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- grass-tree
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noun,
any Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, of the lily family, having a stout, woody stem bearing a tuft of long grasslike leaves and a dense flower spike.
- treasures
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noun,
wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- surrogate
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noun,
a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- stegosaur
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noun,
a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- retrousse
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adjective,
(especially of the nose) turned up.
- restores
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verb (used with object),
to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish:
- greasers
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noun,
a person or thing that greases.
- tea-rose
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noun,
any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- regrates
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verb (used with object),
to buy up (grain, provisions, etc.) in order to sell again at a profit in or near the same market.
- trousers
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noun,
Sometimes, trouser. Also called pants. a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down.
Compare Bermuda shorts, breeches, knickers (def 1), short (def 29a), slacks.
- roasters
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noun,
a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
- erasures
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noun,
an act or instance of erasing.
- treasure
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noun,
wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- serrates
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adjective,
Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw:
- ossature
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noun,
the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
- outrages
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noun,
an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
- gestures
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noun,
a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.:
- Gossaert
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noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- reassure
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verb (used with object),
to restore to assurance or confidence:
- tressure
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noun,
Heraldry. a narrower diminutive of the orle, usually ornamented with fleurs-de-lis at the edges and often doubled.
- garrotes
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noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- rousters
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noun,
roustabout (def 1).
- resurges
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verb (used without object),
to rise again, as from desuetude or from virtual extinction.
- regress
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noun,
the act of going back; return.
- Sturges
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noun,
Preston, 1898–1959, U.S. playwright and screenwriter.
- roseate
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adjective,
tinged with rose; rosy:
- outages
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noun,
an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- orgeats
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noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- restore
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verb (used with object),
to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish:
- gesture
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noun,
a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.:
- regrets
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noun,
a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
- garrote
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noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- outrage
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noun,
an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
- resurge
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verb (used without object),
to rise again, as from desuetude or from virtual extinction.
- gaseous
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adjective,
existing in the state of a gas; not solid or liquid.
- reseats
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verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- garotes
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noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- roaster
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noun,
a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
- gearset
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noun,
a combination of gears that mesh to provide a particular gear ratio.
- re-sort
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verb (used with object),
to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- serrate
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adjective,
Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw:
- gasters
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- saugers
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noun,
a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- trouser
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noun,
a leg of a pair of trousers.
- reseaus
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noun,
a network.
- Reuters
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noun,
a publicly owned international news and information company established in London, 1851.
- Austro-
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- austere
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adjective,
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
- gastro-
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- easters
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noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- ousters
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noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- garrets
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noun,
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.
- turgors
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noun,
Plant Physiology. the normal distention or rigidity of plant cells, resulting from the pressure exerted by the cell contents on the cell walls.
- Orestes
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noun,
Classical Mythology. the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena.
- stereo-
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- arrests
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noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- Greater
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noun,
a person who has achieved importance or distinction in a field:
- 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.
- ureters
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noun,
a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- ergates
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noun,
a worker ant.
- seaters
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noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- rouster
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noun,
roustabout (def 1).
- grosser
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noun,
a commercial production, as a motion picture or record, that generates a large amount of income.
- souters
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- greaser
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noun,
a person or thing that greases.
- grouses
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noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- rasters
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noun,
Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- aerugos
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noun,
verdigris.
- routers
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noun,
any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- stagers
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noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- rasures
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noun,
an erasure.
- stearo-
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- teasers
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noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- gustoes
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noun,
hearty or keen enjoyment, as in eating or drinking, or in action or speech in general:
Synonyms: enthusiasm, delight, relish, zest, spirit, fervor.
- ureases
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noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- greases
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noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- oestrus
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noun,
estrus.
- erasers
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noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- ragouts
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noun,
French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- erasure
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noun,
an act or instance of erasing.
- arouses
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verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- tessera
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noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- rosters
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noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- arguses
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
- regrate
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verb (used with object),
to buy up (grain, provisions, etc.) in order to sell again at a profit in or near the same market.
- storage
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noun,
the act of storing; state or fact of being stored:
- estrous
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adjective,
pertaining to or involving the estrus.
- Erastus
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noun,
Thomas [tom-uh s;; German toh-mahs] /ˈtɒm əs;; German ˈtoʊ mɑs/ (Show IPA), 1524–83, Swiss-German theologian.
- graters
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noun,
a person or thing that grates.
- teaser
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noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- esrogs
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noun,
etrog.
- etrogs
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noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- Rasure
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noun,
an erasure.
- ragout
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noun,
French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- Tarsus
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noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
- tauro-
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- Garret
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noun,
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.
- raster
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noun,
Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- tarso-
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- segues
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noun,
an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
- Segura
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noun,
Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- garote
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noun,
a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- targes
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noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- estrus
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noun,
Also, estrum [es-truh m] /ˈɛs trəm/ (Show IPA), oestrus. the period of heat or rut; the period of maximum sexual receptivity of the female.
- esters
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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 .
- Tagore
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noun,
Sir Rabindranath [ruh-been-druh-naht] /rəˈbin drəˌnɑt/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, Indian poet: Nobel prize 1913.
- outgas
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verb (used with object),
to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- rugose
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adjective,
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- serous
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adjective,
resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- Garter
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noun,
Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- greets
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verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- rugate
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adjective,
wrinkle; rugose.
- stores
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noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- ogress
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noun,
a female monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- Grasse
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noun,
François Joseph Paul [frahn-swa zhaw-zef pawl] /frɑ̃ˈswa ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Grasse-Tilly) 1722–1788, French admiral.
- grater
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noun,
a person or thing that grates.
- grates
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noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- grease
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noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- Greats
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- oaters
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noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- souter
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- gorses
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noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- groats
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noun,
hulled grain, as wheat or oats, broken into fragments.
- steres
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- grouse
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noun,
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.
Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- grouts
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noun,
a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- stager
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noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- stego-
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- steers
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noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- gutser
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noun,
a person who eats too much and greedily.
- stages
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noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- Storrs
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noun,
a town in NE Connecticut.
- orates
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verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- sutras
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noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- surges
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noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- Gasser
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noun,
Slang. something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
- outage
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noun,
an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- gastr-
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- ouster
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noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- serges
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noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- gators
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noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- surras
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noun,
an often fatal infectious disease of horses, camels, elephants, and dogs caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by the bite of horseflies, characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- serosa
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noun,
Embryology, Zoology.
the chorion.
a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.
- raters
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noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- gerous
-
- stours
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noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- setose
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adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- Seurat
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noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- Soares
-
noun,
Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- Osages
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noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- sugars
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noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- gestes
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noun,
gest.
- orgeat
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noun,
a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- Strega
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- goatee
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noun,
a man's beard trimmed to a tuft or point on the chin.
- Straus
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noun,
Isidor, 1845–1912, U.S. retail merchant and politician, born in Bavaria: congressman 1894–95 (brother of Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus).
- teases
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noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- Teresa
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noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- gusset
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noun,
a small, triangular piece of material inserted into a shirt, shoe, etc., to improve the fit or for reinforcement.
Compare godet (def 1), gore3 (def 1).
- Sartre
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noun,
Jean-Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ˈpɔl/ (Show IPA), 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.
- arrest
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noun,
the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- Rosser
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noun,
a logger who peels the bark from, and often smooths one side of, a log so that it may be dragged easily.
- sargos
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noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- turgor
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noun,
Plant Physiology. the normal distention or rigidity of plant cells, resulting from the pressure exerted by the cell contents on the cell walls.
- rosets
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noun,
resin; rosin.
- Roseau
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noun,
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.
- Tuareg
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noun,
a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
- assort
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verb (used with object),
to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- Rogers
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noun,
Bernard, 1893–1968, U.S. composer.
- assure
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verb (used with object),
to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to:
- arouse
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verb (used with object),
to stir to action or strong response; excite:
- roasts
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noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- astro-
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- Atreus
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noun,
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
- Reuter
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noun,
Paul Julius, Baron de, 1816–99, English founder of an international news agency, born in Germany.
- reuses
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noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- sauger
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noun,
a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- treasr
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- retuse
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adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- Auster
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noun,
the south wind personified.
- urases
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noun,
urease.
- roster
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noun,
a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.
- retro-
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- rouses
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noun,
a rousing.
- russet
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noun,
yellowish brown, light brown, or reddish brown.
- utero-
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- Russo-
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- routes
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noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- aerugo
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noun,
verdigris.
- router
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noun,
any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- usages
-
noun,
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
- rousts
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verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- urgers
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noun,
a person or thing that urges.
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- argues
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- rouges
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noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- ureter
-
noun,
a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- urease
-
noun,
an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- sarees
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noun,
sari.
- aretes
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noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- urates
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- sarges
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noun,
sergeant.
- argots
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- rostra
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noun,
a plural of rostrum.
- austr-
-
- assert
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Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- tragus
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noun,
a fleshy prominence at the front of the external opening of the ear.
- egests
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verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- ergate
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- Egesta
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noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- ergots
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- terras
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noun,
earth; land.
- togues
-
noun,
lake trout.
- reseau
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noun,
a network.
- erases
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- eraser
-
noun,
a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- Tereus
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noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Easter
-
noun,
an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- touses
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- stares
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- egrets
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- egress
-
noun,
the act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place.
- regret
-
noun,
a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- sautes
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- torses
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- resort
-
noun,
a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rouge
-
noun,
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- Saree
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noun,
sari.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- sours
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- Sousa
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noun,
John Philip, 1854–1932, U.S. band conductor and composer.
- Oates
-
noun,
Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rares
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adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rouse
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noun,
a rousing.
- oases
-
noun,
a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- oater
-
noun,
a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
- ratos
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- gusto
-
noun,
hearty or keen enjoyment, as in eating or drinking, or in action or speech in general:
Synonyms: enthusiasm, delight, relish, zest, spirit, fervor.
- Russ.
-
abbreviation,
Russia.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seats
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- rusts
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- sages
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- SEATO
-
noun,
an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- rears
-
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- Srta.
-
- sagos
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- rotas
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- oasts
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- ogees
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- sorus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- Reger
-
noun,
Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1873–1916, German composer and pianist.
- roast
-
noun,
roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- rater
-
noun,
a person who makes rates or ratings.
- Roget
-
noun,
Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.
- Roger
-
noun,
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- oste-
-
- Otaru
-
noun,
a city in W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- roars
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- Osage
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- sates
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- sero-
-
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- restr
-
- ousts
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- saute
-
noun,
a dish of sautéed food.
- rogue
-
noun,
a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- Sarto
-
noun,
Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Oreg.
-
- sargo
-
noun,
a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- ogres
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- segos
-
noun,
sego lily.
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- orate
-
verb (used with or without object),
to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.
- Segre
-
noun,
Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- segue
-
noun,
an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- ORuss
-
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- Regt.
-
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- soras
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- soars
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Saros
-
noun,
the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
- Sarre
-
noun,
French name of Saar.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- Starr
-
noun,
Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 1848–89, U.S. outlaw and folk hero.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- togas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- togue
-
noun,
lake trout.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- 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.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- EGRET
-
noun,
any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- Erato
-
noun,
the Muse of love poetry.
- treas
-
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- taros
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- etrog
-
noun,
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service.
- Tasso
-
noun,
Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- 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 .
- tears
-
- esrog
-
noun,
etrog.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- tera-
-
- terr.
-
- Guest
-
noun,
a person who spends some time at another person's home in some social activity, as a visit, dinner, or party.
- Terra
-
noun,
earth; land.
- ergot
-
noun,
Plant Pathology.
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
the sclerotial body itself.
- ergo-
-
- auto.
-
- Aust.
-
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- agues
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- argot
-
noun,
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
- Argos
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis: a powerful rival of Sparta, Athens, and Corinth.
- urate
-
noun,
a salt of uric acid.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- areo-
-
- ureas
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- agro-
-
- Argus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- urger
-
noun,
a person or thing that urges.
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- urges
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- usage
-
noun,
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
- aero-
-
- 30-30
-
- argue
-
verb (used with object),
to state the reasons for or against:
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- auger
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a bit, as for a brace.
a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
- asst.
-
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- trogs
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- astr.
-
- Astor
-
noun,
John Jacob, 1763–1848, U.S. capitalist and fur merchant.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- trugs
-
noun,
a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
- Assur
-
noun,
the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.
- Truro
-
noun,
a town in central Nova Scotia, in SE Canada.
- arrgt
-
- asset
-
noun,
a useful and desirable thing or quality:
- Asser
-
noun,
Tobias [toh-bahy-uh s;; Dutch taw-bee-ahs] /toʊˈbaɪ əs;; Dutch tɔˈbi ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1838–1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.
- truss
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- Artur
-
noun,
a male given name.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- urase
-
noun,
urease.
- Euro-
-
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- GRASS
-
noun,
any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains.
Compare grass family.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- gouts
-
noun,
an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
- Gosse
-
noun,
Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- gorse
-
noun,
any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gores
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- goers
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- stoas
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- getas
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- suets
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Sugar
-
noun,
a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 O 11 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose.
Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- gests
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- gesso
-
noun,
gypsum or plaster of Paris prepared with glue for use as a surface for painting.
- suras
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- Greer
-
noun,
Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- Surat
-
noun,
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- ster.
-
- guess
-
noun,
an opinion that one reaches or to which one commits oneself on the basis of probability alone or in the absence of any evidence whatever.
- Guat.
-
- guars
-
noun,
a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- guar.
-
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Grues
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- grout
-
noun,
a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- grots
-
noun,
a grotto.
- Grote
-
noun,
George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- Gross
-
noun,
a group of 12 dozen, or 144, things. Abbreviation: gro.
- groat
-
noun,
a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- stge.
-
- greet
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- Gerar
-
noun,
an ancient city in Palestine, near the Mediterranean: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- gotra
-
noun,
a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- gator
-
noun,
Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- gaurs
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- surra
-
noun,
an often fatal infectious disease of horses, camels, elephants, and dogs caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by the bite of horseflies, characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- Gauss
-
noun,
the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic induction, equal to the magnetic induction of a magnetic field in which one abcoulomb of charge, moving with a component of velocity perpendicular to the field and equal to one centimeter per second, is acted on by a force of one dyne; 1 maxwell per square centimeter or 10− 4 weber per square meter. Symbol: G.
- surge
-
noun,
a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep:
- sutra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- surg.
-
- Tagus
-
noun,
a river in SW Europe, flowing W through central Spain and Portugal to the Atlantic at Lisbon. 566 miles (910 km) long.
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- gasts
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- gears
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- Taegu
-
noun,
a city in SE South Korea: commercial center.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- uret
-
- toga
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the loose outer garment worn by citizens in public.
- urea
-
noun,
Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- Sra.
-
- sego
-
noun,
sego lily.
- taur
-
- stg.
-
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Susa
-
noun,
a ruined city in W Iran: the capital of ancient Elam; palaces of Darius and Artaxerxes I; stele containing the Code of Hammurabi discovered here.
- teas
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- Urga
-
noun,
former name of Ulan Bator.
- Taos
-
noun,
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- sags
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- sago
-
noun,
a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- Rus.
-
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Utas
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- USSR
-
noun,
a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- USGA
-
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- USAR
-
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- uro-
-
- Taro
-
noun,
a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- Ste.
-
- urge
-
noun,
an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.
- Tura
-
noun,
Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- tugs
-
noun,
an act or instance of tugging; pull; haul.
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- seat
-
noun,
something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- sur-
-
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Torr
-
noun,
a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Sura
-
noun,
any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- togs
-
noun,
a coat.
- toea
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, the 100th part of a kina.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- saur
-
- Tues
-
- ter.
-
- stoa
-
noun,
Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- 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.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- SASE
-
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- trug
-
noun,
a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- Sat.
-
- sate
-
noun,
a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- Sato
-
noun,
Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- trog
-
noun,
Chiefly British Slang. a hooligan; lout.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- 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.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- str.
-
- 1080
-
- ruga
-
noun,
Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- gear
-
noun,
Machinery.
a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion.
an assembly of such parts.
one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction:
a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine:
- geta
-
noun,
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- geo-
-
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- gaur
-
noun,
a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- goas
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gast
-
verb (used with object),
to terrify or frighten.
- gars
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Eur.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Goat
-
noun,
any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- est.
-
- grue
-
verb (used without object),
to shudder.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- ogre
-
noun,
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- ogee
-
noun,
a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- OATS
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- oast
-
noun,
a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- guts
-
noun,
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.
Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- gust
-
noun,
a sudden, strong blast of wind.
- Grus
-
noun,
the Crane, a southern constellation between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
- grot
-
noun,
a grotto.
- Goer
-
noun,
a person or thing that goes:
- Gros
-
noun,
Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- gro.
-
- gres
-
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- gras
-
- gout
-
noun,
an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
- Gore
-
noun,
blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
- GOES
-
noun,
plural of go1 .
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- orra
-
adjective,
not regular or scheduled; odd:
- Arg.
-
- ASSR
-
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- art.
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- arr.
-
- Argo
-
noun,
Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- ates
-
- ague
-
noun,
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- agst
-
- agr.
-
- ages
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- aet.
-
- aer-
-
- Asur
-
noun,
Assur.
- ator
-
- eso-
-
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- Esau
-
noun,
a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright. Gen. 25:21–25.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- errs
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- ergs
-
- eous
-
- egos
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Auer
-
noun,
Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; Hungarian ley-aw-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; Hungarian ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher.
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- aut-
-
- Aus.
-
- aur-
-
- Auge
-
noun,
a daughter of King Aleus who became a priestess of Athena. After being raped by Hercules she bore a son, Telephus.
- Aug.
-
- org.
-
- Ger.
-
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- rort
-
noun,
a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- RATO
-
noun,
rocket-assisted takeoff.
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- out-
-
- regr
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- Rota
-
noun,
Chiefly British.
a round or rotation of duties; a period of work or duty taken in rotation with others.
an agenda or circuit of sporting events, as a round of golf tournaments, played in different localities throughout the year.
- RARE
-
adjective,
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- Reg.
-
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- 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.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- OSSA
-
noun,
plural of os1 .
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- roar
-
noun,
a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person:
- ROA
-
- err
-
verb (used without object),
to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- Sau
-
noun,
German name of Sava.
- tog
-
noun,
a coat.
- tra
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ERT
-
- ESA
-
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- tr.
-
- eo-
-
- Eg.
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- EGO
-
noun,
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
- ROG
-
- EEO
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- SAR
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EOE
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- ea.
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- EEG
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- RTS
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- AOU
-
- aor
-
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- Agt
-
- RSS
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- rt.
-
- ago
-
adverb,
in past time; in the past:
- rte
-
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- So.
-
- age
-
noun,
the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- ae.
-
- USO
-
- USR
-
- Uta
-
noun,
any of several iguanid lizards of the genus Uta, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Ar.
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- ag-
-
- ure
-
- ARS
-
- Tro
-
- Tu.
-
- at.
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ASU
-
- ast
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ASR
-
- TSE
-
- 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.
- TSS
-
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ur-
-
- tue
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- tug
-
noun,
an act or instance of tugging; pull; haul.
- ase
-
- ARU
-
- SAE
-
- SRO
-
- UAR
-
- USA
-
- USS
-
- UAE
-
- Rs.
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- ese
-
- OTA
-
- Gut
-
noun,
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.
Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- ot-
-
- GUS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- Gur
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- GTS
-
- GTO
-
- gt.
-
- GSR
-
- GSA
-
- ote
-
- OSA
-
- OTS
-
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- gre
-
- Gr.
-
- got
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- ESR
-
- 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).
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- Re.
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- Sta
-
- Goa
-
noun,
a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau.
- OAU
-
- Orr
-
noun,
Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- ose
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Sgt
-
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OSS
-
- St.
-
- OAT
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- OAS
-
- Sr.
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- SRS
-
- ss.
-
- SSA
-
- SSE
-
- SSR
-
- SST
-
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Gor
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath.)
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- eu-
-
- TAG
-
noun,
a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label:
- GAO
-
noun,
a city in E Mali.
- TAO
-
noun,
(in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- GAR
-
noun,
Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- Ga.
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- ETS
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ETR
-
- ETO
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- TAU
-
noun,
the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- ESU
-
- tea
-
noun,
the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- se-
-
- 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.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- Sus
-
- rat
-
noun,
any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- Ges
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- REA
-
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- SUG
-
- rug
-
noun,
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design.
Compare carpet.
- AU
-
plural,
to the; at the; with the.
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- AO
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- rg
-
- RO
-
- R.
-
- SU
-
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- G.
-
- RU
-
- OG
-
- U.
-
- TG
-
- T1
-
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- SG
-
- ee
-
- S.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- GU
-
- GO
-
noun,
the act of going:
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- OA
-
- t.
-
- SA
-