Anagrams of necrotomies
Word necrotomies has
1167 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of necrotomies.
- centrosome
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noun,
a small region near the nucleus in the cell cytoplasm, containing the centrioles.
- intercoms
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noun,
an intercommunication system.
- neoterism
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noun,
an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- resection
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noun,
Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- monoester
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noun,
a single esterified polybasic acid.
- sonometer
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noun,
audiometer.
- centesimo
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noun,
a monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a lira.
- remotions
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noun,
the act of removing; removal.
- cortisone
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noun,
Biochemistry. a steroid hormone of the adrenal cortex, C 21 H 28 O 5 , active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- secretion
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noun,
(in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- economist
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noun,
a specialist in economics.
- economies
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noun,
thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- microtone
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noun,
any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- neoterics
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noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- 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.
- intercom
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noun,
an intercommunication system.
- Timorese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Timor.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- secretin
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noun,
a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- seicento
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noun,
the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- erection
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noun,
the act of erecting.
- scienter
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noun,
a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt:
- omicrons
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noun,
the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (O, o).
- nitroso-
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- mortices
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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.
- incomers
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noun,
a person who comes in.
- esoteric
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adjective,
understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
- creosote
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- sermonic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- one-time
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adjective,
having been as specified at one time; former:
- tiresome
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adjective,
causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome:
- mesotron
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noun,
(no longer in technical use) meson.
- meteoric
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adjective,
of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- monteros
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- semitone
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noun,
a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- moonrise
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noun,
the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- centimos
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- ionomers
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noun,
any of a class of plastics that because of its ionic bonding action is capable of conducting electric current.
- emersion
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- Montrose
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noun,
James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- Rosemont
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noun,
a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- remotion
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noun,
the act of removing; removal.
- neoteric
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noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- ecotones
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noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- monitors
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noun,
(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- centimes
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noun,
a monetary unit of various nations and territories, as Lichtenstein, Martinique, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tahiti, the 100th part of a franc.
- Morisco
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noun,
a Moor, especially one of the Moors of Spain.
- Morison
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noun,
Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.
- morions
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noun,
an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.
- tonemes
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noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- moreens
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noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- someone
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pronoun,
some person; somebody.
- constr.
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- incomer
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noun,
a person who comes in.
- incomes
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noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- coronet
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noun,
a small crown.
- scooter
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- cornets
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noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- ionomer
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noun,
any of a class of plastics that because of its ionic bonding action is capable of conducting electric current.
- norites
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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.
- Ionesco
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noun,
Eugène [French œ-zhen;; English yoo-jeen,, yoo-jeen] /French œˈʒɛn;; English yuˈdʒin,, ˈyu dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, French playwright, born in Romania.
- moonset
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noun,
the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- coontie
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noun,
either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Z. floridana, of Florida, having a short trunk, pinnate leaves, and cones: Z. floridana is an endangered species.
- encores
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- crinose
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adjective,
hairy.
- coterie
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noun,
a group of people who associate closely.
- entices
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verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- Teniers
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noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- entries
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noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- tierces
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noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- entomo-
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- entires
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- Emerson
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noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- necrose
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verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- emetics
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noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- entero-
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- enteric
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noun,
enterics, Bacteriology. enterobacteria.
- enroots
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- emotion
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noun,
an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
- tenrecs
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noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- ecotone
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noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- motoric
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adjective,
motor (def 11).
- noisome
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adjective,
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
- mortice
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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.
- noetics
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noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- stereo-
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- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- cretins
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noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- sterno-
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- crimson
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noun,
a crimson color, pigment, or dye.
- remotes
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noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- Ericson
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noun,
Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- cronies
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noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- 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.
- Crotone
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noun,
a city in S Italy; ancient Greek colony.
- crotons
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noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- erotics
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noun,
an erotic poem.
- erosion
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noun,
the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
- motions
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noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- consort
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noun,
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- notices
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noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- cistern
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noun,
a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
- Meitner
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noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- coesite
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noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- cenotes
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noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- omicron
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noun,
the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (O, o).
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- moisten
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become moist.
- sincere
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adjective,
free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
- recites
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verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- metiers
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- Miocene
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noun,
the Miocene Epoch or Series.
- cistron
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noun,
a segment of DNA that encodes for the formation of a specific polypeptide chain; a structural gene.
- Minster
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noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- citrons
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noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- screeno
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noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- centro-
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- centime
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noun,
a monetary unit of various nations and territories, as Lichtenstein, Martinique, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tahiti, the 100th part of a franc.
- centimo
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noun,
the 100th part of the monetary units of various countries, as Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
- centri-
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- torsion
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noun,
the act of twisting.
- centres
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noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- cements
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noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- monitor
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noun,
(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- microns
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noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- 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.
- Orontes
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noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- section
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noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- Comorin
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noun,
Cape, a cape on the S tip of India, extending into the Indian Ocean.
- montero
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noun,
a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.
- Comines
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noun,
Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), 1445?–1511? French historian and diplomat.
- 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.
- cermets
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noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- mercies
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noun,
compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
- trisome
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noun,
a trisomic individual.
- come-on
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noun,
inducement; lure.
- isotone
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noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- orceins
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noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- eroto-
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- Strine
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noun,
Australian English.
- Mersin
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noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- erotic
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noun,
an erotic poem.
- serein
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noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Merton
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noun,
Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- Ermine
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noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- motion
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noun,
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- Morton
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noun,
Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Morton) 1885–1941, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- sector
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noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- socio-
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- metier
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noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- erects
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adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- entice
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verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- Semite
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noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- Enesco
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noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- tenrec
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noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- micros
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noun,
anything extremely small in scope or capability.
- Enrico
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noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- enroot
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- enter-
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- micron
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noun,
Also called micrometer. the millionth part of a meter. Symbol: μ, mu.
- enters
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Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- micro-
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- miners
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noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- meteor
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noun,
Astronomy.
a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- Senior
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noun,
a person who is older than another.
- metros
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noun,
the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- entire
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- metro-
-
- metric
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noun,
Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
- me-too
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adjective,
Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism:
- stoner
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noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- seiner
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noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- eonism
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noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- meters
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noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- motors
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noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- Miseno
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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.
- Sterne
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noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- merits
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noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- intro.
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- sinter
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- inmost
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adjective,
situated farthest within:
- screen
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noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- Sooner
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noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- insect
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noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- insert
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- instr.
-
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- inter.
-
- sitcom
-
noun,
situation comedy.
- inters
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verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intros
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noun,
an introduction.
- Simeon
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noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- encore
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- Ismene
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noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- Monroe
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noun,
Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- somni-
-
- somite
-
noun,
any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- irones
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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.
- scoto-
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- Scoter
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noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- moonie
-
noun,
a member or follower of the Unification Church.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- income
-
noun,
the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
- escent
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- miters
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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.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- 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.).
- serine
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noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- Mentor
-
noun,
a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- socmen
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noun,
sokeman.
- Mentes
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noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- morose
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adjective,
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- 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.
- morons
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- steric
-
adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- Moroni
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of the Comoros.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- steno-
-
- secret
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noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- Scioto
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noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- secern
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verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- icemen
-
noun,
a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.
- icono-
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- morion
-
noun,
an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- set-in
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adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- emotes
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- Roscoe
-
noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- 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.
- contos
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noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- Conroe
-
noun,
a town in E Texas.
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- remote
-
noun,
Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- comtes
-
noun,
count2 .
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- octroi
-
noun,
(formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- comose
-
adjective,
hairy; comate.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- comers
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- Torino
-
noun,
Turin.
- contr.
-
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- recti-
-
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- toneme
-
noun,
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:
- cosmo-
-
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- Cosimo
-
noun,
Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- cooner
-
noun,
coon dog.
- 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.
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- cootie
-
noun,
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rectos
-
- coeno-
-
- costo-
-
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- centi-
-
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- cenote
-
noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- cement
-
noun,
any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- orison
-
noun,
a prayer.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- Tromso
-
noun,
a seaport in N Norway.
- 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.
- centr-
-
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- C-note
-
noun,
See C (def 11).
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- cnemis
-
noun,
the tibia or shin.
- Citron
-
noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- CERMET
-
noun,
a durable, heat-resistant alloy formed by compacting and sintering a metal and a ceramic substance, used under conditions of high temperature and stress.
- trices
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- osteo-
-
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- minces
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- romeos
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- necro-
-
- emetic
-
noun,
an emetic medicine or agent.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- cretin
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- nitro-
-
- croons
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- Croton
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- nocti-
-
- roncos
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- cteno-
-
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- roomie
-
noun,
roommate.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- cremes
-
noun,
cream.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- onco-
-
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- oste-
-
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- 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.
- MOTOS
-
- miso-
-
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- onto-
-
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- sect.
-
- 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.
- 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.
- Otomi
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of south-central Mexico.
- Recit
-
- 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.
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- misce
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) mix.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- MINCE
-
noun,
something cut up very small; mincemeat.
- rooms
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- Orion
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- MSEnt
-
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Minot
-
noun,
George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- Ronco
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Romeo
-
noun,
the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- 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.
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- osmic
-
adjective,
of or containing osmium in its higher valences, especially the tetravalent state.
- omni-
-
- misc.
-
- osmo-
-
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- scrim
-
noun,
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- Scot.
-
- Moore
-
noun,
Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- noct-
-
- noso-
-
- moors
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- 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.
- moose
-
noun,
a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- moons
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- moots
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- Moros
-
noun,
a child of Nyx, and the personification of fate.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- Norco
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- nomo-
-
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- moron
-
noun,
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
- 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.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- noto-
-
- omits
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- mono-
-
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- rect.
-
- motor
-
noun,
a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- moist
-
adjective,
moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moton
-
noun,
besague.
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- 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).
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- Monet
-
noun,
Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- monic
-
adjective,
(of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- motes
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- reni-
-
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- monos
-
noun,
infectious mononucleosis.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Mont.
-
- Monte
-
noun,
Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- octo-
-
- 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.
- nitr-
-
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- morts
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- croon
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- crit.
-
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- crime
-
noun,
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
- crim.
-
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- 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).
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- creme
-
noun,
cream.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- tomes
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Timon
-
noun,
c320–c230 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- corms
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- emote
-
verb (used without object),
to show or pretend emotion:
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- 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.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- teno-
-
- ento-
-
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- 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.
- term.
-
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- 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.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- 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.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- ecto-
-
- 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.
- econ.
-
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- cine-
-
- Cimon
-
noun,
507–499 b.c, Athenian military leader, naval commander, and statesman (son of Miltiades).
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- cert.
-
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- cero-
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- cent.
-
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- 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.
- 30-30
-
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- cores
-
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- tono-
-
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- cont.
-
- Const
-
- Cons.
-
- Comte
-
noun,
count2 .
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- Comr.
-
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- comet
-
noun,
a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- comes
-
noun,
Astronomy. companion1 (def 6).
- Comer
-
noun,
Informal. a person or thing that is progressing well or is very promising:
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- 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.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- smote
-
verb,
a simple past tense of smite.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- Sino-
-
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- 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.
- sito-
-
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- 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.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- intr.
-
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- inst.
-
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- seti-
-
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- incor
-
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- semi-
-
- 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.
- metr-
-
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- metic
-
noun,
an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- 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-
-
- mesic
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or adapted to an environment having a balanced supply of moisture.
- sero-
-
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- mero-
-
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Seric
-
- Merci
-
interjection,
thank you.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- meno-
-
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- incr.
-
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- ster.
-
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- stome
-
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- icons
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- ter.
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- 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.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- room
-
noun,
a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts:
- 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.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- tri-
-
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- str.
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- tron
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Sem.
-
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- sci.
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- ten.
-
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- oto-
-
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- 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.
- rit.
-
- Ste.
-
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- tome
-
noun,
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- 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
-
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- 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.
- TOMS
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- 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.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- 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).
- tion
-
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- sec.
-
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- 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.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- 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.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- 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.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- 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.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- toom
-
adjective,
empty; vacant.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- Rom.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- scr.
-
- 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.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- 1080
-
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- moit
-
noun,
a foreign particle found in wool, as a burr, twig, or seed.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- moot
-
noun,
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
- moos
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- Moor
-
noun,
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
- Moon
-
noun,
the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- enc.
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Mon.
-
- ence
-
- Mort
-
noun,
Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- Ens.
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- 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.
- 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.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- mis-
-
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Moro
-
noun,
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
- most
-
noun,
the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost:
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- 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.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neem
-
- NCTE
-
- ctr.
-
- cts.
-
- eco-
-
- MSIE
-
- MSEE
-
- msec
-
- MSCE
-
- mote
-
noun,
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- EEOC
-
- mots
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- EMet
-
- emic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being a significant unit that functions in contrast with other units in a language or other system of behavior.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- Cres
-
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- 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.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- etc.
-
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- iso-
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Ice.
-
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- 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.
- Ire.
-
- IMCO
-
- Inc.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- 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 = .
- ins.
-
- 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.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- min.
-
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- MICE
-
noun,
plural of mouse.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Mic.
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- met.
-
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- mes-
-
- 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.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- Merc
-
noun,
a mercenary soldier.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- ment
-
- men-
-
- 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.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- neo-
-
- ect-
-
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Como
-
noun,
Lake, a lake in N Italy, in Lombardy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- Cmon
-
- 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.
- CMOS
-
noun,
complementary metal oxide semiconductor.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- OEEC
-
- Oct.
-
- come
-
noun,
Slang: Vulgar. semen.
- COMS
-
noun,
Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Con.
-
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- coom
-
noun,
soot; coal dust; smut.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- 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.
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- nos-
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- cit.
-
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- Nor.
-
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- oro-
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Ont.
-
- cen.
-
- cene
-
- CERN
-
- omit
-
verb (used with object),
to leave out; fail to include or mention:
- cet-
-
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Ceto
-
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- cir.
-
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- cis-
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Com.
-
- int.
-
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- 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.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- 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.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- 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.
- Cort
-
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- corm
-
noun,
an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- Cor.
-
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- nom.
-
- CSR
-
- ESR
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- STI
-
- STM
-
- CSO
-
- TSI
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- ct.
-
- ese
-
- CRS
-
- CEO
-
- ETO
-
- TMO
-
- in.
-
- TSE
-
- Sr.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- ier
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- CRT
-
- Co.
-
- cr.
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- cs.
-
- St.
-
- Esc
-
- Tro
-
- io-
-
- ics
-
- ine
-
- ETS
-
- ETR
-
- CST
-
- EMT
-
- ERT
-
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- eir
-
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- Tom
-
noun,
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- EIS
-
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- CNO
-
- EOE
-
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- ene
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- EMR
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- en-
-
- CNS
-
- CNM
-
- cte
-
- EOM
-
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- 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.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- CIE
-
- CIM
-
- 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.
- ec-
-
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- ECM
-
- tr.
-
- TCS
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- EEC
-
- EEO
-
- eo-
-
- 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.
- IOC
-
- 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.
- RMC
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- 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:
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- NMI
-
- NMR
-
- NOC
-
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- 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.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- ROI
-
- NRC
-
- MST
-
- MRE
-
- MRI
-
- MSE
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- MSI
-
- MSN
-
- 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 = .
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- MTI
-
- mtn
-
- MTO
-
- MTS
-
- NCO
-
- ne-
-
- NEC
-
- nr.
-
- NSC
-
- Rs.
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- RCN
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Re.
-
- RCS
-
- OTS
-
- oo-
-
- oon
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- ote
-
- ot-
-
- OOT
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- OSO
-
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ose
-
- RCT
-
- ons
-
- Oc.
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OTC
-
- OCR
-
- OCS
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- OEM
-
- OEO
-
- oic
-
- ONR
-
- OIr
-
- OIt
-
- Om.
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- 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.
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- ONI
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- Mt.
-
- 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.
- MCR
-
- ITC
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIE
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- mi.
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- 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).
- RSE
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MEC
-
noun,
a pimp; mack.
- ISR
-
- MIT
-
- MCI
-
- ist
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- MSC
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- Mo.
-
- Me.
-
- Mc-
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- ite
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- ise
-
- Ir.
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- ior
-
- So.
-
- SRO
-
- sc.
-
- MOT
-
noun,
a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- 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.
- SCM
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- MOR
-
- IOT
-
- IRC
-
- IRO
-
- MNE
-
- MNS
-
- MOC
-
noun,
moccasin.
- se-
-
- IRS
-
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- MOI
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- moo
-
noun,
a mooing sound.
- CE
-
- RI
-
- RC
-
- RN
-
- ic
-
- i.
-
- CM
-
- SN
-
- R.
-
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- 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.
- TN
-
- S.
-
- SM
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- EI
-
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- N.
-
- NC
-
- NI
-
- TM
-
- RO
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- MN
-
- NM
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- TC
-
- T1
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- M.
-
- t.
-