Anagrams of cineradiography
Word cineradiography has
2379 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of cineradiography.
- craniography
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noun,
examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- radiography
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noun,
the production of radiographs.
- perionychia
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noun,
inflammation of the perionychium.
- cardiograph
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noun,
electrocardiograph.
- craniograph
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noun,
an instrument that outlines the skull.
- Perigordian
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adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- renography
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noun,
x-ray examination of the kidney following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- ideography
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noun,
the use of ideograms.
- paronychia
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noun,
inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- cerography
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noun,
the process of writing or engraving on wax.
- radiogenic
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adjective,
Physics. produced by radioactive decay:
- radiograph
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noun,
Also called shadowgraph. a photographic image produced by the action of x-rays or nuclear radiation.
- archegonia
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noun,
the female reproductive organ in ferns, mosses, etc.
- aerography
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noun,
the study of the air or atmosphere.
- drag-chain
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noun,
one of a number of chains attached to a hull about to be launched in restricted waters in order to slow its motion by dragging along the bottom.
- hand-carry
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verb (used with object),
to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons:
- epionychia
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noun,
eponychium.
- radiophare
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noun,
a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
- pericrania
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noun,
the outer periosteum of the cranium.
- granophyre
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noun,
a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- pericardia
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noun,
the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- hypoadenia
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noun,
a deficiency of glandular activity.
- irradiance
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noun,
incident flux of radiant energy per unit area.
- diachrony
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noun,
Linguistics.
a diachronic approach to language study.
change or development in a linguistic system over a period of time.
- Cineraria
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noun,
any of several horticultural varieties of a composite plant, Senecio hybridus, of the Canary Islands, having clusters of flowers with white, blue, purple, red, or variegated rays.
- Phoenicia
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noun,
an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- arrogance
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noun,
offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
- rope-yarn
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noun,
See under yarn (def 3).
- Anchorage
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noun,
that portion of a harbor or area outside a harbor suitable for anchoring or in which ships are permitted to anchor.
- aperiodic
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adjective,
not periodic; irregular.
- hardanger
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noun,
embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
- preaching
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noun,
the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- androecia
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noun,
the stamens of a flower collectively.
- recording
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noun,
the act or practice of a person or thing that records.
- arachnoid
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noun,
an arachnid.
- aerograph
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noun,
any automatic recording instrument for atmospheric measurement that is carried aloft by aircraft.
- pyrogenic
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adjective,
producing or produced by heat or fever.
- paregoric
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noun,
a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- orphanage
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noun,
an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- coriander
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noun,
Also called cilantro, Chinese parsley. an herb, Coriandrum sativum, of the parsley family, native to Europe, having strong-scented leaves used in cooking and aromatic seeds used as a seasoning and in medicine.
- arcograph
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noun,
an instrument for drawing arcs, having a flexible arc-shaped part adjusted by an extensible straight bar connecting its sides.
- cerograph
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noun,
a drawing, design, or text incised into a wax surface.
- angiocarp
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noun,
a plant bearing an angiocarpous fruit.
- hard-core
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noun,
the permanent, dedicated, and completely faithful nucleus of a group or movement, as of a political party.
- iron-gray
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noun,
a medium shade of gray, like that of freshly broken iron.
- epicardia
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noun,
the inner serous layer of the pericardium, lying directly upon the heart.
- perigonia
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noun,
the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
- carangoid
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noun,
a carangoid fish.
- parcenary
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noun,
joint heirship or coheirship; the undivided holding of land by two or more coheirs.
- rancheria
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noun,
a family household unit or settlement.
- parricide
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noun,
the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
- Pharaonic
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adjective,
(sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh:
- panegyric
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noun,
a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- pharyngo-
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- ideograph
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noun,
an ideogram.
- nephridia
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noun,
the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- Hydrangea
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noun,
any shrub belonging to the genus Hydrangea, of the saxifrage family, several species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flower clusters of white, pink, or blue.
- anaphoric
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adjective,
referring back to or substituting for a preceding word or group of words:
- cyprinoid
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noun,
a cyprinoid fish.
- dog-cheap
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adverb,
very inexpensively.
- preordain
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verb (used with object),
to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- anhydro-
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- handgrip
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noun,
the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting:
- Prichard
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noun,
a city in S Alabama.
- handicap
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noun,
a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- reproach
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noun,
blame or censure conveyed in disapproval:
- copyread
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verb (used with object),
to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- Deianira
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noun,
a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- Corrigan
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noun,
Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- poaching
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noun,
the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- Nocardia
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noun,
any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- Poincare
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noun,
Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- deaconry
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noun,
the office of a deacon.
- porridge
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noun,
a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
- grindery
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noun,
a workshop for grinding edge tools.
- air-raid
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noun,
a raid by aircraft, especially for bombing a particular area.
- gridiron
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noun,
a football field.
- dairying
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noun,
the business of a dairy.
- air-core
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adjective,
having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils:
- hacienda
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noun,
a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- racinage
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noun,
decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- Cnidaria
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noun,
an alternative name for the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata, giving emphasis to the stinging structures as characteristic of the phylum.
- carangid
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noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Carangidae, comprising the jacks, scads, pompanos, and cavallas.
- carriage
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noun,
a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
- hydrogen
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noun,
a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- hydronic
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adjective,
of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hydropac
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noun,
an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydropic
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adjective,
dropsical.
- orangery
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noun,
a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- Cardigan
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noun,
a usually collarless knitted sweater or jacket that opens down the front.
- raindrop
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noun,
a drop of rain.
- carry-on
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noun,
a piece of carry-on luggage.
- hygienic
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adjective,
conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- capeador
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noun,
a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- ranchero
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noun,
a rancher.
- canaigre
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noun,
a plant, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the buckwheat family, found from Oklahoma to California, having clustered, tuberous roots that yield tannin.
- ordinary
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noun,
the commonplace or average condition, degree, etc.:
- Hyperion
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hoarding
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noun,
the act of a person who hoards.
- carry-in
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noun,
an appliance or machine, as a television set or a personal computer, portable enough to be taken to a store for repair.
- radiancy
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noun,
radiance.
- cirriped
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noun,
any crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, chiefly comprising the barnacles, typically free-swimming in the larval stage and attached or parasitic in the adult stage, with slender, bristly appendages for gathering food.
- ophidian
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noun,
a snake.
- Haringey
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noun,
a borough of Greater London, England.
- procaine
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noun,
a compound, C 13 H 20 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- cyprinid
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noun,
any fish belonging to the Cyprinidae, or minnow family.
- cinerary
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adjective,
holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies:
- harridan
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noun,
a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
- progeria
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noun,
a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- open-air
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noun,
the outdoors.
- apocrine
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adjective,
of or relating to certain glands whose secretions are acted upon by bacteria to produce the characteristic odor of perspiration (distinguished from eccrine).
- chainage
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noun,
a length as measured by a surveyor's chain or tape.
- Peiching
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noun,
Beijing.
- arachnid
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noun,
any wingless, carnivorous arthropod of the class Arachnida, including spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, and daddy-longlegs, having a body divided into two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, and having eight appendages and no antennae.
Compare insect.
- chondria
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noun,
a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- radiance
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noun,
radiant brightness or light:
- archaeo-
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- charango
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noun,
a small South American guitar made from the shell of an armadillo or similar animal and having two to five strings.
- chaperon
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noun,
a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- Herodian
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noun,
a partisan of the house of Herod.
- pair-oar
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noun,
a racing shell propelled by two persons, each with one oar.
- peignoir
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noun,
a woman's dressing gown.
- Hyrcania
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noun,
an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- gynaeco-
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- agaricin
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noun,
an impure form of agaric acid: formerly used in medicine as an agent for stopping excessive perspiration.
- go-ahead
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noun,
permission or a signal to proceed:
- diphonia
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noun,
diplophonia.
- paranoid
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noun,
a person suffering from paranoia.
- Pindaric
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noun,
Pindaric ode.
- pinacoid
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noun,
a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- pig-iron
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noun,
iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
- piercing
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adjective,
loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- gynoecia
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noun,
the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- pycnidia
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noun,
(in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pardoner
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noun,
a person who pardons.
- dragrope
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noun,
a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- drainage
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noun,
the act or process of draining.
- dinarchy
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noun,
duarchy.
- parergon
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noun,
something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
- acridine
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noun,
a colorless, crystalline solid, C 13 H 9 N, usually obtained from the anthracine fraction of coal tar: used chiefly in the synthesis of dyes and drugs.
- Phrygian
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- riparian
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noun,
Law. a person who owns land on the bank of a natural watercourse or body of water.
- Achernar
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noun,
a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Eridanus.
- echinoid
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noun,
any echinoderm of the Echinoidea.
- Phenicia
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noun,
Phoenicia.
- pharyng-
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- endocarp
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noun,
the inner layer of a pericarp, as the stone of certain fruits.
- periodic
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adjective,
recurring at intervals of time:
- Perigord
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noun,
a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- Gardiner
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noun,
Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- Gardenia
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noun,
any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- pyogenic
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adjective,
producing or generating pus.
- gynecoid
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adjective,
of or like a woman.
- pyorrhea
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noun,
Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- diaphone
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noun,
a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
- pyrenoid
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noun,
a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- diarrhea
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noun,
an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diagraph
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noun,
a device for drawing, used in reproducing outlines, plans, etc., mechanically on any desired scale.
- pyridine
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noun,
a colorless, flammable, liquid organic base, C 5 H 5 N, having a disagreeable odor, usually obtained from coal or synthesized from acetaldehyde and ammonia: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- hernio-
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- charade
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noun,
charades, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players are typically divided into two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess.
- grained
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noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- Phrygia
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noun,
an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- phreno-
-
- changer
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noun,
a person or thing that changes something.
- Chardin
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noun,
Jean Baptiste Siméon [zhahn ba-teest see-mey-awn] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist si meɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1699–1779, French painter.
- phrenic
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adjective,
Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
- phrenia
-
- chagrin
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noun,
a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- eardrop
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noun,
an earring with a pendant.
- earring
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noun,
an ornament worn on or hanging from the lobe of the ear.
- phocine
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adjective,
of or relating to seals.
- Phocaea
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noun,
an ancient seaport in Asia Minor: northernmost of the Ionian cities; later an important maritime state.
- drogher
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noun,
a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.
- charged
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noun,
expense or cost:
- decagon
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noun,
a polygon having ten angles and ten sides.
- chondr-
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- chopine
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noun,
a shoe having a thick sole, usually of cork, suggesting a short stilt, worn especially by women in 18th-century Europe after its introduction from Turkey.
- podagra
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noun,
gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- pareira
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noun,
the root of a South American vine, Chondodendron tomentosum, used as a source of curare, a diuretic, etc.
- drapery
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noun,
coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- Picardy
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noun,
a region in N France: formerly a province.
- picador
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noun,
one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
- hedonic
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adjective,
of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure:
- pochard
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noun,
an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- granary
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noun,
a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
- heparin
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noun,
Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- Giardia
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noun,
any flagellate of the genus Giardia, parasitic in the intestines of vertebrates.
- Cheiron
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noun,
Chiron.
- cheiro-
-
- charpoy
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noun,
a light bedstead used in India, consisting of a web of rope or tape netting.
- charger
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noun,
a person or thing that charges.
- heronry
-
noun,
a place where a colony of herons breeds.
- pairing
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noun,
a coupling.
- Echidna
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noun,
Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- errancy
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noun,
the state or an instance of erring.
- eparchy
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noun,
(in modern Greece) one of the administrative subdivisions of a province.
- Pandora
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noun,
bandore.
- caprine
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adjective,
of or relating to goats.
- ergodic
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adjective,
of or relating to the condition that, in an interval of sufficient duration, a system will return to states that are closely similar to previous ones: the assumption of such a condition underlies statistical methods used in modern dynamics and atomic theory.
- Rainier
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noun,
Mount, a volcanic peak in W Washington, in the Cascade Range. 14,408 feet (4392 meters).
- rancher
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noun,
a person who owns or works on a ranch.
- perigon
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noun,
an angle of 360°.
- Gardner
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noun,
Erle Stanley [url] /ɜrl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1970, U.S. writer of detective stories.
- hyenoid
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adjective,
resembling a hyena.
- candier
-
- Pyrrhic
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noun,
Also called dibrach. a pyrrhic foot.
- panache
-
noun,
a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair:
- percoid
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adjective,
belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
- hyperon
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noun,
any baryon with strangeness other than zero, especially one with a relatively long lifetime.
- Gardena
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- peracid
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noun,
an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- Pechora
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noun,
a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- poacher
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noun,
a person who trespasses on private property, especially to catch fish or game illegally.
- draying
-
noun,
the business, occupation, or activities of driving a dray.
- carping
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noun,
petty faultfinding.
- Herring
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noun,
an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.
- organic
-
noun,
a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.
- organdy
-
noun,
a fine, thin cotton fabric usually having a durable crisp finish, white, dyed, or printed: used for blouses, dresses, curtains, trimmings, etc.
- echino-
-
- carrion
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noun,
dead and putrefying flesh.
- dianoia
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noun,
the mental faculty used in discursive reasoning.
- Phidian
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adjective,
of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.
- edaphic
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adjective,
related to or caused by particular soil conditions, as of texture or drainage, rather than by physiographic or climatic factors.
- carding
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noun,
the process in which fibers, as cotton, worsted, or wool, are manipulated into sliver form prior to spinning.
- carnage
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noun,
the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
- edaphon
-
noun,
the aggregate of organisms that live in the soil.
- Graeco-
-
- parodic
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adjective,
having or of the nature of a parody.
- Phaedra
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noun,
the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.
- cardio-
-
- endarch
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adjective,
(of a primary xylem or root) developing from the periphery; having the oldest cells closest to the core.
- chorine
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noun,
a chorus girl.
- orphrey
-
noun,
an ornamental band or border, especially on an ecclesiastical vestment.
- hearing
-
noun,
the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- Gordian
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Idioms,
cut the Gordian knot, to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation; solve a problem boldly.
- Craigie
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noun,
Sir William (Alexander) 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer and philologist.
- preachy
-
adjective,
tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- Dionaea
-
noun,
the Venus's-flytrap.
- corrida
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noun,
a bullfight.
- corrade
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verb (used with object),
to wear down by corrasion; abrade.
- hagride
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verb (used with object),
to afflict with worry, dread, need, or the like; torment.
- 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.
- parador
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noun,
a government-sponsored inn in Spain, usually in a scenic or historic area, that offers lodging and meals at reasonable prices.
- cranio-
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- cording
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noun,
cord covered with yarns or fabric, used decoratively.
- cordage
-
noun,
fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
- paragon
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noun,
a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence:
Synonyms: ideal, standard, epitome, quintessence; example, exemplar, paradigm.
- hayride
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noun,
a pleasure ride or outing, usually at night, by a group in an open wagon or truck partly filled with hay.
- hairpin
-
noun,
a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- Grecian
-
noun,
a Greek.
- hanaper
-
noun,
a wicker receptacle for documents.
- Hadrian
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noun,
(Publius Aelius Hadrianus) a.d. 76–138, Roman emperor 117–138.
- pinhead
-
noun,
the head of a pin.
- Copehan
-
noun,
Wintun.
- gonidia
-
noun,
(in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- porcine
-
adjective,
of or relating to swine.
- hircine
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a goat.
- dacryon
-
noun,
the point of junction of the maxillary, lacrimal, and frontal bones.
- digraph
-
noun,
a pair of letters representing a single speech sound, as ea in meat or th in path.
- grinder
-
noun,
a person or thing that grinds.
- Dinaric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to N Albania and extending across W Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
- Grenada
-
noun,
one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grocery
-
noun,
Also called grocery store. a grocer's store.
- panocha
-
noun,
Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- Gronchi
-
noun,
Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1887–1978, Italian statesman: president 1955–62.
- prairie
-
noun,
an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west.
Compare pampas, savanna, steppe.
- panhead
-
noun,
a rivet or screw head having the form of a truncated cone.
- cryogen
-
noun,
a substance for producing low temperatures; freezing mixture.
- paid-in
-
adjective,
having paid the dues, initiation fees, etc., required by an organization or association.
- crinoid
-
noun,
any echinoderm of the class Crinoidea, having a cup-shaped body to which are attached branched, radiating arms, comprising the sea lilies, feather stars, and various fossil forms.
- Goiania
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Goiás, in central Brazil, SW of Brasília.
- padrone
-
noun,
a master; boss.
- handcar
-
noun,
a small railroad car or platform on four wheels propelled by a mechanism worked by hand, used on some railroads for inspecting tracks and transporting workers.
- poniard
-
noun,
a small, slender dagger.
- diarchy
-
noun,
government in which power is vested in two rulers or authorities.
- prodigy
-
noun,
a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability:
- pyrogen
-
noun,
a substance, as a thermostable bacterial toxin, that produces a rise in temperature in a human or animal.
- harping
-
noun,
any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- gyneco-
-
- progeny
-
noun,
a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- gynecia
-
noun,
gynoecium.
- cienaga
-
noun,
a swamp or marsh, especially one formed and fed by springs.
- heading
-
noun,
something that serves as a head, top, or front.
- ciphony
-
noun,
the process of encrypting telecommunication signals, as to prevent information from being intercepted by an enemy or competitor.
- head-on
-
adverb,
with the front or head foremost, especially in a collision:
- headpin
-
noun,
the pin standing nearest to the bowler when set up, at the head or front of the triangle; the number 1 pin.
- grandpa
-
noun,
grandfather.
- pronged
-
noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- headrig
-
noun,
(in a sawmill) the carriage and saw used in cutting a log into slabs.
- cyanide
-
noun,
Also, cyanid, C10/C1079000 sahy-uh-nid, ˈsaɪ ə nɪd. Chemistry.
a salt of hydrocyanic acid, as potassium cyanide, KCN.
a nitrile, as methyl cyanide, C 2 H 3 N.
- drayage
-
noun,
conveyance by dray.
- Cipango
-
noun,
Japan.
- Cyprian
-
noun,
Saint (Thascius Caecillus Cyprianus) a.d. c200–258, early church father, bishop, and martyr.
- Gironde
-
noun,
an estuary in SW France, formed by the junction of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- coinage
-
noun,
the act, process, or right of making coins.
- grapho-
-
- conidia
-
noun,
(in fungi) an asexual spore formed by abstriction at the top of a hyphal branch.
- pincher
-
noun,
a person or thing that pinches.
- graphic
-
noun,
a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- dog-ear
-
noun,
(in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- grapery
-
noun,
a building where grapes are grown.
- padrino
-
noun,
a godfather.
- pygidia
-
noun,
any of various structures or regions at the caudal end of the body in certain invertebrates.
- Pidgeon
-
noun,
Walter, 1898–1984, U.S. actor, born in Canada.
- pierogi
-
noun,
a small dough envelope filled with mashed potato, meat, cheese, or vegetables, crimped to seal the edge and then boiled or fried, typically served with sour cream or onions.
- Harding
-
noun,
Chester, 1792–1866, U.S. portrait painter.
- Pierian
-
adjective,
of or relating to the Muses.
- hardpan
-
noun,
any layer of firm detrital matter, as of clay, underlying soft soil.
Compare caliche, duricrust.
- Daphnia
-
noun,
a genus of tiny, freshwater crustaceans having a transparent body, used in biological research and as food for tropical fish.
- Pardner
-
noun,
(in direct address) friend.
- pye-dog
-
noun,
an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- pirogen
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) Jewish Cookery. small baked pastries filled with chopped chicken livers, onion, etc.
- dineric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the face of separation of two immiscible liquid phases.
- orchard
-
noun,
an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
- yardang
-
noun,
a keel-shaped crest or ridge of rock, formed by the action of the wind, usually parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- Igraine
-
noun,
the mother of King Arthur.
- anarchy
-
noun,
a state of society without government or law.
- arrange
-
verb (used with object),
to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly:
- Nordica
-
noun,
Lillian (Lillian Norton) 1859–1914, U.S. soprano.
- hordein
-
noun,
a simple protein of the prolamin class, found in barley grain.
- arraign
-
verb (used with object),
to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
- Archean
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to rocks of the Archeozoic portion of the Precambrian Era.
- Ricardo
-
noun,
David, 1772–1823, English economist.
- Aaronic
-
adjective,
of or relating to Aaron.
- airhead
-
noun,
an area in enemy territory or in threatened friendly territory, seized by airborne troops for bringing in supplies and additional troops by airdrop or landing.
- arching
-
noun,
arched work or formation.
- airdrop
-
noun,
the act or process of airdropping.
- onychia
-
noun,
inflammation of the matrix of the nail.
- aphonia
-
noun,
loss of voice, especially due to an organic or functional disturbance of the vocal organs.
- Iphinoe
-
noun,
a daughter of Antia and Proetus who was inflicted with madness for her irreverence toward the gods.
Compare Iphianassa (def 2).
- acarine
-
noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Acarina, comprising the mites and ticks.
- acaroid
-
adjective,
resembling a mite or tick.
- Airdrie
-
noun,
a city in central Scotland, near Glasgow.
- yardage
-
noun,
measurement, or the amount measured in yards; length or extent in yards.
- ripieno
-
noun,
tutti (defs 3, 4).
- air-dry
-
adjective,
dry beyond further evaporation.
- archery
-
noun,
the art, practice, or skill of an archer.
- Nigeria
-
noun,
a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- nephric
-
adjective,
renal.
- archine
-
noun,
arshin.
- Acheron
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades over which Charon ferried the souls of the dead.
- operand
-
noun,
a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- aphonic
-
noun,
Pathology. a person who is affected with aphonia.
- Ariadne
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread by which he escaped from the labyrinth: deserted by Theseus on Naxos, she became the bride of Dionysus.
- oneiric
-
adjective,
of or relating to dreams.
- Richard
-
noun,
Maurice [maw-rees;; French moh-rees] /mɔˈris;; French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), ("Rocket") 1921–2000, Canadian hockey player.
- Icarian
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Icaria.
- Oceanid
-
noun,
any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
- Aorangi
-
noun,
Cook, Mount.
- Richier
-
noun,
Germaine [zher-men] /ʒɛrˈmɛn/ (Show IPA), 1904–59, French sculptor.
- Honiara
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the Solomon Islands, N Guadalcanal.
- nephro-
-
- Negroid
-
noun,
Older Use: Usually Offensive. a member of such peoples.
- ocarina
-
noun,
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
- Reading
-
noun,
the action or practice of a person who reads.
- raphide
-
plural noun,
acicular crystals, usually composed of calcium oxalate, that occur in bundles in the cells of many plants.
- Andorra
-
noun,
a republic in the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel. 191 sq. mi. (495 sq. km).
- rrhagia
-
- apandry
-
- Rhodian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
- araneid
-
noun,
a member of the order Araneae (Araneida), comprising the spiders.
- acrogen
-
noun,
a flowerless plant growing and producing its reproductive structures at the apex only, as ferns and mosses.
- Agriope
-
noun,
Eurydice.
- Rapidan
-
noun,
a river in N Virginia, flowing E from the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rappahannock River: Civil War battle 1862.
- roaring
-
noun,
the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
- anchory
-
adjective,
ancré.
- aecidia
-
noun,
an aecium in which the spores are always formed in chains and enclosed in a cup-shaped peridium.
- Arachne
-
noun,
a Lydian woman who challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was changed into a spider for her presumption.
- Oceania
-
noun,
the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).
- Reynard
-
noun,
a name given to the fox, originally in the medieval beast epic Reynard the Fox.
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- Roerich
-
noun,
Nicholas Konstantinovich [nik-uh-luh s kon-stuh n-tee-nuh-vich;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh-vyich] /ˈnɪk ə ləs ˌkɒn stənˈti nə vɪtʃ;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1947, Russian painter, archaeologist, and author; in the U.S. after 1920.
- denary
-
adjective,
containing ten; tenfold.
- Pyrrho
-
noun,
c365–c275 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- rhodic
-
adjective,
of or containing rhodium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- agron.
-
- grader
-
noun,
a person or thing that grades.
- gradin
-
noun,
one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
- dehorn
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the horns of (cattle).
- ignore
-
verb (used with object),
to refrain from noticing or recognizing:
- poachy
-
adjective,
(of land) slushy; swampy.
- agonic
-
adjective,
not forming an angle.
- pyrone
-
noun,
either of two heterocyclic ketones having the formula C 5 H 4 O 2 .
- richen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become rich or richer.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- agaric
-
noun,
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
- incher
-
noun,
something that has or is associated with a height or length of an inch or a specified number of inches (often used in combination):
- Gondar
-
noun,
a city in NW Ethiopia, N of Lake Tana: a former capital.
- Richie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Richard.
- incage
-
verb (used with object),
encage.
- agency
-
noun,
an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another:
- piracy
-
noun,
practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
- agenda
-
noun,
a list, plan, outline, or the like, of things to be done, matters to be acted or voted upon, etc.:
- dyeing
-
noun,
process of coloring fibers, yarns, or fabrics.
- gopher
-
noun,
any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- agric.
-
- dicing
-
noun,
gambling or playing with dice.
- dicho-
-
- inarch
-
verb (used with object),
to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- diapir
-
noun,
a dome, or anticline, the upper regions of which have been ruptured and penetrated by material squeezed up from below.
Compare plume (def 10), salt dome.
- Nicaea
-
noun,
an ancient city in NW Asia Minor: Nicene Creed formulated here a.d.
- diaper
-
noun,
a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- Graiae
-
plural noun,
Graeae.
- dharna
-
noun,
(in India) the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until death or until the demand is granted.
- pander
-
noun,
a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- Rhonda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- noyade
-
noun,
destruction or execution by drowning, especially as practiced at Nantes, France, in 1793–94, during the Reign of Terror.
- grano-
-
- decani
-
adjective,
of or relating to the epistle or liturgical south side of a church (opposed to cantoris).
- Pahari
-
noun,
one of several hill peoples inhabiting the area in India SW of the Ganges River.
- Dacron
-
- airing
-
noun,
an exposure to the air, as for drying.
- Anadyr
-
noun,
a river in NE Siberian Russia, flowing SW and E to Anadyr Bay, on the Bering Sea. 695 miles (1118 km) long.
- anarch
-
noun,
anarchist.
- Ranger
-
noun,
forest ranger.
- grocer
-
noun,
the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.
- groyne
-
noun,
groin (def 4).
- prayer
-
noun,
a devout petition to God or an object of worship.
- groper
-
noun,
a person or thing that gropes.
- anchor
-
noun,
any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- Idaean
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, associated with, or inhabiting Mount Ida in Asia Minor or Crete.
- cringe
-
noun,
servile or fawning deference.
- crying
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- Renoir
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
- Pahang
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SE Malay Peninsula. 13,820 sq. mi. (35,794 sq. km). Capital: Kuantan.
- pagoda
-
noun,
(in India, Burma, China, etc.) a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories.
- crepon
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- Renard
-
noun,
Reynard.
- Crania
-
noun,
the skull of a vertebrate.
- crayon
-
noun,
a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring.
- hadron
-
noun,
any elementary particle that is subject to the strong interaction. Hadrons are subdivided into baryons and mesons.
- crayer
-
noun,
a small sailing vessel formerly used in trade along the coasts of western Europe.
- prance
-
noun,
the act of prancing; a prancing movement.
- hagdon
-
noun,
any of various oceanic birds of the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and America, especially the greater shearwater.
- preach
-
verb (used with object),
to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).
- Andrea
-
noun,
a male or female given name, Latinized form of Andrew.
- Corrie
-
noun,
a circular hollow in the side of a hill or mountain.
- grinch
-
noun,
a person or thing that spoils or dampens the pleasure of others.
- pongid
-
noun,
any anthropoid primate of the family Pongidae, comprising the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan; a great ape.
- rhino-
-
- daring
-
noun,
adventurous courage; boldness.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- grainy
-
adjective,
resembling grain; granular.
- grand-
-
- rhenic
-
adjective,
of or containing rhenium.
- Deacon
-
noun,
(in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- Grande
-
noun,
Rio. Rio Grande.
- Nordic
-
noun,
a member of the Nordic people, especially a Scandinavian.
- Pogany
-
noun,
Willy (William Andrew) 1882–1955, U.S. painter, stage designer, and illustrator; born in Hungary.
- grani-
-
- Darren
-
noun,
a male given name.
- darner
-
noun,
a person or thing that darns.
- dinger
-
noun,
humdinger.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- Pohang
-
noun,
a port city in SE South Korea.
- Poyang
-
noun,
a lake in E China, in Kiangsi province. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- grapey
-
adjective,
grapy.
- Daphne
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a nymph who, when pursued by Apollo, was saved by being changed into a laurel tree.
- idiocy
-
noun,
utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.:
- graphy
-
- danger
-
noun,
liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
- ponder
-
verb (used with object),
to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully:
- repand
-
adjective,
Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.
- dancer
-
noun,
a person who dances.
- pained
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- repair
-
noun,
an act, process, or work of repairing:
- Greco-
-
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- Pindar
-
noun,
522?–443? b.c, Greek poet.
- dinghy
-
noun,
any small boat designed as a tender or lifeboat, especially a small ship's boat, rowed, sailed, or driven by a motor.
- acedia
-
noun,
sloth (def 1).
Compare deadly sins.
- Perron
-
noun,
an outside platform upon which the entrance door of a building opens, with steps leading to it.
- engird
-
verb (used with object),
to encircle; encompass:
- Phaedo
-
noun,
a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.
- Gdynia
-
noun,
a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- peachy
-
adjective,
resembling a peach, as in color or appearance.
- irenic
-
adjective,
tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.
- phagia
-
- phago-
-
- acarid
-
noun,
an acarine, especially a mite of the family Acaridae.
- Nagoya
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- parody
-
noun,
a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing:
- pheno-
-
- phyco-
-
- enrich
-
verb (used with object),
to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.:
- paring
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that pares.
- parica
-
noun,
a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina.
- echard
-
noun,
the water in soil that is not available for absorption by plants.
- aching
-
noun,
a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).
- ringer
-
noun,
a person or thing that encircles, rings, etc.
- ringed
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- earing
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- napery
-
noun,
table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
- phoney
-
noun,
something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- Gerard
-
noun,
Also, Gé·rard·. a male given name, form of Gerald.
- Parian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Paros.
- phonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to speech sounds.
- pariah
-
noun,
an outcast.
- phren.
-
- Perrin
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- yonder
-
adverb,
at, in, or to that place specified or more or less distant; over there.
- errand
-
noun,
a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
- ganoid
-
noun,
a ganoid fish.
- Gandhi
-
noun,
Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- Gander
-
noun,
the male of the goose.
Compare goose (def 2).
- Penchi
-
noun,
Benxi.
- Garand
-
noun,
John C(antius) [French kahn-tsyys] /French ˈkɑ̃ tsyüs/ (Show IPA), 1888–1974, U.S. inventor of M-1 semiautomatic rifle, born in Canada.
- Gainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- Garcia
-
noun,
Jerome John ("Jerry") 1942–95, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
- Garcon
-
noun,
(usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- Garden
-
noun,
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- nacred
-
adjective,
lined with or resembling nacre.
- ropery
-
noun,
a place where ropes are made.
- erring
-
adjective,
going astray; in error; wrong.
- irreg.
-
- irido-
-
- ironic
-
adjective,
using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony:
- Rodney
-
noun,
George Brydges [brij-iz] /ˈbrɪdʒ ɪz/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1718–92, British admiral.
- ironer
-
noun,
a person or thing that irons.
- period
-
noun,
a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics:
- Erhard
-
noun,
Ludwig, 1897–1977, West German economist and government official: chancellor 1963–66.
- Rodger
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Roger.
- pedion
-
noun,
a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- Aachen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: coronation city of German kings 936–1531.
- Garner
-
noun,
a granary or grain bin.
- Nagari
-
noun,
a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- Pernod
-
- eparch
-
noun,
the prefect or governor of an eparchy.
- pernor
-
noun,
a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- narco-
-
- Agadir
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Morocco: destroyed by earthquake in 1960; new town rebuilt S of original site.
- dognap
-
verb (used with object),
to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- pardon
-
noun,
kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience:
- doping
-
noun,
Slang. an act or instance of giving a narcotic, usually a steroid, to an athlete to unfairly boost performance in a competition.
- adren-
-
- adreno
-
- Piercy
-
noun,
Marge, born 1936, U.S. poet and novelist.
- Adrian
-
noun,
Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- pardah
-
noun,
purdah.
- Pieria
-
noun,
a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- Girard
-
noun,
Stephen, 1750–1831, U.S. merchant, banker, and philanthropist, born in France.
- riding
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that rides.
- pierid
-
noun,
Also called pieridine [pahy-er-i-dahyn, -din] /paɪˈɛr ɪˌdaɪn, -dɪn/ (Show IPA). any member of the butterfly family Pieridae.
- girder
-
noun,
a large beam, as of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber, for supporting masonry, joists, purlins, etc.
- Pigeon
-
noun,
any bird of the family Columbidae, having a compact body and short legs, especially the larger species with square or rounded tails.
Compare dove1 (def 1).
- Parcae
-
noun,
an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny.
Compare Parcae.
- Adonic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Adonic verse or line.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- Aegina
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Asopus and Metope who was abducted by Zeus and bore him a son, Aeacus.
- pinard
-
noun,
wine.
- Andria
-
noun,
a city in Apulia, S Italy.
- indigo
-
noun,
a blue dye obtained from various plants, especially of the genus Indigofera, or manufactured synthetically.
- pinder
-
noun,
peanut.
- dirigo
-
- indic.
-
- parang
-
noun,
a large, heavy knife used as a tool or a weapon in Malaysia and Indonesia.
- pinery
-
noun,
a place in which pineapples are grown.
- aeron.
-
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- parade
-
noun,
a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- incorr
-
- pidgin
-
noun,
an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- yogini
-
noun,
a woman who practices yoga.
- adagio
-
noun,
Music. an adagio movement or piece.
- gharry
-
noun,
a horse-drawn cab or carriage used in India and Egypt.
- drying
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- driegh
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- driech
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- Gideon
-
noun,
Also called Jerubbaal. a judge of Israel and conqueror of the Midianites. Judges 6–8.
- iodine
-
noun,
a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- drench
-
noun,
the act of drenching.
- dreigh
-
adjective, verb (used with object),
dree.
- picara
-
noun,
a woman who is a rogue or vagabond.
- dreary
-
adjective,
causing sadness or gloom.
- Picard
-
noun,
Charles Émile [sharl ey-meel] /ʃarl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, French mathematician.
- Riyadh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Saudi Arabia.
- Draper
-
noun,
a dealer in cloth; a retail merchant or clerk who sells piece goods.
- necro-
-
- picro-
-
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- adeno-
-
- picaro
-
noun,
a rogue or vagabond.
- Dragon
-
noun,
a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- inorg.
-
- Adygei
-
noun,
Official name Adygei Autonomous Region. an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, part of the Krasnodar territory, in the NW Caucasus Mountains. 1505 sq. mi. (3903 sq. km). Capital: Maikop.
- gynec-
-
- Adighe
-
noun,
Adygei.
- Ingrid
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pycnia
-
noun,
a flask-shaped or conical sporangium of a rust fungus, which develops below the epidermis of the host and bears pycniospores.
- nephr-
-
- pycno-
-
- Adonai
-
noun,
Hebrew. a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
- dorper
-
noun,
one of a breed of sheep having a black face and white body, developed in South Africa from the Dorset Horn and black-headed Persian breeds and raised for meat.
- Ichang
-
noun,
Wade-Giles. Yichang.
- gripey
-
adjective,
gripy.
- hagio-
-
- change
-
noun,
the act or fact of changing; fact of being changed:
- origin
-
noun,
something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead:
- Arcaro
-
noun,
Edward ("Eddie") 1916–97, U.S. jockey.
- Charon
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.
- Origen
-
noun,
(Origenes Admantius) a.d. 185?–254? Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.
- herdic
-
noun,
a low-hung carriage with two or four wheels, having the entrance at the back and the seats at the sides.
- charge
-
noun,
expense or cost:
- Horgan
-
noun,
Paul, 1903–95, U.S. novelist and historian.
- Hering
-
noun,
Ewald [ey-vahlt] /ˈeɪ vɑlt/ (Show IPA), 1834–1918, German physiologist and psychologist.
- hernia
-
noun,
the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- arched
-
noun,
Architecture.
a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening.
an upwardly curved construction, as of steel or timber functioning in the manner of a masonry arch.
a doorway, gateway, etc., having a curved head; an archway.
the curved head of an opening, as a doorway.
- Archer
-
noun,
a person who shoots with a bow and arrow; bowman.
- origan
-
noun,
an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- Chaoan
-
noun,
former name of Chaozhou.
- Chaney
-
noun,
Lon [lon] /lɒn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1930, U.S. film actor.
- charro
-
noun,
a Mexican horseman or cowboy, typically one wearing an elaborate outfit, often with silver decorations, of tight trousers, ruffled shirt, short jacket, and sombrero.
- chaine
-
noun,
a series of short, usually rapid, turns performed in a straight line across the stage.
- archi-
-
- heroic
-
noun,
Usually, heroics. heroic verse.
- Archie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Archibald.
- 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.
- chador
-
noun,
the traditional garment of Muslim and Hindu women, consisting of a long, usually black or drab-colored cloth or veil that envelops the body from head to foot and covers all or part of the face.
- radio-
-
- archon
-
noun,
a higher magistrate in ancient Athens.
- horary
-
adjective,
pertaining to an hour; indicating the hours:
- Horace
-
noun,
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 b.c, Roman poet and satirist.
- ceriph
-
noun,
serif.
- Radnor
-
noun,
a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- Herrin
-
noun,
a town in S Illinois.
- Charry
-
adjective,
of, like, or covered with charcoal.
- cheapo
-
noun,
Slang. cheapo.
- cedarn
-
adjective,
resembling or made of cedar.
- Chiron
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a wise and beneficent centaur, teacher of Achilles, Asclepius, and others.
- Orphic
-
adjective,
of or relating to Orpheus.
- Chron.
-
- Hornie
-
noun,
Satan.
- aporia
-
noun,
Rhetoric. the expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
- chorea
-
noun,
any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- Horney
-
noun,
Karen, 1885–1952, U.S. psychiatrist and author, born in Germany.
- Chopin
-
noun,
an old Scottish unit of liquid measure equivalent to about a quart.
- redcap
-
noun,
a baggage porter at a railroad station.
- horned
-
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.
- Aragon
-
noun,
Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1897–1982, French novelist, poet, and journalist.
- Racine
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1639–99, French dramatist.
- chirpy
-
adjective,
chirping or tending to chirp:
- hedron
-
- chiro-
-
- arcane
-
adjective,
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric:
- hegari
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having chalky white seeds.
- Chino-
-
- Hegira
-
noun,
Islam. Hijra.
- orphan
-
noun,
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- chigoe
-
noun,
a flea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.
- ornery
-
adjective,
ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper:
- Chiayi
-
noun,
Chiai.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- record
-
noun,
an act of recording.
- Cherry
-
noun,
the fruit of any of various trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, consisting of a pulpy, globular drupe enclosing a one-seeded smooth stone.
- radian
-
noun,
the measure of a central angle subtending an arc equal in length to the radius: equal to 57.2958°. Abbreviation: rad.
- arcade
-
noun,
Architecture.
a series of arches supported on piers or columns.
an arched, roofed-in gallery. Compare colonnade.
- Arcady
-
noun,
Arcadia.
- reagin
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- hyaena
-
noun,
hyena.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- canard
-
noun,
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- hieron
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a temple or a sacred place.
- Capone
-
noun,
Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- Hoenir
-
noun,
a god, one of the Aesir, companion of Odin and Loki, hostage to the Vanir.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- hygric
-
adjective,
of or relating to moisture.
- hygro-
-
- canopy
-
noun,
a covering, usually of fabric, supported on poles or suspended above a bed, throne, exalted personage, or sacred object.
- hinder
-
noun,
Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. the buttocks.
- arride
-
verb (used with object),
to be agreeable or pleasing to.
- Candor
-
noun,
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
- rapido
-
noun,
an express train.
- Candia
-
noun,
former name of Iráklion.
- Canary
-
noun,
any of several Old World finches of the genus Serinus, especially S. canaria (common canary) native to the Canary Islands and often kept as a pet, in the wild being greenish with brown streaks above and yellow below and in domesticated varieties usually bright yellow or pale yellow.
- canape
-
noun,
a thin piece of bread or toast or a cracker spread or topped with cheese, caviar, anchovies, or other savory food.
- rapier
-
noun,
a small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
- Canad.
-
- Ranchi
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Jharkhand state, in E India.
- rancho
-
noun,
a ranch.
- rancid
-
adjective,
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
- rancor
-
noun,
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- hyper-
-
- cahier
-
noun,
Bookbinding. a number of sheets of paper or leaves of a book placed together, as for binding.
- Cagney
-
noun,
James, 1899–1986, U.S. film actor.
- Raphia
-
noun,
raffia.
- hypno-
-
- ranged
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- orchid
-
noun,
any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers.
Compare orchid family.
- hiero-
-
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- honied
-
noun,
a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
- Carina
-
noun,
Zoology. a keellike part or ridge, especially a ridge of bone on the ventral side of the sternum of birds.
- organa
-
noun,
a plural of organon.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- Reagan
-
noun,
Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- Carrie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Oradea
-
noun,
a city in NW Romania.
- hiding
-
noun,
act of concealing; concealment:
- raider
-
noun,
a person or thing that raids.
- carpo-
-
- Carney
-
noun,
carny.
- hydric
-
adjective,
pertaining to or containing hydrogen.
- Carnap
-
noun,
Rudolf P. 1891–1970, U.S. philosopher, born in Germany.
- rrhoea
-
- caryo-
-
- hydro-
-
- orangy
-
adjective,
resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color:
- hydroa
-
noun,
any skin condition characterized by red vesicular areas.
- Carian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Caria.
- carhop
-
noun,
a person who serves customers in their cars. at a drive-in restaurant.
- hoyden
-
noun,
a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- hoiden
-
noun,
a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- Orange
-
noun,
a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- hogpen
-
noun,
pigpen (def 1).
- Cardin
-
noun,
Pierre, born 1922, French fashion designer.
- arnica
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Arnica, having opposite leaves and yellow flower heads.
- cardia
-
noun,
an opening that connects the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach.
- cardi-
-
- raring
-
adjective,
very eager or anxious; enthusiastic:
- horrid
-
adjective,
such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- chori-
-
- apiary
-
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.
- anodic
-
adjective,
pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- Harden
-
noun,
Sir Arthur, 1865–1940, English biochemist: Nobel Prize 1929.
- codger
-
noun,
an eccentric man, especially one who is old.
- priory
-
noun,
a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
- Hardin
-
noun,
John Wesley, 1853–95, U.S. outlaw in the West.
- angary
-
noun,
the right of a belligerent state to seize and use the property of neutrals for purposes of warfare, subject to payment of full compensation.
- Coanda
-
noun,
Henri Marie [ahn-ree ma-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1972, French engineer and inventor.
- anergy
-
noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- Corday
-
noun,
Charlotte (Maria Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont) 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine: assassinated Jean-Paul Marat.
- copier
-
noun,
a person or thing that copies; copyist.
- haired
-
adjective,
having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination):
- anopia
-
noun,
absence of sight, especially when due to a structural defect in or absence of an eye.
- region
-
noun,
an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
- Regina
-
noun,
queen.
- Yahgan
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands.
- hairdo
-
noun,
the style in which a person's hair is cut, arranged, and worn; coiffure.
- cypher
-
noun,
zero.
- paedo-
-
- coping
-
noun,
a finishing or protective course or cap to an exterior masonry wall or the like.
- coding
-
noun,
the transforming of a variate into a more convenient variate.
- cipher
-
noun,
zero.
- Padang
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- Conger
-
noun,
a large marine eel, Conger conger, sometimes reaching a length of 10 feet (3 meters), used for food.
- ochrea
-
noun,
ocrea.
- Angora
-
noun,
Angora cat.
- hangar
-
noun,
a shed or shelter.
- hanger
-
noun,
a shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood, or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use.
- Conrad
-
noun,
Charles, Jr ("Pete") 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.
- cyano-
-
- angio-
-
- Ogaden
-
noun,
an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- coigne
-
noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- pricer
-
noun,
(especially in retail stores) an employee who establishes prices at which articles will be sold, or one who affixes price tags to merchandise.
- prying
-
noun,
an impertinently inquisitive person.
- Harare
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Zimbabwe, in the NE part.
- coheir
-
noun,
a joint heir.
- Icaria
-
noun,
Also, Ikaria. a Greek island in the Aegean Sea: a part of the Southern Sporades group. 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km).
- Prince
-
noun,
a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- pricey
-
adjective,
expensive or unduly expensive:
- Hayden
-
noun,
Melissa (Mildred Herman) 1923–2006, Canadian ballerina in the U.S.
- cirro-
-
- onager
-
noun,
a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- coring
-
noun,
the act of removing a core or of cutting from a central part.
- cornea
-
noun,
the transparent anterior part of the external coat of the eye covering the iris and the pupil and continuous with the sclera.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- cinder
-
noun,
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- corned
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- regard
-
noun,
reference; relation:
- Aparri
-
noun,
a seaport on N Luzon, in the N Philippines.
- Corner
-
noun,
the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- andro-
-
- Apache
-
noun,
a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
- Regain
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- Ciardi
-
noun,
John, 1916–86, U.S. poet.
- Andric
-
noun,
Ivo [ee-vaw] /ˈi vɔ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1975, Yugoslavian poet, novelist, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1961.
- Harper
-
noun,
a person who plays the harp.
- groin
-
noun,
Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- pedo-
-
- geoid
-
noun,
an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents.
- ichor
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Pedro
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- Garda
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in Italy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 143 sq. mi. (370 sq. km).
- Ionic
-
noun,
Prosody. an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
- nacho
-
noun,
a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled.
- geod.
-
- GROPE
-
noun,
an act or instance of groping.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- genro
-
noun,
any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- Iran.
-
- Hagen
-
noun,
Walter, 1892–1969, U.S. golfer.
- naiad
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
- hyena
-
noun,
a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- Paige
-
noun,
Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- groan
-
noun,
a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
- gripe
-
noun,
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- gaper
-
noun,
a person or thing that gapes.
- gripy
-
adjective,
resembling or causing gripes.
- payer
-
noun,
a person who pays.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- orch.
-
- Gerar
-
noun,
an ancient city in Palestine, near the Mediterranean: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- gerah
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew weight and coin, equal to 1/20 (0.05) of a shekel.
- Orang
-
noun,
orangutan.
- ochre
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- Hond.
-
- hoard
-
noun,
a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.:
- ocher
-
noun,
any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- Hypo-
-
- Gerry
-
noun,
Elbridge [el-brij] /ˈɛl brɪdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1744–1814, U.S. politician: vice president 1813–14.
Compare gerrymander.
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- hoagy
-
noun,
a hero sandwich.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- Naida
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ideo-
-
- genip
-
noun,
Also, ginep. a genipap.
- Genoa
-
noun,
a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.
- Hindi
-
noun,
the most widely spoken of the modern Indic vernaculars, especially its best-known variety, Western Hindi.
- Peary
-
noun,
Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- hinge
-
noun,
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- hoary
-
adjective,
gray or white with age:
- Hadar
-
noun,
a first magnitude star in the constellation Centaurus.
- pecan
-
noun,
a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- ordn.
-
- Hind.
-
- pager
-
noun,
something, as a book or brochure, having a specified number of pages (usually used in combination):
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pedi-
-
- pagne
-
noun,
a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- garni
-
adjective,
garnished.
- icing
-
noun,
a sweet, creamy spread, as of confectioners' sugar, butter, and flavoring, for covering cakes, cookies, etc.; frosting.
- PEDir
-
- ician
-
- ocean
-
noun,
the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- 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.
- hiney
-
noun,
heinie2 .
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Haydn
-
noun,
Franz Joseph [franz joh-zuh f,, -suh f,, frants;; German frahnts yoh-zef] /frænz ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf,, frænts;; German frɑnts ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1732–1809, Austrian composer.
- hying
-
verb,
past participle of hie.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- Parry
-
noun,
an act or instance of parrying, as in fencing.
- Haida
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people inhabiting the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.
- Hagar
-
noun,
the mother of Ishmael. Gen. 16.
- genii
-
noun,
a plural of genius.
- genic
-
adjective,
of, pertaining to, resembling, or arising from a gene or genes.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Hogan
-
noun,
a Navajo Indian dwelling constructed of earth and branches and covered with mud or sod.
- Idaho
-
noun,
a state in the NW United States. 83,557 sq. mi. (216,415 sq. km). Capital: Boise.
Abbreviation: ID (for use with zip code), Id., Ida.
- pagan
-
noun,
(no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
- hier-
-
- paean
-
noun,
any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- peach
-
noun,
the subacid, juicy, drupaceous fruit of a tree, Prunus persica, of the rose family.
- hairy
-
adjective,
covered with hair; having much hair.
- order
-
noun,
an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- 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.
- irid-
-
- Iceni
-
noun,
an ancient Celtic tribe of eastern England, whose queen, Boadicea, headed an insurrection against the Romans in a.d. 61.
- Hydra
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two; Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads.
- hyoid
-
noun,
the hyoid bone.
- irony
-
noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- Honda
-
noun,
an eye at one end of a lariat through which the other end is passed to form a lasso, noose, etc.
- grice
-
noun,
a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
- pari-
-
- Henri
-
noun,
Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- panga
-
noun,
a large, broad-bladed African knife used as a weapon or as an implement for cutting heavy jungle growth, sugar cane, etc.; machete.
- gonad
-
noun,
a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- nerdy
-
adjective,
Slang. of or like a nerd.
- Goyen
-
noun,
(Charles) William, 1915–83, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- incog
-
adjective, adverb, noun,
incognita or incognito.
- 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.
- Panic
-
noun,
a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- grain
-
noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- Heidi
-
noun,
a female given name.
- incor
-
- Godey
-
noun,
Louis Antoine [an-twahn] /ˈæn twɑn/ (Show IPA), 1804–78, U.S. publisher: founded the first women's magazine in the U.S. 1830.
- para-
-
- Gondi
-
noun,
a Dravidian language, the language of the Gonds.
- Yager
-
noun,
jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- incr.
-
- Henry
-
noun,
the standard unit of inductance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of one ampere per second. Abbreviation: H.
- oidia
-
noun,
one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- Grana
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- yearn
-
verb (used without object),
to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
- India
-
noun,
Hindi Bharat [buh-ruht] /ˈbʌ rʌt/ (Show IPA). a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950. 1,246,880 sq. mi. (3,229,419 sq. km). Capital: New Delhi.
- paced
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- hagia
-
plural noun,
the Eucharistic elements before or after the consecration.
- gyron
-
noun,
a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- Nogai
-
noun,
a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
- goner
-
noun,
a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- pacer
-
noun,
a person or thing that paces.
- horny
-
adjective,
consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- Panay
-
noun,
an island in the central Philippines. 4446 sq. mi. (11,515 sq. km). Capital: Iloilo.
- panda
-
noun,
Also called giant panda. a white-and-black, bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, now rare and restricted to forest areas of central China containing stands of bamboo, on which it mainly subsists: formerly placed with the raccoon family but now classified as a bear subfamily, Ailuropodinae, or as the sole member of a separate family, Ailuropodidae, which diverged from an ancestral bear lineage.
- 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.
- Heady
-
adjective,
intoxicating:
- pandy
-
noun,
a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- Nydia
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nidge
-
verb (used with object),
to dress (a stone) with a pick or kevel.
- niche
-
noun,
an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
- Goren
-
noun,
Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- Grace
-
noun,
elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity.
Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- Orrin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Harpy
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- 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.
- nicad
-
noun,
nickel-cadmium battery.
- Gorey
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- hedgy
-
adjective,
abounding in hedges.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- Gordy
-
noun,
Berry, Jr, born 1929, U.S. music and record producer: founder of Motown records.
- paned
-
adjective,
having panes (usually used in combination):
- grade
-
noun,
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
- Onega
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- Harry
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Harold or Henry.
- Hedin
-
noun,
Sven Anders [sven ahn-duh rs] /svɛn ˈɑn dərs/ (Show IPA), 1865–1952, Swedish geographer and explorer.
- Oriya
-
noun,
an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- Indio
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- hydr-
-
- haori
-
noun,
a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- herp.
-
- orach
-
noun,
any plant of the genus Atriplex, especially A. hortensis, of the amaranth family, cultivated for use like spinach.
- neigh
-
noun,
the cry of a horse; whinny.
- orig.
-
- Payne
-
noun,
John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- herry
-
verb (used with or without object),
harry.
- Negro
-
noun,
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- padre
-
noun,
father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- oracy
-
noun,
the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.
- iodic
-
adjective,
containing iodine, especially in the pentavalent state.
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- 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).
- Hanoi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- gride
-
noun,
a griding or grating sound.
- Oreg.
-
- ocrea
-
noun,
a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- grind
-
noun,
the act of grinding.
- Handy
-
noun,
W(illiam) C(hristopher) 1873–1958, U.S. blues composer.
- Necho
-
noun,
Prince of Sais and Prince of Memphis, flourished 633? b.c, chief of the Egyptian delta lords (father of Psamtik I).
- Honey
-
noun,
a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
- Ghana
-
noun,
a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km). Capital: Accra.
- ghain
-
noun,
the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Harar
-
noun,
a city in E Ethiopia.
- grapy
-
adjective,
of, like, or composed of grapes.
- Indo-
-
- Hardy
-
noun,
a chisel or fuller with a square shank for insertion into a square hole (hardy hole) in a blacksmith's anvil.
- gyro-
-
- oidea
-
- Parca
-
noun,
an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny.
Compare Parcae.
- Ogden
-
noun,
Charles Kay, 1889–1957, British psychologist and linguist, inventor of Basic English.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- Horne
-
noun,
Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- indri
-
noun,
a short-tailed lemur, Indri indri, of Madagascar, about 2 feet (60 cm) in length: an endangered species.
- parch
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- 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.
- grape
-
noun,
the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- Norge
-
noun,
Norwegian name of Norway.
- pacha
-
noun,
pasha.
- gipon
-
noun,
jupon.
- pardi
-
adverb, interjection,
verily; indeed.
- pardy
-
adverb, interjection,
pardi.
- idion
-
- Herod
-
noun,
("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- gyno-
-
- horde
-
noun,
a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd:
- graph
-
noun,
a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- yapon
-
noun,
yaupon.
- ginep
-
noun,
genip.
- idio-
-
- 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.
- indie
-
noun,
an independently or privately owned business, especially a film or music company that is not affiliated with a larger and more commercial company:
- rayed
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- chair
-
noun,
a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- chape
-
noun,
the lowermost terminal mount of a scabbard.
- ceria
-
noun,
a white-to-yellow, heavy powder, cerium dioxide, CeO 2 , usually derived from cerium nitrate by decomposition with heat: used chiefly in ceramics, glass polishing, and decolorizing.
- cero-
-
- Cerro
-
noun,
a hill or peak.
- Chaga
-
noun,
a member of a Bantu people of northern Tanzania.
- radii
-
noun,
a plural of radius.
- Chain
-
noun,
a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- Ganda
-
noun,
Luganda.
- Chany
-
noun,
Lake, a salt lake in SW Siberia, in the W Russian Federation in Asia. About 1300 sq. mi. (3365 sq. km).
- chap.
-
- char-
-
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- Chard
-
noun,
a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having leaves and leafstalks that are used as a vegetable.
- Chari
-
noun,
Shari.
- chary
-
adjective,
cautious or careful; wary:
- charr
-
noun,
char2 .
- cheap
-
Idioms,
cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive:
- Radha
-
noun,
the milkmaid who became the consort of Krishna.
- RADAR
-
noun,
Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns.
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- Chian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Chios.
- aecia
-
noun,
the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- Ryder
-
noun,
Albert Pinkham [ping-kuh m] /ˈpɪŋ kəm/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, U.S. painter.
- chide
-
verb (used with object),
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach:
- Caryn
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Capra
-
noun,
Frank, 1897–1991, U.S. film director and producer, born in Italy.
- Capri
-
noun,
an island in W Italy, in the Bay of Naples: grottoes; resort. 5½ sq. mi. (14 sq. km).
- rainy
-
adjective,
characterized by rain:
- Card.
-
- Carey
-
noun,
male given name, form of Carew.
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- cargo
-
noun,
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- Caria
-
noun,
an ancient district in SW Asia Minor.
- Carie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- Carin
-
noun,
a female given name.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- Rider
-
noun,
a person who rides a horse or other animal, a bicycle, etc.
- Carny
-
noun,
a person employed by a carnival.
- carp-
-
- carpi
-
noun,
plural of carpus.
- Carry
-
noun,
range, as of a gun.
- aero-
-
- rayah
-
noun,
a Christian subject of an Ottoman ruler.
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- Ceara
-
noun,
Fortaleza.
- aeri-
-
- Cedar
-
noun,
any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches.
Compare cedar of Lebanon.
- chiao
-
noun,
jiao.
- Chin.
-
- rayon
-
noun,
a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- coign
-
noun, verb (used with object),
quoin.
- proc.
-
- Cirri
-
noun,
a plural of cirrus.
- cnida
-
noun,
a nematocyst.
- Adnah
-
noun,
a Manassite deserter from Saul's to David's army. I Chron. 12:20.
- coder
-
noun,
a person or device that translates information into a code.
- Prior
-
noun,
Informal. a prior conviction.
- 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.
- Cohan
-
noun,
George M(ichael) 1878–1942, U.S. actor, playwright, and producer.
- Cohen
-
noun,
Morris Raphael, 1880–1947, U.S. philosopher and educator, born in Russia.
- Adige
-
noun,
a river in N Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic Sea. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- pryer
-
noun,
prier.
- prod.
-
- rheda
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a four-wheeled traveling carriage.
- Conde
-
noun,
Louis II de Bourbon [lwee,, duh boor-bawn] /lwi,, də burˈbɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Prince de (Duc d'Enghien"the Great Condé") 1621–86, French general.
- Pride
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- Coney
-
noun,
a serranid fish, Epinephelus fulvus, of tropical American waters.
- Cong.
-
- conga
-
noun,
a Cuban ballroom dance that consists of three steps forward followed by a kick, characteristically performed by a group following a leader in a single line.
- conge
-
noun,
leave-taking; farewell.
- pricy
-
adjective,
pricey.
- Copan
-
noun,
Santa Rosa de Copán.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- Cypro
-
- Prog.
-
- China
-
noun,
a translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature.
- ridgy
-
adjective,
rising in a ridge or ridges.
- chine
-
noun,
a ravine formed in rock by the action of running water.
- racon
-
noun,
radar beacon.
- chirp
-
noun,
a chirping sound.
- chirr
-
noun,
the sound of chirring.
- choir
-
noun,
a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
- chopa
-
noun,
any of several fishes, especially of the sea chub family, Kyphosidae, and the nibbler family, Girellidae.
- chord
-
noun,
a feeling or emotion:
- chore
-
noun,
a small or odd job; routine task.
- ridge
-
noun,
a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- racer
-
noun,
a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- cyan-
-
- cine-
-
- Ciano
-
noun,
Count Galeazzo [gah-le-aht-tsaw] /ˌgɑ lɛˈɑt tsɔ/ (Show IPA), (Ciano di Cortellazzo) 1903–44, Italian Fascist statesman: minister of foreign affairs 1936–43.
- prong
-
noun,
one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- pron.
-
- cider
-
noun,
the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- cyder
-
noun,
cider.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- cigar
-
noun,
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
- Cindy
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cynthia.
- Capon
-
noun,
a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.
- caper
-
noun,
a playful leap or skip.
- copr-
-
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- Reich
-
noun,
(with reference to Germany) empire; realm; nation.
- ahead
-
Idioms,
ahead of,
in front of; before:
superior to; beyond:
in advance of; at an earlier time than:
- agro-
-
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- anoia
-
noun,
extreme mental deficiency.
- 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.
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- rhoea
-
- apace
-
adverb,
with speed; quickly; swiftly.
- agora
-
noun,
a popular political assembly.
- apery
-
noun,
apish behavior; mimicry.
- Rhoda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Apgar
-
noun,
Virginia, 1909–74, U.S. physician: developed test to evaluate health of newborns.
- aphid
-
noun,
any of numerous tiny soft-bodied insects of the family Aphididae of worldwide distribution, that suck the sap from the stems and leaves of various plants, some developing wings when overcrowding occurs: an important pest of many fruit trees and vegetable crops.
- agony
-
noun,
extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- agone
-
adverb, adjective,
ago.
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- apian
-
adjective,
of or relating to bees.
- apnea
-
noun,
a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- Apoc.
-
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- anigh
-
adverb,
nearby; close by.
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- Ahira
-
noun,
a Naphtalite who assisted Moses with the census in the wilderness. Num. 1:15; 2:29.
- repro
-
noun,
Informal. reproduction (def 3).
- Rhein
-
noun,
the Rhine.
- repic
-
noun,
the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- repay
-
verb (used with object),
to pay back or refund, as money.
- rhin-
-
- reni-
-
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- rhine
-
noun,
Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- anhyd
-
- andr-
-
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- andry
-
- rhod-
-
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- angi-
-
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- angor
-
noun,
extreme distress or mental anguish, usually of physical origin.
- angry
-
adjective,
feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- Arch.
-
- ranch
-
noun,
an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- Agade
-
noun,
Akkad (def 2).
- ricin
-
noun,
a white, poisonous, protein powder from the bean of the castor-oil plant.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- rangy
-
adjective,
(of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- cadge
-
noun,
a frame on which hawks are carried to the field.
- Agape
-
noun,
the love of God or Christ for humankind.
- cadgy
-
adjective,
cheerful; merry.
- cadre
-
noun,
Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- cagey
-
adjective,
cautious, wary, or shrewd:
- cager
-
noun,
Informal. a basketball player.
- Cahan
-
noun,
Abraham ("Abe") 1860–1951, U.S. novelist and journalist, born in Russia.
- rapid
-
noun,
Usually, rapids. a part of a river where the current runs very swiftly.
- Randy
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- caine
-
noun,
(Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.
- Caird
-
noun,
a traveling tinker, especially a gypsy.
- cairn
-
noun,
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
- Cairo
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile.
- Candy
-
noun,
any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- Canea
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Crete, on the W part.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- canid
-
noun,
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
- canoe
-
noun,
any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- raphe
-
noun,
Anatomy. a seamlike union between two parts or halves of an organ or the like.
- Arran
-
noun,
an island in SW Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde. 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km).
- Archd
-
- Ready
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- arche
-
- archy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Archibald.
- recip
-
- recap
-
noun,
a recapped tire.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- ardor
-
noun,
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
- Areca
-
noun,
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Areca, as the betel palm.
- ricey
-
adjective,
pertaining to, resembling, or containing rice.
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- areo-
-
- argon
-
noun,
a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
- array
-
noun,
order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle.
- ricer
-
noun,
an implement for ricing potatoes, squash, etc., by pressing them through small holes.
- reach
-
noun,
an act or instance of reaching:
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- Aryan
-
noun,
Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
- Arica
-
noun,
a seaport in N Chile.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- Agena
-
noun,
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- arrah
-
interjection,
(used as an expression of surprise or excitement.)
- agcy.
-
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- prier
-
noun,
a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- copra
-
noun,
the dried kernel or meat of the coconut from which coconut oil is expressed.
- acari
-
noun,
plural of acarus.
- NAACP
-
- Price
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- dinge
-
noun,
the condition of being dingy.
- dingy
-
adjective,
of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
- engr.
-
- dingo
-
noun,
a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
- pingo
-
noun,
a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- Dirac
-
noun,
Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- Roach
-
noun,
a cockroach.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- piney
-
adjective,
piny.
- dirge
-
noun,
a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- Dnepr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dnieper.
- Aaron
-
noun,
the older brother of Moses, usually regarded as the first high priest of the Hebrews. Ex. 28; 40:13–16.
- endo-
-
- dogey
-
noun,
dogie.
- dogie
-
noun,
a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- doing
-
noun,
action; performance; execution:
- 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).
- Derry
-
noun,
a meaningless refrain or chorus in old songs.
- pyro-
-
- Egadi
-
noun,
a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- acidy
-
adjective,
of the nature of or resembling acid; sharp; sour:
- pyric
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or resulting from burning.
- diag.
-
- Diana
-
noun,
(Princess of Wales; Lady Diana Spencer) 1961–97, former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
- diary
-
noun,
a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
- dicey
-
adjective,
unpredictable; risky; uncertain.
- Dinah
-
noun,
Also, Douay Bible, Dina. the daughter of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 30:21.
- Perry
-
noun,
a fermented beverage similar to cider, made from the juice of pears.
- dich-
-
- Achan
-
noun,
a member of the tribe of Judah who, with his family, was stoned to death for stealing forbidden spoils. Josh. 7:19–26.
- pyran
-
noun,
either of two compounds having the formula C 5 H 6 O, containing one oxygen and five carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring.
- Achad
-
noun,
Akkad.
- dying
-
noun,
the act or process of ceasing to live, ending, or drawing to a close.
- Enoch
-
noun,
the father of Methuselah. Gen. 5:22.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- pyoid
-
adjective,
pertaining to pus; puslike.
- doyen
-
noun,
the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- ency.
-
- 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.
- phony
-
noun,
something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- dryer
-
noun,
Also, drier. a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat:
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- Royce
-
noun,
Josiah, 1855–1916, U.S. philosopher and educator.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- phore
-
- phany
-
- Eagan
-
noun,
a town in SE Minnesota.
- phone
-
noun,
telephone (def 1).
- Roger
-
noun,
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”.
- phano
-
noun,
fanon.
- phon.
-
- phyre
-
- econ.
-
- pheon
-
noun,
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- EDGAR
-
noun,
an award given annually in various categories of mystery writing.
- Pharr
-
noun,
a city in S Texas.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- drier
-
noun,
a person or thing that dries.
- drear
-
adjective,
dreary.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- phagy
-
- donec
-
conjunction,
(in prescriptions) until.
- donga
-
noun,
(in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- phage
-
noun,
bacteriophage.
- piend
-
noun,
arris.
- dopey
-
adjective,
stupid; inane:
- doper
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- Pydna
-
noun,
a town in ancient Macedonia, W of the Gulf of Salonika: decisive Roman victory over the Macedonians 186 b.c.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- Doric
-
noun,
a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
- Drape
-
noun,
a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
- pico-
-
- Draco
-
noun,
the Dragon, a northern circumpolar constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
- eyrir
-
noun,
an aluminum bronze coin of Iceland, the 100th part of a króna.
- Drago
-
noun,
Luis María [loo-is muh-ree-uh;; Spanish loo-ees mah-ree-ah] /ˈlu ɪs məˈri ə;; Spanish luˈis mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1921, Argentine jurist and statesman.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- phane
-
- drang
-
noun,
a narrow lane or alleyway.
- ephod
-
noun,
a richly embroidered, apronlike vestment having two shoulder straps and ornamental attachments for securing the breastplate, worn with a waistband by the high priest. Ex. 28:6, 7, 25–28.
- PharD
-
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- acron
-
noun,
the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- crape
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Credo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- cried
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- crier
-
noun,
a person who cries.
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- adage
-
noun,
a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- cryo-
-
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- Peony
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- crony
-
noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- crore
-
noun,
(in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.
- acro-
-
- prae-
-
- porny
-
adjective,
Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic:
- acrid
-
adjective,
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
- poach
-
verb (used with object),
to trespass on (private property), especially in order to hunt or fish.
- porgy
-
noun,
a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- prana
-
noun,
Yoga, Jainism. the vital principle.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- dacha
-
noun,
a Russian country house or villa.
- Corny
-
adjective,
of or abounding in corn.
- aden-
-
- Corea
-
noun,
Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- Corey
-
noun,
Elias James, born 1928, U.S. chemist and educator: Nobel Prize 1990.
- corer
-
noun,
a person or thing that cores.
- corgi
-
noun,
Welsh corgi.
- pred.
-
- rrhea
-
- coria
-
noun,
plural of corium.
- corp.
-
- Craig
-
noun,
Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
- pengo
-
noun,
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- corpn
-
- corr.
-
- rigid
-
adjective,
stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard:
- rigor
-
noun,
strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- prang
-
verb (used with object),
to collide with; bump into.
- prand
-
- 30-30
-
- Percy
-
noun,
Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- perch
-
noun,
a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- Dache
-
noun,
Lilly, 1914?–1989, U.S. hat designer, born in France.
- poche
-
noun,
the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black.
- Ponca
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- daric
-
noun,
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Persia.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- ERICA
-
noun,
any of numerous low-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Erica, of the heath family, including several species of heather.
- pogey
-
noun,
Slang.. Also, pogy.
a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc.
candy or a treat.
- podia
-
noun,
a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- podgy
-
adjective,
pudgy.
- ergo-
-
- Deary
-
noun,
darling.
- acorn
-
noun,
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- Dania
-
noun,
a town in S Florida.
- deca-
-
- Decay
-
noun,
decomposition; rot:
- decan
-
noun,
any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- deci-
-
- decoy
-
noun,
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
- epoch
-
noun,
a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.:
- decor
-
noun,
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like:
- decry
-
verb (used with object),
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of:
- deign
-
verb (used with object),
to condescend to give or grant:
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- dancy
-
adjective,
suitable for or conducive to dancing; danceable.
- peri-
-
- Dacia
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom and later a Roman province in S Europe between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube, corresponding generally to modern Romania and adjacent regions.
- porch
-
noun,
an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
- Dagan
-
noun,
the Mesopotamian god of agriculture and the earth: a counterpart of the Phoenician and Philistine Dagon.
- Dagon
-
noun,
a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.
- acred
-
adjective,
owning many acres of land; landed.
- Dayan
-
noun,
a judge in a Jewish religious court.
- dairy
-
noun,
an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
- Dahna
-
noun,
an area in the NE Rubʿ al Khali desert, comprising a region of E central Saudi Arabia.
- Danae
-
noun,
a daughter of the king of Argos and mother, by Zeus disguised as a shower of gold, of Perseus.
- dance
-
noun,
a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
- Danai
-
plural noun,
the Argives.
- erron
-
- Nor.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- NADP
-
- 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.
- Nada
-
noun,
nothing; zero; none:
- nigh
-
adverb,
near in space, time, or relation:
- NADH
-
- NIRA
-
- RONA
-
- 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.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- Rory
-
noun,
a male given name.
- NOAA
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- ropy
-
adjective,
resembling a rope or ropes:
- Nah.
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- Nary
-
adjective,
not any; no; never a:
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- rynd
-
noun,
rind2 .
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- NCAA
-
- Napa
-
noun,
Chinese cabbage.
- NDAC
-
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- Neph
-
- RIIA
-
- neo-
-
- Rigi
-
noun,
a mountain in central Switzerland, near the Lake of Lucerne. 5906 feet (1800 meters).
- Neh.
-
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- 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.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- 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.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- Ryan
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Naga
-
noun,
a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Burma.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Rich
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) rich persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Roca
-
noun,
Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- Nagy
-
noun,
Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Rida
-
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- Naha
-
noun,
a port on SW Okinawa, in S Japan.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Pen.
-
- Rhea
-
noun,
the ramie plant or fiber.
- pony
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- Pan.
-
- pnea
-
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- poda
-
- pogy
-
noun,
a porgy.
- Pond
-
noun,
a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pong
-
noun,
an unpleasant smell; stink.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- 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.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- 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):
- prad
-
noun,
Informal. horse.
- Prag
-
noun,
German name of Prague.
- pray
-
verb (used with object),
to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).
- PAYE
-
- paho
-
noun,
a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- Page
-
noun,
one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- pre-
-
- prec
-
- pyre
-
noun,
a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- pyr-
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Pica
-
noun,
a 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.
- pend
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- per.
-
- perh
-
- ped.
-
- 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.
- peag
-
noun,
wampum (def 1).
- Parr
-
noun,
a young salmon, having dark crossbars on its sides.
- Phar
-
- phr.
-
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- Pang
-
noun,
a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing:
- pice
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.
Compare pie5 .
- Pich
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub or small tree, Calliandra portoricensis, of the legume family, having numerous leaflets and white, night-blooming, flowers.
- 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.
- pard
-
noun,
a leopard or panther.
- pyin
-
noun,
an albuminous constituent of pus.
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- 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.
- PING
-
noun,
a pinging sound.
- par.
-
- piny
-
adjective,
abounding in or covered with pine trees:
- pyo-
-
- 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.
- prey
-
noun,
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- prig
-
noun,
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- repr
-
- OECD
-
- opia
-
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- OPer
-
- Reg.
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- opah
-
noun,
a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- regd
-
- oyer
-
noun,
oyer and terminer.
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- regr
-
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- odic
-
adjective,
of an ode.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- 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.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- oary
-
adjective,
oarlike.
- OAPC
-
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- prin
-
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- pro-
-
- 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.
- PACE
-
noun,
a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
- paca
-
noun,
a large, white-spotted, almost tailless rodent, Agouti paca, of Central and South America, having features resembling a guinea pig and rabbit: valued as food.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- racy
-
adjective,
slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- rad.
-
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- orgy
-
noun,
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- org.
-
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- 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).
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- ord.
-
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- 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.
- Orca
-
noun,
the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rcd.
-
- RdAc
-
- NACA
-
- Cory
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- gyre
-
noun,
a ring or circle.
- Gide
-
noun,
André (Paul Guillaume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pɔl giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.
- chai
-
noun,
a shed or other aboveground building where a winemaker stores wine in casks.
- Chad
-
noun,
a small paper disk or square formed when a hole is punched in a punch card or paper tape.
- gyn-
-
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- gyne
-
- Gino
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Gyor
-
noun,
a city in NW Hungary.
- gyr-
-
- gird
-
noun,
a gibe.
- gyri
-
noun,
plural of gyrus.
- Chen
-
noun,
a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 557–89.
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- giro
-
noun,
autogiro.
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- CERN
-
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- goad
-
noun,
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Goya
-
noun,
Francisco de [fran-sis-koh duh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw de,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ də;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ dɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) 1746–1828, Spanish painter.
- gon-
-
- Gond
-
noun,
a member of an aboriginal people of Dravidian stock, in central India and the Deccan.
- Gone
-
noun,
the act of going:
- chay
-
noun,
chaise; shay.
- Gerd
-
noun,
the daughter of a giant and the consort of Frey, who wooed her through his servant Skirnir.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- Chr.
-
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- Gaya
-
noun,
a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.
- Gand
-
noun,
French name of Ghent.
- Gaon
-
noun,
a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
- cide
-
- gape
-
noun,
a wide opening; gap; breach.
- Gard
-
noun,
a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Gary
-
noun,
Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- ciao
-
interjection,
(used as a word of greeting or parting): hello; goodbye; so long; see you later.
- chop
-
noun,
an act or instance of chopping.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- Chon
-
noun,
Also, jun. a monetary unit of North Korea, the hundredth part of a won.
- Chip
-
noun,
a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- chia
-
noun,
a plant, Salvia columbariae, of the mint family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having mostly basal, oblong leaves and small blue flowers: the seeds are used as food and as the source of a beverage.
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- chg.
-
- Cher
-
noun,
a river in central France, flowing NW to the Loire River. 220 miles (355 km) long.
- Gen.
-
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- geo-
-
- Ger.
-
- gony
-
- gory
-
adjective,
covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- cir.
-
- caid
-
noun,
(in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- DERP
-
noun,
a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- 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.
- Cape
-
noun,
a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
- capa
-
noun,
the red cloak of a bullfighter, used chiefly in attracting the attention of the bull and guiding the course of its attack.
- cap.
-
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- Cana
-
noun,
an ancient town in N Israel, in Galilee: scene of Jesus' first miracle. John 2:1, 11.
- Can.
-
- Cain
-
noun,
Scot. and Irish English. rent paid in kind, especially a percentage of a farm crop.
- cagy
-
adjective,
cagey.
- Caph
-
noun,
kaph.
- Cage
-
noun,
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- cadi
-
noun,
qadi.
- cade
-
noun,
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- head
-
noun,
the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- 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:
- Hedy
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pleasing.”.
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- her.
-
- HERA
-
noun,
the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- Hapi
-
noun,
Apis.
- capo
-
noun,
any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- gorp
-
noun,
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
- grip
-
noun,
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- gpad
-
- gpcd
-
- cen.
-
- cedi
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Ghana, equal to 100 pesewas.
- grad
-
noun,
a graduate.
- Gray
-
noun,
any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- Grey
-
noun,
Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764–1845, British statesman: prime minister 1830–34.
- grid
-
noun,
a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- gro.
-
- Hand
-
noun,
the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- Cdr.
-
- Haag
-
noun,
Den [den] /dɛn/ (Show IPA) a Dutch name of The Hague.
- Carr
-
noun,
John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
- haar
-
noun,
a thick, wet fog along the seacoast.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- hade
-
noun,
Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Hag.
-
- Cara
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- Haig
-
noun,
Douglas, 1st Earl, 1861–1928, British field marshal: commander in chief of the British forces in France 1915–18.
- hair
-
noun,
any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- dopa
-
noun,
an amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , formed from tyrosine in the liver during melanin and epinephrine biosynthesis: the L-dopa isomer is converted in the brain to dopamine.
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- Doge
-
noun,
the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dogy
-
noun,
dogie.
- Doha
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of the state of Qatar, on the Persian Gulf.
- DOHC
-
- DChE
-
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Dong
-
noun,
a deep sound like that of a large bell.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- dope
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- darg
-
noun,
Scot. and North England. a day's work.
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- Dory
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- dorp
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- Dorr
-
noun,
dor1 .
- Dang
-
verb (used with object), adjective, noun,
damn (used euphemistically).
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- drag
-
noun,
Nautical.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- doc.
-
plural,
document.
- drch
-
- Den.
-
- der.
-
- depr
-
- dep.
-
- dia-
-
- Dice
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- Dyce
-
noun,
Alexander, 1798–1869, Scottish editor.
- Deny
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- Dyer
-
noun,
John, 1700–58, British poet.
- dig.
-
- Din.
-
- Dec.
-
- Dyna
-
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- dyne
-
noun,
the standard centimeter-gram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram. Abbreviation: dyn.
- ding
-
noun,
a ringing sound.
- Dino
-
- dioc
-
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- deg.
-
- dir.
-
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- deco
-
noun,
art deco.
- Dray
-
noun,
a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
- Dana
-
noun,
Danu.
- coda
-
noun,
Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- enc.
-
- end-
-
- Eng.
-
- Cony
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- Enyo
-
noun,
an ancient Greek war goddess.
- Cond
-
- Con.
-
- Eph.
-
- copy
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- epi-
-
- epic
-
noun,
an epic poem.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Cohn
-
noun,
Edwin Joseph, 1892–1953, U.S. chemist and researcher on blood proteins.
- cog.
-
- coed
-
noun,
Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
- Cody
-
noun,
William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") 1846–1917, U.S. Army scout and showman.
- code
-
noun,
a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message:
- eyra
-
noun,
a jaguarundi.
- Cor.
-
- dreg
-
noun,
dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- crap
-
noun,
Vulgar.
excrement.
an act of defecation.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drip
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- Dago
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- Dace
-
noun,
a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
- DEng
-
- each
-
adverb,
to, from, or for each; apiece:
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- crip
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- 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.
- cray
-
adjective,
crazy.
- Cora
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. Kore.
- Crag
-
noun,
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.
- Echo
-
noun,
a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- eco-
-
- cpd.
-
- edgy
-
adjective,
nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- 1080
-
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- egad
-
interjection,
(used as an expletive or mild oath):
- Cord
-
noun,
a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- herd
-
noun,
a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock:
- hard
-
noun,
Nautical. a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
- Herr
-
noun,
the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
- achy
-
adjective,
having or causing an aching sensation:
- Aire
-
- idae
-
- acea
-
- ache
-
noun,
a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).
- AInd
-
- iod-
-
- ayin
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Airy
-
adjective,
open to a free current of fresh air; breezy:
- acid
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- INRI
-
- Ayer
-
noun,
Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- ayre
-
noun,
air1 (def 8d).
- Yoga
-
noun,
a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- acr-
-
- anga
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- iana
-
- Yana
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
- Yang
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- Yogi
-
noun,
a person who practices yoga.
- ano-
-
- Yard
-
noun,
a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- inae
-
- yare
-
adjective,
quick; agile; lively.
- ance
-
- yarn
-
noun,
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- ICAO
-
- Andy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Andrew.
- Ice.
-
- iced
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- ancy
-
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- Aida
-
noun,
(italics) an opera (1871) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- ANPA
-
- Iyar
-
noun,
the eighth month of the Jewish calendar.
- agha
-
noun,
aga.
- ign.
-
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- aged
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- Adah
-
noun,
one of the two wives of Lamech. Gen. 4:19.
- Adar
-
noun,
the sixth month of the Jewish calendar.
- agio
-
noun,
a premium on money in exchange.
- aery
-
noun,
aerie.
- aer-
-
- 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.
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- yipe
-
interjection,
(an expression or exclamation of fright, surprise, pain, etc.)
- yird
-
noun,
earth.
- yirr
-
noun,
a growl or snarl, as of a dog.
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- yeah
-
adverb,
yes.
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- ayah
-
noun,
(in India) a native maid or nurse.
- Indy
-
noun,
Indianapolis, Ind.
- ahoy
-
interjection,
(used as a call to hail another ship, attract attention, etc.)
- IndE
-
- inch
-
noun,
a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- Ahir
-
noun,
a member of the caste of cowherds and milkmen in India.
- yean
-
verb (used without object),
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- Inc.
-
- year
-
noun,
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year)
Compare common year, leap year.
- yech
-
interjection,
yuck1 .
- Yedo
-
noun,
a former name of Tokyo.
- Inca
-
noun,
a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- agr.
-
- Agon
-
noun,
(in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- 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.
- yogh
-
noun,
the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly).
- ACDA
-
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- HRIP
-
- Arg.
-
- argh
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of frustration, annoyance, etc.)
- 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.
- hora
-
noun,
a traditional Romanian and Israeli round dance.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- hor.
-
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- ARCO
-
adverb,
(of the performance of a passage for stringed instruments) with the bow.
- hyp.
-
- Ire.
-
- Hong
-
noun,
(in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- hone
-
noun,
a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Hoya
-
noun,
any shrubby climbing plant of the genus Hoya, of the milkweed family, especially the wax plant, H. carnosa, a pot plant with waxy white flowers.
- hype
-
noun,
exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
- 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.
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Irra
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- hoar
-
noun,
hoarfrost; rime.
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- Hyde
-
noun,
Douglas, 1860–1949, Irish author and statesman: president of Ireland. 1938–45.
- Hoad
-
noun,
Lew(is Alan) 1934–94, Australian tennis player.
- Ind.
-
- AARP
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- yond
-
adverb, adjective,
yonder.
- yoni
-
noun,
(in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti.
Compare lingam (def 2).
- Iago
-
noun,
the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- aph-
-
- acad
-
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- IAEA
-
- Apia
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Western Samoa, on N Upolu.
- apo-
-
- Apr.
-
- yore
-
noun,
Chiefly Literary. time past:
- Arad
-
noun,
a city in W Romania, on the Mures River.
- hide
-
noun,
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- arca
-
noun,
a chest for valuables, used in medieval Spain and Italy.
- arr.
-
- ADA
-
noun,
a programming language particularly suited to real-time applications: developed for use by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- CPR
-
- DPH
-
- DOA
-
- ag-
-
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- do.
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- RPO
-
- ROG
-
- RPG
-
- ROP
-
- AIA
-
- ap-
-
- ac-
-
- POA
-
- Roy
-
noun,
Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- ROI
-
- ad-
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- ADC
-
- PRA
-
- CRP
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- DAE
-
- ACH
-
interjection,
alas; oh.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- de-
-
- DEA
-
- ROA
-
- RNR
-
- rnd
-
- RNA
-
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- Aar
-
- AAP
-
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- aah
-
noun,
the exclamation “aah.”.
- POC
-
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- Dag
-
noun,
one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.
- AAE
-
- Ar.
-
- an.
-
- acy
-
- DAR
-
- DAP
-
noun,
Carpentry. a notch in a timber for receiving part of another timber.
- ACP
-
- d-c
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- DAY
-
noun,
the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset:
- dah
-
noun,
an echoic word, the referent of which is a tone interval approximately three times the length of the dot, used to designate the dash of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- POR
-
- Dey
-
noun,
the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
- Rye
-
noun,
a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
- CIP
-
- CPO
-
- CEO
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- ard
-
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- rah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of encouragement to a player or team.)
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- 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.
- CED
-
- APC
-
- APA
-
noun,
a tree, Eperua falcata, of tropical America, having reddish-brown wood used in the construction of houses.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- aor
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- AOA
-
- CGI
-
- Rey
-
noun,
a city in N Iran, near Teheran.
- Ray
-
noun,
a narrow beam of light.
- CEA
-
- ChE
-
noun,
Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- CAD
-
noun,
an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women.
- Co.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- cp.
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- ch.
-
- cr.
-
- ca.
-
- CAA
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- RCA
-
- 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.
- CAI
-
- cay
-
noun,
a small low island; key.
- RCN
-
- RDA
-
- RDC
-
- REA
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- ary
-
adjective,
any; anyone.
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- Any
-
Idioms,
any which way, in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly:
- CHA
-
noun,
tea.
- PRC
-
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- CNO
-
- ahi
-
noun,
yellowfin tuna, widely used in sashimi.
- AHE
-
- AHA
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of triumphant discovery, mockery, contempt, irony, surprise, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- Coy
-
adjective,
artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rya
-
noun,
a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- Agh
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- AGC
-
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- Pry
-
noun,
an impertinently inquisitive person.
- AEC
-
- CPA
-
- AEA
-
- ae.
-
- CPI
-
- COD
-
noun,
any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- CYO
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- CIA
-
- ANG
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ANC
-
- Ayr
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Scotland.
- CHI
-
noun,
the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Ayn
-
noun,
ʿain.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- AYH
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- cig
-
noun,
a cigarette.
- Re.
-
- RCP
-
- Rd.
-
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- aye
-
noun,
an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
- CID
-
noun,
The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- Cyd
-
noun,
a female given name.
- AIC
-
- CIE
-
- NAA
-
- ead
-
- Hay
-
noun,
grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- NEC
-
- 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.
- ne-
-
- hod
-
noun,
a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- 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.
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- hog
-
noun,
a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- Hoy
-
noun,
a heavy barge used in harbors.
- Hon
-
noun,
honey (def 6).
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- HPD
-
- HRE
-
- NEA
-
- yod
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- id.
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPA
-
- ONR
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ONI
-
- io-
-
- Ia.
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- yad
-
noun,
a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- OIr
-
- yah
-
interjection,
an exclamation of impatience or derision.
- hin
-
noun,
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- oid
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Had
-
noun,
Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hae
-
verb (used with object), auxiliary verb,
have.
- PaG
-
- Han
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion.
Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- HAO
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the tenth part of a dong.
- HAP
-
noun,
one's luck or lot.
- PAD
-
noun,
a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
- HCR
-
- hd.
-
- PAC
-
noun,
pack1 (def 1).
- prn
-
- Pr.
-
- IPA
-
- Pg.
-
- ior
-
- hyd
-
- pd.
-
- pc.
-
- Pa.
-
- yon
-
pronoun,
that or those yonder.
- 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 = .
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- Hey
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to call attention or to express pleasure, surprise, bewilderment, etc.)
- Hen
-
noun,
the female of the domestic fowl.
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- ory
-
- dh-
-
- NDE
-
- HIC
-
interjection,
(an onomatopoeic word used to imitate or represent a hiccup.)
- hid
-
noun,
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- oic
-
- hr.
-
- IGY
-
- yea
-
noun,
an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
- NOP
-
- Yen
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- Yeo
-
- Noh
-
noun,
Nō.
- yep
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- nog
-
noun,
any beverage made with beaten eggs, usually with alcoholic liquor; eggnog.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- ier
-
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- yer
-
- NOC
-
- NHA
-
- NHG
-
- IDP
-
- YHA
-
- NYP
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NIH
-
- IHP
-
- NHI
-
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- Yid
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.
- Nye
-
noun,
Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
- Yin
-
noun,
See under yin and yang.
- yip
-
noun,
a sharp bark; yelp.
- in.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- NGO
-
noun,
1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- OHG
-
- IOC
-
- Yao
-
noun,
Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun) was a paragon of good government.
- Yap
-
noun,
a sharp, shrill, or snappish bark; yelp.
- yar
-
adjective,
yare (defs 1, 2).
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- OCR
-
- ICA
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Putumayo.
- och
-
interjection,
(used as an expression of surprise, disapproval, regret, etc.)
- ich
-
noun,
a disease of tropical fishes, characterized by small, white nodules on the fins, skin, and eyes, caused by a ciliate protozoan, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
- OCD
-
- icy
-
adjective,
made of, full of, or covered with ice:
- Oca
-
noun,
a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- 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.
- ide
-
- OAP
-
- Ney
-
noun,
Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- op.
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- OED
-
- INH
-
- ing
-
- Oc.
-
- ine
-
- NGC
-
- NRC
-
- NRA
-
- nr.
-
- NPR
-
- NIA
-
- pah
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of disgust or disbelief.)
- iph
-
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- py-
-
- Eg.
-
- NYC
-
- eo-
-
- ea.
-
- EAA
-
- NAD
-
- ean
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ec-
-
- ECA
-
- ECG
-
- ed.
-
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- EDC
-
- PhD
-
- edh
-
noun,
eth.
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- EDP
-
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- Ehr
-
- NCO
-
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- en-
-
- PHA
-
- pya
-
noun,
an aluminum coin of Burma, the 100th part of a kyat.
- Dry
-
noun,
a prohibitionist.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- dha
-
- di.
-
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- dye
-
noun,
a coloring material or matter.
- DIY
-
- 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.
- dyn
-
- PIO
-
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- DNA
-
- DNR
-
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- dog
-
noun,
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- doh
-
interjection,
(used to express dismay when one has said or done something stupid or when something has gone wrong.)
Compare duh.
- DRG
-
- pig
-
noun,
a young swine of either sex, especially a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 pounds (220 kg)
- Doi
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- DOP
-
noun,
a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- pye
-
noun,
pie4 .
- 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:
- PID
-
- DPA
-
- DPC
-
- DPI
-
- Dr.
-
- DRE
-
- PGA
-
- eir
-
- Ep.
-
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- EPA
-
- GCI
-
- Nay
-
noun,
a denial or refusal.
- GCR
-
- Gde
-
- GDP
-
- GDR
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- PCI
-
- Ged
-
noun,
any fish of the pike family.
- gey
-
adverb,
Scot. considerably; very.
- Ir.
-
- GHA
-
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- GCD
-
- gip
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- gyp
-
noun,
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- ipr
-
- GNP
-
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- God
-
noun,
the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- goi
-
noun,
goy.
- goy
-
noun,
a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- GPD
-
- gph
-
- Gr.
-
- gre
-
- IPO
-
- GCE
-
- IRC
-
- NYA
-
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ery
-
- ERP
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- Ga.
-
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- gi.
-
- GOP
-
- GPO
-
noun,
the federal agency that prints and disseminates publications for other federal agencies. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- Gad
-
noun,
the act of gadding.
- Gay
-
noun,
Sometimes Offensive. a homosexual person, especially a male.
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- IRO
-
- gap
-
noun,
a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line; breach:
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- Peg
-
noun,
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- GCA
-
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- yo
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, express excitement, greet someone, etc.)
- NC
-
- RP
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- yr
-
- AH
-
interjection,
(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- ND
-
- RO
-
- 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.
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- NH
-
- 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.
- NI
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- AO
-
- IP
-
- AA
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- NG
-
- N.
-
- NY
-
- DG
-
- Yi
-
noun,
(in Chinese ethical philosophy) faithful performance of one's specified duties to society.
- G.
-
- GD
-
- cy
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Cyrus.
- RN
-
- RI
-
- RH
-
- RC
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- GC
-
- GP
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- PH
-
- GN
-
- ey
-
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- NP
-
- D.
-
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- DC
-
noun,
a surgical method for the removal of diseased tissue or an early embryo from the lining of the uterus by means of scraping.
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- DP
-
- EI
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- DN
-
- GH
-
- h.
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- oy
-
noun,
a grandchild.
- IG
-
- ry
-
- ye
-
pronoun,
Archaic, except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose Literary, or British Dialect.
(used nominatively as the plural of thou especially in rhetorical, didactic, or poetic contexts, in addressing a group of persons or things):
(used nominatively for the second person singular, especially in polite address):
(used objectively in the second person singular or plural):
- O.
-
- rg
-
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- OG
-
- OA
-
- yd
-
noun,
a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
- OH
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noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- YA
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noun,
the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- HI
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adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- ic
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- Y.
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- i.
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- HO
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noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- CE
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- Hy
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noun,
a male given name, form of Hiram.
- HE
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noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- P.
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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.
- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- PI
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- HP
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- HG
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