Anagrams of enlistments
Word enlistments has
487 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of enlistments.
- enlistment
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noun,
the period of time for which one is committed to military service.
- sentiment
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noun,
an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
- sentients
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noun,
a person or thing that is sentient.
- Sentinel
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noun,
a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
- entitles
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verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- timeless
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adjective,
without beginning or end; eternal; everlasting.
- sentient
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noun,
a person or thing that is sentient.
- linesmen
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noun,
Sports.
an official, as in tennis and soccer, who assists the referee.
Football. an official who marks the distances gained and lost in the progress of play and otherwise assists the referee and field judge.
Ice Hockey. either of two officials who assist the referee by watching for icing, offside, and substitution violations and fouls and by conducting face-offs.
- tintless
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adjective,
without tint or tints; colorless.
- entitle
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verb (used with object),
to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim:
- ensiles
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verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- sennits
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noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- Sennett
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noun,
Mack (Michael Sinnott) 1884–1960, U.S. motion-picture director and producer, born in Canada.
- sennets
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noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- seniles
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noun,
a senile person.
- semites
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noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- enlists
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verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- intens.
-
- intense
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adjective,
existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:
- intents
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noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- meletin
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noun,
quercetin.
- Meissen
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noun,
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
- linnets
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noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- telesis
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noun,
deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
- Tenniel
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noun,
Sir John, 1820–1914, English caricaturist and illustrator.
- metisse
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noun,
a woman of mixed ancestry.
- mettles
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noun,
courage and fortitude:
- listens
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- lisente
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noun,
plural of sente.
- Minette
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noun,
a syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
- linemen
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noun,
Also, linesman. a person who installs or repairs telephone, telegraph, or other wires.
- nettles
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noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- tensile
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adjective,
of or relating to tension:
- Stinnes
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noun,
Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- lensmen
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noun,
a photographer.
- lenient
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adjective,
agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent:
- Nemesis
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noun,
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.:
- nestles
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verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- Nielsen
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noun,
Carl August [kahrl ou-goo st] /kɑrl ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1865–1931, Danish composer.
- Ninette
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noun,
a female given name.
- Siemens
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noun,
Electricity. the standard unit of electrical conductance in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the reciprocal of the ohm and replacing the equivalent MKS unit (mho) Abbreviation: S.
- eminent
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adjective,
high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished:
- tinsels
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noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- silents
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noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- settles
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noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- smitten
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verb,
a past participle of smite.
- enisles
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verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- lessen
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verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- stimes
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noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- Lenten
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adjective,
of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
- stilts
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noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- sitten
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verb,
past participle of sit1 .
- tentie
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adjective,
tenty.
- Neisse
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noun,
a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- enlist
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verb (used with object),
to engage for military service:
- smites
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Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- nestle
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verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- elites
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noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Tessie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Tessin
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noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- testes
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noun,
plural of testis.
- testis
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noun,
the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- netmen
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noun,
a tennis player.
- Nettle
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noun,
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Compare nettle family.
- istles
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noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- elints
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noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- tenses
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noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Lettie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Laetitia.
- slimes
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noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- menses
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noun,
the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; menstrual flow.
- Mentes
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noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- messin
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noun,
messan.
- tenets
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noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- smelts
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noun,
any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
- tennis
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noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- litten
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adjective,
lighted1 .
- Mettie
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noun,
a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- mettle
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noun,
courage and fortitude:
- listen
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Verb phrases,
listen in,
to listen to a radio or television broadcast:
to overhear a conversation or communication, especially by telephone; eavesdrop:
- titmen
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noun,
the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- tmesis
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noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- sliest
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adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- sleets
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noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- Linnet
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noun,
a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- elemis
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noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- mitten
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noun,
a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.
- limens
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noun,
threshold (def 4).
- M-line
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noun,
one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- stints
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noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- Niemen
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noun,
a river in the W Soviet Union in Europe, flowing into the Baltic: called Memel in its lower course. 565 miles (910 km) long.
- titles
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noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- Nessie
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noun,
Loch Ness monster.
- smiles
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noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- Settle
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noun,
a long seat or bench, usually wooden, with arms and a high back.
- Inness
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noun,
George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
- selen-
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- semens
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noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Ismene
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noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- emesis
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noun,
vomitus.
- senile
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noun,
a senile person.
- sennet
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noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- sennit
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noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- insets
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noun,
something inserted; insert.
- tinmen
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noun,
a tinsmith.
- set-in
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adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Esenin
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noun,
Sergey Aleksandrovich [Russian syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
- tinsel
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noun,
a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- sestet
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noun,
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
- ensile
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verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- enisle
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verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- seines
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noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Semite
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noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- steins
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noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- steles
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noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- intent
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noun,
something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
- silent
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noun,
Usually, silents. silent films.
- steels
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noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Stets
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verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- Stent
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- milts
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noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- Milne
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noun,
A(lan) A(lexander) 1882–1956, English novelist, playwright, and author of prose and verse for children.
- miens
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noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- sense
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noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- slime
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noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- teems
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verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- teens
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noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- senti
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noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- stele
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noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- slims
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noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- silts
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noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- nests
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noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- nines
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noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- seti-
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- Metis
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noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- Nimes
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- metes
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noun,
a limiting mark.
- sents
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noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- mesne
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adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- smile
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noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- sines
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noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- smite
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Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- Menes
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noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- melts
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noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- Mines
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noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Stein
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noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Minn.
-
- semen
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noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- sties
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noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- stile
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noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- stilt
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noun,
one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- seems
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verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Seine
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noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Neils
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noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- stime
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noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- seels
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verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- seise
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verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- seism
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noun,
an earthquake.
- Steel
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noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- stint
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noun,
a period of time spent doing something:
- semi-
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- mints
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noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- MSEnt
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- semis
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noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- snits
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noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- teels
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noun,
til.
- mitts
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noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- mites
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noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Mists
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noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- Steen
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noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Miss.
-
- sleet
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noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- mises
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noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- setts
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noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- sites
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noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Niles
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noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mense
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noun,
propriety; discretion.
- meets
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noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Letts
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noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- emits
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verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- lints
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noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- tints
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- linns
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- linen
-
noun,
fabric woven from flax yarns.
- Essen
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noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- limns
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verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- Estes
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noun,
a male given name.
- limen
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- tilts
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noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- inlet
-
noun,
an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- Lenin
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noun,
V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"N. Lenin") 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- tents
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- inst.
-
- intel
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noun,
intelligence (defs 4, 6).
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- tests
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- Emile
-
noun,
a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tele-
-
- elem.
-
- LittM
-
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- 30-30
-
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- elint
-
noun,
the gathering of military or other intelligence through the monitoring of electronic signals other than voice communications, as satellite transmissions, rocket telemetry, and radar.
- elemi
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- title
-
noun,
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- Tenn.
-
- tenet
-
noun,
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- sees
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noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- tilt
-
noun,
an act or instance of tilting.
- ins.
-
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Ste.
-
- int.
-
- intl
-
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- tits
-
noun,
a titmouse.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- SLIM
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- Emil
-
noun,
a male given name: from Latin Aemilius, a family name.
- sett
-
noun,
Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- tint
-
noun,
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- enl.
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Ens.
-
- ESIS
-
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Sem.
-
- tets
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- ette
-
- ile-
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- Tit.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- isls
-
- ISSN
-
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- mils
-
noun,
a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
- Milt
-
noun,
the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- min.
-
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- lint
-
noun,
minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mil.
-
- mis-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- Linn
-
noun,
a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Mile
-
noun,
Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- limn
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- mes-
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- melt
-
noun,
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- men-
-
- tel-
-
- ment
-
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- ten.
-
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- lit.
-
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- mitt
-
noun,
Baseball.
a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.
a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- lin.
-
- lime
-
noun,
Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- neem
-
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- stet
-
verb (used with object),
to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Test
-
noun,
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- tete
-
noun,
a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- MSTS
-
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- MSEE
-
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- Lett
-
noun,
a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- MSIE
-
- 1080
-
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- tent
-
noun,
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- St.
-
- STM
-
- SSM
-
- TSS
-
- SSE
-
- TSI
-
- TSE
-
- TNT
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- tet
-
noun,
the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- STL
-
- SSN
-
- SST
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- STI
-
- SSI
-
- SMS
-
- ss.
-
- MSI
-
- SLE
-
- LIM
-
- ite
-
- Lt.
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- Les
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- LMT
-
- LSI
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- LSS
-
- LST
-
- Me.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSL
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- ist
-
- Isl
-
- mi.
-
- ene
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- EIS
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- en-
-
- ese
-
- ise
-
- ESL
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ETS
-
- il-
-
- ILS
-
- in.
-
- ine
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- LSM
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- NNE
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NMI
-
- se-
-
- MTS
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- ne-
-
- NES
-
- mtn
-
- MSN
-
- MIE
-
- MIT
-
- ml.
-
- MLS
-
- MTI
-
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- MSE
-
- TTS
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- TM
-
- L1
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- L2
-
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- TL
-
- TN
-
- SN
-
- M.
-
- le
-
- EI
-
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TT
-
- N.
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- MN
-
- ln
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- NI
-
- LM
-
- L.
-
- NL
-
- NM
-
- i.
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- t.
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- S.
-
- SL
-
- SM
-
- T1
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.