Anagrams of extemporaneous
Word extemporaneous has
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that can be made by using the letters of extemporaneous.
- pentamerous
-
adjective,
consisting of or divided into five parts.
- enumerates
-
verb (used with object),
to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list:
- extraneous
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adjective,
introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign:
- exonerates
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verb (used with object),
to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate:
- treponemas
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noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- on-stream
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adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- exonerate
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verb (used with object),
to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate:
- sonometer
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noun,
audiometer.
- mouse-ear
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noun,
any of various plants having small, hairy leaves, as the hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella, or the forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris.
- Esperanto
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noun,
an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish physician and philologist, and intended for international use. It is based on word roots common to the major European languages.
- personate
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adjective,
Botany.
(of a bilabiate corolla) masklike.
having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the gap between the lips, as in the snapdragon.
- pneumato-
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- numerates
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- mousetrap
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noun,
a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- Praeneste
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noun,
ancient name of Palestrina.
- europeans
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Europe.
- spermato-
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- austemper
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verb (used with object),
to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- menopause
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noun,
the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- anterooms
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noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- protonema
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noun,
a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- neuromast
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noun,
a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- enumerate
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verb (used with object),
to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list:
- permeates
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verb (used with object),
to pass into or through every part of:
- monoester
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noun,
a single esterified polybasic acid.
- Treponema
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noun,
any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- pronates
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verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- extremes
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noun,
the utmost or highest degree, or a very high degree:
- spumante
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noun,
Italian. any sparkling wine.
- proteose
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noun,
any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- protease
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noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- prenames
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noun,
given name.
- no-trump
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noun,
the declaration to play a no-trump contract.
- numerate
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adjective,
able to use or understand numerical techniques of mathematics.
- apterous
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adjective,
Zoology. wingless, as some insects.
- promotes
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verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- pronotum
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noun,
the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- exospore
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noun,
the outer coat of a spore.
- terpenes
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noun,
(originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- preteens
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noun,
Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- extensor
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noun,
a muscle that serves to extend or straighten a part of the body.
- European
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Europe.
- Serapeum
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noun,
a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- sea-room
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noun,
unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- one-spot
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noun,
the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- Personae
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noun,
a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- patroons
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noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- Paterson
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noun,
a city in NE New Jersey.
- enormous
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adjective,
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense:
- easement
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noun,
Law. a right held by one property owner to make use of the land of another for a limited purpose, as right of passage.
- permeant
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adjective,
permeating; pervading.
- permease
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noun,
any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- permeate
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verb (used with object),
to pass into or through every part of:
- permutes
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verb (used with object),
to alter; change.
- peroneus
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noun,
any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- pantoums
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noun,
a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- axonemes
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noun,
the shaft within a flagellum or cilium, containing twenty microtubules arranged as nine doublets and two singlets.
- autosome
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noun,
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- Peterman
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noun,
a safecracker.
- petermen
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noun,
a safecracker.
- Peterson
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noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- erumpent
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adjective,
bursting forth.
- soupmeat
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noun,
beef used for making soup stock.
- operates
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verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- manropes
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noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- seamount
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noun,
a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- operants
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- sauterne
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noun,
a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- spearmen
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noun,
a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- neuromas
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noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- pretense
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noun,
pretending or feigning; make-believe:
- upstream
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adverb,
toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- resonate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to resound.
- temporo-
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- Muenster
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noun,
a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- mounters
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- Ansermet
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noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- teaspoon
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noun,
a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- Monstera
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noun,
any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- amputees
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noun,
a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc., by amputation.
- anteroom
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noun,
a room that admits to a larger room.
- monteros
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- Montrose
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noun,
James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- routemen
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noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- routeman
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noun,
a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- Masorete
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noun,
one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- taprooms
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noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- mousepox
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noun,
ectromelia (def 2).
- tempuras
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noun,
seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- Superman
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noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supertax
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noun,
Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- remounts
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noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- romaunts
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noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- mesotron
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noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- Rosemont
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noun,
a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- tearooms
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noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- supermen
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noun,
a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- temperas
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noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- Esparto
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noun,
any of several grasses, especially Stipa tenacissima, of southern Europe and northern Africa, used for making paper, cordage, etc.
- outspan
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noun,
the act or a place of outspanning.
- outmans
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verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- Ouranos
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noun,
Uranus (def 2).
- somato-
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- taproom
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noun,
a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- outsoar
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verb (used with object),
to soar beyond.
- Orontes
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noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- operons
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- operose
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adjective,
industrious, as a person.
- soutane
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noun,
a cassock.
- tempera
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noun,
a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- Temenus
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noun,
a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- measure
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noun,
a unit or standard of measurement:
- someone
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pronoun,
some person; somebody.
- mounter
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noun,
a person or thing that mounts.
- osteoma
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noun,
a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- soprano
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noun,
the uppermost part or voice.
- Smeaton
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noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- toupees
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noun,
a man's wig.
- smarten
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Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- tearoom
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noun,
a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- metopes
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noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- patroon
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noun,
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- Patmore
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noun,
Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- enamors
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verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- Pasture
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noun,
Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- Tourane
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noun,
former name of Danang.
- Pasteur
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noun,
Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pastern
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noun,
the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- enroots
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- partons
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noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- entero-
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- entraps
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verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- Paestum
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noun,
an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
- taxemes
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noun,
a feature of the arrangement of elements in a construction, as selection, order, phonetic modification, or modulation.
- entrees
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noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- Meropes
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noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- monster
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noun,
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- montero
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- operate
-
verb (used with object),
to manage or use (a machine, device, etc.):
- moonset
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noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- tarpons
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noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- pantoum
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noun,
a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- teeners
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noun,
a teenager.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- sextern
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noun,
six gathered sheets folded in two for binding together.
- Maureen
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noun,
a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- tempers
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noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- murexes
-
noun,
any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- tempura
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noun,
seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- Emerson
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noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- expanse
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noun,
an uninterrupted space or area; a wide extent of anything:
- expense
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noun,
cost or charge:
- experts
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noun,
a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority:
- terpene
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noun,
(originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- exports
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verb (used with object),
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
- Marston
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noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- stereo-
-
- sterno-
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- sternum
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- externs
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noun,
a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
- neutro-
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- steepen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become steeper.
- maroons
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- neuters
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- extrema
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noun,
Mathematics. plural of extremum.
- extreme
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noun,
the utmost or highest degree, or a very high degree:
- sunroom
-
noun,
a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- Sumpter
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noun,
a packhorse or mule.
- manures
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noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- neuroma
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noun,
a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- Neupest
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noun,
German name of Ujpest.
- nemato-
-
- maestro
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noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- tenures
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noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- manroot
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noun,
man-of-the-earth.
- manrope
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noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- nostrum
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noun,
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- supreme
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noun,
suprême (def 3).
- tonsure
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noun,
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- onerous
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adjective,
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:
- matures
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adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- tapemen
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noun,
a person who holds and positions a tape in taking measurements.
- operant
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noun,
a person or thing that operates.
- openers
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- matrons
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noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- stumper
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noun,
a person or thing that stumps.
- tone-up
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noun,
an exercise for toning up one's body.
- moutons
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noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- spermo-
-
- tampons
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noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- tonemes
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noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- tampers
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noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- to-name
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noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- Euratom
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noun,
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
- Martens
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noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- sporont
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noun,
(in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- Tampere
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noun,
a city in SW Finland.
- Maspero
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noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- Euterpe
-
noun,
the Muse of music and lyric poetry.
- examens
-
noun,
an examination, as of conscience.
- spumone
-
noun,
an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- exempts
-
noun,
a person who is exempt from an obligation, duty, etc.
- stamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that stamps.
- surname
-
noun,
the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- Munster
-
noun,
muenster.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- stearo-
-
- supremo
-
noun,
the person in charge; chief.
- romanos
-
- entomo-
-
- Pearson
-
noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- putamen
-
noun,
Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
- remotes
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- amorous
-
adjective,
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love:
- remount
-
noun,
a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- aruspex
-
noun,
haruspex.
- prename
-
noun,
given name.
- present
-
noun,
the present time.
- arseno-
-
- austere
-
adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- petemen
-
noun,
peterman.
- tureens
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- reopens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- umpteen
-
adjective,
innumerable; many.
- Austro-
-
- peteman
-
noun,
peterman.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- arpents
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noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- poteens
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- Preston
-
noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- repents
-
adjective,
creeping.
- tropous
-
- amounts
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- preteen
-
noun,
Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- amperes
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noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- posture
-
noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- postmen
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- Postman
-
noun,
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- postern
-
noun,
a back door or gate.
- pouters
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- uptears
-
verb (used with object),
to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- amputee
-
noun,
a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc., by amputation.
- saunter
-
noun,
a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
- ratoons
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- antero-
-
- roseate
-
adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- seaport
-
noun,
a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- pneumo-
-
- pneumas
-
noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- Anterus
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 235–236.
- Atropos
-
noun,
the Fate who cuts the thread of life.
- Petsamo
-
noun,
Finnish name of Pechenga.
- troupes
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- petrous
-
adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- presume
-
verb (used with object),
to take for granted, assume, or suppose:
- repeats
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- unmoors
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- unstrap
-
verb (used with object),
to take off or slacken the strap of.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- unroots
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- treason
-
noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- pentose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- Eastern
-
adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- pronota
-
noun,
the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- prosoma
-
noun,
an anterior body region, especially the arthropod cephalothorax.
- protean
-
adjective,
readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- Proteus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- pronate
-
verb (used with object),
to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- retenes
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- transp.
-
- transom
-
noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- Penates
-
plural noun,
gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.
- uproots
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- romaunt
-
noun,
a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- Romanus
-
noun,
died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- pteroma
-
noun,
pteron.
- aeneous
-
adjective,
bronze-colored:
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- axoneme
-
noun,
the shaft within a flagellum or cilium, containing twenty microtubules arranged as nine doublets and two singlets.
- earnest
-
noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- punster
-
noun,
a person who makes puns frequently.
- trompes
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- permute
-
verb (used with object),
to alter; change.
- trepans
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- promote
-
verb (used with object),
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:
- re-pose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- reputes
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- pronaos
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- pterous
-
- nemat-
-
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ptero-
-
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Nereus
-
noun,
a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- purees
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- supra-
-
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- put-on
-
noun,
an act or instance of putting someone on.
- ramous
-
adjective,
ramose.
- stumer
-
noun,
something bogus or fraudulent.
- rupees
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- nasute
-
noun,
a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- pteron
-
noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- rumens
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Putnam
-
noun,
Herbert, 1861–1955, U.S. librarian: headed Library of Congress 1899–1939.
- Struma
-
noun,
Pathology. goiter.
- mustee
-
noun,
the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- Sumter
-
noun,
a city in central South Carolina.
- Sumner
-
noun,
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- Nautes
-
noun,
(in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- muster
-
noun,
an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
- super-
-
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- Roseau
-
noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Moneta
-
noun,
Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- Moreau
-
noun,
Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- tarpon
-
noun,
a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- repute
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- tarso-
-
- taupes
-
noun,
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- reseau
-
noun,
a network.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Monroe
-
noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- resume
-
noun,
résumé.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- tauro-
-
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- retene
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- taxeme
-
noun,
a feature of the arrangement of elements in a construction, as selection, order, phonetic modification, or modulation.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Metope
-
noun,
any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- morons
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- Munsee
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- Munroe
-
noun,
Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rouens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- surtax
-
noun,
an additional or extra tax on something already taxed.
- raptus
-
noun,
a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- ratoon
-
noun,
a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
- tamper
-
noun,
a person or thing that tamps.
- tampon
-
noun,
a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- tampur
-
noun,
tambura.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Mouton
-
noun,
sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- morose
-
adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- mouser
-
noun,
an animal that catches mice:
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- mourns
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- mounts
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- repast
-
noun,
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating:
- repeat
-
noun,
the act of repeating.
- tapers
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- motors
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- repent
-
adjective,
creeping.
- Morton
-
noun,
Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Morton) 1885–1941, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
- storax
-
noun,
a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- steno-
-
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- oxters
-
noun,
the armpit.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- pantos
-
noun,
pantomime (def 2).
- panto-
-
- sexpot
-
noun,
a sexually attractive person.
- sextan
-
noun,
a sextan fever.
- peruse
-
verb (used with object),
to read through with thoroughness or care:
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Sexton
-
noun,
an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
- peseta
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- outran
-
verb,
simple past tense of outrun.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- outman
-
verb (used with object),
to surpass in manpower.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- somat-
-
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- Sonoma
-
noun,
a town in W California: center of wine-producing region.
- seemer
-
noun,
a person who constantly pretends.
- Petras
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- osteo-
-
- Sonora
-
noun,
a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- Seurat
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- Parent
-
noun,
a father or a mother.
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- paters
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- peanut
-
noun,
the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- peasen
-
noun,
a plural of pease.
- Paxton
-
noun,
Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Serene
-
noun,
serenity; tranquillity.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- septum
-
noun,
a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- patron
-
noun,
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- Patmos
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- Peneus
-
noun,
ancient name of Salambria.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- patens
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Pareto
-
noun,
Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- pensee
-
noun,
a reflection or thought.
- pastor
-
noun,
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- penta-
-
- paster
-
noun,
a slip of paper gummed on the back, to be pasted on or over something, as over a name on a ballot.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- parton
-
noun,
a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- Parsee
-
noun,
an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- set-up
-
noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- parous
-
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- petro-
-
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- neumes
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prates
-
noun,
act of prating.
- praxes
-
noun,
practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- Noumea
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of New Caledonia, on the SW coast.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- pretax
-
adjective, adverb,
prior to the payment of taxes:
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- promos
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- sapote
-
noun,
Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- Nomura
-
noun,
Kichisaburo [kee-chee-sah-boo-raw] /ˈki tʃiˈsɑ buˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1964, Japanese diplomat.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- pronto
-
adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- proto-
-
- neuter
-
noun,
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
- Proton
-
noun,
a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- prunes
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- neuro-
-
- Ruston
-
noun,
a city in N Louisiana.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Oeneus
-
noun,
a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- pneuma
-
noun,
the vital spirit; the soul.
- operon
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- Pomona
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of the fruit of trees.
- Pontus
-
noun,
an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- Saturn
-
noun,
an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- porous
-
adjective,
full of pores.
- sperm-
-
- sprout
-
noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- one-up
-
adverb,
Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet:
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- sporo-
-
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- sprent
-
adjective,
sprinkled.
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- sproat
-
noun,
a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sapro-
-
- me-too
-
adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- exempt
-
noun,
a person who is exempt from an obligation, duty, etc.
- tepees
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- trapes
-
noun,
a tiring walk.
- unstop
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the stopper from:
- unstep
-
verb (used with object),
to lift from its step, as a mast.
- maroon
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Maputo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Mozambique, on Delagoa Bay.
- trepan
-
noun,
a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- apexes
-
noun,
the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- unseat
-
verb (used with object),
to dislodge from a seat, especially to throw from a saddle, as a rider; unhorse.
- unseam
-
verb (used with object),
to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart:
- unroot
-
verb (used with object),
to uproot.
- trompe
-
noun,
Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- manure
-
noun,
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- tromps
-
verb (used with object),
to tramp or trample.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- unrest
-
noun,
lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet:
- Europa
-
noun,
Also, Europe. Classical Mythology. a sister of Cadmus who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to Crete, where she bore him Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Sarpedon.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Europe
-
noun,
a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and Caspian seas on the SE. In British usage, Europe sometimes contrasts with England. About 4,017,000 sq. mi. (10,404,000 sq. km).
- trans.
-
- Mauser
-
noun,
Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- mature
-
adjective,
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
- tramps
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- esteem
-
noun,
favorable opinion or judgment; respect or regard:
- emeers
-
noun,
emir.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- antrum
-
noun,
a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- masto-
-
- tempos
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- uptear
-
verb (used with object),
to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- etapes
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- Maseru
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- uproot
-
verb (used with object),
to pull out by or as if by the roots:
- upmost
-
adjective,
uppermost.
- eterne
-
adjective,
eternal.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- uptorn
-
verb,
past participle of uptear.
- trumps
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- Truman
-
noun,
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- Atreus
-
noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- tuners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- extro-
-
- extras
-
noun,
something extra or additional:
- extra-
-
- exeunt
-
verb (used without object),
(they) go offstage (used formerly as a stage direction, usually preceding the names of the characters):
- Exmoor
-
noun,
a moorland in SW England, in Somersetshire and Devonshire: the scene of Blackmore's novel, Lorna Doone.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- extern
-
noun,
a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- astro-
-
- astron
-
- exsert
-
adjective,
thrust out; exserted.
- tumors
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- expose
-
noun,
a public exposure or revelation, as of something discreditable:
- export
-
verb (used with object),
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- tropo-
-
- unmoor
-
verb (used with object),
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- tenure
-
noun,
the holding or possessing of anything:
- unmeet
-
adjective,
not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- unarms
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- arouse
-
verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- tronas
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- arpent
-
noun,
an old French unit of area equal to about one acre (0.4 hectare). It is still used in the province of Quebec and in parts of Louisiana.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- arsen-
-
- examen
-
noun,
an examination, as of conscience.
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- Exeter
-
noun,
a city in Devonshire, in SW England: cathedral.
- austr-
-
- MAeroE
-
- Nature
-
noun,
the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- Auster
-
noun,
the south wind personified.
- Austen
-
noun,
Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.
- tureen
-
noun,
a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
- auspex
-
noun,
an augur of ancient Rome.
- exerts
-
verb (used with object),
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action:
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- temper
-
noun,
a particular state of mind or feelings.
- expert
-
noun,
a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority:
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- enter-
-
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- ensure
-
verb (used with object),
to secure or guarantee:
- teener
-
noun,
a teenager.
- AmerSp
-
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- topmen
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- usenet
-
noun,
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
- topman
-
noun,
a person stationed for duty in a top.
- amount
-
noun,
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amours
-
noun,
a love affair.
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- Ampere
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- enrapt
-
adjective,
rapt; transported; enraptured:
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- enures
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- mestee
-
noun,
mustee.
- torpex
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- meteor
-
noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- utero-
-
- Aeetes
-
noun,
a king of Colchis, father of Medea and custodian of the Golden Fleece.
- toupee
-
noun,
a man's wig.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- entrap
-
verb (used with object),
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare:
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- merous
-
- aeron.
-
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- entree
-
noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- Merope
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- eroto-
-
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- Meerut
-
noun,
a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- anemo-
-
- urano-
-
- meatus
-
noun,
an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- emptor
-
noun,
(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- erupts
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- trump
-
noun,
Cards.
any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- pants
-
noun,
trousers (def 1).
- patr-
-
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- emeer
-
noun,
emir.
- trop-
-
- enure
-
verb (used with or without object),
inure.
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- toxo-
-
- Aust.
-
- peart
-
adjective,
lively; brisk; cheerful.
- Petra
-
noun,
an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.
- petr-
-
- sero-
-
- Pater
-
noun,
British Informal. father.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- tumps
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- Saxon
-
noun,
a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
- Pomos
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- atmo-
-
- tramp
-
noun,
the act of tramping.
- tumor
-
noun,
a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- poet.
-
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- epees
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- pant-
-
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- pause
-
noun,
a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action:
- pareu
-
noun,
lavalava.
- peta-
-
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- pene-
-
- pates
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- setup
-
noun,
organization; arrangement.
- Tromp
-
noun,
Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- paste
-
noun,
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- parts
-
noun,
a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
- treas
-
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- Pasto
-
noun,
a city in SW Colombia. About 8350 feet (2545 meters) above sea level.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- serum
-
noun,
the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Paten
-
noun,
a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- 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).
- Patmo
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- ento-
-
- septa
-
noun,
plural of septum.
- Paton
-
noun,
Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- auto.
-
- peats
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- pert.
-
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- part.
-
- Peene
-
noun,
a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- ensue
-
verb (used without object),
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession:
- axmen
-
noun,
a person who wields an ax.
- Trona
-
noun,
a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Sept.
-
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Rouen
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Seine-Maritime, in N France, on the Seine: famous cathedral; execution of Joan of Arc 1431.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- ramus
-
noun,
a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- amuse
-
verb (used with object),
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner:
- Reaum
-
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- rumps
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- Pusan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- ante-
-
- rumen
-
noun,
the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- Upton
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “upper town.”.
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- uran-
-
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- Urena
-
noun,
any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- punts
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- aero-
-
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- resp.
-
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- xeno-
-
- Xeres
-
noun,
former name of Jerez.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Usnea
-
noun,
any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- rexes
-
noun,
king.
- xero-
-
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Xerus
-
noun,
an African ground squirrel of the genus Xerus, having spiny fur, very short ears, and a long tail, and including the species X. rutilus of northeastern Africa and X. erythropus of western and central Africa.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- 30-30
-
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- rept.
-
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- amour
-
noun,
a love affair.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remex
-
noun,
one of the flight feathers of the wing.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- Remus
-
noun,
Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- Renee
-
noun,
a female given name, French form of Renata.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- Amer.
-
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- runes
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Prato
-
noun,
a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- tunes
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prate
-
noun,
act of prating.
- prats
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- tuxes
-
noun,
tuxedo.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prem.
-
- Pres.
-
- prae-
-
- poxes
-
noun,
a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- post-
-
- Tunas
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- Port.
-
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- astr.
-
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- tuner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tunes.
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- punas
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- prune
-
noun,
a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- Prot.
-
- unsex
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- aport
-
adverb,
on or toward the port side.
- prox.
-
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- prunt
-
noun,
a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- unset
-
adjective,
not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- Prus.
-
- pruta
-
noun,
prutah.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- 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.
- upset
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- runts
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- pumas
-
noun,
cougar.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- unapt
-
adjective,
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable:
- prom.
-
- unarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- pret.
-
- preta
-
noun,
a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- pros.
-
- promo
-
noun,
promotion (def 5).
- Armen
-
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- pron.
-
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- areo-
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- Apure
-
noun,
a river flowing E from W Venezuela to the Orinoco. about 500 miles (805 km) long.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- Torun
-
noun,
a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Namur
-
noun,
a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- stupe
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- stupa
-
noun,
a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- naso-
-
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Sumer
-
noun,
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- stump
-
noun,
the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- naut.
-
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- Naxos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- strum
-
noun,
the act of strumming.
- Manue
-
noun,
Manoah.
- Manus
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Munro
-
noun,
Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- temps
-
noun,
part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- Marut
-
noun,
any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- Supt.
-
- muons
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- muras
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- Murat
-
noun,
Joachim [zhaw-a-keem] /ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), 1767?–1815, French marshal: king of Naples 1808–15.
- Mures
-
noun,
a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murex
-
noun,
any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- teno-
-
- mutes
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- nears
-
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- nomo-
-
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stomp
-
noun,
stamp (def 14).
- stome
-
- stoma
-
noun,
Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- nexus
-
noun,
a means of connection; tie; link.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- expos
-
noun,
a world's fair or international exposition:
- ster.
-
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- step-
-
- noso-
-
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- tepee
-
noun,
a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strap
-
noun,
a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Storm
-
noun,
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- neut.
-
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- tera-
-
- neume
-
noun,
any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neur-
-
- term.
-
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- taupe
-
noun,
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- mero-
-
- Taupo
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Mont.
-
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- tarps
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- mono-
-
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- meso-
-
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- tears
-
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- meta-
-
- metr-
-
- Meuse
-
noun,
Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- MexSp
-
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- MNurs
-
- taxon
-
noun,
a taxonomic category, as a species or genus.
- taxes
-
noun,
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- MSEnt
-
- MOUSE
-
noun,
any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- moues
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- Mount
-
noun,
the act or a manner of mounting.
- temp.
-
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Tempe
-
noun,
Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- mourn
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Matsu
-
noun,
a pine, Pinus massoniana, of China, yielding a wood used in furniture-making, the construction of houses, etc.
- matr-
-
- moxas
-
noun,
a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- MPers
-
- tamps
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- TEMPO
-
noun,
Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- mast-
-
- taper
-
noun,
gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- MOTOS
-
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- meno-
-
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- Tapes
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- exons
-
noun,
(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- spoom
-
noun,
a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
- oste-
-
- onto-
-
- topo-
-
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- spor-
-
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- osmo-
-
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Omuta
-
noun,
a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprat
-
noun,
a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- opto-
-
- span-
-
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- OPers
-
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- orant
-
noun,
a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- tonus
-
noun,
a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- 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.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- tono-
-
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- spate
-
noun,
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring:
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- etape
-
noun,
a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- Euro-
-
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- exert
-
verb (used with object),
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action:
- notum
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- sputa
-
noun,
matter, as saliva mixed with mucus or pus, expectorated from the lungs and respiratory passages.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- snout
-
noun,
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Srta.
-
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- spurn
-
noun,
disdainful rejection.
- stamp
-
noun,
a postage stamp.
- Nurse
-
noun,
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- Notus
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- Texas
-
noun,
a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- oxter
-
noun,
the armpit.
- noto-
-
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- spume
-
noun,
foam, froth, or scum.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- outen
-
verb (used with object),
to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- exeat
-
noun,
permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- 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.
- Xmas
-
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Xosa
-
noun,
Xhosa.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Tasm
-
- USPO
-
- tax-
-
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- top-
-
- taur
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sex-
-
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- USMA
-
- 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.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- sext
-
noun,
the fourth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the sixth hour of the day taken as noon.
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- tarp
-
noun,
tarpaulin.
- USNA
-
- RONA
-
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- uret
-
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- uro-
-
- USAR
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- tox.
-
- tamp
-
verb (used with object),
to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- umps
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- tuns
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- spun
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- smut
-
noun,
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- str.
-
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- Umea
-
noun,
a city in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Sra.
-
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- Sem.
-
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- stum
-
noun,
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
- tron
-
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- ter.
-
- SRAM
-
- tRNA
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- 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.
- Sax.
-
- tump
-
noun,
a small mound, hill, or rise of ground.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- saur
-
- Tums
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- Tex.
-
- tuna
-
noun,
any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.
Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Tues
-
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- Ste.
-
- tune
-
noun,
a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Sat.
-
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- stun
-
noun,
the act of stunning.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- rump
-
noun,
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- runt
-
noun,
an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- runs
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Saxe
-
noun,
Comte Hermann Maurice de [er-man maw-rees duh] /ɛrˈman mɔˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1696–1750, French military leader: marshal of France 1744.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- rune
-
noun,
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
- rums
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- spat
-
noun,
a petty quarrel.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- Tape
-
noun,
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- rpt.
-
- Roux
-
noun,
a cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- upon
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- trap
-
noun,
a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- Sumo
-
noun,
a form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.
- sump
-
noun,
a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ten.
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- supr
-
- unto
-
preposition,
to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- Rus.
-
- upas
-
noun,
the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sepn
-
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- sur-
-
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- Sam.
-
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- SMTP
-
- Pet.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- MOpt
-
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- moue
-
noun,
a pouting grimace.
- mout
-
- moxa
-
noun,
a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- mRNA
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- MSAE
-
- MSEE
-
- MSPE
-
- Rom.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Mon.
-
- Mura
-
noun,
(in Japan) a village; hamlet.
- ment
-
- Marx
-
noun,
Karl (Heinrich) [kahrl hahyn-rik;; German kahrl hahyn-rikh] /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- Maun
-
auxiliary verb,
must1 .
- max.
-
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- meas
-
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- men-
-
- menu
-
noun,
a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare:
- 1080
-
- MEPA
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mes-
-
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- MNAS
-
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- muon
-
noun,
a lepton similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater; the positively charged muon is the antiparticle of the negatively charged muon. Symbol: μ.
- Mure
-
noun,
Obsolete. a wall.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- not-
-
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- nous
-
noun,
Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- Ont.
-
- onus
-
noun,
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- Oona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPer
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- nos-
-
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- mus.
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Muse
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.
any goddess presiding over a particular art.
- must
-
noun,
something necessary, vital, or required:
- mute
-
noun,
Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
- muts
-
noun,
mutt.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- neem
-
- Nor.
-
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neo-
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Nexo
-
noun,
Martin Andersen [mahr-ten-ah-nuh r-suh n] /ˈmɑr tɛnˈɑ nər sən/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, Danish novelist.
- NEXT
-
Idioms,
get next to (someone), Informal. to get into the favor or good graces of; become a good friend of.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nom.
-
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- art.
-
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- ASME
-
- ASTM
-
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- atm.
-
- ates
-
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- atom
-
noun,
Physics.
the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element.
an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
- Aton
-
noun,
a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
- atop
-
preposition,
on the top of:
- ator
-
- Atum
-
noun,
a primeval god who by himself begot Shu and Tefnut: the original god of the Ennead.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- aune
-
noun,
an old French unit of measure for fabrics, equivalent to about 47 inches (119 cm).
- aunt
-
noun,
the sister of one's father or mother.
- aur-
-
- Aus.
-
- aut-
-
- Arm.
-
- Apus
-
noun,
the Bird of Paradise, a southern constellation between Octans and Triangulum Australe.
- Auxo
-
noun,
one of the Graces worshiped at Athens.
- Amur
-
noun,
a river in E Asia, forming most of the boundary between N Manchuria and the SE Russian Federation, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. About 2700 miles (4350 km) long.
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- aer-
-
- aet.
-
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- amp.
-
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- amt.
-
- amus
-
- apts
-
plural,
apartment.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ano-
-
- ant.
-
- ANTU
-
- anus
-
noun,
the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- apex
-
noun,
the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- apo-
-
- Apr.
-
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- Apsu
-
noun,
an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- apt.
-
plural,
apartment.
- aux.
-
- axes
-
noun,
plural of axis1 .
- Mar.
-
- exp.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- Eur.
-
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- exa-
-
- exam
-
noun,
an examination, as in school.
- exes
-
noun,
the letter X, x.
- exo-
-
- Exon
-
noun,
(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
- exor
-
- EXPO
-
noun,
a world's fair or international exposition:
- est.
-
- expt
-
- exr.
-
- ext.
-
- 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.
- 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.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Man.
-
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- Manu
-
noun,
the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- Manx
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the inhabitants of the Isle of Man.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- esp.
-
- axon
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body.
- Ens.
-
- Axum
-
noun,
Aksum.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- Emp.
-
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- eous
-
- epee
-
noun,
a rapier with a three-sided blade and a guard over the tip.
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- mun.
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- pnea
-
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- Pers
-
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- pnxt
-
- per.
-
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- Pomo
-
noun,
the postmodern movement; postmodernism.
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- 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):
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pato
-
noun,
an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- Pan.
-
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- par.
-
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- Past
-
noun,
the time gone by:
- pat.
-
- Pate
-
noun,
the crown or top of the head.
- pats
-
noun,
a light stroke, tap, or blow with the palm, fingers, or a flat object.
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- Paur
-
noun,
Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peat
-
noun,
a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Pen.
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- pos.
-
- pot.
-
- pam.
-
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- 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.
- rapt
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- RNAS
-
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- Rep.
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- 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.
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- prat
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- prau
-
noun,
proa.
- pre-
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pro-
-
- prs.
-
- purs
-
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- PSAT
-
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- Ptas
-
plural,
peseta.
- pts.
-
- puma
-
noun,
cougar.
- puna
-
noun,
a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- Pune
-
noun,
a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- Punt
-
noun,
Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground.
Compare drop kick, place kick.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- oro-
-
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- oxen
-
noun,
a plural of ox.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- out-
-
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- oxes
-
noun,
the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
- Oxus
-
noun,
Amu Darya.
- Oxon
-
noun,
Oxfordshire.
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- oto-
-
- RUM
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RTS
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- oo-
-
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EMR
-
- EEE
-
- EEO
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- rte
-
- OSO
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- pm.
-
- rt.
-
- RNA
-
- RPO
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- ax.
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- urn
-
noun,
a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
- eo-
-
- 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.
- EOM
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- Tro
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ea.
-
- EAM
-
- ean
-
- tr.
-
- tra
-
- TPM
-
- Tpr
-
- ese
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ROA
-
- ERP
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- ot-
-
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- PTA
-
plural,
peseta.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- pun
-
noun,
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- PSE
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- USM
-
- ESR
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- AME
-
- USN
-
- ESU
-
- OTA
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- OSP
-
- TPN
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- REX
-
noun,
king.
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMT
-
- EMU
-
noun,
a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
- en-
-
- ene
-
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- EOE
-
- ons
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- run
-
noun,
an act or instance, or a period of running:
- Ep.
-
- EPA
-
- ONR
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- EPS
-
- EPT
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- RPM
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- REA
-
- apx
-
- uns
-
- 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.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- unp
-
- UNO
-
- rax
-
verb (used with object),
to elongate; stretch.
- OPM
-
- Une
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- ARS
-
- Una
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.
- UMT
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- OPA
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- ARU
-
- sox
-
noun,
a plural of sock1 .
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ur-
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- ANU
-
noun,
a twining herb, Tropaeolum tuberosum, of the nasturtium family, found in the Andes, having edible tubers and large flowers with yellow petals and red spurs.
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- aor
-
- AOU
-
- 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.
- ROP
-
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- up-
-
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- APS
-
- ump
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
umpire.
- Ume
-
noun,
a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- TSE
-
- oon
-
- tum
-
verb (used with object),
to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- tue
-
- Tu.
-
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- TSP
-
- RPS
-
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- AMS
-
- ATP
-
- So.
-
- trp
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RMA
-
- AUM
-
noun,
Om.
- Re.
-
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- at.
-
- UAM
-
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- UAE
-
- USA
-
- UAR
-
- ure
-
- OOT
-
- ase
-
- tux
-
noun,
tuxedo.
- ASM
-
- ASN
-
- tun
-
noun,
a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- ASR
-
- ast
-
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- ASU
-
- ose
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- ETO
-
- PAX
-
noun,
Ecclesiastical. kiss of peace.
- MPE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- MRA
-
- MRE
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- MRP
-
- MSA
-
- MPA
-
- MSE
-
- PAU
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in SW France: winter resort.
- MSN
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ae.
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- TAP
-
noun,
a light but audible blow:
- Mt.
-
- MOR
-
- Sp.
-
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- OTS
-
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- XOR
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either but not both of its operands are positive.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- SNU
-
- STM
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- ox-
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- NOP
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- MST
-
- mtn
-
- Npt
-
- SMA
-
- ap-
-
- NES
-
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- an.
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- PTO
-
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- pt.
-
- Ps.
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- prn
-
- Pr.
-
- Ar.
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- SUM
-
noun,
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
- MTO
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- MTP
-
- MTS
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- MUP
-
- Mur
-
noun,
a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- NMU
-
- NMR
-
- Xn.
-
- Am.
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- mut
-
noun,
mutt.
- Pa.
-
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- 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:
- SUN
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- xat
-
noun,
a carved totem pole of various North American Indian peoples.
- NUT
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- NPR
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- nr.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- spt
-
- OEM
-
- USR
-
- Me.
-
- Mo.
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- 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.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OAU
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- SAR
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- PRA
-
- pox
-
noun,
a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
- NRA
-
- OEO
-
- Om.
-
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ETR
-
- ETS
-
- eu-
-
- STP
-
- SRO
-
- SAE
-
- Ex.
-
- SPR
-
- PSA
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- USO
-
- TMO
-
- ote
-
- USP
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Mao
-
- OAS
-
- 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.
- NSU
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MEP
-
- NUS
-
noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- POA
-
- NUM
-
- PMT
-
- MEX
-
- OAP
-
- MNA
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- NSA
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- AMU
-
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- Xt.
-
- POR
-
- Sr.
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- OSA
-
- op.
-
- St.
-
- OAO
-
- Sta
-
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- AO
-
- XO
-
- RO
-
- Xe
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- xr
-
- 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.
- AU
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plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- ux
-
- XP
-
- MP
-
- U.
-
- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- T1
-
- t.
-
- MU
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noun,
the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (M, μ).
- MX
-
- N.
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- NP
-
- SU
-
- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- SN
-
- 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.
- NM
-
- No
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noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- OU
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noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- NU
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noun,
the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
- O.
-
- OE
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noun,
oy2 .
- OA
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- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- MN
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- TX
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- PX
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plural,
post exchange.
- RN
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RP
-
- R.
-
- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- ee
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- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- RU
-
- TP
-
- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
- PU
-
- RX
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- S.
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- SA
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- SM
-
- TN
-
- TM
-
- M.
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- xu
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noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Vietnam, the 100th part of a dong.