Anagrams of inseminators
Word inseminators has
1717 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of inseminators.
- inseminator
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noun,
a technician who introduces prepared semen into the genital tract of breeding animals, especially cows and mares, for artificial insemination.
- Saint-Simon
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noun,
Comte de, 1760–1825, French philosopher and social scientist.
- nitrosamine
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noun,
any of a series of compounds with the type formula R 2 NNO, some of which are carcinogenic, formed in cured meats by the conversion of nitrite.
- semination
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noun,
a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.
- enantiosis
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noun,
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said; irony.
- antimonies
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noun,
a brittle, lustrous, white metallic element occurring in nature free or combined, used chiefly in alloys and in compounds in medicine. Symbol: Sb; atomic number: 51; atomic weight: 121.75.
- antinomies
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noun,
opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.
- ornaments
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noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- near-miss
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noun,
a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- Minnesota
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noun,
a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul.
Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- innermost
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noun,
the innermost part.
- misorient
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verb (used with object),
to orient wrongly or improperly.
- antinoise
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adjective,
designed to reduce or ban excessively loud sound, as of jet engines or traffic:
- monitress
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noun,
a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- estonians
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noun,
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
- Trasimeno
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noun,
a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- sirenians
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noun,
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
- Nestorian
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noun,
one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- on-stream
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adverb,
in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like:
- sinistro-
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- nitramine
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noun,
any of a class of compounds containing the nitramino group.
- insertion
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noun,
the act of inserting:
- ostiaries
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noun,
Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church.
a member of the lowest-ranking of the four minor orders.
the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), lector (def 2).
- remission
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noun,
the act of remitting.
- assertion
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noun,
a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason:
- seriation
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noun,
the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- sensation
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noun,
the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
- senoritas
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- nitramino
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adjective,
containing the nitramino group.
- nominates
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adjective,
having a particular name.
- resonants
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noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- masonries
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noun,
the craft or occupation of a mason.
- Romanists
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noun,
Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Martinson
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noun,
Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.
- Masterson
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noun,
William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.
- Rosinante
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noun,
the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- trisomies
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noun,
an abnormality characterized by the presence of an additional chromosome to the normal diploid number.
- insomnias
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noun,
inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- Tiresias
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noun,
a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- Masonite
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- notaries
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noun,
notary public.
- simitars
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noun,
scimitar.
- nominate
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adjective,
having a particular name.
- nonaries
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noun,
a number in a nonary system.
- asterism
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noun,
Astronomy.
a group of stars.
a constellation.
- Steinman
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noun,
David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- Norseman
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noun,
Northman.
- simonies
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noun,
the making of profit out of sacred things.
- sensoria
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noun,
a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- Martinon
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noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- seriatim
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adverb, adjective,
in a series; one after another.
- martinis
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noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- Maronite
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noun,
a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- senorita
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noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- arsonist
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noun,
a person who commits arson.
- onanisms
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noun,
withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- Stoneman
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noun,
a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- maestros
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noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- ornament
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noun,
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
- mannoses
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noun,
a hexose, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained from the hydrolysis of the ivory nut and yielding mannitol upon reduction.
- Ossetian
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noun,
an Osset.
- mannites
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noun,
mannitol.
- antinome
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noun,
something that is contradictory or opposite to another; a logical contradiction.
- maitrise
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noun,
mastery; skill.
- sinister
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adjective,
threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous:
- insnares
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verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- minister
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noun,
a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- mentions
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noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- insomnia
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noun,
inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- Minorite
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noun,
Friar Minor.
- minsters
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- minarets
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noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- interims
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noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- inertias
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noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- sonarmen
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noun,
a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- moistens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- teniasis
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noun,
taeniasis.
- intrans.
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- 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.
- montanes
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noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- Monteria
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noun,
a city in N Colombia.
- Estonian
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noun,
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
- sternson
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noun,
a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- moraines
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noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- raiments
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noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- tensions
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noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- mortises
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- erasions
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noun,
the act of erasing.
- smarties
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noun,
a smart aleck.
- smartens
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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:
- stasimon
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noun,
(in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- entrains
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verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- ternions
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- enations
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noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- stearins
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- emission
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noun,
an act or instance of emitting:
- ironists
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noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- iron-man
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noun,
a person, as a worker or athlete, of great physical endurance who can be depended upon to perform a given task or job tirelessly.
- sirenian
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noun,
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
- treasons
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noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- ameiosis
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noun,
aberrant meiosis in which only an equational division occurs, as in parthenogenesis.
- transoms
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noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- reinsman
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noun,
a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- trainmen
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noun,
a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.
- rimstone
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noun,
a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- sanities
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noun,
the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- Romanite
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noun,
a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- anemosis
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noun,
wind shake (def 1).
- amorists
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noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- triennia
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noun,
a period of three years.
- airtimes
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noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- Romanist
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noun,
Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- amniotes
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noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- amitosis
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noun,
the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
- trisomes
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- romaines
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noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- retsinas
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noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- Romanies
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noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- resonant
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noun,
Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).
- airiness
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noun,
openness to the air:
- moisten
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- nemato-
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- santims
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noun,
a former coin of Latvia, the 100th part of a lat.
- trioses
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noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- amniote
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noun,
any vertebrate of the group Amniota, comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals, characterized by having an amnion during the embryonic stage.
- meiosis
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noun,
Cell Biology. part of the process of gamete formation, consisting of chromosome conjugation and two cell divisions, in the course of which the diploid chromosome number becomes reduced to the haploid.
Compare mitosis.
- sinters
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Moissan
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noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1852–1907, French chemist: Nobel prize 1906.
- stearin
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- amnions
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the innermost of the embryonic or fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
- natrons
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noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- nestors
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noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Samoset
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noun,
died 1653? North American Indian leader: aided Pilgrims during early years in New England.
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- remnant
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noun,
a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- simitar
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noun,
scimitar.
- amosite
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noun,
an asbestine variety of anthophyllite, rich in iron, formerly used as a heat-resistant material.
- atomies
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noun,
an atom; mote.
- ironist
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noun,
a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.
- ironies
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noun,
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
- stearo-
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- atonies
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noun,
Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
- Amorite
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noun,
a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
- matrons
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noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- imarets
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noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- tinners
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noun,
a tinsmith.
- Niteroi
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noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in SE Brazil.
- Matisse
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noun,
Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- mention
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noun,
a direct or incidental reference; a mentioning:
- amorist
-
noun,
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
- transom
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noun,
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
- tansies
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noun,
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- samisen
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noun,
a guitarlike Japanese musical instrument having an extremely long neck and three strings, played with a plectrum.
- nasties
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noun,
Informal. a nasty person or thing.
- tensors
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noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Smeaton
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noun,
John, 1724–92, English engineer.
- termini
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noun,
the end or extremity of anything.
- intens.
-
- Messina
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noun,
a seaport in NE Sicily.
- intines
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noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- stamnos
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noun,
a storage jar having an oval body tapering at the base and two horizontal handles set on the shoulder.
- 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.
- retains
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verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- mortise
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noun,
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- stamin-
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- intones
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verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- anomite
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noun,
a variety of mica, similar to biotite but differing in optical orientation.
- tension
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noun,
the act of stretching or straining.
- interns
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noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- montane
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noun,
the lower vegetation belt on mountains.
- moraine
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- estamin
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noun,
a worsted fabric constructed in twill weave with a rough surface.
- Estonia
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noun,
a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- Interim
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noun,
an intervening time; interval; meantime:
- treason
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noun,
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- erasion
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noun,
the act of erasing.
- Staines
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noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, on the Thames River near Heathrow airport.
- somites
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noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- entasis
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noun,
a slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.
- nasions
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noun,
the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- tisanes
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noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- 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):
- enation
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noun,
a small outgrowth of plant tissue, usually on a leaf, caused by virus infection.
- merinos
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- amities
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noun,
friendship; peaceful harmony.
- merisis
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noun,
growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- ternion
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- moneran
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noun,
any organism of the kingdom Monera.
- nanisms
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noun,
the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- Etonian
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noun,
a person who is or has been a pupil at Eton College.
- monesia
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noun,
a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- entrain
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verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- introns
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noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- Sistine
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adjective,
of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
- instars
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- minaret
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noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- eonisms
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- retsina
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noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- simians
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- Rossini
-
noun,
Gioacchino Antonio [jaw-ahk-kee-naw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌdʒɔ ɑkˈki nɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1792–1868, Italian composer.
- seismo-
-
- Stimson
-
noun,
Henry L(ewis) 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.
- Stinnes
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noun,
Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- sterno-
-
- Aretino
-
noun,
Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1492–1556, Italian satirist and dramatist.
- inseams
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- mansion
-
noun,
a very large, impressive, or stately residence.
- orients
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- mission
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noun,
a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- aristo-
-
- stimies
-
noun,
stymie.
- aristos
-
noun,
aristocrat.
- Torenia
-
noun,
any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- inertia
-
noun,
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- senator
-
noun,
a member of a senate.
- misters
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- Tonnies
-
noun,
Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahnt] /ˈfɛr diˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1855–1936, German sociologist.
- one-man
-
adjective,
of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person:
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- aorists
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- maestro
-
noun,
an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music:
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- sorites
-
noun,
a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- Riesman
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noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- Riemann
-
noun,
Georg Friedrich Bernhard [gey-awrk free-drikh bern-hahrt] /geɪˈɔrk ˈfri drɪx ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1826–66, German mathematician.
- raisins
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- Manners
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- anoints
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- antero-
-
- Anteros
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a brother of Eros, most often regarded as the avenger of unrequited love.
- raiment
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- anoesis
-
noun,
a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.
- Ossetia
-
noun,
a region in Caucasia: divided between North Ossetia of the Russian Federation and the South Ossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian Republic.
- ramsons
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- mannite
-
noun,
mannitol.
- tsarism
-
noun,
czarism.
- Antoine
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1943, French theatrical director, manager, and critic.
- mannose
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noun,
a hexose, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained from the hydrolysis of the ivory nut and yielding mannitol upon reduction.
- satoris
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noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- Rosanne
-
noun,
a female given name.
- samites
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- ransoms
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- insnare
-
verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- miniate
-
verb (used with object),
to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- tonners
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- sonants
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- isomers
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- strains
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- sestina
-
noun,
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
- santirs
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- streams
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- martins
-
noun,
Peter, born 1946, U.S. choreographer and ballet master, born in Denmark.
- normans
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- norites
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- isation
-
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- isatins
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- siennas
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- Romains
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- Massine
-
noun,
Léonide [ley-aw-need] /leɪ ɔˈnid/ (Show IPA), 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.
- estrins
-
noun,
estrone.
- Romaine
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- onanism
-
noun,
withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- to-name
-
noun,
a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- Martini
-
noun,
a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- senoras
-
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.
- Mitanni
-
noun,
the Hurrian kingdom in NW Mesopotamia in the 15th and 14th centuries b.c.
- arseno-
-
- sonnies
-
noun,
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
- stoners
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- arsines
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- sennits
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- airtime
-
noun,
the particular time that a program is broadcast or scheduled for broadcast:
- mitosis
-
noun,
the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- asinine
-
adjective,
foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid:
- inserts
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- rations
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- ARTEMIS
-
noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- stories
-
noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stemson
-
noun,
a curved timber in a wooden bow, scarfed at its lower end to the keelson.
- reasons
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- Marston
-
noun,
John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- minions
-
noun,
a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- Minnie
-
noun,
mother; mom.
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- stains
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Minnis
-
noun,
an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- minion
-
noun,
a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Ramses
-
noun,
the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
- rinses
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- steno-
-
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- Rosita
-
noun,
a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- Marist
-
noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- Marion
-
noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- Marino
-
noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- Marini
-
noun,
Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), Also, Marino [muh-ree-noh;; Italian mah-ree-naw] /məˈri noʊ;; Italian mɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), ("il Cavalier Marino") 1569–1625, Italian poet.
- Ronnie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Ronald or Veronica.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- stenos
-
noun,
a stenographer.
- masers
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- mantis
-
noun,
any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- manses
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- rosins
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- Mannie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Emanuel.
- Mannes
-
noun,
Leopold Damrosch, 1899–1964, U.S. composer and chemist.
- manner
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- manini
-
adjective,
small; insignificant.
- rosets
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- steins
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- metros
-
noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metro-
-
- messin
-
noun,
messan.
- messan
-
noun,
a lap dog; small pet dog.
- mesons
-
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.
- saints
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- Merton
-
noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- masto-
-
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- Menton
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- roasts
-
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.
- mensas
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- steams
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- matri-
-
- matins
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- matron
-
noun,
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- Morini
-
noun,
Erika, 1906–1995, U.S. violinist, born in Austria.
- Minoan
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of ancient Crete.
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- senors
-
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.
- sensor
-
noun,
a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- Santos
-
noun,
a seaport in S Brazil: world's largest coffee-exporting port.
- oaters
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- serais
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- serins
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- 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.
- serosa
-
noun,
Embryology, Zoology.
the chorion.
a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- setons
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Norman
-
noun,
a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- ration
-
noun,
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage:
- sienna
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- nonets
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- siesta
-
noun,
a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- simars
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- noises
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- noesis
-
noun,
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simian
-
noun,
an ape or monkey.
- remiss
-
adjective,
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- nitro-
-
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- 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.
- nitons
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Osiris
-
noun,
the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- raisin
-
noun,
a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- raises
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- satins
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- Saseno
-
noun,
an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori
-
noun,
sudden enlightenment.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- Ossian
-
noun,
a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
- ossein
-
noun,
the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
- Season
-
noun,
one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- osiers
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- omenta
-
noun,
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- seisin
-
noun,
seizin.
- ornate
-
adjective,
elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so:
- Sarton
-
noun,
May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- sarsen
-
noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orates
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Sarnen
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Obwalden, in central Switzerland, E of Bern.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- seniti
-
noun,
a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- Sennar
-
noun,
a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- sennas
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- miosis
-
noun,
excessive constriction of the pupil of the eye, as a result of drugs, disease, or the like.
- Somers
-
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- Soares
-
noun,
Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- morass
-
noun,
a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- somat-
-
- sanies
-
noun,
a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- Monnet
-
noun,
Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- 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.
- 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.
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- snores
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- somni-
-
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- sonant
-
noun,
a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
- sonars
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- sonnet
-
noun,
Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- Samson
-
noun,
a judge of Israel famous for his great strength. Judges 13–16.
- misers
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- snorts
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- Simons
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- nasion
-
noun,
the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- Nissan
-
noun,
Nisan.
- niseis
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- netman
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nemat-
-
- sirens
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- natron
-
noun,
a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- nation
-
noun,
a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own:
- Nasser
-
noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- Sansom
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samson.
- Smriti
-
noun,
writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- Sisera
-
noun,
the commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin: killed by Jael. Judges 4:17–22.
- Sister
-
noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- Nantes
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- nanism
-
noun,
the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- sitars
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- sit-in
-
noun,
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
- sansei
-
noun,
a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
- Renton
-
noun,
a city in W Washington, near Seattle.
- smarts
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- smears
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- smites
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- sterns
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- stanes
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- inter.
-
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- intime
-
adjective,
intimate; cozy.
- intima
-
noun,
the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intern
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- anises
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- intone
-
verb (used with object),
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- instr.
-
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- aniso-
-
- insist
-
verb (used with object),
to assert or maintain firmly:
- insets
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- torses
-
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.
- intine
-
noun,
the inner coat of a spore, especially a pollen grain.
- intra-
-
- anoint
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- Ionian
-
noun,
a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian2 (def 2), Dorian1 (def 2).
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- amnion
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the innermost of the embryonic or fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
- amnios
-
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- Taoism
-
noun,
the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- trans.
-
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- anemo-
-
- anenst
-
preposition,
anent (def 2).
- eosins
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- assort
-
verb (used with object),
to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- intron
-
noun,
a noncoding segment in a length of DNA that interrupts a gene-coding sequence or nontranslated sequence, the corresponding segment being removed from the RNA copy before transcription.
- intro.
-
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- eonian
-
adjective,
aeonian.
- Tassie
-
noun,
tass.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- aorist
-
noun,
a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- inanes
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- arsen-
-
- tenaim
-
noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- tonner
-
noun,
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
- tonnes
-
noun,
metric ton.
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- aroint
-
verb (imperative),
begone:
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- iatro-
-
- arises
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- imines
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- Antrim
-
noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- innate
-
adjective,
existing in one from birth; inborn; native:
- insane
-
adjective,
not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tenson
-
noun,
a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tarso-
-
- Inness
-
noun,
George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
- Artois
-
noun,
a former province in N France: artesian wells.
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- arsons
-
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.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- essoin
-
noun,
(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- inmost
-
adjective,
situated farthest within:
- inmate
-
noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- Antons
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- tenons
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- Tanner
-
noun,
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- intros
-
noun,
an introduction.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- 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.
- Easton
-
noun,
a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- tinman
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- tainos
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- tinmen
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- astro-
-
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- isatin
-
noun,
a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- Tessin
-
noun,
French and German name of Ticino.
- astron
-
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- stroma
-
noun,
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- tie-in
-
noun,
an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- aeron.
-
- stomas
-
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.
- tmesis
-
noun,
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- stimes
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- amino-
-
- stores
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- maists
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- atones
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- Maisie
-
noun,
a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- Stones
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- irises
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- Istria
-
noun,
a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- storms
-
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.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- enosis
-
noun,
a movement for securing the political union of Greece and Cyprus.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- 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.
- 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.
- nitr-
-
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- atone
-
verb (used with object),
to make amends for; expiate:
- tonne
-
noun,
metric ton.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- arsis
-
noun,
Music. the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
Compare thesis (def 4).
- Sinai
-
noun,
Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Sinas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Sinan
-
noun,
1489?–1587, Turkish architect, especially of mosques.
- semis
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, the half part of an as.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- toran
-
noun,
(in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- Senna
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- Ninos
-
noun,
boy; child.
- niton
-
noun,
(formerly) radon. Symbol: Nt.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Nisan
-
noun,
the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Nisei
-
noun,
a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- Tinia
-
noun,
the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- omni-
-
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- 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.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- oaten
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or made of oats.
- tonia
-
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- astr.
-
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norns
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- assn.
-
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- nomen
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- toman
-
noun,
a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- asst.
-
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- Aston
-
noun,
Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- nona-
-
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- nonas
-
noun,
sleeping sickness (def 2).
- nonet
-
noun,
a group of nine performers or instruments.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- noses
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- oasis
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- atmo-
-
- ation
-
- nones
-
noun,
the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- tomia
-
noun,
the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- sero-
-
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- simas
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- seti-
-
- semi-
-
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- Rieti
-
noun,
Vittorio [veet-taw-ryaw] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1994, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- Amer.
-
- treas
-
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- sanit
-
- amin-
-
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- Sans.
-
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- amiss
-
Idioms,
take amiss, to be offended at or resentful of (something not meant to cause offense or resentment); misunderstand:
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- reni-
-
- Renan
-
noun,
Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- amort
-
adjective,
spiritless; lifeless.
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- anent
-
preposition,
in regard to; about; concerning.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- SAMOS
-
noun,
a Greek island in the E Aegean. 194 sq. mi. (502 sq. km).
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- Aneto
-
noun,
Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- aero-
-
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- 30-30
-
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- 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.
- Ronne
-
noun,
a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- ronin
-
noun,
a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- Ronan
-
noun,
a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- 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.
- 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.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- aeri-
-
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- 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.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- sains
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- Santo
-
noun,
a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- 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.
- torii
-
noun,
(in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- anti-
-
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- sines
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Anton
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Anthony.
- seams
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Ostia
-
noun,
a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- oste-
-
- ossia
-
conjunction,
(indicating an alternative, usually easier, version of a passage in a musical score) or; or else.
- 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.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- areo-
-
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- 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.
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- seism
-
noun,
an earthquake.
- Armen
-
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- 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.
- ante-
-
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- anim.
-
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- 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)
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- saris
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- anion
-
noun,
a negatively charged ion, as one attracted to the anode in electrolysis.
- ratio
-
noun,
the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second:
- anis-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- Saros
-
noun,
the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- 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.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- Annie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Ann, Anna, or Anne.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- annot
-
- anon.
-
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- 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.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- sasin
-
noun,
blackbuck.
- 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.
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Anson
-
noun,
a male given name.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- satis
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- 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.
- Minni
-
noun,
an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- Minna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Minn.
-
- minis
-
noun,
miniskirt.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- mini-
-
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- inst.
-
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Srta.
-
- Miass
-
noun,
a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- metr-
-
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- 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-
-
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- intr.
-
- 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.
- meso-
-
- mesas
-
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.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- Misti
-
noun,
El Misti.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- imino
-
adjective,
containing the imino group.
- imit.
-
- sones
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- inane
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- Inari
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in NE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- soras
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Mists
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- inion
-
noun,
a point at the external occipital protuberance of the skull.
- Missa
-
noun,
Mass.
- Miss.
-
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- init.
-
- miso-
-
- mises
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Minto
-
noun,
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- mero-
-
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- imine
-
noun,
a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- ster.
-
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- 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.
- 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.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- ition
-
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- 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.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- 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.
- Manon
-
noun,
an opera (1884) by Jules Massenet.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- Issei
-
noun,
a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- Ionia
-
noun,
an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- Irina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- iotas
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- meno-
-
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- Iran.
-
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- 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:
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- matr-
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- masts
-
noun,
Nautical.
a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- mast-
-
- masse
-
noun,
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- Taino
-
noun,
a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- 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.
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- misos
-
noun,
a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- 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.
- siris
-
noun,
lebbek (def 1).
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- snits
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- mosts
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- snots
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Mossi
-
noun,
an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- Moses
-
noun,
the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- nears
-
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- nano-
-
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- 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.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Nairn
-
noun,
a historic county in N Scotland.
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- sito-
-
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- MSEnt
-
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- 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.
- naso-
-
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- 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.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- term.
-
- tera-
-
- ento-
-
- Neman
-
noun,
a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- tenon
-
noun,
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
- Timor
-
noun,
an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- neons
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- somas
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- 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.
- Mont.
-
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- teno-
-
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- Sino-
-
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Tenn.
-
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- tears
-
- Sinon
-
noun,
a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- iasis
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- IATSE
-
- Eaton
-
noun,
Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- soars
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- tri-
-
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Sams
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Samuel.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- tRNA
-
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Sais
-
noun,
an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- 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.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tion
-
- Sam.
-
- tron
-
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- 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.
- str.
-
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Sims
-
noun,
William Sowden [soud-n] /ˈsaʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- 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.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- Tasm
-
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- tonn
-
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- 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.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- Sat.
-
- 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.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- 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.
- Sem.
-
- 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.
- Soni
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- 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.
- ten.
-
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- ter.
-
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- 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.
- SMSA
-
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Ste.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- 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.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- SASE
-
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- Sra.
-
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- SRAM
-
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- sers
-
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).
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Moss
-
noun,
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Ens.
-
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- mRNA
-
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- MSAE
-
- MSIE
-
- MSTS
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- emia
-
- 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.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- ESIS
-
- MNAS
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- moat
-
noun,
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- Mon.
-
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- nisi
-
adjective,
not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Nina
-
noun,
girl; child.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Nino
-
noun,
boy; child.
- NIRA
-
- 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.
- 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:
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- ates
-
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- atm.
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nom.
-
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- ator
-
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- 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.
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- nane
-
pronoun, adverb, adjective,
none1 .
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- 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.
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neo-
-
- neon
-
noun,
Chemistry. a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Symbol: Ne; atomic weight: 20.183; atomic number: 10; density: 0.9002 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- eso-
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- non-
-
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- int.
-
- 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.
- ins.
-
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- Man.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- 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.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- INRI
-
- Mar.
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- itis
-
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- isms
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- Isin
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
- ISIS
-
noun,
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
- Iris
-
noun,
Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- iso-
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- 1080
-
- Ire.
-
- ISSN
-
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- IOTA
-
noun,
a very small quantity; jot; whit.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- mis-
-
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- min.
-
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- est.
-
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- Iasi
-
noun,
Romanian name of Jassy.
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Mass
-
noun,
a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- 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
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- met.
-
- men-
-
- ment
-
- inae
-
- 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.
- mess
-
noun,
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- 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.
- none
-
noun,
nones1 .
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- 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)
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- osis
-
- ARIS
-
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- ant.
-
- amt.
-
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- ANSI
-
- ano-
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- Anne
-
noun,
1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).
- ann.
-
- Nor.
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- aer-
-
- Aire
-
- RNAS
-
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- AIME
-
- aet.
-
- 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.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- Rom.
-
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- RONA
-
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- 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.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- 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.
- AISI
-
- RIIA
-
- rit.
-
- Riis
-
noun,
Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- Arm.
-
- NTIA
-
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- 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.
- art.
-
- Oita
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ASME
-
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- ASSR
-
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nota
-
noun,
a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- not-
-
- 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.
- nos-
-
- Norn
-
noun,
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
- ASTM
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- asis
-
- Isai
-
noun,
Jesse.
- Ont.
-
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- aor
-
- ast
-
- en-
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ior
-
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- EMT
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- eo-
-
- ASR
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- Tro
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- TSE
-
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- IRS
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- IRO
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- 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.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- TSI
-
- TMO
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- at.
-
- Am.
-
- an.
-
- Ir.
-
- Ar.
-
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- ae.
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- IOT
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- AMS
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- ESA
-
- io-
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- ERT
-
- tr.
-
- ETO
-
- ase
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- tra
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- eir
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ESR
-
- EIS
-
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- Ia.
-
- IAS
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ea.
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- 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.
- ine
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ASN
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- ARS
-
- AME
-
- ASM
-
- EAM
-
- EMR
-
- TIA
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- ean
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- in.
-
- 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.
- ASI
-
- ier
-
- EOM
-
- SSA
-
- ISA
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- 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).
- OEM
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- Om.
-
- 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.
- 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.
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- ONR
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- ons
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- OAS
-
- OSA
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- NES
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- ise
-
- NIA
-
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- NSA
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- NMI
-
- NMR
-
- NNE
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ose
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- rte
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- RNA
-
- SAE
-
- SRO
-
- So.
-
- RTS
-
- rt.
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- RSS
-
- RSE
-
- RSA
-
- Rs.
-
- ROA
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROI
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- 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.
- OSS
-
- RMA
-
- ot-
-
- OTA
-
- ote
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- OTS
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- Re.
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- 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.
- REA
-
- SAR
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- TSS
-
- Nan
-
noun,
naan.
- SSN
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MIE
-
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- SSR
-
- SSM
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- SSI
-
- SSE
-
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- SRS
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- mi.
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- MIT
-
- Me.
-
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- ITA
-
- ite
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- 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.
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- STM
-
- 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.
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- STI
-
- Mao
-
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- ss.
-
- MNA
-
- MRE
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- SMA
-
- MTS
-
- MTO
-
- mtn
-
- MTI
-
- Mt.
-
- MST
-
- MSN
-
- MSE
-
- SMS
-
- MSA
-
- MRI
-
- MSI
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MNE
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- MRA
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- MOI
-
- MOR
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- 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.
- MNS
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- SA
-
- S.
-
- OA
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- N.
-
- EI
-
- AO
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- t.
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- T1
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- NI
-
- SM
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- M.
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- R.
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- O.
-
- RI
-
- SN
-
- i.
-
- RN
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- TN
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- MN
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- TM
-
- NM
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- RO
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.