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- telescreen
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noun,
a television, screen, especially a large one suitable for viewing by large numbers of people.
- crenelates
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adjective,
crenelated.
- cleansers
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noun,
a preparation for cleansing, as a liquid or powder for scouring sinks, bathtubs, etc., or a cream for cleaning the face.
- electress
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noun,
the wife or widow of an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.
- selenates
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noun,
a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- selectees
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noun,
one selected by draft for service in one of the armed forces.
- traceless
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adjective,
having or leaving no trace:
- crenelate
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adjective,
crenelated.
- sarcenets
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- Celanese
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- careless
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adjective,
not paying enough attention to what one does:
- cleanser
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noun,
a preparation for cleansing, as a liquid or powder for scouring sinks, bathtubs, etc., or a cream for cleaning the face.
- re-lease
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noun,
a contract for re-leasing land or property.
- cleanses
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verb (used with object),
to make clean.
- sarcenet
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noun,
a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- secretes
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noun,
a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
- celestas
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noun,
a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
- celestes
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noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- earnests
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- scarlets
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noun,
a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- entrelac
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noun,
a decorative border of interlaced garlands and leaves.
- cerastes
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noun,
any of several small vipers of the genus Cerastes, including the horned viper, that have a sideways looping motion like that of a sidewinder and inhabit deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia.
- sesterce
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noun,
a silver coin of ancient Rome, the quarter of a denarius, equal to 2½ asses: introduced in the 3rd century b.c.
- salterns
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noun,
a saltworks.
- centrals
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noun,
a main telephone exchange.
a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- telerans
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noun,
a navigational aid that uses radar to map the sky above an airfield, which, together with a map of the airfield itself, is transmitted by television to aircraft approaching the field.
- sarsenet
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noun,
sarcenet.
- centares
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noun,
centiare.
- lecterns
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- treacles
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noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- rescales
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verb (used with object),
to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest:
- eternals
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- selectee
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noun,
one selected by draft for service in one of the armed forces.
- selenate
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noun,
a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- tearless
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adjective,
not weeping or shedding tears.
- esterase
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noun,
any enzyme that hydrolyzes an ester into an alcohol and an acid.
- Salters
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noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- cartels
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noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- creeses
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noun,
a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- centare
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noun,
centiare.
- seaters
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noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- teeners
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noun,
a teenager.
- censers
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noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- creates
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- elaters
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noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- creases
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noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- nestles
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verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- seances
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noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- slaters
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noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- Teleran
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noun,
a navigational aid that uses radar to map the sky above an airfield, which, together with a map of the airfield itself, is transmitted by television to aircraft approaching the field.
- centals
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noun,
hundredweight (def 1).
- castles
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noun,
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- electr-
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- saltern
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noun,
a saltworks.
- caserns
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noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- Electra
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noun,
Also, Elektra. Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
- scalers
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noun,
a person or thing that scales.
- Carleen
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noun,
a female given name, form of Caroline.
- teasers
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noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- tanrecs
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noun,
tenrec.
- ascents
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noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- sateens
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noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- crenels
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noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- earnest
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- careens
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noun,
a careening.
- crenate
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adjective,
having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.
- stances
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noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- Eastern
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adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- carnets
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noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- cantles
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noun,
the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
- cresset
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noun,
a metal cup or basket often mounted on a pole or suspended from above, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin, etc., burned as a light or beacon.
- sealers
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noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- 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.
- canters
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noun,
an easy gallop.
- Scarlet
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noun,
a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- scalene
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adjective,
Geometry.
(of a cone or the like) having the axis inclined to the base.
(of a triangle) having three unequal sides.
- nectars
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noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- leaners
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noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- Celesta
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noun,
a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
- ecartes
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noun,
a card game for two players.
- Celeste
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noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “heavenly.”.
- lectern
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noun,
a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- teasels
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noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- casters
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noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- secants
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noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- lancers
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noun,
a set of quadrilles danced in sequence.
- tercels
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noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- cerates
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noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- Screens
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noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- resales
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noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- relates
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verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- Terence
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noun,
(Publius Terentius Afer) c190–159? b.c, Roman playwright.
- transl.
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- release
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noun,
a freeing or releasing from confinement, obligation, pain, emotional strain, etc.
- lancets
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noun,
a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- relents
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verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- cleanse
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verb (used with object),
to make clean.
- treacle
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noun,
contrived or unrestrained sentimentality:
- retenes
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noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- eternal
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noun,
something that is eternal.
- actress
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noun,
a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
- sensate
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adjective,
perceiving or perceived through the senses.
- Laertes
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noun,
the father of Odysseus.
- cleaner
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noun,
a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
- senecas
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noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- essence
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noun,
the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features:
- Alceste
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noun,
an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
- scleras
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noun,
a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- cetanes
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noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- serenes
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noun,
serenity; tranquillity.
- secrets
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noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- Antlers
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noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- recasts
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noun,
a recasting.
- tenaces
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noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- artless
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adjective,
free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous:
- 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.
- resents
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verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- resects
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verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- central
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noun,
a main telephone exchange.
a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- 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.
- secerns
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verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- recants
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verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- encases
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verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- 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.
- tessera
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noun,
one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
- enlaces
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verb (used with object),
to interlace; intertwine:
- secrete
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noun,
a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
- sternal
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adjective,
of or relating to the sternum.
- reseats
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verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- clarets
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noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- enteral
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adjective,
enteric.
- rescale
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verb (used with object),
to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest:
- selects
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adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- entrees
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noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- class.
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- Cretan
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Crete.
- claret
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noun,
the red table wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France: originally it was light red or yellowish.
- crests
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noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Lencas
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noun,
a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- steles
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noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Lester
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noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- clasts
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noun,
a grain of sediment, silt, sand, gravel, etc., especially as a constituent fragment of a clastic rock formation, as distinguished from a chemical or biogenic component of such a formation.
- sealer
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noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- screes
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noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- lessee
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noun,
a person, group, etc., to whom a lease is granted.
- lessen
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verb (used with object),
to make less; reduce.
- Lesser
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noun,
a small amount, quantity, or degree:
- create
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adjective,
Archaic. created.
- steres
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- creels
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noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- creese
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noun,
a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- 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.
- Sterne
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noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- cleats
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noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- clears
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noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- crease
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noun,
a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
- crenel
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noun,
any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
- cleans
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- sterns
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noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- crates
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noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- resets
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noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- steers
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noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Serena
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noun,
a female given name.
- Elsene
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noun,
Dutch name of Ixelles.
- slants
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noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- secern
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verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- enacts
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verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- enates
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noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- encase
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verb (used with object),
to enclose in or as in a case:
- secret
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noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- enlace
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verb (used with object),
to interlace; intertwine:
- enter-
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- 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:
- entree
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noun,
a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- erases
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verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- erects
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adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- Serene
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noun,
serenity; tranquillity.
- larees
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noun,
lari.
- Slater
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noun,
a person who lays slates, as for roofing.
- Seneca
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noun,
a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- Selene
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noun,
the Greek goddess of the moon.
Compare Thyone.
- eterne
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adjective,
eternal.
- select
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adjective,
chosen in preference to another or others; selected. Synonyms: preferred.
- Senate
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noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- estral
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adjective,
estrous.
- 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 .
- Essene
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noun,
a member of a Palestinian sect, characterized by asceticism, celibacy, and joint holding of property, that flourished from the 2nd century b.c. to the 2nd century a.d.
- Ernest
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noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- Senlac
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noun,
a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- lancer
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noun,
a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- escent
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- lances
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noun,
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- lancet
-
noun,
a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- seracs
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noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- lateen
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adjective,
pertaining to or having a lateen sail or sails.
- elects
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noun,
a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
- seance
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noun,
a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- learns
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verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- C-star
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noun,
carbon star.
- steels
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noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Steele
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noun,
Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.
- steals
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noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- Searle
-
noun,
Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- stares
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noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- leasts
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- stanes
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noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- leases
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noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- stance
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noun,
the position or bearing of the body while standing:
- stales
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adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- easels
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noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- learnt
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verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- Easter
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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.
- sneers
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noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- elect.
-
- sleets
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- elates
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adjective,
elated.
- elater
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noun,
Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- latens
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- slates
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noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- elance
-
noun,
a quick darting movement.
- secant
-
noun,
Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- snares
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- ecarte
-
noun,
a card game for two players.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- snarls
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- ecrase
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adjective,
(of leather) crushed to produce a grained effect.
- eclats
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- sclera
-
noun,
a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- leaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- clares
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- Nasser
-
noun,
Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- scler-
-
- assert
-
Idioms,
assert oneself, to insist on one's rights, declare one's views forcefully, etc.:
- Arleen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Arlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- recast
-
noun,
a recasting.
- tensas
-
noun,
a river in NE Louisiana, flowing S to the Ouachita River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- recant
-
verb (used with object),
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- arsen-
-
- 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.
- re-act
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verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- artels
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noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- ascent
-
noun,
an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
- tenace
-
noun,
a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- Salten
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noun,
Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- Salter
-
noun,
a person who makes or sells salt.
- assent
-
noun,
agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
- ratels
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- Santee
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noun,
a city in SW California.
- sarsen
-
noun,
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- sarees
-
noun,
sari.
- careen
-
noun,
a careening.
- cantle
-
noun,
the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
- Canter
-
noun,
an easy gallop.
- caners
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- teasel
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.
Compare teasel family.
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- sclent
-
noun,
any slanting surface, as a slope.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- teener
-
noun,
a teenager.
- rassle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- rastle
-
verb (used with or without object),
wrestle.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- recess
-
noun,
temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- carets
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- trance
-
noun,
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- rental
-
noun,
an amount received or paid as rent.
- teslas
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- Aeetes
-
noun,
a king of Colchis, father of Medea and custodian of the Golden Fleece.
- traces
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- Tralee
-
noun,
a city in and the county seat of Kerry, in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- trans.
-
- alerce
-
noun,
the wood of the sandarac tree.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- resale
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- 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.
- retene
-
noun,
a crystalline hydrocarbon, C 18 H 18 , obtained chiefly from the tar of resinous woods and certain fossil resins.
- alerts
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- tenses
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- aneles
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- rectal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antler
-
noun,
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
- r-less
-
adjective,
r-dropping.
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- tercel
-
noun,
the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- relate
-
verb (used with object),
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- alters
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- altern
-
adjective,
alternate; following one another.
- relent
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to cause to soften in feeling, temper, or determination.
- Aletes
-
noun,
a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- caress
-
noun,
an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- teases
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- 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.
- castes
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- Castle
-
noun,
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- caters
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- nectar
-
noun,
the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- scants
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- ceases
-
noun,
cessation:
- scares
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- tanrec
-
noun,
tenrec.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- censes
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- scarts
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- cental
-
noun,
hundredweight (def 1).
- centas
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of Lithuania, the 100th part of a litas.
- centr-
-
- Cassel
-
noun,
Kassel.
- centra
-
noun,
a plural of centrum.
- 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.
- talers
-
noun,
thaler.
- cerat-
-
- cerate
-
noun,
Pharmacology. an unctuous, often medicated, preparation for external application, consisting of lard or oil mixed with wax, rosin, or the like, especially one that has a firmer consistency than a typical ointment and does not melt when in contact with the skin.
- cereal
-
noun,
any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- Cesena
-
noun,
a city in E central Italy.
- nacres
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- cestas
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- scenas
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- cetane
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, C 16 H 34 , used as a solvent and in cetane number determinations.
- scents
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Caster
-
noun,
a person or thing that casts.
- selen-
-
- Scales
-
noun,
Zoology.
one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.
one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- tassel
-
noun,
a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- cartel
-
noun,
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
- cartes
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- nestle
-
verb (used with object),
to settle or ensconce snugly:
- carses
-
noun,
bottom land.
- scaler
-
noun,
a person or thing that scales.
- carnet
-
noun,
a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.
- casern
-
noun,
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- LANCE
-
noun,
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- races
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- lect.
-
- leant
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- scat-
-
- Renee
-
noun,
a female given name, French form of Renata.
- lease
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- sect.
-
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- narcs
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- scale
-
noun,
Zoology.
one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.
one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- Sears
-
noun,
Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.
- scena
-
noun,
an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- least
-
noun,
something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
- nacre
-
noun,
mother-of-pearl.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- scats
-
noun,
scat singing.
- 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.
- laces
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lact-
-
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- sarc-
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- sceat
-
noun,
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- react
-
verb (used with object),
to act or perform again.
- lasts
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- scant
-
adverb,
Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.
- scans
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- sanes
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Lenca
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- laten
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become late.
- 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.
- rases
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- later
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- ratel
-
noun,
a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- seals
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- nests
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- rect.
-
- salts
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- recta
-
noun,
a plural of rectum.
- natl.
-
- nears
-
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- scart
-
verb (used with or without object),
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- LASER
-
noun,
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- scare
-
noun,
a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.
- 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.
- Sans.
-
- lases
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- easts
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- caret
-
noun,
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.
- Carte
-
noun,
(italics) French. menu; bill of fare.
Compare à la carte.
- teals
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- carse
-
noun,
bottom land.
- carns
-
noun,
cairn.
- carne
-
noun,
Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, French film director.
- carls
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- tears
-
- cares
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- cases
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Caren
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- cants
-
noun,
insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- Cant.
-
- canst
-
noun,
a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal:
- canes
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- caner
-
noun,
a person who works with cane, especially one who produces canework for chairs.
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- carts
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- caste
-
noun,
Sociology.
an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
any rigid system of social distinctions.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- 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: ¢.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- taels
-
noun,
liang.
- cesta
-
noun,
a narrow, curved basket fitted on one end to a wooden handle with a glovelike compartment at the base, for catching and throwing the ball.
- talcs
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- cert.
-
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- taler
-
noun,
thaler.
- ceras
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- cent.
-
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- celts
-
noun,
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- cease
-
noun,
cessation:
- Cates
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cater
-
verb (used with object),
to provide food and service for:
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- astr.
-
- clans
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- Tesla
-
noun,
a unit of magnetic induction equal to one weber per square meter. Abbreviation: T.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- alert
-
noun,
an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- 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.
- alecs
-
noun,
a herring.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- Trace
-
noun,
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
- ancre
-
adjective,
having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline:
- trass
-
noun,
a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- acnes
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- treas
-
- acet-
-
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- tsars
-
noun,
czar.
- 30-30
-
- alter
-
noun,
David, 1807–81, U.S. physicist.
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- Arnel
-
- tele-
-
- asst.
-
- assn.
-
- 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.
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- artel
-
noun,
(in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.
- arses
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- arces
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- tera-
-
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- ante-
-
- taces
-
noun,
tasset.
- Celt.
-
abbreviation,
Celtic.
- enact
-
verb (used with object),
to make into an act or statute:
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- steal
-
noun,
Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Stans
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- eases
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- stale
-
adjective,
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Srta.
-
- 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.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slant
-
noun,
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
- slate
-
noun,
a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- encl.
-
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- elate
-
adjective,
elated.
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- ectal
-
adjective,
external; outer; on the surface of.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Clare
-
noun,
a county in W Republic of Ireland. 1231 sq. mi. (3190 sq. km). County seat: Ennis.
- eclat
-
noun,
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.:
- sents
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- serac
-
noun,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- Crane
-
noun,
any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- clast
-
noun,
a grain of sediment, silt, sand, gravel, etc., especially as a constituent fragment of a clastic rock formation, as distinguished from a chemical or biogenic component of such a formation.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- ster.
-
- 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 .
- clear
-
noun,
a clear or unobstructed space.
- cress
-
noun,
any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- crate
-
noun,
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- Essen
-
noun,
a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- crass
-
adjective,
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid:
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stela
-
noun,
stele (defs 1–3).
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- sensa
-
noun,
plural of sensum.
- cleat
-
noun,
a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
- clase
-
- sense
-
noun,
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
- Creel
-
noun,
a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish.
- Sacs
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- tRNA
-
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- ter.
-
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- 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.
- RNAS
-
- 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).
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- 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.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- 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.
- Secs
-
noun,
second2 (def 2).
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Tace
-
noun,
tasset.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- slat
-
noun,
a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- teal
-
noun,
any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- TASS
-
noun,
a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one.
- SCAN
-
noun,
an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- scar
-
noun,
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Ste.
-
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- tale
-
noun,
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
- str.
-
- talc
-
noun,
Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- tael
-
noun,
liang.
- scr.
-
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- tel-
-
- sals
-
noun,
salt1 .
- SALT
-
noun,
a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- ten.
-
- sec.
-
- 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.
- tela
-
noun,
a seaport in N Honduras.
- 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.
- 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.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Sra.
-
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- SEAS
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- 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.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- SASE
-
- Sat.
-
- 1080
-
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- CART
-
noun,
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- Can.
-
- lacs
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- lace
-
noun,
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- cane
-
noun,
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- CARE
-
noun,
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
- Carl
-
noun,
Scot.
a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- Carn
-
noun,
cairn.
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- CALS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Calvin.
- etc.
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- CASE
-
noun,
an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
- Cass
-
noun,
Lewis, 1782–1866, U.S. statesman.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- Cal.
-
- cat.
-
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- ates
-
- lent
-
noun,
(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- cts.
-
- LARC
-
noun,
long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception):
- lea.
-
- lats
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- late
-
Idioms,
of late, lately; recently:
- Lat.
-
- last
-
noun,
a person or thing that is last.
- LASS
-
noun,
a girl or young woman, especially one who is unmarried.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- cast
-
noun,
act of casting or throwing.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- Clea
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- cet-
-
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Ceta
-
noun,
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- clan
-
noun,
a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:
- clar
-
- ect-
-
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- crat
-
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- Cres
-
- 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.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Earl
-
noun,
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
- ELAS
-
- cess
-
noun,
British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- Cate
-
noun,
a choice food;delicacy; dainty.
- cen.
-
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- Cela
-
noun,
Camilo José [kah-mee-law haw-se] /kɑˈmi lɔ hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2001, Spanish writer.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- Cels
-
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- cene
-
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Ens.
-
- enl.
-
- cera
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) wax.
- ence
-
- 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.
- enc.
-
- CERN
-
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- 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.
- ant.
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- ance
-
- alts
-
noun,
in alt, in the first octave above the treble staff.
- alt.
-
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- Alec
-
noun,
a herring.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- aet.
-
- aesc
-
noun,
ash2 (def 3).
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- aer-
-
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- ACTS
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- Acre
-
noun,
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- acr-
-
- acne
-
noun,
an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, and chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.
- ACLS
-
- acle
-
noun,
the hard, durable wood of a Philippine leguminous tree, Albizzia acle, used for making fine furniture.
- ARCS
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- rel.
-
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- 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.
- ness
-
noun,
a headland; promontory; cape.
- RACE
-
noun,
a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- Arce
-
noun,
a daughter of Thaumas and the sister of Iris and the Harpies. Zeus took away her wings when she aided the Titans in their war against him.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- Leta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Latona.
- ASSR
-
- asse
-
noun,
Cape fox.
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- art.
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- narc
-
noun,
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NCTE
-
- asc-
-
- ctr.
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- cr.
-
- TAL
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- ACE
-
noun,
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
- ac-
-
- Ar.
-
- cle
-
- STL
-
- an.
-
- al.
-
- CLR
-
- CNS
-
- CAR
-
noun,
an automobile.
- ca.
-
- ASR
-
- TSE
-
- CRS
-
- CRT
-
- CSA
-
- CSR
-
- CST
-
- CTA
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- ast
-
- cte
-
- 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.
- ATC
-
- 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.
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- ASS
-
noun,
a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- ASN
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- cl.
-
- TCA
-
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- TCS
-
- ARS
-
- 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.
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- at.
-
- CEA
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- ALC
-
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- CAS
-
verb (used with or without object),
to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ANC
-
- TLC
-
- ct.
-
- tlr
-
- tr.
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- tra
-
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- ARC
-
noun,
Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- AEC
-
- ase
-
- ae.
-
- cs.
-
- ACT
-
noun,
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
- ACS
-
- SLR
-
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- LSS
-
- nr.
-
- 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:
- NES
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEC
-
- NEA
-
- ne-
-
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- ltr
-
- LTA
-
- LST
-
- LSC
-
- NRA
-
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- SCS
-
- se-
-
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- Les
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- LCT
-
- LCA
-
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- sc.
-
- NRC
-
- LAC
-
noun,
a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter.
Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- RNA
-
- Rs.
-
- RSA
-
- RSE
-
- RSS
-
- rt.
-
- rte
-
- RTS
-
- SAC
-
noun,
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- SAE
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- NSA
-
- REA
-
- RCT
-
- RCN
-
- RCA
-
- 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.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- SAR
-
- Rae
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noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Re.
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- RCS
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- NSC
-
- Lae
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noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- Len
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noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- TSS
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- SEL
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noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- ERS
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noun,
ervil.
- ERE
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preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- SES
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- ene
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- SLA
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- SSN
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- en-
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- els
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noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- SLE
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- ret
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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.
- ESA
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- SSE
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- SSC
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- SSA
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- ss.
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- EEL
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noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- EEE
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- eat
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noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- EEC
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- SRS
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- Sr.
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- ec-
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- ERT
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- SSR
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- ECA
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- SEN
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noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Lt.
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- La.
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- ea.
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- ean
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- ear
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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.
- EAS
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noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- ETS
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- ETR
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- Sta
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- St.
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- ess
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noun,
the letter S, s.
- SST
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- ESR
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- ESL
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- ese
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- Esc
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- SER
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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).
- SL
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- S.
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- A.
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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.
- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- SA
-
- ee
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- TN
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- L2
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- t.
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- LR
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- L1
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- LC
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- L.
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- le
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- TE
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noun,
ti1 .
- er
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interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- CE
-
- TC
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- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- ln
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- N.
-
- TL
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- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- NC
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- NL
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- SN
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- R.
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- RA
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noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RC
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- RN
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- TA
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
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- el
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noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.