Anagrams of antiphonaries
Word antiphonaries has
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- antiphonies
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noun,
alternate or responsive singing by a choir in two divisions.
- anisopteran
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adjective,
belonging or pertaining to the suborder Anisoptera, comprising the dragonflies.
- asthenopia
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noun,
a fatigue or tiring of the eyes, usually characterized by discomfort, dimness of vision, and headache, caused by overuse of the visual organs, dysfunction of the ocular muscles, and incorrect refraction.
- near-point
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noun,
the point nearest the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is at a maximum.
- ethiopians
-
noun,
a native of Ethiopia.
- separation
-
noun,
an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- aspiration
-
noun,
a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition:
- anastrophe
-
noun,
inversion of the usual order of words.
- Esthonian
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adjective, noun,
Estonian.
- topiaries
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noun,
topiary work; the topiary art.
- phrenitis
-
noun,
inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- Tisiphone
-
noun,
one of the Furies.
- Peronista
-
noun,
Peronist.
- pantheons
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noun,
a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- pantihose
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noun,
pantyhose.
- Parthenos
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noun,
an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- nine-spot
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noun,
a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- antiphons
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noun,
a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response.
- Ethiopian
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noun,
a native of Ethiopia.
- antinoise
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adjective,
designed to reduce or ban excessively loud sound, as of jet engines or traffic:
- Parthenon
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noun,
the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
- Parthenia
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noun,
an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- parathion
-
noun,
a deep-brown to yellow, poisonous liquid, C 10 H 14 NO 5 PS, used as an insecticide.
- perianths
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noun,
the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- inthrones
-
verb (used with object),
enthrone.
- athenians
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noun,
a native or citizen of Athens, Greece.
- senhorita
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noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- rhatanies
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noun,
either of two South American shrubs belonging to the genus Krameria, of the legume family, K. tiandra (knotty rhatany or Peruvian rhatany) or K. argentea (Brazilian rhatany or Pará rhatany)
- insertion
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noun,
the act of inserting:
- ornithine
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noun,
an amino acid, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by the hydrolysis of arginine and occurring as an intermediate compound in the urea cycle of mammals.
- Napierian
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adjective,
of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
- aphanites
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noun,
a fine-grained igneous rock having such compact texture that the constituent minerals cannot be detected with the naked eye.
- Rosinante
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noun,
the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- atropines
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- Nestorian
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noun,
one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- nephritis
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noun,
inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- seriation
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noun,
the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- atrophies
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noun,
Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- historian
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noun,
an expert in history; authority on history.
- Stanhope
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noun,
a light, open, one-seated, horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels.
- pentosan
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noun,
any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- aspirant
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noun,
a person who aspires, as one who seeks or desires a career, advancement, status, etc.:
- Sahaptin
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noun,
a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- senorita
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- heparins
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noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- Artesian
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adjective,
noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- Saarinen
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noun,
Eero [air-oh] /ˈɛər oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1910–61, U.S. architect, born in Finland.
- iranians
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noun,
a subbranch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Persian, Pashto, Avestan, and Kurdish.
- asthenia
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noun,
lack or loss of strength; weakness.
- aspirate
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noun,
Phonetics. a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial h -sounds.
- ternions
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- septaria
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noun,
a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- hospitia
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noun,
a hospice.
- pheasant
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noun,
any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- antiphon
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noun,
a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response.
- perianth
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noun,
the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- apastron
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noun,
the point at which the stars of a binary system are farthest apart (opposed to periastron).
- inherits
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verb (used with object),
to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir:
- inhesion
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noun,
the state or fact of inhering; inherence.
- apiarist
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noun,
a person who keeps an apiary.
- apiaries
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noun,
a place in which a colony or colonies of bees are kept, as a stand or shed for beehives or a bee house containing a number of beehives.
- pintanos
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noun,
sergeant major (def 3).
- aphorist
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noun,
a person who makes or uses aphorisms.
- aphonias
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noun,
loss of voice, especially due to an organic or functional disturbance of the vocal organs.
- inshrine
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verb (used with object),
enshrine.
- pinnati-
-
- aphanite
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noun,
a fine-grained igneous rock having such compact texture that the constituent minerals cannot be detected with the naked eye.
- pertains
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verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- pronates
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- apathies
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noun,
absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
- intarsia
-
noun,
an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid patterns, especially of wood mosaic, developed during the Renaissance.
- hairpins
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noun,
a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- Piranesi
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noun,
Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
- hapteron
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noun,
a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- inthrone
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verb (used with object),
enthrone.
- piranhas
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noun,
any of several small South American freshwater fishes of the genus Serrasalmus that eat other fish and sometimes plants but occasionally also attack humans and other large animals that enter the water.
- intrans.
-
- ripienos
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noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- Peronist
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noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- pristine
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adjective,
having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- antihero
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noun,
a protagonist who lacks the attributes that make a heroic figure, as nobility of mind and spirit, a life or attitude marked by action or purpose, and the like.
- hanapers
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noun,
a wicker receptacle for documents.
- phaetons
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noun,
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- haitians
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Haiti.
- anthrop.
-
- seatrain
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noun,
a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- sphaero-
-
- saponite
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noun,
a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- 11-point
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- painters
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noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- Erastian
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noun,
an advocate of Erastianism.
- pantries
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noun,
a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
- Paterson
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noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- sirenian
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noun,
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
- Photinia
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noun,
any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- resonant
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noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- Aesopian
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adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables:
- Pantheon
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noun,
a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- sinapine
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noun,
an alkaloid, C 16 H 25 NO 5 , found in the seeds of the black mustard.
- panniers
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noun,
a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- Santeria
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- pinaster
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noun,
a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- Thespian
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a tragedian; an actor or actress.
- Rhaetian
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noun,
Raetic.
- parasite
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noun,
an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- atropine
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noun,
a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.
- Aaronite
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noun,
one of the priestly descendants of Aaron.
- open-air
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noun,
the outdoors.
- operants
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- entrains
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verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- hispano-
-
- enspirit
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verb (used with object),
inspirit.
- trophies
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noun,
anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- thinners
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noun,
a volatile liquid, as turpentine, used to dilute paint, varnish, rubber cement, etc., to the desired or proper consistency.
- tropines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- enations
-
noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- Hispania
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noun,
Spain.
- Sheraton
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noun,
Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- paraison
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noun,
parison.
- notaries
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noun,
notary public.
- phorates
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noun,
a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 17 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phone-in
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noun, adjective,
call-in.
- partisan
-
noun,
an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
- Esthonia
-
noun,
Estonia.
- Horatian
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adjective,
of or relating to Horace.
- Parthian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- triennia
-
noun,
a period of three years.
- Roseanna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- repaints
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noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- Pasithea
-
noun,
one of the Graces.
- tranship
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verb (used with or without object),
transship.
- Estonian
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noun,
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
- sonatina
-
noun,
a short or simplified sonata.
- nephrons
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noun,
the filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
- tinhorns
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noun,
someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
- parities
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noun,
equality, as in amount, status, or character.
- Pointers
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- inertias
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- phonates
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verb (used with or without object),
Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.
- Ethiopia
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noun,
Formerly Abyssinia. a republic in E Africa: formerly a monarchy. 409,266 sq. mi. (1,060,000 sq. km). Present boundaries include Eritrea. Capital: Addis Ababa.
- Parisian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- Athenian
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Athens, Greece.
- nonaries
-
noun,
a number in a nonary system.
- Poitiers
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vienne, in W France: Roman ruins; battles a.d. 507, 732, 1356.
- heparin
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- Pierian
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adjective,
of or relating to the Muses.
- hetaira
-
noun,
hetaera.
- tarnish
-
noun,
a tarnished coating.
- sharpie
-
noun,
sharper.
- tarpons
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- pinions
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noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- pinatas
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noun,
(in Mexico and Central America) a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.
- hepato-
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- pinnate
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adjective,
resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:
- heroins
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noun,
a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C 21 H 23 NO 5 , derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.
- Tarpeia
-
noun,
a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines and was crushed under their shields when she claimed a reward.
- heriots
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- tarpans
-
noun,
a small, dun-colored wild horse chiefly of southern Russia, having a flowing mane and tail: extinct since the early 20th century but somewhat restored by selective breeding of mixed-breed domestic horses, and sustained in zoos.
- pinites
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noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- hernio-
-
- hernias
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noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- pinners
-
noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- tephras
-
noun,
clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- hatpins
-
noun,
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- Pontine
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adjective,
of or relating to the pons.
- Esparto
-
noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- pointer
-
noun,
a person or thing that points.
- pointes
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- saphena
-
noun,
saphenous vein.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- thenars
-
noun,
the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
- Pontian
-
noun,
pope a.d. 230–235.
- epinaos
-
noun,
a rear vestibule, as of a classical temple.
- 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.
- Ephrata
-
noun,
a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- therian
-
noun,
a therian animal.
- thinner
-
noun,
a volatile liquid, as turpentine, used to dilute paint, varnish, rubber cement, etc., to the desired or proper consistency.
- entraps
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- entrain
-
verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- enation
-
noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- postern
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- thorias
-
noun,
a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- sapient
-
adjective,
having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- saponin
-
noun,
any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.
- pintano
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noun,
sergeant major (def 3).
- hanaper
-
noun,
a wicker receptacle for documents.
- harpist
-
noun,
a person who plays the harp, especially professionally.
- Harpies
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- haptens
-
noun,
a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- piranha
-
noun,
any of several small South American freshwater fishes of the genus Serrasalmus that eat other fish and sometimes plants but occasionally also attack humans and other large animals that enter the water.
- Sarnath
-
noun,
an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage center in N India, near Varanasi: Buddha's first sermon preached here; many ancient Buddhist monuments.
- tenpins
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- ha-Nasi
-
noun,
Judah, Judah ha-Nasi.
- Haitian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Haiti.
- ethions
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- hairpin
-
noun,
a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- tension
-
noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- Pistoia
-
noun,
a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- piaster
-
noun,
a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- Etonian
-
noun,
a person who is or has been a pupil at Eton College.
- ternion
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- pitiers
-
noun,
a person who pities.
- ethiops
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- hinnies
-
noun,
the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey.
Compare mule1 (defs 1, 2).
- inshore
-
adverb,
toward the shore:
- hipster
-
noun,
a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
- nephron
-
noun,
the filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
- pariahs
-
noun,
an outcast.
- parians
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Paros.
- parison
-
noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- Niteroi
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- partans
-
noun,
a crab.
- Parthia
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Asia, SE of the Caspian Sea: conquered by the Persians a.d. 226; now a part of NE Iran.
- parties
-
noun,
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
- partons
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- pastern
-
noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pastina
-
noun,
very small pieces of pasta in various shapes, used especially in soups.
- nephro-
-
- Setaria
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
- spanner
-
noun,
a person or thing that spans.
- Spartan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Sparta.
- natrons
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- spheno-
-
- sphero-
-
- patinas
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noun,
a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- patines
-
noun,
patina.
- spinner
-
noun,
a person or thing that spins.
- Spiraea
-
noun,
spirea.
- spirant
-
noun,
fricative (def 2).
- snap-on
-
adjective,
attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion:
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- peasant
-
noun,
a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- Shaitan
-
noun,
Ash-Shaytān.
- Sheitan
-
noun,
Ash-Shaytān.
- orpines
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- orphans
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- ornith-
-
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Shapiro
-
noun,
Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- opiates
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- ophites
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- operant
-
noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- Paharis
-
noun,
one of several hill peoples inhabiting the area in India SW of the Ganges River.
- Painter
-
noun,
an artist who paints pictures.
- Paoshan
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Baoshan.
- Onitsha
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- shorten
-
verb (used with object),
to make short or shorter.
- shortie
-
noun,
a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- paisano
-
noun,
paisan.
- paniers
-
noun,
pannier.
- pannier
-
noun,
a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- pannose
-
adjective,
having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.
- Sinatra
-
noun,
Frank (Francis Albert) 1915–98, U.S. singer and actor.
- Panther
-
noun,
the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- panties
-
noun,
underpants or undershorts for women and children.
- Pearson
-
noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- Ispahan
-
noun,
Isfahan.
- Piarist
-
noun,
a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- seaport
-
noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- senhora
-
noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- strophe
-
noun,
the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- tahinis
-
noun,
a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- Phaenna
-
noun,
one of the Graces worshiped at Sparta.
- phaeton
-
noun,
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- taipans
-
noun,
(in China) the head or owner of a foreign business establishment.
- hot-air
-
noun,
empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing:
- hosanna
-
noun,
a cry of “hosanna.”.
- Phineas
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phonate
-
verb (used with or without object),
Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.
- inherit
-
verb (used with object),
to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir:
- phonies
-
noun,
something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- phorate
-
noun,
a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 17 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- tannish
-
adjective,
somewhat tan:
- Honiara
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the Solomon Islands, N Guadalcanal.
- phrenia
-
- hoarsen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become hoarse.
- phreno-
-
- pianist
-
noun,
a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.
- 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.
- Taphiae
-
noun,
(in ancient geography) a group of islands in the Ionian Sea.
- inertia
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- inphase
-
adjective,
having the same phase.
- isoneph
-
noun,
a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- step-on
-
adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- Sephora
-
noun,
Zipporah.
- isation
-
- pension
-
noun,
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
- ironist
-
noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- ironies
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- Iranian
-
noun,
a subbranch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Persian, Pashto, Avestan, and Kurdish.
- stearin
-
noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- stearo-
-
- Iphinoe
-
noun,
a daughter of Antia and Proetus who was inflicted with madness for her irreverence toward the gods.
Compare Iphianassa (def 2).
- step-in
-
noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- sterno-
-
- earshot
-
noun,
the range or distance within which a sound, voice, etc., can be heard.
- sthenia
-
noun,
strength; excessive vital force.
- Persian
-
noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- introns
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- intones
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- intines
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- interns
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- intens.
-
- pertain
-
verb (used without object),
to have reference or relation; relate:
- inspire
-
verb (used with object),
to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence:
- insnare
-
verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- pothers
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- sharpen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become sharp or sharper.
- anoints
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- Athenai
-
noun,
Greek name of Athens.
- Antonia
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Antonius.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- athanor
-
noun,
a digester furnace with a self-feeding fuel supply contained in a towerlike contrivance, ensuring a constant, durable temperature.
- anapest
-
noun,
a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
- Trapani
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Sicily.
- anatine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.
- asinine
-
adjective,
foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid:
- repaint
-
noun,
a part repainted, especially a part of a picture by a restorer.
- riposte
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- Aterian
-
adjective,
of or indicating a Middle Paleolithic industry of northwestern Africa and the Sahara, characterized by the production of tanged points and bifacially worked leaf-shaped points of varying sizes.
- protein
-
noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- transp.
-
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- rapines
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- atonies
-
noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- aeonian
-
adjective,
eternal; everlasting.
- Antoine
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1943, French theatrical director, manager, and critic.
- Preston
-
noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- atopies
-
noun,
an allergy, involving an inherited immunoglobulin of the IgE type, that predisposes a person to certain allergic responses, as atopic dermatitis.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- reposit
-
verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- antero-
-
- tinners
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- Antares
-
noun,
a red supergiant star of the first magnitude in the constellation Scorpius.
- Astaire
-
noun,
Fred, 1899–1987, U.S. dancer and actor.
- airship
-
noun,
a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.
- trepans
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- arpents
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- tin-pan
-
adjective,
harsh, tinny, or clanging; noisy.
- tinhorn
-
noun,
someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
- anthers
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
- aspirin
-
noun,
Pharmacology. a white, crystalline substance, C 9 H 8 O 4 , derivative of salicylic acid, used as an anti-inflammatory agent and to relieve the pain of headache, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, etc.; acetylsalicylic acid.
- ripieno
-
noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- antiars
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- Ansonia
-
noun,
a city in SW Connecticut.
- arseno-
-
- pterion
-
noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- aristo-
-
- pronate
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- raphias
-
noun,
raffia.
- prostie
-
noun,
a prostitute.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- Arapesh
-
noun,
a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.
- traipse
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- Another
-
pronoun,
one more; an additional one:
- Ashanti
-
noun,
a former native kingdom and British colony in W Africa: now a region of Ghana. 9700 sq. mi. (25,123 sq. km). Capital: Kumasi.
- tropine
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- apteria
-
noun,
one of the featherless portions of the skin of a bird.
- tonners
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- Asenath
-
noun,
the wife of Joseph and the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim. Gen. 41:45; 46:20.
- aporias
-
noun,
Rhetoric. the expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
- tsarina
-
noun,
czarina.
- threaps
-
noun,
an argument; quarrel.
- anopias
-
noun,
absence of sight, especially when due to a structural defect in or absence of an eye.
- Rhetian
-
noun,
Raetic.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- tiepins
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- Tonnies
-
noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- Rosanne
-
noun,
a female given name.
- artisan
-
noun,
a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- Rhaetia
-
noun,
an ancient Roman province in central Europe, comprising what is now E Switzerland and a part of the Tyrol: later extended to the Danube.
- protean
-
adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- atresia
-
noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- Artesia
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- aphonia
-
noun,
loss of voice, especially due to an organic or functional disturbance of the vocal organs.
- spiro-
-
- patios
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- Isaiah
-
noun,
Also called Isaiah of Jerusalem. a Major Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- ansate
-
adjective,
having a handle or handlelike part.
- pennis
-
- Spirit
-
noun,
the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patri-
-
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- anopia
-
noun,
absence of sight, especially when due to a structural defect in or absence of an eye.
- patine
-
noun,
patina.
- Isaian
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of Isaiah or of the book of the Bible bearing his name.
- spinet
-
noun,
a small upright piano.
- 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.
- Ishtar
-
noun,
the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- spirea
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- Anshan
-
noun,
a city in E Liaoning province, in NE China.
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- Patras
-
noun,
Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- spinto
-
adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- patois
-
noun,
a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- Nanhai
-
noun,
former name of Foshan.
- Nantes
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- septi-
-
- praise
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Petain
-
noun,
Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- inspan
-
verb (used with object),
to yoke or harness.
- Raphia
-
noun,
raffia.
- torahs
-
noun,
the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
Compare Tanach.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- insane
-
adjective,
not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- Sennar
-
noun,
a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- innate
-
adjective,
existing in one from birth; inborn; native:
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- apneas
-
noun,
a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- instep
-
noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- aporia
-
noun,
Rhetoric. the expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- inanes
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petro-
-
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- iatro-
-
- senhor
-
noun,
a Portuguese term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- raisin
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- taenia
-
noun,
Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- instr.
-
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- Persia
-
noun,
Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- penta-
-
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- Anthea
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “flowery.”.
- anther
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
- antho-
-
- steno-
-
- antiar
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- perish
-
Idioms,
perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- anoint
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- Ionian
-
noun,
a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian2 (def 2), Dorian1 (def 2).
- Antons
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- inter.
-
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- intron
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- intro.
-
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- intra-
-
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- intine
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- aortas
-
noun,
the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intern
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- ratans
-
noun,
rattan.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- reatas
-
noun,
riata.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- paints
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- paisan
-
noun,
compatriot.
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- Shrine
-
noun,
a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- sienna
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Panini
-
noun,
flourished c400 b.c, Indian grammarian of Sanskrit.
- pannes
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- aeron.
-
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- shoran
-
noun,
a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- Panoan
-
noun,
a family of South American Indian languages spoken in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil.
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- aethon
-
noun,
triethyl orthoformate.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- pantie
-
noun,
panties.
- siphon
-
noun,
a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nother
-
adjective,
Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.
- panto-
-
- reship
-
verb (used with object),
to ship again.
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- nosher
-
noun,
Informal. a person who snacks, especially one who does so often or continuously.
- ahorse
-
adjective, adverb,
on horseback:
- rhinos
-
noun,
a rhinoceros.
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- Shinto
-
noun,
Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- Sherpa
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- others
-
noun,
the other one:
- 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.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- orphan
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- Rheita
-
noun,
a crater in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 42 miles (68 km) in diameter.
- Sharpe
-
noun,
William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- Sharon
-
noun,
Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Shinar
-
noun,
a land mentioned in the Bible, often identified with Sumer.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Sharia
-
noun,
law, seen as deriving from the Koran, hadith, ijmaʿ, and qiyas.
- Shiner
-
noun,
a person or thing that shines.
- trophi
-
plural noun,
the mouthparts of an insect, including the labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx.
- rhino-
-
- Shaper
-
noun,
a person or thing that shapes.
- shapen
-
adjective,
having a designated shape (usually used in combination):
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- shanti
-
noun,
peace.
- troph-
-
- opiate
-
noun,
a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- Shanna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Ophite
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- paeans
-
noun,
any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- Rhines
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Pahari
-
noun,
one of several hill peoples inhabiting the area in India SW of the Ganges River.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- norths
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, lying in the plane of the meridian and to the left of a person facing the rising sun. Abbreviation: N.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- nasion
-
noun,
the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- nephr-
-
- Sophie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sorata
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes, near Lake Titicaca: two peaks, Ancohuma, 21,490 feet (6550 meters), and Illampu, 21,276 feet (6485 meters).
- Pashto
-
noun,
an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- aniso-
-
- Renata
-
noun,
a female given name.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- trans.
-
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- Sophar
-
noun,
Zophar.
- seraph
-
noun,
one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Sparta
-
noun,
an ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus, at one time the dominant city of Greece: famous for strict discipline and training of soldiers.
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- Sparti
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- spathe
-
noun,
a bract or pair of bracts, often large and colored, subtending or enclosing a spadix or flower cluster.
- natron
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- Pathan
-
noun,
Afghan (def 1).
- nation
-
noun,
a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own:
- Nathan
-
noun,
a prophet during the reigns of David and Solomon. II Sam. 12; I Kings 1:34.
- patho-
-
- pathos
-
noun,
the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patina
-
noun,
a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- Sopher
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- Parish
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- airish
-
adjective,
given to putting on airs.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- pariah
-
noun,
an outcast.
- Parian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Paros.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- paries
-
noun,
Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- no-hit
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team:
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- anenst
-
preposition,
anent (def 2).
- sonant
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- sonata
-
noun,
a composition for one or two instruments, typically in three or four movements in contrasted forms and keys.
- nitro-
-
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Partan
-
noun,
a crab.
- riatas
-
noun,
a lariat.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- partis
-
noun,
the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.
- ninths
-
noun,
a ninth part, especially of one (1/9).
- tahini
-
noun,
a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- tarpan
-
noun,
a small, dun-colored wild horse chiefly of southern Russia, having a flowing mane and tail: extinct since the early 20th century but somewhat restored by selective breeding of mixed-breed domestic horses, and sustained in zoos.
- pinner
-
noun,
a person or thing that pins.
- hennas
-
noun,
an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- Tishri
-
noun,
the first month of the Jewish calendar.
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- pinnas
-
noun,
Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- hearts
-
noun,
Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- Athens
-
noun,
Greek Athenai. a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part.
- Hearst
-
noun,
William Randolph, 1863–1951, U.S. editor and publisher.
- Athena
-
noun,
Also, Athene [uh-thee-nee] /əˈθi ni/ (Show IPA). Also called Pallas, Pallas Athena. the virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus.
Compare Minerva.
- theirn
-
pronoun,
theirs.
- 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.
- pinons
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- tarsia
-
noun,
intarsia.
- tarso-
-
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- hatpin
-
noun,
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- haters
-
noun,
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination):
- Espana
-
noun,
Spanish name of Spain.
- pinite
-
noun,
a micaceous mineral, similar in composition to muscovite, formed by chemical alteration of various other minerals.
- Henson
-
noun,
Jim (James Maury Henson) 1936–90, U.S. puppeteer: creator of the Muppets.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- hernia
-
noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- Pietas
-
noun,
the ancient Roman personification of familial affection, patriotism, and piety.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Hestia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the hearth.
- arsen-
-
- pinata
-
noun,
(in Mexico and Central America) a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.
- arshin
-
noun,
a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- Heroin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C 21 H 23 NO 5 , derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Asante
-
noun,
Ashanti.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- heriot
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- thenar
-
noun,
the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
- theirs
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- pineta
-
noun,
an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- pinion
-
noun,
Machinery.
a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.
a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- hepta-
-
- hepat-
-
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Hastie
-
noun,
William Henry, 1904–76, U.S. jurist: first black judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- ephors
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- pities
-
noun,
sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy:
- Hansen
-
noun,
Peter Andreas [pee-tuh r ahn-dree-ahs] /ˈpi tər ɑnˈdri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1795–1874, Danish astronomer.
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- sarape
-
noun,
serape.
- ethno-
-
- ethnos
-
noun,
an ethnic group.
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- tip-in
-
noun,
tap-in.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- sapro-
-
- asonia
-
noun,
tone deafness.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Hanson
-
noun,
Duane, 1925–1996, U.S. artist and sculptor.
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- pitier
-
noun,
a person who pities.
- aspire
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- Hainan
-
noun,
Pinyin, Wade-Giles. an island in the South China Sea, separated from the mainland by the Hainan Strait: a part of Guangdong province. 13,200 sq. mi. (34,200 sq. km).
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tephra
-
noun,
clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- pithos
-
noun,
a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- Sapota
-
noun,
sapote.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- astro-
-
- hasten
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to hasten; accelerate:
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- pintas
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- Sarthe
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2411 sq. mi. (6245 sq. km). Capital: Le Mans.
- Sarnia
-
noun,
a port in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the S shore of Lake Huron, on the St. Clair River, across from Port Huron, Michigan.
- Sarnen
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Obwalden, in central Switzerland, E of Bern.
- Pitris
-
noun,
the legendary progenitor of any family.
- ashore
-
adverb,
to the shore; onto the shore:
- tenpin
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- ashpit
-
noun,
a receptacle in the bottom of a fireplace, under a barbecue, or the like, for the accumulation of ashes.
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Ashton
-
noun,
Sir Frederick (William) 1906–1988, English dancer and choreographer, born in Ecuador.
- hapten
-
noun,
a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- haoris
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- ethion
-
noun,
a highly toxic organophosphate, C 9 H 22 O 4 P 2 S 3, used as a pesticide.
- astron
-
- pirate
-
noun,
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- Ethiop
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- ptisan
-
noun,
a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- honest
-
adjective,
honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair:
- Hosein
-
noun,
Hussein (def 1).
- hosier
-
noun,
a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- honans
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Henan.
- phrase
-
noun,
Grammar.
a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence.
(in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phren.
-
- thrips
-
noun,
any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- Hoenir
-
noun,
a god, one of the Aesir, companion of Odin and Loki, hostage to the Vanir.
- tiepin
-
noun,
a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- phasor
-
noun,
a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- hoarse
-
adjective,
having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky:
- hornet
-
noun,
any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- satrap
-
noun,
a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
- Ronnie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Ronald or Veronica.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- Potash
-
noun,
potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- phonet
-
- throne
-
noun,
the chair or seat occupied by a sovereign, bishop, or other exalted personage on ceremonial occasions, usually raised on a dais and covered with a canopy.
- Saipan
-
noun,
an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 miles (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- saithe
-
noun,
pollock.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- Horite
-
noun,
an ancient people of Edom living in the region of the Dead Sea, possibly identical with the Hurrians.
- phones
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- arhats
-
noun,
a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices.
Compare Bodhisattva.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- Tanner
-
noun,
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- pheno-
-
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- tiaras
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- thoria
-
noun,
a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- Tanoan
-
noun,
an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande.
- Taisho
-
noun,
the designation of the period of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, 1912–26.
- ptero-
-
- pother
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- Thiers
-
noun,
Louis Adolphe [lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.
- Taipei
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part.
- taipan
-
noun,
(in China) the head or owner of a foreign business establishment.
- Pharos
-
noun,
a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- Eartha
-
noun,
a female given name.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- phanos
-
noun,
fanon.
- threap
-
noun,
an argument; quarrel.
- Tainan
-
noun,
a city in SW Taiwan.
- Pieria
-
noun,
a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- thorps
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- hieron
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a temple or a sacred place.
- hiero-
-
- tapirs
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- Hinton
-
noun,
Christopher, Baron Hinton of Bankside, 1901–1983, British nuclear engineer.
- Hornie
-
noun,
Satan.
- eonian
-
adjective,
aeonian.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- phasia
-
- Thorpe
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jim") 1888–1953, U.S. track-and-field athlete and football and baseball player.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- Portia
-
noun,
the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- earths
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- histo-
-
- Arista
-
noun,
Botany. a bristlelike appendage of the spikelets of grains or grasses; an awn.
- Hotien
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- Other
-
noun,
the other one:
- rept.
-
- Shari
-
noun,
Also, Chari. a river in N central Africa, flowing NW from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1400 miles (2254 km) long.
- paras
-
noun,
a former copper coin of Turkey, the 40th part of a piaster.
- riata
-
noun,
a lariat.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- post-
-
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- piths
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- prana
-
noun,
Yoga, Jainism. the vital principle.
- saith
-
verb,
third person singular present of say1 .
- rhet.
-
- pari-
-
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- Sharp
-
noun,
something sharp.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- Othin
-
noun,
Odin.
- Rhein
-
noun,
the Rhine.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- Santa
-
noun,
Santa Claus.
- Pitri
-
noun,
the legendary progenitor of any family.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- panne
-
noun,
a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- Shane
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Port.
-
- Pres.
-
- seti-
-
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- pahos
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- paisa
-
noun,
Also, pice. an aluminum coin and monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee of India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- paint
-
noun,
a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- rheas
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- rhoea
-
- share
-
noun,
the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- para-
-
- Shara
-
noun,
Sharra.
- pret.
-
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- Resht
-
noun,
Rasht.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- poet.
-
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- sanit
-
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- paean
-
noun,
any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- resp.
-
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- pant-
-
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- SHAPE
-
noun,
the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- phane
-
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- Rashi
-
noun,
(Solomon ben Isaac) 1040–1105, French Hebrew scholar.
- phot.
-
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Rasht
-
noun,
a city in NW Iran, about 10 miles (16 km) S of the Caspian Sea.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- phots
-
noun,
a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- ratan
-
noun,
rattan.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rishi
-
noun,
an inspired sage or poet.
- rathe
-
adjective,
Archaic. growing, blooming, or ripening early in the year or season.
- peri-
-
- 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.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Pieta
-
noun,
a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Penna
-
noun,
a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- rhin-
-
- Satan
-
noun,
the chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; the devil.
- phore
-
- pert.
-
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Ronan
-
noun,
a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- phano
-
noun,
fanon.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- ronin
-
noun,
a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- petri
-
- phase
-
noun,
any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petr-
-
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- roshi
-
noun,
the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- peta-
-
- 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.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- Senna
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- pheon
-
noun,
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- phon.
-
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- prae-
-
- raphe
-
noun,
Anatomy. a seamlike union between two parts or halves of an organ or the like.
- Perth
-
noun,
Also called Perthshire. a historic county in central Scotland.
- phone
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- phons
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the apparent loudness of a sound, equal in number for a given sound to the intensity in decibels of a sound having a frequency of 1000 cycles per second when, in the judgment of a group of listeners, the two sounds are of equal loudness.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- sepia
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Renan
-
noun,
Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- pros.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- reni-
-
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pasta
-
noun,
any of various flour-and-egg food preparations of Italian origin, made of thin, unleavened dough and produced in a variety of forms, usually served with a sauce and sometimes stuffed.
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- pasha
-
noun,
a title, placed after the name, formerly held by high officials in countries under Turkish rule.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- sero-
-
- pron.
-
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Saran
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Sarah
-
noun,
the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Gen. 17:15–22.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- part.
-
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- pitas
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- raias
-
noun,
rayah.
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- Pinna
-
noun,
Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- Sept.
-
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- patr-
-
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- Prot.
-
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- Patna
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Bihar, in NE India, on the Ganges.
- patio
-
noun,
an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Pinon
-
noun,
Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- reata
-
noun,
riata.
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- paths
-
noun,
a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- Pinta
-
noun,
a nonvenereal treponematosis occurring chiefly in Central and South America, caused by Treponema carateum, characterized by spots of various colors on the skin.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- path-
-
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Penn.
-
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- 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.
- thana
-
noun,
a police station in India.
- Esth.
-
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Thais
-
noun,
flourished late 4th century b.c, Athenian courtesan: mistress of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I.
- Ethan
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “strength.”.
- 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:
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- Tharp
-
noun,
Twyla [twahy-luh] /ˈtwaɪ lə/ (Show IPA), born 1941, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- Terah
-
noun,
the father of Abraham. Gen. 11:25–32.
- tera-
-
- haars
-
noun,
a thick, wet fog along the seacoast.
- haets
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- 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.
- Hanna
-
noun,
Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- Hanno
-
noun,
Carthaginian statesman, fl. 3rd century b.c.
- Hanoi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
- Hansa
-
noun,
a company or guild of merchants in a northern European medieval town.
- Hanse
-
noun,
Hansa.
- Hants
-
noun,
Hampshire (def 1).
- Thare
-
noun,
Terah.
- their
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- those
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- Earth
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- Thorp
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- Thorn
-
noun,
a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Thira
-
noun,
Thera.
- thio-
-
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- thins
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- ento-
-
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- thine
-
pronoun,
the possessive case of thou1. used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
- 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.
- ephor
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- Thera
-
noun,
a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- Epis.
-
- Epist
-
- Theos
-
- theor
-
- theo-
-
- thens
-
noun,
that time:
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- haori
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- tiara
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- hoars
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- hier-
-
- Tarai
-
noun,
Terai.
- Hines
-
noun,
Earl ("Fatha") 1905–83, U.S. jazz pianist.
- tapis
-
noun,
Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- hints
-
noun,
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
- tapir
-
noun,
any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- HIRES
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- hist.
-
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- Hoare
-
noun,
Sir Samuel John Gurney [gur-nee] /ˈgɜr ni/ (Show IPA), 1st Viscount Templewood [tem-puh l-woo d] /ˈtɛm pəlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1959, British statesman.
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- tapas
-
noun,
the conditioning of the body through the proper kinds and amounts of diet, rest, bodily training, meditation, etc., to bring it to the greatest possible state of creative power.
- Honan
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Henan.
- hones
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hopes
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- Hopis
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- tanna
-
noun,
one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- Horae
-
plural noun,
goddesses of the seasons, of cyclical death and rebirth, and sometimes of social order, usually given as three in number, with the names Dike (Justice), Eunomia (Order), and Irene (Peace).
- horas
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- Horne
-
noun,
Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horns
-
noun,
one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- Horsa
-
noun,
died a.d. 455, Jutish chief (brother of Hengist).
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- teno-
-
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- harps
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- Tenn.
-
- Harte
-
noun,
(Francis) Bret [bret] /brɛt/ (Show IPA), 1839–1902, U.S. author, especially of short stories.
- Harts
-
noun,
a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- Hasan
-
noun,
(al-Hasan) a.d. 624?–669? Arabian caliph: son of Ali and Fatima (brother of Hussein).
- haste
-
noun,
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity:
- tears
-
- hater
-
noun,
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination):
- hates
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- Heaps
-
noun,
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
- Hearn
-
noun,
Lafcadio [laf-kad-ee-oh] /læfˈkæd iˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Koizumi Yakumo") 1850–1904, U.S. journalist, novelist, and essayist, born in Greece; Japanese citizen after 1894.
- herp.
-
- hears
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the ear:
- heart
-
noun,
Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heats
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- 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.
- heist
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- henna
-
noun,
an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- Henri
-
noun,
Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- hents
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Herat
-
noun,
a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herns
-
- Heron
-
noun,
any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.
- throe
-
noun,
a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- atrip
-
adjective,
aweigh.
- Horst
-
noun,
a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has risen in relation to adjacent portions.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- anion
-
noun,
a negatively charged ion, as one attracted to the anode in electrolysis.
- anis-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- Anita
-
noun,
a female given name: Spanish form of Anna.
- annas
-
noun,
a former cupronickel coin of Pakistan, the 16th part of a rupee: last issued in 1960.
- Annie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Ann, Anna, or Anne.
- annot
-
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- anoas
-
noun,
a small forest buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) depressicornis, of the island of Celebes, having a brown coat and straight, sharp-tipped horns: an endangered species.
- anoia
-
noun,
extreme mental deficiency.
- anon.
-
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- anent
-
preposition,
in regard to; about; concerning.
- Ansar
-
noun,
the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- Anson
-
noun,
a male given name.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- antas
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- ante-
-
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- anth-
-
- anti-
-
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- Anton
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- aorta
-
noun,
the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- aero-
-
- 30-30
-
- Tsana
-
noun,
Lake. Tana, Lake.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trop-
-
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- Aaron
-
noun,
the older brother of Moses, usually regarded as the first high priest of the Hebrews. Ex. 28; 40:13–16.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- 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.
- aeri-
-
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- anat.
-
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- Aetna
-
noun,
Mount. Etna, Mount.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Ahira
-
noun,
a Naphtalite who assisted Moses with the census in the wilderness. Num. 1:15; 2:29.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- Aisha
-
noun,
a.d. 613?–678, favorite wife of Muhammad (daughter of Abu-Bekr).
- treas
-
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- trash
-
noun,
anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- 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.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- atria
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- ASEAN
-
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- ashen
-
adjective,
ash-colored; gray.
- Asher
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Zilpah. Gen. 30:12–13.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- Asian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- tipis
-
noun,
tepee.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- astr.
-
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- athar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- 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.
- ation
-
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- apart
-
Idioms,
apart from, aside from; in addition to; besides:
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- apast
-
preposition,
past; beyond.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Aphis
-
noun,
an aphid, especially of the genus Aphis.
- Torah
-
noun,
the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
Compare Tanach.
- apian
-
adjective,
of or relating to bees.
- apish
-
adjective,
having the qualities, appearance, or ways of an ape.
- apnea
-
noun,
a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- areo-
-
- Arhat
-
noun,
a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices.
Compare Bodhisattva.
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- arias
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- arith
-
- tonia
-
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- horse
-
noun,
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- Heros
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- hort.
-
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- naso-
-
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- shpt.
-
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- nears
-
- neath
-
preposition,
beneath.
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- 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.:
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- span-
-
- rhine
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- Spohr
-
noun,
Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), or Louis [loo-ee] /ˈlu i/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, German violinist and composer.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- shone
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- ither
-
adjective, pronoun, adverb,
other.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- ition
-
- spor-
-
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- nano-
-
- sito-
-
- shorn
-
noun,
Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb)
scissors of large size (usually used with pair of).
any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- Short
-
noun,
something that is short.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- Nairn
-
noun,
a historic county in N Scotland.
- nanas
-
noun,
Chiefly Northeastern U.S. grandmother; grandma.
- shote
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- spahi
-
noun,
one of a body of native Algerian cavalry in the French service.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- nona-
-
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- nonas
-
noun,
sleeping sickness (def 2).
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- North
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, lying in the plane of the meridian and to the left of a person facing the rising sun. Abbreviation: N.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- snath
-
noun,
the shaft or handle of a scythe.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- nitr-
-
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- Sophi
-
noun,
Sophy.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- 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.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- Neth.
-
- Siepi
-
noun,
Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.
- 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.
- Sinan
-
noun,
1489?–1587, Turkish architect, especially of mosques.
- Nihon
-
noun,
a Japanese name of Japan.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- ninth
-
noun,
a ninth part, especially of one (1/9).
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Sino-
-
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Nisan
-
noun,
the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- Isth.
-
- Shore
-
noun,
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
- Shona
-
noun,
Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- inane
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- shine
-
noun,
radiance or brightness caused by emitted or reflected light.
- inapt
-
adjective,
not apt or fitting.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- opahs
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- Shire
-
noun,
one of the counties of Great Britain.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- inion
-
noun,
a point at the external occipital protuberance of the skull.
- init.
-
- shirt
-
noun,
a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- oste-
-
- Horta
-
noun,
Baron Victor, 1861?–1947, Belgian architect.
- Hosea
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- Shear
-
noun,
Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb)
scissors of large size (usually used with pair of).
any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- hosp.
-
- Hosta
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- Taira
-
noun,
a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- hsien
-
noun,
(in popular Chinese religion) one of a group of benevolent spirits promoting good in the world.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- IATSE
-
- shier
-
noun,
a horse having a tendency to shy.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- Orth.
-
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- tahrs
-
noun,
any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- 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.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- insep
-
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- insp.
-
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPers
-
- step-
-
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Iran.
-
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- shoat
-
noun,
Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- Irish
-
noun,
the inhabitants of Ireland and their descendants elsewhere.
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- staph
-
noun,
staphylococcus.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- shoer
-
noun,
a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Srta.
-
- ster.
-
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- 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.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- Ophir
-
noun,
a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon. I Kings 10:11.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- inst.
-
- intr.
-
- shit
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- Seth
-
noun,
the third son of Adam. Gen. 4:25.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- RNAS
-
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- shr.
-
- shop
-
noun,
a retail store, especially a small one.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- sith
-
adverb, conjunction, preposition,
since.
- Shan
-
noun,
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- Tshi
-
noun,
Twi.
- RONA
-
- RIIA
-
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- 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.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- 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.
- ship
-
noun,
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- sinh
-
noun,
hyperbolic sine.
- tri-
-
- rhos
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- shot
-
noun,
a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- tosh
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- tRNA
-
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Shin
-
noun,
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- tron
-
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rit.
-
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- Shoa
-
noun,
the Holocaust.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- 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.
- ten.
-
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- Ste.
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Sra.
-
- ter.
-
- sepn
-
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- thae
-
pronoun, adjective,
those.
- Thai
-
noun,
Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- than
-
conjunction,
(used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison):
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- Thar
-
noun,
tahr.
- tahr
-
noun,
any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- 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.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Tana
-
noun,
thana.
- tanh
-
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Tapa
-
noun,
(especially in Spain) a snack or appetizer, typically served with wine or beer.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- thi-
-
- 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.
- Tara
-
noun,
a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- 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.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- str.
-
- Sat.
-
- Shea
-
noun,
shea tree.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- the-
-
- top-
-
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- 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.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- Roth
-
noun,
Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rpt.
-
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- tonn
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Soni
-
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- Thea
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- then
-
noun,
that time:
- Thin
-
adverb,
in a thin manner.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- thir
-
pronoun,
these.
- this
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- THOR
-
noun,
Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- tipi
-
noun,
tepee.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Soph
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- tion
-
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- 1080
-
- Rhea
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- INRI
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- 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.
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- 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 = .
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- Ire.
-
- IATA
-
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- iso-
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- itis
-
- Nah.
-
- Naha
-
noun,
a port on SW Okinawa, in S Japan.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- inae
-
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- nane
-
pronoun, adverb, adjective,
none1 .
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- hers
-
noun,
Slang. a female:
- hest
-
noun,
behest.
- HETP
-
noun,
a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- hets
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- 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:
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- hoar
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- Hons
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- iana
-
- hops
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- hor.
-
- hora
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- Horn
-
noun,
one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- Hos.
-
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- Host
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- hots
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- HRIP
-
- Hsia
-
noun,
a legendary dynasty in China, the traditional dates of which are 2205–1766 b.c.
- IAEA
-
- Nana
-
noun,
Chiefly Northeastern U.S. grandmother; grandma.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- her.
-
- 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.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- non-
-
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Nor.
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- nos-
-
- nosh
-
noun,
a snack.
- NOAA
-
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- NTIA
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- 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.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Napa
-
noun,
Chinese cabbage.
- neo-
-
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- NASA
-
noun,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Nash
-
noun,
John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- 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.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Neh.
-
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- 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):
- Neph
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- 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.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Nina
-
noun,
girl; child.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NIRA
-
- HERA
-
noun,
the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- hent
-
verb (used with object),
to seize.
- opah
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Apia
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Western Samoa, on N Upolu.
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- apo-
-
- Apr.
-
- APSA
-
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- ARIS
-
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- ASAP
-
adverb,
without delay; promptly.
- Asat
-
noun,
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
Compare sat2 (def 1).
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Asha
-
noun,
the cosmic principle of order, justice, righteousness, and truth.
- aph-
-
- ANTA
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- Asia
-
noun,
a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. About 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- aahs
-
noun,
the exclamation “aah.”.
- AARP
-
- 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.
- aer-
-
- aet.
-
- Ahir
-
noun,
a member of the caste of cowherds and milkmen in India.
- AHSA
-
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Aire
-
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- AISI
-
- ant.
-
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Anas
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ann.
-
- Anna
-
noun,
a former cupronickel coin of Pakistan, the 16th part of a rupee: last issued in 1960.
- Anne
-
noun,
1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).
- ano-
-
- anoa
-
noun,
a small forest buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) depressicornis, of the island of Celebes, having a brown coat and straight, sharp-tipped horns: an endangered species.
- ANPA
-
- ansa
-
noun,
Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
- ANSI
-
- Ashe
-
noun,
Arthur (Robert, Jr) 1943–93, U.S. tennis player.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- Hapi
-
noun,
Apis.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Eth.
-
- 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.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- haar
-
noun,
a thick, wet fog along the seacoast.
- Haas
-
noun,
Mary Rosamond, 1910–96, U.S. linguist.
- haes
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- haet
-
noun,
a little bit; a whit.
- hair
-
noun,
any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- Hans
-
noun,
a male given name, Germanic form of John.
- haps
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- esp.
-
- Hare
-
noun,
any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- Harp
-
noun,
a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- Hart
-
noun,
a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- Hasa
-
noun,
a region in E Saudi Arabia, on the Persian Gulf.
- HASP
-
noun,
a clasp for a door, lid, etc., especially one passing over a staple and fastened by a pin or a padlock.
- hast
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hate
-
noun,
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- HEAO
-
- HEAP
-
noun,
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
- hear
-
verb (used with object),
to perceive by the ear:
- heat
-
noun,
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- est.
-
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- atar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- ates
-
- 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.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- ator
-
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- eath
-
adjective, adverb,
easy.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- eso-
-
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Eph.
-
- epi-
-
- epit
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Ont.
-
- 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.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- pro-
-
- prin
-
- phr.
-
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- pre-
-
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- psia
-
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- paho
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rash
-
noun,
an eruption or efflorescence on the skin.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- pehs
-
noun,
pe.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Ptah
-
noun,
an ancient Egyptian deity, believed to be a universal creator and sometimes identified with other gods: worshiped especially at Memphis when it was the royal residence.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pat.
-
- phat
-
noun,
Typesetting. fat (def 23).
- pts.
-
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- phis
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- Pen.
-
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- pash
-
noun,
an infatuation for another person; crush.
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- par.
-
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- Pan.
-
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- prs.
-
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Pet.
-
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- pos.
-
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- opia
-
- Pish
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- pita
-
noun,
a fiber obtained from plants of the genera Agave, Aechmea, etc., used for cordage, mats, etc.
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- pith
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- pnea
-
- PSAT
-
- OPer
-
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Phar
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- per.
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- OSHA
-
noun,
the division of the Department of Labor that sets and enforces occupational health and safety rules.
- perh
-
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- pot.
-
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- posh
-
adjective,
sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
- resh
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Rep.
-
- Pers
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EPA
-
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- RSA
-
- Rs.
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- PSA
-
- en-
-
- Ehr
-
- RPO
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- eir
-
- EIS
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- RSE
-
- th-
-
- has
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- POR
-
- HAP
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- HAO
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the tenth part of a dong.
- 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.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- hae
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- hr.
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- PRA
-
- ETO
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- tha
-
noun,
the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- rt.
-
- Sp.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- EPS
-
- EPT
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- So.
-
- ERP
-
- SAE
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- SRO
-
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- SAA
-
- ESR
-
- PSE
-
- Re.
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- REA
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- TRH
-
- 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.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- tra
-
- AHE
-
- tr.
-
- Tpr
-
- TPN
-
- TPI
-
- tph
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- AOA
-
- aor
-
- ahi
-
noun,
yellowfin tuna, widely used in sashimi.
- AHA
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of triumphant discovery, mockery, contempt, irony, surprise, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- AAE
-
- TSP
-
- TSI
-
- TSH
-
- TSE
-
- ap-
-
- trp
-
- AIA
-
- an.
-
- Ar.
-
- aah
-
noun,
the exclamation “aah.”.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- AAP
-
- Aar
-
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- ae.
-
- AEA
-
- Tro
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- APA
-
noun,
a tree, Eperua falcata, of tropical America, having reddish-brown wood used in the construction of houses.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ean
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ASI
-
- ASN
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- at.
-
- ATA
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- Ash
-
noun,
the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning.
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- 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.
- ATP
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- eo-
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- TIA
-
- ea.
-
- EAA
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- ase
-
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- ROI
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- RNA
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- APS
-
- ROA
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- rah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of encouragement to a player or team.)
- ROP
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- 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.
- RPS
-
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- NIA
-
- NES
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- pah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of disgust or disbelief.)
- 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:
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- NHA
-
- NHI
-
- NHS
-
- PTO
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- NIH
-
- pt.
-
- Ps.
-
- prn
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Pr.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- SHA
-
- NEA
-
- NNP
-
- HAT
-
noun,
a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- ise
-
- Sr.
-
- spt
-
- ish
-
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- ITA
-
- SPR
-
- ite
-
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- ne-
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- NAA
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- Nan
-
noun,
naan.
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NNE
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sht
-
- OAP
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OIr
-
- op.
-
- shp
-
- OIt
-
- sho
-
- 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
-
- ONR
-
- ons
-
- OPA
-
- OSA
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Pa.
-
- ose
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- OTS
-
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- ote
-
- OTA
-
- NOP
-
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- ot-
-
- OSP
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Nth
-
Idioms,
the nth degree / power,
a high degree or power.
the utmost degree or extent:
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- NPR
-
- Npt
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- NSA
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- St.
-
- Hts
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- se-
-
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- HRE
-
- hrs
-
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- HST
-
- ht.
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- Sta
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- IAS
-
- ier
-
- PHS
-
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- IHS
-
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- POA
-
- 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.
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- SAR
-
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- PIO
-
- hip
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- 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.
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- IHP
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- in.
-
- Ir.
-
- 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.
- STI
-
- ior
-
- 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 = .
- IPS
-
- IPA
-
- iph
-
- ipr
-
- PHA
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- IRO
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- STP
-
- IRS
-
- INH
-
- ine
-
- IPO
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ISA
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- IOT
-
- R.
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RH
-
- OA
-
- 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.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- AA
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- AO
-
- EI
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- 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.
- AH
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- 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.
- HP
-
- RN
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- RO
-
- t.
-
- NH
-
- T1
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- S.
-
- TP
-
- SA
-
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- O.
-
- i.
-
- RP
-
- PH
-
- SN
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- IP
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- NP
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- NI
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- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
- TN
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- N.
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- RI
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- h.
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- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.