ (Show IPA), c1440–1533, German sculptor and painter.
- hongs
-
noun,
(in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- thegn
-
noun,
thane.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- gasts
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- Theos
-
- these
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- Gaons
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Stahl
-
noun,
Georg Ernst [gey-ork ernst] /geɪˈɒrk ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1660–1734, German chemist and physician.
- Lith.
-
- gaols
-
noun,
a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- loans
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- loath
-
adjective,
unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse:
- Theta
-
noun,
the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (Θ, θ).
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- Ilion
-
noun,
Greek name of ancient Troy.
- lithe
-
adjective,
bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible:
- theo-
-
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- thens
-
noun,
that time:
- hones
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- gelts
-
noun,
money.
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- taint
-
noun,
a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- litas
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- tail
-
noun,
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- 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.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- tanh
-
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Tate
-
noun,
Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- shog
-
noun,
a shake; jolt.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- toot
-
noun,
an act or sound of tooting.
- tats
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- thi-
-
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tots
-
noun,
a small child.
- tosh
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- TSgt
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- tool
-
noun,
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- shoo
-
interjection,
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
- teat
-
noun,
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- Tshi
-
noun,
Twi.
- shot
-
noun,
a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- tost
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- tote
-
noun,
the act or course of toting.
- Togo
-
noun,
Heihachiro [hey-hah-chee-raw] /ˈheɪ hɑˈtʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), Marquis, 1847–1934, Japanese admiral.
- stot
-
noun,
a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.
- slag
-
noun,
Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- this
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- Thin
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- slat
-
noun,
a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- tion
-
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- then
-
noun,
that time:
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- thee
-
pronoun,
the objective case of thou1 :
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- Tit.
-
- sith
-
adverb, conjunction, preposition,
since.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- Thea
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Ting
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- SOHO
-
noun,
a district in London, England, including Soho Square: a predominantly foreign section since 1685; noted for its restaurants.
- 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.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Sol.
-
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- snog
-
verb (used without object),
to kiss and cuddle.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- slog
-
noun,
a long, tiring walk or march.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- soln
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Song
-
noun,
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- Soni
-
- the-
-
- titi
-
noun,
any of various small reddish or grayish monkeys of the genus Callicebus, of South America.
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tola
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- stg.
-
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- ten.
-
- sigh
-
noun,
the act or sound of sighing.
- Sig.
-
- stlg
-
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- tong
-
noun,
tongs.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- sial
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- tel-
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- that
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- teth
-
noun,
the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- than
-
conjunction,
(used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison):
- sinh
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- Tito
-
noun,
Marshal (Josip Broz) 1891–1980, president of Yugoslavia 1953–80.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- Thai
-
noun,
Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- thae
-
pronoun, adjective,
those.
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- Ste.
-
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- lit.
-
- 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.
- toga
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- tilt
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- togs
-
noun,
a coat.
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Solo
-
noun,
a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
- 1080
-
- shoe
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- Lash
-
noun,
the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- est.
-
- LASS
-
noun,
a girl or young woman, especially one who is unmarried.
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- Lat.
-
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- lath
-
noun,
a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- lea.
-
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- Leah
-
noun,
the first wife of Jacob. Gen. 29:23–26.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- 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.
- leg.
-
- LEGO
-
noun,
one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- legs
-
noun,
either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- eso-
-
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- Gael
-
noun,
a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- isls
-
- iso-
-
- ISSN
-
- Gale
-
noun,
a very strong wind.
- Gal.
-
- gait
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- Gail
-
noun,
a female or male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- itis
-
- itol
-
- Lani
-
- ette
-
- Etta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Henrietta.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- eths
-
noun,
a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
- Eth.
-
- lags
-
noun,
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- LAIS
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- 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.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- log-
-
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- enl.
-
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Eng.
-
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- loge
-
noun,
(in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- Logi
-
noun,
a man, a personification of fire, who defeated Loki in an eating contest.
- 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.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Ens.
-
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- Loon
-
noun,
any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- elhi
-
adjective,
elementary and high-school:
- Loos
-
noun,
Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
- loot
-
noun,
spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- 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.
- Lias
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- 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.
- ESIS
-
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- Lett
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- 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.
- lin.
-
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- LISA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- 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:
- gals
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a girl or woman.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- hilt
-
noun,
the handle of a sword or dagger.
- hent
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- gnat
-
noun,
any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- Hess
-
noun,
Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
- hest
-
noun,
behest.
- glia
-
noun,
neuroglia.
- hets
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- Glen
-
noun,
a small, narrow, secluded valley.
- hgt.
-
- Glee
-
noun,
open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
- Hilo
-
noun,
a seaport on E Hawaii island, in SE Hawaii.
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- heel
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- hins
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- hint
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- Hiss
-
noun,
a hissing sound, especially one made in disapproval.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- Gish
-
noun,
Dorothy, 1898–1968, and her sister Lillian, 1896–1993, U.S. film actresses.
- Gino
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- hol-
-
- gilt
-
noun,
the thin layer of gold or other material applied in gilding.
- Hola
-
interjection,
hi; hello:
- goal
-
noun,
the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- heat
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- Holi
-
noun,
the Hindu spring festival.
- hal-
-
- gosh
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation or mild oath):
- goos
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- goon
-
noun,
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- haes
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- haet
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- Hag.
-
- hags
-
noun,
an ugly old woman, especially a vicious or malicious one.
- Haig
-
noun,
Douglas, 1st Earl, 1861–1928, British field marshal: commander in chief of the British forces in France 1915–18.
- hail
-
noun,
a shout or call to attract attention:
- Hale
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a simple thatched-roof dwelling.
- HEAO
-
- Hals
-
noun,
Frans [frahns] /frɑ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1581?–1666, Dutch portrait and genre painter.
- halt
-
noun,
a temporary or permanent stop.
- gon-
-
- Hans
-
noun,
a male given name, Germanic form of John.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- hast
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- Goat
-
noun,
any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- hate
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- heal
-
verb (used with object),
to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- Hole
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- hols
-
plural noun,
Sometimes, hol. British Informal. holiday (def 5).
- gaol
-
noun,
a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- Gen.
-
- gelt
-
noun,
money.
- inae
-
- Gela
-
noun,
a city in S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- 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.
- Shoa
-
noun,
the Holocaust.
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- 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 = .
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- GATT
-
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- gash
-
noun,
a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Gaon
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- Holt
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- Hsia
-
noun,
a legendary dynasty in China, the traditional dates of which are 2205–1766 b.c.
- gils
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- Hong
-
noun,
(in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- Hons
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- hoot
-
noun,
the cry of an owl.
- Hos.
-
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- Gila
-
noun,
a river flowing W from SW New Mexico across S Arizona to the Colorado River. 630 miles (1015 km) long.
- Host
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- hots
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- ghee
-
noun,
a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- ghat
-
noun,
a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- Iago
-
noun,
the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- ign.
-
- geo-
-
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- ile-
-
- Ilia
-
noun,
the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- Lota
-
noun,
(in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- loth
-
adjective,
loath.
- 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.
- sash
-
noun,
a long band or scarf worn over one shoulder or around the waist, as by military officers as a part of the uniform or by women and children for ornament.
- SASE
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Ohio
-
noun,
a state in the NE central United States: a part of the Midwest. 41,222 sq. mi. (106,765 sq. km). Capital: Columbus.
Abbreviation: OH (for use with zip code), O.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- alt.
-
- 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.
- Sass
-
noun,
stewed fruit; fruit sauce.
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- ole-
-
- ELAS
-
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- ALIT
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of alight1 .
- Olga
-
noun,
Saint, died a.d. 968? regent of Kiev until 955: saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- ogle
-
noun,
an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- ant.
-
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- Otto
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- NTIA
-
- asis
-
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- Ashe
-
noun,
Arthur (Robert, Jr) 1943–93, U.S. tennis player.
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- ANSI
-
- Sat.
-
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- ano-
-
- oath
-
noun,
a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.:
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- olio
-
noun,
a dish of many ingredients.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- Oslo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord.
- ails
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- sail
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- sags
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- agio
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- OSHA
-
noun,
the division of the Department of Labor that sets and enforces occupational health and safety rules.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- oto-
-
- agit
-
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- OTOH
-
- agst
-
- Agon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- osis
-
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- SALT
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- Alis
-
- Alg.
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Ont.
-
- sals
-
noun,
salt1 .
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- AISI
-
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- oohs
-
noun,
the exclamation “ooh.”.
- Oona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sais
-
noun,
an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Seth
-
noun,
the third son of Adam. Gen. 4:25.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- Neh.
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- neo-
-
- not-
-
- 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.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- shee
-
noun,
sídh.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- shit
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- egal
-
adjective,
equal.
- Shin
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- Shea
-
noun,
shea tree.
- Nash
-
noun,
John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- eath
-
adjective, adverb,
easy.
- Nah.
-
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Shan
-
noun,
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- shag
-
noun,
rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- att.
-
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- Noah
-
noun,
the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- nogs
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- nolo
-
noun,
nolo contendere.
- nos-
-
- 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.
- nosh
-
noun,
a snack.
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- 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.
- nigh
-
adverb,
near in space, time, or relation:
- attn
-
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- aet.
-
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Atli
-
noun,
Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- ates
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- gl.
-
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- TGN
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- TSS
-
- an.
-
- TSE
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- goo
-
noun,
a thick or sticky substance:
- TSH
-
- tot
-
noun,
a small child.
- Agh
-
- ag-
-
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- al.
-
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- ae.
-
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- TSI
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- th-
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- Eg.
-
- tlo
-
- Tng
-
- TNT
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- ESA
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ese
-
- ESL
-
- tog
-
noun,
a coat.
- at.
-
- ast
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- eo-
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EIS
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- EEO
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- EEG
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ea.
-
- GSA
-
- en-
-
- ene
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- 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.
- EOE
-
- ean
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ASN
-
- tha
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Ges
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- Gel
-
noun,
Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- AHL
-
- ahi
-
noun,
yellowfin tuna, widely used in sashimi.
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- AHE
-
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Agt
-
- GHA
-
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- Gil
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Gilbert.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- ASI
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- Ash
-
noun,
the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning.
- ase
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- TIA
-
- ETO
-
- ETS
-
- Ga.
-
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- gi.
-
- 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.
- ANG
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- got
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- gt.
-
- NHI
-
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- 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:
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- NHA
-
- NHG
-
- NHL
-
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- NHS
-
- NIA
-
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- NIH
-
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- NSA
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- OSA
-
- ss.
-
- LNG
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- SSS
-
- SSN
-
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- SSA
-
- LON
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- GTO
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- 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.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- LSI
-
- LSS
-
- LST
-
- LTA
-
- LTh
-
- Nth
-
Idioms,
the nth degree / power,
a high degree or power.
the utmost degree or extent:
- SLE
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- se-
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- ote
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- OTS
-
- So.
-
- SAE
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- OSO
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- sht
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- Sgt
-
- SHA
-
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- sho
-
- OSS
-
- ose
-
- OAO
-
- Ola
-
- OAS
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OGO
-
- OHG
-
- oho
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to express surprise, taunting, exultation, etc.)
- 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.
- SLA
-
- OIt
-
- OLG
-
- OOT
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- ons
-
- oo-
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- ooh
-
noun,
the exclamation “ooh.”.
- oon
-
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- loo
-
noun,
a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- ILS
-
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- ial
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- IHS
-
- il-
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- ILO
-
- TAL
-
- ht.
-
- in.
-
- lg.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- ing
-
- INH
-
- 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 = .
- 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.
- IOT
-
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- Hts
-
- HST
-
- ISA
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- GTS
-
- GTT
-
- hae
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- Han
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion.
Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- HAO
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the tenth part of a dong.
- has
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- HAT
-
noun,
a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- Hel
-
noun,
the goddess ruling Niflheim: a daughter of Loki and Angerboda.
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- HIS
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- hit
-
noun,
an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
- Hoe
-
noun,
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- hog
-
noun,
a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- TAT
-
verb (used with or without object),
to do, or make by, tatting.
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- TTS
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- ite
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- La.
-
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- STL
-
- lag
-
noun,
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- ist
-
- STI
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Les
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- ITA
-
- Lt.
-
- Isl
-
- ish
-
- ise
-
- OA
-
- NL
-
- SG
-
- SL
-
- HG
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- GN
-
- TN
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- le
-
- SN
-
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- TG
-
- t.
-
- S.
-
- AO
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- AH
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- h.
-
- T1
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- ln
-
- TT
-
- SA
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- NH
-
- N.
-
- OG
-
- IG
-
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- L.
-
- NI
-
- GH
-
- NG
-
- ol
-
- EI
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- i.
-
- G.
-
- ee
-
- LH
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- L1
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- L2
-
- O.
-
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- HL
-
- TL
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .